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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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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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2043
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Leo
Kaas
Paul
Madden
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Holdup in Oligopsonistic Labour Markets: A New Role for the Minimum Wage
We consider a labour market model of oligopsonistic wage competition and show that there is a holdup problem although workers do not have any bargaining power. When a firm invests more, it pays a ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 356-371)
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D43, J48
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2042
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Paola
Giuliano
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Living Arrangements in Western Europe: Does Cultural Origin Matter?
Why are there such large differences in living arrangements across Western European countries? Conventional economic analyses have not been successful in explaining differences in living arrangements ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 927-952)
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D1, J1, Z13
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2041
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Marco
Caliendo
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Evaluating the German "Mini-Job" Reform Using a True Natural Experiment
Increasing work incentives for people with low incomes is a common topic in the policy debate across European countries. The "Mini-Job" reform in Germany – introduced on April 1, 2003 – can be seen ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42(19), 2475–2489)
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C25, H31, J68
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2040
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Liliya
Gataullina
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ethnosizing Immigrants
The paper provides a new measure of the ethnic identity of immigrants and explores its evolution in the host country. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 69 (3), 274-287 )
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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2039
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Christopher
Woodruff
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Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States
Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. In the United States, however, rates of self employment among Mexican Americans are only 6 percent, about half the rate among non-Latino ...
(published in: G. Borjas (ed.), Mexican Immigration in the United States, NBER-C, 2007, 123-158)
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J15, J23
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2038
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Tor
Eriksson
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New Workplace Practices and the Gender Wage Gap: Can the New Economy be the Great Equalizer?
We estimate the effect of introducing new workplace practices on the gender gap in wages in the manufacturing sector. We use a unique 1999 survey on work and compensation practices of Danish private ...
(revised version published as 'HRM Practices and the Within-Firm Gender Wage Gap' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 554 - 580 )
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J16, J31, M54
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2037
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Sherrilyn
M.
Billger
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Reconstructing School Segregation: On the Efficacy and Equity of Single-Sex Schooling
A change to Title IX has spurred new single-sex public schooling in the US. Until recently, nearly all gender-segregated schools were private, and I therefore address potential selection bias in the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (3), 393-402)
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I21, J24, J3, I28
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2033
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Marco
Caliendo
Peter
Haan
Kristian
Orsini
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'Making Work Pay' in a Rationed Labour Market
We assess the labour supply effects of two 'making work pay' reforms in Germany. We provide evidence in favour of policies that distinguish between low effort and low productivity by targeting ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 21 (1), 323-351)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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2032
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Luigi
Benfratello
Fabio
Schiantarelli
Alessandro
Sembenelli
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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms
In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms' innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is ...
(published in:Journal of Financial Economics, 2008, 90 (2), 197 - 217)
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D24, G21, G38, O31, O33
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2030
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work, and their Implications for Retirement
Retirement ages among older Americans have only recently begun to increase after a precipitous fifty-year decline. Early retirement may result from incentives provided by retirement systems; but it ...
(published as 'A Structural Model of the Fixed Time Costs of Market Work' (with Stephen G. Donald) in: Economics Letters, 2009, 104 (3), 125-128)
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J22, D13, J26
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2028
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Einat
Neuman
Shoshana
Neuman
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Explorations of the Effect of Experience on Preferences: Two Health-Care Case Studies
The standard assumption in economic theory is that preferences are stable. In particular, they are not changed as a result of experience with the good/service/event. Behavioral scientists have ...
(revised version published as 'Explorations of the effect of experience on preferences for a health-care service' in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2010, 39 (3), 407-419)
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D01, D12, I19
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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