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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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2150
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John
Bennett
Saul
Estrin
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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to ‘excessive’ entry, ...
(published in Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17, 685-698)
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L50, O14
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2149
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Andrea
Ichino
Fabrizia
Mealli
Tommaso
Nannicini
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From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?
The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23 (3), 305-327)
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C2, C8, J6
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2148
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Marina
Bakanova
Saul
Estrin
Igor
Pelipas
Sergei
Pukovich
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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been ...
(published in Saul Estrin, Grzegorz Kolodko and Milica Uvalic (eds.), Transition and Beyond: A Tribute to Mario Nuti, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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P2, P31, L1
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2147
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Anders
Frederiksen
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Gender Differences in Job Separation Rates and Employment Stability: New Evidence from Employer-Employee Data
I analyze the job separation process to learn about gender differences in job separation rates and employment stability. An essential finding is that employer-employee data are required to identify ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 915-937)
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C23, E24, J63
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2146
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Jeffrey
G.
Williamson
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A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?
Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy ...
(published in T.J. Hatton. K. H. O'Rourke and A. M. Taylor (eds.), The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson, Cambridge Mass: MIT Press, 2007)
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F22, J1, O1
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2145
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David
A.
Jaeger
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Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000
This paper documents where immigrants who enter the U.S. with different types of visas (“green cards”) choose to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 27, 131-184)
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J61, J18, C35
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2144
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Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
We estimate the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on subsequent employment by nonparametric instrumental variables and matching estimators. Very informative administrative Swiss data ...
(published in: Journal of American Statistical Association, 2010, 105 (491), 1014-1029)
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J68, C14, C21
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2143
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Marco
Francesconi
Abhinay
Muthoo
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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships
This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties’ ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 551-589)
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D02, D23, H41, L31
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2142
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Erling
Barth
Bernt
Bratsberg
Torbjørn
Haegeland
Oddbjørn
Raaum
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Who Pays for Performance?
Using Norwegian establishment surveys from 1997 and 2003, we show that performance-related pay is more prevalent in firms where workers of the main occupation have a high degree of autonomy in how to ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 20 (1), 8-29)
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J33, M52
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2141
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James
Albrecht
Lucas
Navarro
Susan
Vroman
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The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector
In many economies, there is substantial economic activity in the informal sector, beyond the reach of government policy. Labor market policies, which by definition apply only to the formal sector, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1105 - 1129)
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E26, J64, J65, O17
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2139
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Natalia
Catrinescu
Miguel
Leon-Ledesma
Matloob
Piracha
Bryce
Quillin
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Remittances, Institutions and Economic Growth
There is considerable debate regarding the relative contribution of international migrants' remittances to sustainable economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded ...
(published in: World Development, 2009, 37(1), 81-92)
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F22, O15, O47
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2137
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Olivier
Donni
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The Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Consumption: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data
We adopt the collective approach to consumer behavior with egoistic agents, and assume that the household consumption is either private or public. We then show that (i) household demands have to ...
(published as "A Simple Approach to Investigate Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Goods" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (3), 617-628 )
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D11, D12, H41
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2136
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Gautam
Hazarika
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India
It is widely held that work by children obstructs schooling, so that working children in impoverished families will find it difficult to escape poverty. If children’s school attendance and work were ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, 2009)
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J22, O12
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2134
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Ingo
Geishecker
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Rational Alcohol Addiction: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey
Alcohol consumption in Russia is legendary and has been reported to be the third leading cause of death in the former Soviet Union after heart disease and cancer. Are Russian alcohol consumers ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2006, 15 (9), 893-914)
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C23, D12, I10
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2132
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Anders
Frederiksen
Rikke
Ibsen
Michael
Rosholm
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
This paper tests the signalling hypothesis using detailed flow-based employer-employee data from Denmark. The primary focus is to explore how the conditions in the pre-displacement firm affect the ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 84-86)
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J64, J65, J68
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2131
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Marc-Andreas
Muendler
Sascha
O.
Becker
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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution
Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE) expands into foreign locations, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 1999-2030)
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F21, F23, C14, C24, J23
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2130
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Olivier
Donni
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On the Identification of Frisch Labor Supplies
This paper examines how Frisch labor supplies, and other structural components of the intertemporal model of labor supply, can be recovered from estimates obtained with the approach developed by ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 95 (1), 1-6)
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J22
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2129
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
Luigi
Mittone
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Choosing Monetary Sequences: Theory and Experimental Evidence
In this paper we formulate and investigate experimentally a model of how individuals choose between time sequences of monetary outcomes. The theoretical model assumes that a decision-maker uses, ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2010, 65 (3), 327-354)
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C91, D9
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2128
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Olivier
Donni
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Learning from a Piece of Pie: The Empirical Content of Nash Bargaining
Consider a model of bargaining, in which two players, 1 and 2, share a pie of size y. The bargaining environment is described by a set of parameters ? that may affect agents’ preferences over the ...
