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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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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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1962
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Charlotte
Christiansen
Juanna
Schrøter
Joensen
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment
In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (6), 971-986)
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I21, J24
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1961
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
Hartmut
Lehmann
Álmos
Telegdy
Irina
Vantu
Ruxandra
Visan
Alexandru
Voicu
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Nonstandard Forms and Measures of Employment and Unemployment in Transition: A Comparative Study of Estonia, Romania, and Russia
Studies of transition economy labor markets have typically relied on standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics. This paper analyzes microdata on detailed labor force survey ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 435-457)
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C81, J21, J64, P23
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1960
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Winfried
Koeniger
Julien
Prat
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Employment Protection, Product Market Regulation and Firm Selection
This paper analyzes the effect of labor and product market regulation in a dynamic stochastic equilibrium with search frictions. Modeling multiple-worker firms allows us to distinguish between the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F302 - F332)
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E24, J63, J64, J65
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1959
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Social Segregation in Secondary Schools: How Does England Compare with Other Countries?
We provide new evidence about the degree of social segregation in England’s secondary schools, employing a cross-national perspective. Analysis is based on data for 27 rich industrialised countries ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Education, 2008, 34(1), 21-38)
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D39, I21, I39
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1958
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union: An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data
Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade – sometimes rapidly – from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70 (1), 83 - 117)
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P23, P36, N34
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1957
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Abigail
Wozniak
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Product Markets and Paychecks: Deregulation's Effect on the Compensation Structure in Banking
This paper asks how deregulation intended to promote competition in the commercial banking industry affected the compensation structure for banking employees. Using establishment-based data from the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 246-267)
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J31, L11
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1955
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Manuela
Angelucci
Giacomo
De Giorgi
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Indirect Effects of an Aid Program: The Case of Progresa and Consumption
Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and non-eligible ones. Studies that focus on the treatment effect on the treated ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99(1), 486-508)
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E21, H43, I38, O12, O17
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1954
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Abigail
Wozniak
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Educational Differences in the Migration Responses of Young Workers to Local Labor Market Conditions
It is unclear whether educational disparities in internal migration levels reflect important economic differences or simply different consumption choices. I answer this question empirically by ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (4), 944-970)
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J6
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1952
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Alois
Stutzer
Bruno
S.
Frey
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What Happiness Research Can Tell Us About Self-Control Problems and Utility Misprediction
Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumption choice. According to the basic view, individuals know what they choose. They are able to predict how much utility an activity ...
(published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Economics and Psychology. A Promising New Cross-Disciplinary Field, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007, 169-195)
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D00, D11, D12, D84, D91, I12, I31
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1951
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
Dennis
M.
O'Toole
James
N.
Wetzel
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Are the Factors Affecting Dropout Behavior Related to Initial Enrollment Intensity for College Undergraduates?
We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Post-Secondary Survey to determine whether the factors associated with long-term attrition from higher education differ for students who initially enrolled ...
(published in: Research in Higher Education, 2007, 48 (4), 453-486. )
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I21
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1949
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John
J.
Donohue III
Justin
Wolfers
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Uses and Abuses of Empirical Evidence in the Death Penalty Debate
Does the death penalty save lives? A surge of recent interest in this question has yielded a series of papers purporting to show robust and precise estimates of a substantial deterrent effect of ...
(published in: Stanford Law Review, 2005, 58(3), 791-845)
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K14, K42
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1948
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
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The Portfolio Choices of Hispanic Couples
This paper analyzes the portfolio allocations of couple-headed, Hispanic families using Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data. Our results reveal that Hispanic couples as a group are ...
(published in: Social Science Quarterly, 2006, 87 (5), 1344-1363)
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J61, G11, J10
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1947
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Nigel
C.
O'Leary
Peter J.
Sloane
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Rates of Return to Degrees across British Regions
Earlier papers have found considerable heterogeneity in the returns to degrees in relation to subjects of study, degree classification and higher education institution. In this paper we examine ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42(2), 199-213)
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A22, A23, I21, J31, R1
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1946
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Monique
Ebell
Christian
Haefke
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Product Market Deregulation and the U.S. Employment Miracle
We consider the dynamic relationship between product market entry regulation and equilibrium unemployment. The main theoretical contribution is combining a job matching model with monopolistic ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2009, 12, 479 - 504.)
