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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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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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1899
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Refet
S.
Gürkaynak
Justin
Wolfers
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Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk
In September 2002, a new market in "Economic Derivatives" was launched allowing traders to take positions on future values of several macroeconomic data releases. We provide an initial analysis of ...
(published in: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, 2005, 11 - 50)
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C23, D21, J50, L13
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1897
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
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Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: Evidence on the Role of the Tracking Age from a Finnish Quasi-Experiment
This paper studies the relationship between the timing of tracking of pupils into vocational and academic secondary education and gender differences in educational attainment and income. We argue ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 807-826)
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I20, J16
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1896
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Kai
Christoffel
Tobias
Linzert
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The Role of Real Wage Rigidity and Labor Market Frictions for Unemployment and Inflation Dynamics
In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42 (7), 1435-1446)
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E52, J64, E32, E31
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1895
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Lorenz
Götte
David
B.
Huffman
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Do Emotions Improve Labor Market Outcomes?
This chapter argues that the neglect of emotion in economic models explains their inability to predict important aspects of the labor market. We focus on one example: firms frequently cut real wages, ...
(published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007)
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E24, E31, E32, B49
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1892
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Howard
J.
Wall
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Oligopoly and Outsourcing
With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2007, 19 (2), 219-234)
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F1, F2, J3
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1891
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Jan
Goebel
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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42(4), 555-577)
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C81, D31, D63
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1890
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Lorenz
Götte
David
B.
Huffman
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Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient
In this chapter we propose a new, dual-process model of labor supply, which incorporates both cognitive and affective aspects of decision-making. Consistent with evidence from neuroscience, the ...
(published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007)
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J22, L2, B49
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1889
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Amihai
Glazer
Vesa
Kanniainen
Panu
Poutvaara
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Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration
We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 915-923)
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H21, H7, R21, R23
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1888
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Erling
Barth
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Employer Size or Skill-Group Size Effect on Wages?
It turns out that the employer-size effect on individual wages dwindles away once one control for the number of workers of the same skill-group (educational type) as the observed individual within ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64(2), 341-355)
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J31
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