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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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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
Mĺrten
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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1923
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David
A.
Jaeger
M. Daniele
Paserman
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Israel, the Palestinian Factions, and the Cycle of Violence
In this study we extend our previous work to examine the dynamic relationship between violence committed by Palestinian factions and that committed by Israel during the Second Intifada. We find a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (2), 45-49)
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C32, D71, D74, H56
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1922
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José
Varejăo
Pedro
Portugal
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Employment Dynamics and the Structure of Labor Adjustment Costs
In this paper we document the patterns of employment adjustment at the micro-level. We find clear evidence of lumpy adjustment consistent with the presence of non-convexities in the adjustment ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (1), 137-165)
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J23, J63
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1921
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Anne
Daly
Akira
Kawaguchi
Xin
Meng
Karen
A.
Mumford
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The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries
In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in ...
(revised version published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (257), 165-176)
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J3, J7
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1920
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Tracy
L.
Regan
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Work Experience as a Source of Specification Error in Earnings Models: Implications for Gender Wage Decompositions
We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the classical errors-in-variable framework. The nature of the measurement error is best ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 463 - 499)
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C81, J24, J31
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1919
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Chris
Riddell
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The Long-Term Effects of a Generous Income Support Program: Unemployment Insurance in New Brunswick and Maine, 1940-1991
Using data spanning a half century for adjacent jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada, we study the long-term effects of a very generous unemployment insurance (UI) program on weeks worked. We find ...
(revised version published as 'The Long-Term Effects of Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from New Brunswick and Maine, 1940 - 1991' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 63 (2), 183 - 204)
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J22, J64
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1917
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2005, 30(4), 305-316)
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C6, J15, J16
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1916
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Andrew
Leigh
Justin
Wolfers
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia Is Not a Paradox
In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2006, 39 (2), 176-184)
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I31, O57
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1914
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Takao
Kato
Cheryl
Long
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CEO Turnover, Firm Performance and Enterprise Reform in China: Evidence from New Micro Data
Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data on CEO turnover, ownership structure and board characteristics, we estimate Logit ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (4), 796 - 817)
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M52, M12, J33, P34, G30, O16, O53, G30, G15
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1913
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Mirko
Draca
Stephen
Machin
John
Van Reenen
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Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (1), 121-159)
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J23, L25
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1912
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Daniel
O.
Beltran
Kuntal
K.
Das
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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Do Home Computers Improve Educational Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Current Population Surveys and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997
Nearly twenty million children in the United States do not have computers in their homes. The role of home computers in the educational process, however, has drawn very little attention in the ...
(published as 'Home Computers and Educational Outcomes: Evidence from the NLSY97 and CPS ' in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (3), 771-792)
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I2
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1911
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Orley
Ashenfelter
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Measuring the Value of a Statistical Life: Problems and Prospects
Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (510), C10-C23)
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J17, H43, I18, R4
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1909
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David
N.F.
Bell
David
G.
Blanchflower
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The Scots May Be Brave But They Are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 54 (2), 166-194)
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J4
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1908
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Antonia
Parera-Nicolau
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Labour Supply and Childcare for British Mothers in Two-Parent Families: A Structural Approach
We develop and estimate a structural model of labour supply for British two parent families, taking explicit account of the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not ...
(formative work for "Labour Supply and Childcare", IZA DP No. 12500. )
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J2, J3, J80
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1907
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Jakob
R.
Munch
Jan
Rose
Skaksen
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Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (1), 57-73)
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F16, J31, C23
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1906
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Gabriela
Schütz
Heinrich
W.
Ursprung
Ludger
Woessmann
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Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308)
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I21, J62, H52
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1905
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Thomas
Dohmen
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Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure?
High rewards or the threat of severe punishment do not only provide incentives to exert high levels of effort but also create pressure. Such pressure can cause paradoxical performance effects, namely ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 65, 636-653)
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M54, Z13
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1904
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Christian
Holzner
Andrey
Launov
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Search Equilibrium, Production Parameters and Social Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation
We introduce different skill groups and production functions into the Burdett-Mortensen equilibrium search model. Supermodularity in the production process leads to a positive intrafirm wage ...
(revised version published as 'Search Equilibrium and Social and Private Returns to Education' in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (1), 39-59)
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J21, J23, J64
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1903
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Panu
Poutvaara
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On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (3), 679-684)
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F22, J24, I21
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1901
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (510), C63-C76)
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I2
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1900
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility
The statement that individuals care for status and for their position within a hierarchy has been subject to sparse economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the ...
(published as 'Money and rank in the labor market' in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (2), 325 - 328)
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J63, J31, J41
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