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E24, J63, L16, O00
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1944
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Justin
Wolfers
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Diagnosing Discrimination: Stock Returns and CEO Gender
A vast labor literature has found evidence of a "glass ceiling", whereby women are under-represented among senior management. A key question remains the extent to which this reflects unobserved ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (2-3), 531-541)
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G14, G3, J16, J4, J7, K31, M5
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1943
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Mats
Hammarstedt
Mårten
Palme
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Intergenerational Mobility, Human Capital Transmission and the Earnings of Second-Generation Immigrants in Sweden
We compare the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives. This convergence hides a ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:4)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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1942
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Benoit
Dostie
Pierre
Thomas
Léger
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Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills
Several papers have tested the empirical validity of the migration models proposed by Borjas (1987) and Borjas, Bronars, and Trejo (1992). However, to our knowledge, none has been able to disentangle ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22(4), 1005-1024)
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J24, J61, C23, C35
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1941
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Claudia
Olivetti
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps
Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (4), 621 - 654 )
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E24, J16, J31
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1940
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Francis
Kramarz
David
Thesmar
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Social Networks in the Boardroom
This paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the facts that (1) social networks may strongly affect board composition and (2) social networks may be detrimental to corporate governance. Our ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11(4), 780-807 )
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J40, L20, Z13
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1939
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Andrea
Weber
Helmut
Mahringer
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Choice and Success of Job Search Methods
Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 35 (1), 153-178)
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J20, J64, C31
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1937
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Pedro
Carneiro
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The Return to the Firm Investment in Human Capital
In this paper we estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. We use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (1), 97-106)
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C23, D24, J31
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1936
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Axel
Dreher
Friedrich
Schneider
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy: An Empirical Analysis
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2010, 144 (1), 215–238)
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D73, H26, O17, O5
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1934
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Head-content or Headcount? Short-term Skilled Labour Movements as a Source of Growth
This paper contributes a theoretical model to study the effects of short-term movements of skilled labour on a country's economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term ...
(published as 'Short-Term Skilled Labour Movements and Economic Growth' in: International Migration, 2008, 46 (3), 161-187)
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F2, J6
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1933
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Simon
Commander
Axel
Heitmueller
Laura
Tyson
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Migrating Workers and Jobs: A Challenge to the European Social Model?
This paper proceeds from two key assumptions. The first is that European countries are likely to face increased immigration of individuals. The second is that the emigration of jobs from Europe to ...
(published in: Giddens, Diamond, Liddle (eds): Global Europe, Social Europe. Polity London, 2006)
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J3, J6, H2, L0
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1932
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Herwig
Immervoll
David
Barber
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Can Parents Afford to Work? Childcare Costs, Tax-Benefit Policies and Work Incentives
Childcare policies play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employment-related tasks. This paper quantifies the net cost of purchasing full-time centre-based childcare in OECD ...
(updated and extended version published in: OECD (2007), Benefits and Wages: OECD Indicators)
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D13, H31, J13, J18, J22
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1931
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Eran
Yashiv
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Evaluating the Performance of the Search and Matching Model
Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool of macroeconomic analysis, recent literature pointed to some significant failures ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (4), 909-936)
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E24, E32, J32, J63
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1930
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Holger
Bonin
Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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Cross-sectional Earnings Risk and Occupational Sorting: The Role of Risk Attitudes
This paper investigates whether risk preferences explain how individuals are sorted into occupations with different earnings variability. We exploit data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14(6), 926-937)
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J24, J31, D01, D81
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1929
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Alexander
F.
Wagner
Friedrich
Schneider
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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe: A Panel Analysis
We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a ...
(revised version published as 'The Quality of Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy in Western Europe: A Panel Analysis', in: European Journal of Political Economy, 25(1) 2009, 30-41)
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K32, P16, Q21, Q28
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1928
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
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Civic Attitudes and the Design of Labor Market Institutions: Which Countries Can Implement the Danish Flexicurity Model?
We argue that the efficiency of the Danish flexicurity Model, which combines high unemployment benefits with low job protection and high participation rate, relies on strong public-spiritedness. We ...
(published as "Civic Virtue and Labor Market Institutions" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009, 1(1), 111-145)
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J23, J65, J68
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1927
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Tracy
L.
Regan
Galen
Burghardt
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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A Human Capital Model of the Effects of Abilities and Family Background on Optimal Schooling Levels
This paper develops a theoretical model of optimal schooling levels where ability and family background are the central explanatory variables. We derive schooling demand and supply functions based on ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45 (4), 721-738)
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J24, J31, J22
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1926
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Anabela
Carneiro
Pedro
Portugal
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Wages and the Risk of Displacement
In this paper a simultaneous-equations model of firm closing and wage determination is developed in order to analyse how wages adjust to unfavorable shocks that raise the risk of displacement through ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 251-276)
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J31, J65
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1925
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Eddy
Lee
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Social Impact of Globalization in the Developing Countries
In this paper an ex-post measurable definition of globalization has been used, namely increasing trade openness and FDI. A general result is that the optimistic Heckscher-Ohlin/Stolper-Samuelson ...
(published in: International Labour Review, 2006, 145(3), 167-184)
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F02, O1
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1924
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Fernando
A.
Lozano
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The Expanding Workweek? Understanding Trends in Long Work Hours Among U.S. Men, 1979-2004
After declining for most of the century, the share of employed American men regularly working more than 50 hours per week began to increase around 1970. This trend has been especially pronounced ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 311-343)
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J22
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