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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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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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2090
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Alfonso
Miranda
Massimiliano
Bratti
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Non-Pecuniary Returns to Higher Education: The Effect on Smoking Intensity in the UK
In this paper we investigate whether higher education (HE) produces non-pecuniary returns via a reduction in the consumption of health-damaging substances. In particular, the paper focuses on ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (8), 906-920 )
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C35, I12, I21
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2088
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Maurice
Schiff
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Migration's Income and Poverty Impact Has Been Underestimated
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (3), 267-284)
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F22, I32, J61, O15, O19, R23
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2087
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David
McKenzie
John
Gibson
Steven
Stillman
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How Important Is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration
Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 913-945)
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J61, F22, C21
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2086
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Shubhashis
Gangopadhyay
Shagun
Krishnan
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Reforms, Entry and Productivity: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector
It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or ...
(published as 'Reforms and Entry: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector' in: Review of Development Economics, 2009, 13 (4), 658-672)
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L11, L52, L64, L67, O14, O17
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2085
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Wen-Hao
Chen
Miles
Corak
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 377 - 397)
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I30, I32, I38
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2084
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Christoph
Wunder
Johannes
Schwarze
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Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), it is shown that income comparison with persons who are better off has a clear impact on the job satisfaction of West German full-time ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2009, 18(2), 70-91)
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D63, I31, D31
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2083
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Claudia
Senik
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Ambition and Jealousy: Income Interactions in the "Old" Europe versus the "New" Europe and the United States
This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation depends on the degree of mobility and uncertainty in the economy. It mostly ...
(published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (299), 495-513)
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C23, D63, O57
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2081
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Frédéric
Docquier
Oliver
Paddison
Pierre
Pestieau
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Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital
This paper considers a three-overlapping-generations model of endogenous growth wherein human capital is the engine of growth. It first contrasts the laissez-faire and the optimal solutions. Three ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2006, 134 (1), 361-378)
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D90, H21, H52
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2080
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Benoit
Dostie
Rajshri
Jayaraman
Mathieu
Trépanier
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The Returns to Computer Use Revisited, Again
Using North American data, we revisit the question first broached by Krueger (1993) and re-examined by DiNardo and Pischke (1997) of whether there exists a real wage differential associated with ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42 (30), 3903 - 3912)
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J30, J31, O30
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2078
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Jean-Yves
Duclos
Abdelkrim
Araar
John
T.
Giles
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Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 91 (2), 266-277)
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C15, D31, D63, I32
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2077
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Andreas
Ammermüller
Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2009, 27 (3), 315-348)
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I21, J24
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2076
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Zvi
Eckstein
Suqin
Ge
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Job and Wage Mobility in a Search Model with Non-Compliance (Exemptions) with the Minimum Wage
How well does a simple search on-the-job model fit the eighteen years of job and wage mobility of high school graduates? To answer this question we are confronted from the data with a prevalent ...
(published as 'Job and wage mobility with minimum wages and imperfect compliance' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (4), 580-612)
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J42, J63, J64
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2075
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Joshua
Angrist
Victor
Lavy
Analia
Schlosser
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New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children
A longstanding question in the economics of the family is the relationship between sibship size and subsequent human capital formation and economic welfare. If there is a causal "quantity-quality ...
(revised version published as 'Multiple Experiments for the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 773 - 824)
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J13, J24, O12
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2074
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Peter
Berkhout
Joop
Hartog
Dinand
Webbink
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Compensation for Earnings Risk under Worker Heterogeneity
We use two large Dutch datasets to estimate the Risk Augmented Mincer equation and test for risk compensation in expected earnings. We replicate earlier findings of a positive premium for risk and a ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2010, 76 (3), 762–790 )
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J31
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2073
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Gabriele
Cardullo
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills: An Equilibrium Matching Approach
The search-matching model is well suited for an equilibrium evaluation of labor market policies. When those policies are targeted on some groups, the usual juxtaposition of labor markets is however a ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (4), 375-404)
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E24, J3, J41, J64, J65, J68
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2070
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
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An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals: Evidence and Implications for Decision-makers
In universities all over the world, hiring and promotion committees regularly hear the argument: “this is important work because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X”. Moreover, those who ...
(published in: Economica, 2007, 74 (293), 21-31)
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A11, O3
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2069
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Holger
Bonin
Hilmar
Schneider
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Wirksamkeit der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen
Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Wirksamkeit der Förderung beruflicher Weiterbildung im Rah-men der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen. Ergebnisse der bei flächendeckenden ...
(published in: Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, 2006, 53 (2), 155-165)
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J68, H43, D61
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2068
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Paul
Frijters
Bob
Gregory
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From Golden Age to Golden Age: Australia's "Great Leap Forward"?
The twenty-five years after WW 2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes – high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro ...
(published in: The Economic Record, 82 (257) 2006, 207-224)
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J0, D6, E6, L5, O3
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2066
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Dennis
J.
Snower
Christian
Merkl
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The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market After Reunification (Detailed Version)
The East German labor market has hardly made any progress since German reunification, despite massive migration flows and support from the West. We argue that East Germany is in trouble precisely ...
