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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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1870
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Michael
R.
Ransom
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Sex Differences in Pay in a "New Monopsony" Model of the Labor Market
We use a simple framework, adopted from general equilibrium search models, to estimate the extent to which monopsony power (or labor market frictions) can account for gender differences in pay, using ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28(2), 267-289)
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J42, J71
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1869
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Samuel
Bentolila
Ana
Fernandes
Andrea
Ichino
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Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach
In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contribution to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 19)
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D1, J1, J2
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1867
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Francesco
Giovannoni
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 681-706)
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H82, K42, O17, P26, P31
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1866
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John
T.
Addison
C. R.
Barrett
W. Stanley
Siebert
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Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates
The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers' insurance, and may also ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2006, 5 (2), 69 - 87)
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D82, J33
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1865
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Miguel
Portela
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The Provision of Wage Insurance by the Firm: Evidence from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Dataset
We evaluate the impact of product market uncertainty on workers wages, addressing the questions: To what extent do firms provide insurance to their workforce, insulating their wages from shocks in ...
(published as 'Micro foundations for wage flexibility: Wage insurance at the firm level' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (1), 29-50)
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C33, D21, J33, J41
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1864
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes
Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (1), 409-439)
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J1, I1
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1863
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Hartmut
Egger
Peter
Egger
Josef
Falkinger
Volker
Grossmann
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International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth
This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends ...
(published as 'The Impact of Capital Market Integration on Educational Choice and the Consequences for Economic Growth' in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (10), 1241-1268)
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F20, H52, J24, O10
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1862
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Michele
Pellizzari
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Employers' Search and the Efficiency of Matching
Unskilled workers in low productivity jobs typically experience higher labour turnover. This paper shows how this empirical finding is related to variation in the efficiency of the matching process ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49(1), 25-53)
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J63, J64, M51
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1861
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Yves
Zenou
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The Todaro Paradox Revisited
The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this ...
(revised version published as 'Rural-Urban Migration and Unemployment: Theory and Policy Implications' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (1), 65 - 82)
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D83, J41, J64, O15
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1860
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Dan
T.
Rosenbaum
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Cost of Caring for Young Children
This study examines the "cost burden" of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of ...
(published as 'Family Expenditures on Child Care' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7(1), Article 34)
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J13, J18, J22
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1859
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Florentino
Felgueroso
Miguel
Almunia
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Do Men and Women-Economists Choose the Same Research Fields? Evidence from Top-50 Departments
This paper describes the gender distribution of research fields chosen by the faculty members in the top fifty Economics departments, according to the rankings available on the Econphd.net website. ...
(published in: SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2012), 3, 367-393.)
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A11, J16, J70
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1857
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Sarah
Crichton
Steven
Stillman
Dean
R.
Hyslop
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Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings
New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 50 (1), 763-83)
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J28, C21, J24
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1855
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle
In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005, 21(3), 439-461)
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J16, J22, H31, D91
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1854
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Kenn
Ariga
Giorgio
Brunello
Roki
Iwahashi
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?
Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of ...
(substantial revision published as 'On the efficiency costs of de-tracking secondary schools in Europe" in: Education Economics, [iFirst])
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H52, H73
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1853
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Stephen
Machin
Olivier
Marie
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Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative
In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention – the Street Crime ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 678 - 701)
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H00, H5, K42
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1852
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Harminder
Battu
McDonald
Mwale
Yves
Zenou
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Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 643 - 667)
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A14, J15
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1851
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William
E.
Encinosa III
Martin
Gaynor
James
B.
Rebitzer
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The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, 62 (2), 187-214)
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D21, D22, J40, J41
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1850
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Denis
Fougère
Thierry
Kamionka
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Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions
This survey is devoted to the modelling and the estimation of reduced-form transition models, which have been extensively used and estimated in labor microeconometrics. The first section contains a ...
(published in: Patrick Sevestre and Lazlo Matyas (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data: Handbook of Theory and Applications, 3rd ed., Springer, 2008, 865-905)
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C41, C51, J64
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1849
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Jérôme
Adda
Francesca
Cornaglia
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Taxes, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity
This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration – a metabolite of nicotine – measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (4), 1013-1028)
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I1
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1848
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Annette
Bergemann
Bernd
Fitzenberger
Stefan
Speckesser
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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences
This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (5), 797-823)
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C14, C23, H43, J64, J68
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1847
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John
Ermisch
Marco
Francesconi
Thomas
Siedler
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Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating
We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of intergenerational economic mobility in a framework that highlights the role played by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679)
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J12, I20, D31, D64
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1846
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Christopher
R.