(published as 'Learning from a Piece of Pie in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (1), 162 - 196 (with Ivana Komunjer) )
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C71, C78
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2127
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Giovanni
Facchini
Anna Maria
Mayda
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Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries
This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries - and their interaction with labor-market drivers of preferences. We consider ...
(published as 'Does the Welfare State Affect Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants? Evidence across Countries' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 295 - 314)
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F22, F1, J61
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2126
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Markus
Frölich
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A Note on Parametric and Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Control Variables
This note argues that nonparametric regression not only relaxes functional form assumptions vis-a-vis parametric regression, but that it also permits endogenous control variables. To control for ...
(published in: International Statistical Review, 2008, 76 (2), 214-227)
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C13, C14
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2124
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Wendelin
Schnedler
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Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort
When designing incentives for a manager, the trade-off between insurance and a “good” allocation of effort across various tasks is often identified with a trade-off between the responsiveness ...
(published as "When is it foolish to reward for A while benefiting from B" in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (4), 595-619)
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M41, M52, J33, D82
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2123
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Christian
Belzil
Marco
Leonardi
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Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy
Using unique Italian panel data, in which individual differences in behavior toward risk are measured from answers to a lottery question, we investigate if (and to what extent) risk aversion can ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 657-970)
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J24
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2121
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Aderonke
Osikominu
Robert
Völter
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Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on ...
(revised version published in Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92, 321-355)
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C14, J68, H43
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2120
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Werner
Eichhorst
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Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik – Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen
Das Papier vergleicht die Wirkung unterschiedlicher Kombinationen von Mindest- und Kombilöhnen auf die Beschäftigung von Geringqualifizierten und Langzeitarbeitslosen in ausgewählten Ländern. Bezogen ...
(published in: Lothar Funk (ed.), Anwendungsorientierte Marktwirtschaftslehre und Neue Politische Ökonomie, Marburg: Metropolis, 2008)
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J38, J48, J68
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2119
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David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Punishment, Inequality and Emotions
Cooperation among people who are not related to each other is sustained by the availability of punishment devices which help enforce social norms (Fehr and Gächter, 2002). However, the rationale for ...
(revised version published as 'Punishment, inequality, and welfare : a public good experiment' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2008, 31 (3), 475–502.)
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A13, C92, D63
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2118
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Hongbin
Li
Pak-Wai
Liu
Junsen
Zhang
Ning
Ma
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Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins
This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1504 - 1520)
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J31, O15, P26
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2117
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Benno
Torgler
Friedrich
Schneider
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What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries
Considerable evidence suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance. To resolve this puzzle of tax compliance several researchers have argued that citizens’ ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 88(2) 2007, 443–470)
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H26, H73
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2116
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Etienne
Lehmann
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Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies
Because of Time Inconsistency considerations, policymakers underestimate the drawbacks of wage rigidity as a redistributive tool. Consequently, they redistribute inefficiently income from high to low ...
(revised version published as 'Manon Domingues dos santos and Etienne Lehmann, 'Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution: The credibility Issue' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (4), 2801-2807)
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D78, H2, J68
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2115
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Lutz
C.
Kaiser
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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more ...
(published German version: Arbeitsmarktflexibilität, Arbeitsmarktübergänge und Familie: Die Europäische Perspektive, in: Szydlik, Marc (Ed.) (2008), Flexibilisierung – Folgen für Arbeit und Familie. Springer VS, pp. 295-313)
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J21, J22, J78
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2114
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Herwig
Immervoll
Horacio
Levy
José
Ricardo
Nogueira
Cathal
O'Donoghue
Rozane
Bezerra de
Siqueira
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The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty
The Brazilian government raises taxes amounting to 35% of GDP and spends more than two thirds of this on social programmes. These shares are in pair with the OECD averages and well in excess of Latin ...
(published in: Klasen, S. and F. Nowak-Lehmann (eds.), Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America, MIT Press, 2009)
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H22, H23, C81
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2112
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities by Simulation, with Applications to Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation
We discuss methods for calculating multivariate normal probabilities by simulation and two new Stata programs for this purpose: -mdraws- for deriving draws from the standard uniform density using ...
