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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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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
Fougère
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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2008
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Manisha
Chakrabarty
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Earnings Inequality in India: Has the Rise of Caste and Religion Based Politics in India Had an Impact?
Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste ...
(published in: A. Shariff and R. Besant (eds.), Handbook of Muslims in India, Oxford University Press, 2010, New Delhi)
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O15, O17
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2007
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Catherine
Weinberger
Peter
J.
Kuhn
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The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis
Using Census and Current Population Survey data spanning 1959 through 1999, we assess the relative contributions of two factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (3), 384-406)
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J7
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2006
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Fabien
Postel-Vinay
Hélène
Turon
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On-the-Job Search, Productivity Shocks and the Individual Earnings Process
Individual labor earnings observed in worker panel data have complex, highly persistent dynamics. We investigate the capacity of a structural job search model with i.i.d. productivity shocks to ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51 (3), 599 - 629)
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J41, J31
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2005
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Daniela
Del Boca
Christopher
Flinn
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Modes of Spousal Interaction and the Labor Market Environment
We formulate a model of household behavior in which cooperation is costly and in which these costs vary across households. Some households rationally decide to behave noncooperatively, which in our ...
(published as "Household Behavior and the Marriage Market" in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 137-155)
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C79, D19, J22
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2004
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Laurens
Cherchye
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Nonparametric Analysis of Household Labor Supply: Goodness-of-Fit and Power of the Unitary and the Collective Model
We compare the empirical performance of unitary and collective labor supply models, using representative data from the Dutch DNB Household Survey. We conduct a nonparametric analysis that avoids the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 267-274)
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C14, D12, J22
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2003
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Niny
Khor
John
H.
Pencavel
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Income Mobility of Individuals in China and the United States
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2006, 14 (3), 417-458 )
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D31, D63, O15
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2001
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Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 556-590)
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M52, M55, J00, J3, J33, J31, J16, J22, J24 C91, D81
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2000
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John
T.
Addison
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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The (Parlous) State of German Unions
This paper traces the profound decline in German unionism over the course of the last three decades. Today just one in five workers is a union member, and it is now moot whether this degree of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2007, 28 (1), 3-18)
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J51
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1999
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Holger
Bonin
Amelie
F.
Constant
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009, 16 (15), 1581-1586)
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D1, D81, F22, J15, J16, J31, J62, J82
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1998
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Cletus
C.
Coughlin
Howard
J.
Wall
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Ethnic Networks and U.S. Exports
This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2008, 16 (1), 199-213)
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F10, R10
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1997
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Ioan-Sebastian
Buhai
Coen
Teulings
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Tenure Profiles and Efficient Separation in a Stochastic Productivity Model
This paper provides a new way of analyzing tenure profiles in wages, by modelling simultaneously the evolution of wages and the distribution of tenures. We develop a theoretical model based on ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2014, 32 (2), 245-258)
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C51, C52, J63
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1996
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Erik
Snowberg
Justin
Wolfers
Eric
Zitzewitz
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Partisan Impacts on the Economy: Evidence from Prediction Markets and Close Elections
Political economists interested in discerning the effects of election outcomes on the economy have been hampered by the problem that economic outcomes also influence elections. We sidestep these ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (2), 807-829)
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D72, E3, E6, G13, G14, H6
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1995
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Bruno
Amable
Donatella
Gatti
Jan
Schumacher
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Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited
This paper aims to shed light on the role of the 'ideology' of political parties in shaping the evolution of the welfare state in 18 developed democracies, by providing empirical findings on the ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 426-444)
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H5, I1, J8
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1993
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Miles
Corak
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Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility
A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2006, 13 (1), 143-188)
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D31, I32, J62
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1992
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Rob
Euwals
Daniel
van Vuuren
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Early Retirement Behaviour in the Netherlands: Evidence from a Policy Reform
In the early 1990s, the Dutch social partners agreed upon transforming the generous and actuarially unfair PAYG early retirement schemes into less generous and actuarially fair capital funded ...
(published in: De Economist, 2010, 158(3), 209-236)
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C41, D91, J26
|
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1991
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Justin
Wolfers
Eric
Zitzewitz
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Prediction Markets in Theory and Practice
Prediction Markets, sometimes referred to as "information markets", "idea futures" or "event futures", are markets where participants trade contracts whose payoffs are tied to a future event, thereby ...
(published in: Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf (eds), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd ed (London: Palgrave), 2007)
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C53, D8, G14
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1990
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Robert
Plasman
Michael
Rusinek
François
Rycx
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Wages and the Bargaining Regime under Multi-level Bargaining: Belgium, Denmark and Spain
Using a unique harmonized matched employer-employee dataset (European Structure of Earnings Survey, 1995), we study the impact of the regime of collective bargaining on wages in the manufacturing ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2007, 13 (2), 161-180)
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J31, J51, J52
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1989
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Delia
Furtado
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Human Capital and Interethnic Marriage Decisions
Despite a longstanding belief that education importantly affects the process of immigrant assimilation, little is known about the relative importance of different mechanisms linking these two ...
(pubished in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, [Early View])
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J12, I21, J15
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1988
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John
Robst
Solomon
Polachek
Yuan-Ching
Chang
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Geographic Proximity, Trade and International Conflict/Cooperation
This paper examines the interactive effect of distance and trade on international conflict and cooperation. The effect of geographic distance depends on trade, while the effect of trade varies with ...
(published in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2007, 24 (1), 1-24)
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A12, A13, F1, O57
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1987
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Public Sector Pay and Corruption: Measuring Bribery from Micro Data
This study is the first to provide a systematic measure of bribery using micro-level data on reported earnings, household spending and asset holdings. We use the compensating differential framework ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 963-991)
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J3, J4, O1, P2
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1986
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Rolf
Aaberge
Ugo
Colombino
Tom
Wennemo
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Evaluating Alternative Representations of the Choice Sets in Models of Labour Supply
During the last two decades, the discrete-choice modelling of labour supply decisions has become increasingly popular, starting with Aaberge et al. (1995) and van Soest (1995). Within the literature ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2009, 23 (3), 586-612)
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C51, C52, H31, J22
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1985
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Werner
Eichhorst
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Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland: Der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel
Die Arbeitsmarktintegration älterer Erwerbspersonen ist in Deutschland nach wie vor unbefriedigend. Die vorliegende Analyse erklärt diesen Befund mit institutionellen Einflussgrößen wie ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Sozialreform/Journal of Social Policy Research, 2006, 52 (1), 101-123)
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J26, J48, J68
|
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1984
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Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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The Interaction between Retirement and Job Search: A Global Approach to Older Workers Employment
This paper presents a theoretical foundation and empirical evidence in favor of the view that the tax on continued activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2010, 8(5), 1034-1076)
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J22, J26, H31
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