Bollinger
Barry
Hirsch
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Match Bias from Earnings Imputation in the Current Population Survey: The Case of Imperfect Matching
This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (3), 483-519)
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J31, C81, C10
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1845
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Werner
Eichhorst
Ole
Wintermann
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional ...
(published in: German Policy Studies, 2006, 3 (2), 268-309; also published as 'De l'expertise aux politiques publiques : l'exemple de l'Allemagne, des Pays-Bas et de la Suède' in: Problèmes Economiques, 2006, No. 2.912 )
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H83, J58
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1843
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Thierry
Lallemand
Robert
Plasman
François
Rycx
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Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2008, 9 (1), 3-19)
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J33, J41, M12
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1842
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Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Effects of Having a Sibling on Geographic Mobility and Labor Market Outcomes
In most industrialized countries, more people than ever are having to cope with the burden of
caring for elderly parents. This paper formulates a model to explain how parental care
responsibilities ...
(published in: Economica, 2009, 76 (303), 528-556)
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D19, J14, C13
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1841
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Eloic
Peyrache
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Tournaments, Individualized Contracts and Career Concerns
Young professionals typically do not enter into life-long employment relations with a single
firm. Therefore, future employers can learn about individuals' abilities from the observable
facts ...
(revised and extended version published as 'Aligning Ambition and Incentives' in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization , 2011, 27(1).)
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D82, J33, L14, M52
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1840
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Michael
Beenstock
Barry
R.
Chiswick
Ari
Paltiel
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Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data
We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel's censuses for 1983 and
1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts
that immigrants ...
(revised paper published as "Testing the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis with Longitudinal Data" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 7-27)
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J24, J31, J61, F22
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1839
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John
Micklewright
Gyula
Nagy
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Job Search Monitoring and Unemployment Duration in Hungary: Evidence from a Randomised Control Trial
The impact of the administration of unemployment benefits on time spent unemployed is a neglected issue in discussion of incentive effects in Central and Eastern Europe. We use Labour Force Survey ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of monitoring unemployment insurance recipients on unemployment duration: Evidence from a field experiment' in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 180-187)
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J64, J65, P23
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1837
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Marco
Francesconi
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Thomas
Siedler
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Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany
We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1073-1103 )
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C23, D13, I21, J12, J13
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1836
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Samuel
Bentolila
Ana
Fernandes
Andrea
Ichino
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Youth Emancipation and Perceived Job Insecurity of Parents and Children
The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1047-1071)
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J1, J2
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1835
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Zhong
Zhao
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Health Determinants in Urban China
This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2000, we find that education has important positive effect on ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Health Demand and Health Determinants in China' in:Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2008, 6 (1), 77-98)
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I12, J24, D12
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1833
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Anders
Poulsen
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Male and Female Competitive Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Male and female choices differ in many economic situations, e.g., on the labor market. This paper considers whether such differences are driven by different attitudes towards competition. In our ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Matching and Competitiveness: Experimental Evidence' in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 816–835.)
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C70, C91, J16, J24, J31, M52
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1831
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Marko
Koethenbuerger
Panu
Poutvaara
Paola
Profeta
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Why Are More Redistributive Social Security Systems Smaller? A Median Voter Approach
We suggest a political economy explanation for the stylized fact that intragenerationally more redistributive social security systems are smaller. We relate the stylized fact to an ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2008, 60 (2), 275-292)
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H55, D72
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1830
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
Amelie
F.
Constant
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The Gender Gap Reloaded: Is School Quality Linked to Labor Market Performance?
This study examines the gender gap in wages of young adults in the late 1970s, mid 1980s, and 2000, in the middle and the tails of the wage distribution using quantile regression. We also examine the ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The gender gap reloaded: Are school characteristics linked to labor market performance?' in: Social Science Research, 2008, 37 (2), 374-385)
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J16, J24, J31
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1829
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Anna Maria
Ferragina
Giorgia
Giovannetti
Francesco
Pastore
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A Tale of Parallel Integration Processes. A Gravity Analysis of EU Trade with Mediterranean and Central and Eastern European Countries
Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is still underdeveloped. To contrast the success of EU integration with MED countries ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2009, 5 (2), Article 2)
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C23, F15, F17, P45, P52
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1828
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Carlo
Dell’Aringa
Claudio
Lucifora
Federica
Origo
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Public Sector Pay and Regional Competitiveness: A First Look at Regional Public-Private Wage Differentials in Italy
This paper investigates regional public-private wage differentials in Italy. Following the recent wave of reforms that significantly changed wage setting and employment relations in both sectors – ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (4), 445-478)
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J31,J45
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1827
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
Andrea M.