(published in: Stata Journal, 2006, 6 (2), 156-189)
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C15, C51, C87
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2111
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Jens
Ludwig
Douglas
L.
Miller
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Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and schooling. In 1965 the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) provided technical ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (1), 159-208)
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I18, I20, I38
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2110
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Jakob
R.
Munch
Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Home Ownership, Job Duration and Wages
We investigate the impact of home ownership on individual job mobility and wages in Denmark. We find that home ownership has a negative impact on job-to-job mobility both in terms of transition into ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63(1), 130-145)
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J6, R2
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2109
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Henrik
Winterhager
Anja
Heinze
Alexander
Spermann
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Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany
Job placement vouchers can be regarded as a tool to spur competition between public and private job placement activities. The German government launched this instrument in order to end the public ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 505-517)
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J68, H25
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2106
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Samuel
Bowles
Herbert
Gintis
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Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity
Monitoring by peers is often an effective means of attenuating incentive problems. Most explanations of the efficacy of mutual monitoring rely either on small group size or on a version of the Folk ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 71(2), 221-232)
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C92, H41, J41, J54, Z13
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2105
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Alessio
J. G.
Brown
Mike
Orszag
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives
We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 24 (3), 587-604)
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I38, J22, J32, J38, J64, J65, J68
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2104
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara
de la Rica
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Labor Market Assimilation of Recent Immigrants in Spain
This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation of recent immigrant waves to the Spanish labor market as their residencies lengthen. Using Spanish data from ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 45 (2), 257-285)
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J61
|
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2103
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Daughters and Left-Wing Voting
This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 213-227)
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D1, D72, H1, J7
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2102
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Anabela
Carneiro
Pedro
Portugal
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Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining
One of the predictions of the insider-outsider theory is that wages will be higher in sectors (firms) with high labor adjustment costs/high turnover costs. This prediction is tested empirically in ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (1), 30-47)
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J30, J31
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2101
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Chunbei
Wang
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Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership
This paper analyzes causes of the low self-employment rates among Hispanics, which are nearly half of non-Hispanic white self-employment rates. Relatively little is known of the reason for the lower ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Mexican- American Self-Employment : A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 197 - 227)
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J15, J23
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2100
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Lena
Jacobi
Jochen
Kluve
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Before and After the Hartz Reforms: The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany
Having faced high unemployment rates for more than a decade, the German government implemented a comprehensive set of labour market reforms during the period 2003-2005. This paper describes the ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research / Zeitschrift für Arbeitsmarktforschung, 2007, 40 (1), 45-64)
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J0, J68, J88
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2099
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Reinhold
Kosfeld
Christian
Dreger
Hans-Friedrich
Eckey
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On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
In this paper, the framework of the aggregated Beveridge curve is used to investigate the effectiveness of the job matching process using German regional labour market data. For a fixed matching ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2008, 42, 967-986)
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C21, C23, E24, E32
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2097
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Amit
Kumar
Bhandari
Almas
Heshmati
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Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries
Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone substantial changes with the steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of ...
(published in: ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2008, 7(1), 80-111)
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J70, J31, J60
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2096
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Maarten
Lindeboom
Ana
Llena-Nozal
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances
This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated ...
(revised version published as 'Health Shocks, Disability and Work' in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 186-200 )
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I12, J28
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2095
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Dominique
Goux
Eric
Maurin
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Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School
Children’s outcomes are strongly correlated with those of their neighbours. The extent to which this is causal is the subject of an extensive literature. An identification problem exists because ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1193-1215)
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I21, J24
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2094
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Giacomo
De Giorgi
Michele
Pellizzari
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Welfare Migration in Europe and the Cost of a Harmonised Social Assistance
The enlargement of the European Union has increased concerns about the role of generous welfare transfers in attracting migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the 15 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 353-363)
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J61
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2093
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Roman
Horváth
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Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 28 (2), 227-237)
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E23, D72, H26, O17
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2092
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Justin
Wolfers
Eric
Zitzewitz
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Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities
While most empirical analysis of prediction markets treats prices of binary options as predictions of the probability of future events, Manski (2004) has recently argued that there is little existing ...
(published in: Robert Hahn and Paul Tetlock (eds), Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisions in the Public and Private Sectors, AEI-Brookings Press, 2006)
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D4, D8, G13
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2091
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Richard
K.
Crump
V. Joseph
Hotz
Guido
W.
Imbens
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
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Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
A large part of the recent literature on program evaluation has focused on estimation of the average effect of the treatment under assumptions of unconfoundedness or ignorability following the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (3), 389-405)
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C14, C21, C52
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