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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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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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2027
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Equilibrium Allele Distribution in Trading Populations
This paper derives the conditions under which fitness-reducing alleles can survive in a long-run stationary equilibrium for a trading population, extending the results in Saint-Paul (2002) for ...
(published in: Natural Science, 2015, 7, 103-116.)
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J1, J22
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2026
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Libertad
González
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The Effect of Benefits on Single Motherhood in Europe
This paper uses data from the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to estimate the impact of welfare benefits on the incidence of single motherhood and headship among ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 393-412)
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J12, J13, I38
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2025
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Kristian
Orsini
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Beans for Breakfast? How Exportable Is the British Workfare Model?
Social assistance and inactivity traps have long been considered amongst the main causes of the poor employment performance of EU countries. The success of New Labour has triggered a growing interest ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 25, 165-198)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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2024
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Mikael
Carlsson
Stefan
Eriksson
Nils
Gottfries
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Testing Theories of Job Creation: Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?
How well do alternative labor market theories explain variations in net job creation? According to search-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers ...
(revised version published as 'Product market imperfections and employment dynamics' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (2), 447-470)
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E24, J23, J64
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2023
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Libertad
González
Tarja
Viitanen
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The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe
This paper analyzes a panel of 18 European countries spanning from 1950 to 2003 to examine the extent to which the legal reforms leading to "easier divorce" that took place during the second half of ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (2), 127-138)
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J12, J18, K3
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2022
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Katarina
Keller
Panu
Poutvaara
Andreas
Wagener
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Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries
Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an ...
(published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2009, 20 (5), 373-393)
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H20, H57, J22, C68
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2021
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
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Skill Transferability, Regret and Mobility
After graduation many students start working in sectors not related to their field of study or participate in training targeted at work in other sectors. In this paper, we look at mobility ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (13), 1663-1678)
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J24, J44, J62
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2020
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Lorenz
Götte
David
B.
Huffman
Stephan
Meier
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The Impact of Group Membership on Cooperation and Norm Enforcement: Evidence using Random Assignment to Real Social Groups
Due to incomplete contracts, efficiency of an organization depends on willingness of individuals to take non-selfish actions, e.g., cooperate when there is no incentive to do so, or punish ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 212-216)
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D01, D23, J00
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2019
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Simon
Luechinger
Alois
Stutzer
Rainer
Winkelmann
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The Happiness Gains from Sorting and Matching in the Labor Market
Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 233–251)
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D60, I31, J24, J45
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2018
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Jochen
Kluve
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The Effectiveness of European Active Labor Market Policy
Measures of Active Labor Market Policy are widely used in European countries, but despite many econometric evaluation studies no conclusive cross-country evidence exists regarding "what program works ...
(revised version published as 'The effectiveness of European active labor market programs' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 904-918)
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J00, J68
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2017
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Wolfgang
Franz
Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
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Reasons for Wage Rigidity in Germany
This study investigates institutional and economic reasons for downward wage rigidity regarding three occupational skill groups. Based on a survey of 801 firms in Germany and an econometric analysis, ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (2), 255-284)
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J41, J51, K31
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2016
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David
G.
Blanchflower
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A Cross-Country Study of Union Membership
This paper examines changes in unionization that have occurred over the last decade or so using individual level micro data on twenty seven of the thirty OECD countries, with particular emphasis on ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 45 (1), 1-28)
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J3
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2015
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Eric
J.
Johnson
Simon
Gächter
Andreas
Herrmann
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Exploring the Nature of Loss Aversion
Loss aversion, the fact that losses have a greater impact than gains, is a fundamental property of behavioral accounts of choice. In this paper, we suggest four possible characterizations of the ...
(revised version published as 'Moderating loss aversion: loss aversion has moderators, but reports of its death are greatly exaggerated' in: Journal of Consumer Psychology, 2020, 30 (3), 407-428)
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C90, M31, D11
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2014
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Nina
Smith
Mette
Verner
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Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries: A Model to Aspire to?
The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates compared to other western countries. This has been attributed to the fact that the ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2008, 6 (1), 65-89)
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J1, J2, D1
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2013
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
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Performance Pay and the Erosion of Worker Cooperation: Field Experimental Evidence
We report the results of a field experiment with bicycle messengers in Switzerland and the United States. Messenger work is individualized enough that firms can choose to condition pay on it, but ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 70 (3), 458-469)
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C72, C78, C93, D23, J33, J54, Z13
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2012
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Christian
Grund
Dirk
Sliwka
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Performance Pay and Risk Aversion
A main prediction of agency theory is the well known risk-incentive trade-off. Incentive contracts should be found in environments with little uncertainty and for agents with low degrees of risk ...
(revised version published as "Evidence on Performance Pay and Risk Aversion" in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 8-11)
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J33, M52, D80
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2011
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Urs
Fischbacher
Simon
Gächter
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Heterogeneous Social Preferences and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods
We provide a direct test of the role of social preferences in voluntary cooperation. We elicit individuals' cooperation preference in one experiment and make a point prediction about the contribution ...
(substantially revised and split up versions published as: (1) 'Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Goods' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (1), 541-556; and (2) 'The Behavioral Validity of the Strategy Method in Public Goods Experiments', Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (4), 897-913 )
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C91, C72, H41, D64
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2010
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Axel
Heitmueller
Pierre-Carl
Michaud
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Informal Care and Employment in England: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey
More than 40% of the respondents in the British Household Panel Survey provide informal care at least for one year within the period 1991-2003 and carers are usually less likely to hold ...
(published as "A dynamic analysis of informal care and employment in England" (with Zafar Nazarov) in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 455-465)
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I0, J2, C3
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2009
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Denis
Fougčre
Francis
Kramarz
Julien
Pouget
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Youth Unemployment and Crime in France
In this paper we examine the influence of unemployment on property crimes and on violent crimes in France for the period 1990 to 2000. This analysis is the first extensive study for this country. We ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(5), 909-938)
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J19, K42, J64, J65
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