Weber
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 359-386)
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I21, I28, J24
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1826
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Atanas
Christev
Olga
Kupets
Hartmut
Lehmann
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Trade Liberalization and Employment Effects in Ukraine
This paper addresses the important issue of the effects of trade liberalization on labor market job flows. It studies the case of Ukraine where we view the sudden openness of the economy to trade as ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2008, 50 (2), 318-340)
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E24, F14, J63, P23
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1825
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Denis
Fougère
Jacqueline
Pradel
Muriel
Roger
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Does Job-Search Assistance Affect Search Effort and Outcomes? A Microeconometric Analysis of Public versus Private Search Methods
In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment service on the search effort of unemployed workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (7), 846-869)
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C41, J64
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1824
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Herwig
Immervoll
Horacio
Levy
Christine
Lietz
Daniela
Mantovani
Cathal
O'Donoghue
Holly
Sutherland
Gerlinde
Verbist
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Household Incomes and Redistribution in the European Union: Quantifying the Equalising Properties of Taxes and Benefits
The systems of direct taxes and cash benefits in the Member States of the European Union vary considerably in size and structure. We explore their direct impacts on cross-sectional income inequality ...
(published in: Papadimitriou, D.B. (ed.), The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation, Palgrave MacMillan 2006)
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C81, D31, H22, H55
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1823
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Hector
Sala
José
I.
Silva
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The Relevance of Post-Match LTC: Why Has the Spanish Labor Market Become as Volatile as the US One?
We present a Search and Matching model with heterogeneous workers (entrants and incumbents) that replicates the stylized facts characterizing the US and the Spanish labor markets. Under this ...
(fully revised version published in: Investigaciones Económicas, 2009, 33 (2), 145-178)
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J23,J24,J31,J41,J63,J64
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1822
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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Normalized Equation and Decomposition Analysis: Computation and Inference
This paper joins discussions on normalized regression and decomposition equations in devising a simple and general algorithm for obtaining the normalized regression and applying it to the Oaxaca ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2008, 33 (1), 27-38 )
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C20, J70
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1821
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Daniela
Del Boca
Christopher
Flinn
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Household Time Allocation and Modes of Behavior: A Theory of Sorts
We develop a simple model of household time allocation decisions under strong functional form assumptions regarding preferences and household production technology. We argue that the specification is ...
(published as "Endogeneous Household Interaction" in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 49-6)
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D13, J12, J22
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1820
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David
Neumark
Elizabeth
T.
Powers
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SSI, Labor Supply, and Migration
The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program in the United States creates incentives for potential aged recipients to reduce labor supply prior to becoming eligible, and our past research finds ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (3), 447-479)
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J14, J22, I38, R23
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1819
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Adama
Konseiga
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Household Migration Decisions as Survival Strategy: The Case of Burkina Faso
The paper examines the motivations behind the important migration from Burkina Faso to Cote d'Ivoire, the economic pole in the West African Economic and Monetary Union. The paper uses a detailed ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2007, 16 (2), 198-233)
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C25, F15, F22, R23, J31
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1818
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
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Young Women's Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of High School Completion
The far-reaching consequences of failing to complete secondary schooling are well known. The central questions addressed in this study are: Does religion make a difference in the likelihood of ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, 4(3), 277-293)
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J24, J15, J22
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1817
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Jürgen
Meckl
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Are US Wages Really Determined by European Labor-Market Institutions?
This paper integrates institutionally determined wage rigidities into an otherwise standard Heckscher-Ohlin model of international trade. It accounts for differences in individual productivities and ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1924-1930)
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F11, J31
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1816
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Christian
Grund
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Age Structure of the Workforce and Firm Performance
In this contribution, we examine the interrelation between corporate age structures and firm performance. In particular, we address the issues, whether firms with young rather than older employees ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29(5), 410-422)
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M54, J21, L25
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1815
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Jungmin
Lee
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Stressed Out on Four Continents: Time Crunch or Yuppie Kvetch?
Social commentators have pointed to problems of workers who face "time stress" – an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (2), 374-383)
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J22
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1812
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John
S.
Heywood
W. Stanley
Siebert
Xiangdong
Wei
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High Performance Workplaces and Family Friendly Practices: Promises Made and Promises Kept
High performance workplaces elicit greater involvement and productivity from employees but
past theory and evidence remain divided on whether or not such workplaces are compatible
with family ...
(published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2010, 21 (11), 1976-1995)
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J31, J32, J81
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