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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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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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1983
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Tor
Eriksson
Sabrina
Teyssier
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Self-Selection and the Efficiency of Tournaments
When exogenously imposed, rank-order tournaments have incentive properties but their overall efficiency is reduced by a high variance in performance (Bull, Schotter, and Weigelt 1987). However, since ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47(3), 530-548.)
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M52, J33, J31, C81, C91
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1982
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Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Is Demand-Pulled Innovation Equally Important in Different Groups of Firms?
Previous empirical literature - mainly cross-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and found that overall, evidence does not conflict with the idea that innovation may be driven by ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2007, 31(5), 691-710)
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O31
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1981
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Philip
de Jong
Maarten
Lindeboom
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Screening Disability Insurance Applications
This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(1), 106-129)
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J28, J65
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1980
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David
H.
Blackaby
Paul
L.
Latreille
Philip
D.
Murphy
Nigel
C.
O'Leary
Peter J.
Sloane
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An Analysis of Reservation Wages for the Economically Inactive
This paper uses unique data for the economically inactive to calculate elasticity estimates of the reservation wage and exit probability with respect to state benefits and the arrival rate of job ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 97 (1), 1-5)
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J21, J22, J31
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1978
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W. Bentley
MacLeod
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Reputations, Relationships and the Enforcement of Incomplete Contracts
This paper discusses the literature on the enforcement of incomplete contracts. It compares legal enforcement to enforcement via relationships and reputations. A number of mechanisms, such as the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2007, 45(3), 595-628)
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D86, K12, C7, O17
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1977
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Erte
Xiao
Daniel
Houser
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Public Implementation Eliminates Detrimental Effects of Punishment on Human Cooperation
Development of human societies requires cooperation among unrelated individuals and obedience to social norms. Although punishment is widely agreed to be potentially useful in fostering cooperation, ...
(revised version published as "Punish in Public" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 1006-1017)
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C92, D71, H41
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1974
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Jungmin
Lee
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American Idol: Evidence of Same-Race Preferences?
This study examines whether viewers of the popular television show, American Idol, are racially biased. I find strong evidence for same-race preferences, in particular among black viewers. Featuring ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Analysis and Policy, 2009, 9 (1), Article 28, 2009.)
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J15, L82
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1973
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Murat
Iyigun
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Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the ...
(published as 'Luther & Suleyman' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008,123 (4), 1465-1494.)
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C72, D74, N33, N43, O10
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1972
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Andrew
Leigh
Justin
Wolfers
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Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets
We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (258), 325-340)
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D72, D84
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1971
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
Eskil
Wadensjö
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Employees Who Become Self-Employed: Do Labour Income and Wages Have an Impact?
This paper analyzes the self-employment decision among Swedish-born male employees. The main objective of the paper is to investigate the impact of the relation between the actual and the predicted ...
(revised version published as 'The Best and the Brightest or the Least Successful? Self-Employment Entry among Male Wage-Earners in Sweden' in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40(1), 155-172)
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J23, J24, J30, J62
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1970
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W. Bentley
MacLeod
Voraprapa
Nakavachara
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Legal Default Rules: The Case of Wrongful Discharge Laws
One of the most vexing public policy issues is the extent to which governments should intervene into private contractual relationships. The purpose of this paper is to explore both theoretically and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F218-F278)
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J11, J21, J31, J61, K12, K31
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1969
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Jens
Suedekum
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Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs
In this paper I analyze the impact of human capital on local employment growth for the case of West Germany (1977-2002). I find robust evidence that skilled cities grow faster than unskilled ones, ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics), 2010, 230 (1), 92-114)
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R11, O40
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1968
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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Does the Quality of Industrial Relations Matter for the Macro Economy? A Cross-Country Analysis Using Strikes Data
Using international data, we investigate whether the quality of industrial relations matters for the macro economy. We measure industrial relations inversely by strikes – which proxy we cross-check ...
(published as 'Are Good Industrial Relations Good for the Economy?' in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10 (3), 253 - 269)
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E24, J52, J53, J64, J65
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1967
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Alessandro
Cigno
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Is There a Social Security Tax Wedge?
A Beveridgean pension scheme invariably introduces a wedge between the wage rate and the marginal take-home pay. A Bismarckian one can do so only if it is not actuarially fair, or in the presence of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 68-77)
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H31, H55, J38
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1966
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Marcel
Fafchamps
Jackline
Wahba
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Child Labor, Urban Proximity and Household Composition
Using detailed survey data from Nepal, this paper examines the determinants of child labor with a special emphasis on urban proximity. We find that children residing in or near urban centers attend ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 79 (2), 374-397)
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J10, J22, J24, J40, N35
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1965
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Time to Eat: Household Production under Increasing Income Inequality
Eating requires the food materials that make up meals and also time devoted to buying food, preparing meals and eating them, and cleaning up afterwards. Using time-diary and expenditure data for the ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89 (4), 852-863; excerpts also publishd in Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (1), 31-34)
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J22, Q11
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1964
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Simon
Luechinger
Stephan
Meier
Alois
Stutzer
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Bureaucratic Rents and Life Satisfaction
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2008, 24 (2), 476-488)
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D72, D73, I31, J30, J45, K42, H11, H83
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1963
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René
Böheim
Ulrike
Muehlberger
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Dependent Forms of Self-employment in the UK: Identifying Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-employment
We analyse the characteristics of workers who provide work on the basis of a civil or commercial contract, but who are dependent on or integrated into the firm for which they work. We argue that ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 182-95)
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K31, J21, L22
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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