(short version published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 375-382)
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E24, J3, P2
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2065
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Winfried
Koeniger
Marco
Leonardi
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Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US
Capital deepening may affect the evolution of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers differently in countries with different labor market institutions. If labor market ...
(revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22 (49), 71-116)
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E22, E24, J31, J64
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2064
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Alois
Stutzer
Lorenz
Götte
Michael
Zehnder
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Active Decisions and Pro-social Behavior: A Field Experiment on Blood Donation
In this paper, we propose a decision framework where people are individually asked to either actively consent or dissent to some pro-social behavior. We hypothesize that confronting individuals with ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 476-493)
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C93, D64, I18
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2063
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Janet
Currie
Erdal
Tekin
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Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?
Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the ...
(revised version published as 'Understanding the Cycle: Childhood Maltreatment and Future Crime?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (2), 509-549)
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I1, K4
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2062
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Oriana
Bandiera
Iwan
Barankay
Imran
Rasul
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Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
We present evidence from a firm level experiment in which we engineered an exogenous change in managerial compensation from fixed wages to performance pay based on the average productivity of ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 729-773)
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J33, M52
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2061
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Gadi
Barlevy
H. N.
Nagaraja
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Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems
This paper extends previous work on the identification of search models in which observed worker productivity is imperfectly observed. In particular, it establishes that these models remain ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13(4), 780-99)
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J64, C14
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2060
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
Mark
L.
Pocock
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Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude and Letterman
Market productivity is often greater, and leisure and other household activities more enjoyable, when people perform them simultaneously. Beyond pointing out the positive externalities of ...
(published as 'Cues for Timing and Coordination: Latitude, Letterman and Longitude' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 223-246)
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J22, E61
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2059
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Matthias
Kräkel
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Doping and Cheating in Contest-Like Situations
Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23 (4), 988-1006)
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J3, K42, M5
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2058
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Jean
Kimmel
Rachel
Connelly
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Is Mothers' Time With Their Children Home Production or Leisure?
As mothers have increased their paid work efforts, conflicts between employment and family responsibilities have grown. This evolution has led researchers to explore more fully the role that ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42(3), 643-81)
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J13, J22
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2057
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Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain
This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers in the US. We investigate pain and its relationship to work disability and work ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27(2), 496-509)
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J28, I12, C81
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2056
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition
We study a search model where workers can send multiple applications to high and low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase their wage offers as often as they ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (3), 311-319)
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D83, E24, J23, J24, J64
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2055
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Hilmar
Schneider
Werner
Eichhorst
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Konzentration statt Verzettelung: Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg
The German labor market reforms seem to be on the right track. However, they need to be adjusted especially on the organizational side to make them more effective. The labor market instruments can be ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2006, 7 (3), 379-397)
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J65, J68, J69
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2054
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Matthias
Kräkel
Dirk
Sliwka
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Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts
We discuss a principal-agent model in which the principal has the opportunity to include a non-compete agreement in the employment contract. We show that not imposing such an agreement can be ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2009, 50(1), 117-141)
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D21, D86, J3, K1, M5
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2052
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Herbert
Brücker
Cécily
Defoort
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The (Self-)Selection of International Migrants Reconsidered: Theory and New Evidence
This paper reconsiders the (self-)selection of international migrants. In an extended Roy-model we analyse the factors which affect the selection bias of migrants. In particular, we find that ...
(published in: Journal of International Manpower, 2009, 30 (7), 742-764.)
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F22
|
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2051
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Olof
Aslund
John
Östh
Yves
Zenou
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How Important Is Access to Jobs? Old Question – Improved Answer
We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee dispersal policy to get exogenous variation in individual locations. Using very ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10(3), 389-422)
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J15, J18, R23
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2049
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Herbert
Brücker
Philipp
J. H.
Schröder
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International Migration with Heterogeneous Agents: Theory and Evidence
International migration is characterized by two puzzling facts: First, only a small share of the population tends to migrate although substantial and persisting income differences across countries ...
(published in: World Economy , 2012, 35 (2), 152-182.)
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F22, C23, C53
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2048
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Naci
Mocan
Erdal
Tekin
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Ugly Criminals
Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (1), 15 - 30)
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I1, I2, K4, J2, J3
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2047
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Russell
Davidson
Jean-Yves
Duclos
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Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance
Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the ...
(published in: Econometric Review, 2012, 32 (1), 84 - 125)
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C10, C12, C15, I32
|
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2046
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Eleonora
Patacchini
Yves
Zenou
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Racial Identity and Education
We investigate the sources of differences in school performance between students of different races by focusing on identity issues. We find that having a higher percentage of same-race friends has a ...
(published in: Social Networks, 2016, 44, 85-94.)
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A14, I21, J15, J24
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2045
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Julián
Messina
Giovanna
Vallanti
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Job Flow Dynamics and Firing Restrictions: Evidence from Europe
We exploit homogeneous firm level data of manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors to study the impact of firing restrictions on job flow dynamics across 14 European countries. We find that more ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F279 - F301)
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J23, J63, J68
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2044
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Simonetta
Longhi
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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The Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Natives in Regional Labour Markets: A Meta-Analysis
Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds ...
(published in: J. Poot, B. Waldorf, and L. van Wissen (eds.), Migration and Human Capital, Edward Elgar, 2008)
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F22, J61
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