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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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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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1811
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Alois
Stutzer
Bruno
S.
Frey
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Does Marriage Make People Happy, Or Do Happy People Get Married?
This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-being in a
longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likely
for ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 326-347)
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D13, I31, J12
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1810
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Herwig
Immervoll
Henrik
Jacobsen
Kleven
Claus
Thustrup
Kreiner
Emmanuel
Saez
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Welfare Reform in European Countries: A Microsimulation Analysis
This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in
the 15 (pre-enlargement) member countries of the European Union. The reforms are revenue
neutral and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007. 118 (516), 1-44)
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H20
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1809
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Wim
P.
Vijverberg
Joop
Hartog
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On Simplifying the Structure of Labour Demand: An Analysis of the DOT Data
We analyse the information in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles to characterize the
structure of labour demand. Two dimensions, an intellectual factor and a dexterity factor
capture most ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2010, 42(13), 1747-1760)
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J21, J23, J31
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1808
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David
A.
Jaeger
M. Daniele
Paserman
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The Cycle of Violence? An Empirical Analysis of Fatalities in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
This paper studies the dynamics of violence in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict since the
outbreak of the Second (or "Al-Aqsa") Intifada in September 2000, during which more than
3,300 Palestinians ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (4), 1591-1604)
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C32, D71, D74, H56
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1807
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
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An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century
Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students,
caregivers and agricultural workers to include trade-related temporary visas under NAFTA
and the GATS. Several ...
(published in: International Migration, 2008, 46 (1), 3–17)
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F22, J61
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1806
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Federico
Biagi
Claudio
Lucifora
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Demographic and Education Effects on Unemployment in Europe: Economic Factors and Labour Market Institutions
We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in
Europe. Using a panel of European countries for the 1980-2000 period - disaggregated by
cohort, gender and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 1076-1101)
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E24, J31, J51, J65
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1805
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Charles
Grant
Winfried
Koeniger
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Redistributive Taxation and Personal Bankruptcy in US States
Both personal bankruptcy and redistributive taxes can insure households' consumption risk
and both vary considerably across US states. We derive sufficient conditions under which
more ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2009, 52 (3), 445-467)
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E21, E61, G18
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1804
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C. Simon
Fan
Xiangdong
Wei
Junsen
Zhang
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'Soft' Skills, 'Hard' Skills, and the Black/White Earnings Gap
This paper provides both a theoretical and an empirical investigation into the impact of job skill types on the black/white pay differentials. The theoretical analysis derives that the more ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (2), 1032-1053)
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J24, J31, J71
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1803
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Leo
Turcotte
John
Robst
Solomon
Polachek
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Medical Interventions among Pregnant Women in Fee-for-Service and Managed Care Insurance: A Propensity Score Analysis
We extend prior research on the effect of managed care on the receipt of four medical interventions for pregnant women: ultrasound, induction/stimulation of birth, electronic fetal monitor, and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (13), 1513-1525)
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I10
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1802
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Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
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Discrimination as a Competitive Device: The Case of Local Television News
Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8(1))
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J71
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1801
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Sascha
O.
Becker
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Introducing Time-to-Educate in a Job Search Model
Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high youth unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2006, 58 (1), 61–72)
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E24, J31, J41, J64
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1800
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L. Rachel
Ngai
Christopher
A.
Pissarides
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Structural Change in a Multi-Sector Model of Growth
We study a multi-sector model of growth with differences in TFP growth rates across sectors and derive sufficient conditions for the coexistence of structural change, characterized by sectoral labor ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (1), 429-443)
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O41, O14
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1799
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Bruce
Fallick
Charles
A.
Fleischman
James
B.
Rebitzer
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Job-Hopping in Silicon Valley: Some Evidence Concerning the Micro-Foundations of a High Technology Cluster
In Silicon Valley's computer cluster, skilled employees are reported to move rapidly between competing firms. This job-hopping facilitates the reallocation of resources towards firms with superior ...
(published in: Review of Economic and Statistics, 2006, 88(3), 472-481)
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R12, L63, O3, J63, J48
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1798
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Bernhard
Herz
Lukas
Vogel
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Structural Reforms and the Exchange Rate Regime: A Panel Analysis for the World versus OECD Countries
We test the significance of the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the degree of structural reforms by estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The ...
(published in: International Finance, 2006, 9 (3), 317-342)
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D78, E52, E61
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1797
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Alessandro
Cigno
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A Constitutional Theory of the Family
The paper re-examines the idea that a family can be viewed as a community governed by a self-enforcing constitution, and extends existing results in two directions. First, it identifies circumstances ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 259-289)
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C72, D02, D13, D71, D74, D91, H55, J13, J14
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1795
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Mathias
Sinning
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Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models
In this paper, a decomposition method for Tobit-models is derived, which allows the differences in a censored outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by ...
(published in: Applied Economics , 2010, 42 (12), 1569-1575)
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C24, J31
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1794
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Dorothea
Kübler
Wieland
Müller
Hans-Theo
Normann
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Job Market Signaling and Screening: An Experimental Comparison
We analyze the Spence education game in experimental markets. We compare a signaling and a screening variant, and we analyze the effect of increasing the number of competing employers from two to ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, 64 (1), 219-236)
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C35, I2, J24, P3, P52
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1793
|
Francesco
Pastore
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To Study or to Work? Education and Labour Market Participation of Young People in Poland
This paper proposes Heckprobit estimates of the determinants of labour market participation of a sample of young (15-30) Poles, controlling for the sample selection bias caused by excluding those in ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2012, 50 (3), 49-78)
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C35, I2, J24, P3, P52
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1791
|
Fabio
Schiantarelli
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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance: A Review of Cross Country Evidence
The main purpose of this paper is to provide a critical overview of the recent empirical contributions that use cross country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a ...
(published in: N. Loayza and L. Serven (eds): The Microeconomic Underpinning of Growth, The World Bank, 2010)
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D24, K20, L10, L51, O31, O40, O57
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1790
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James
J.
Heckman
Salvador
Navarro
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Dynamic Discrete Choice and Dynamic Treatment Effects
This paper considers semiparametric identification of structural dynamic discrete choice models and models for dynamic treatment effects. Time to treatment and counterfactual outcomes associated with ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136 (2), 341-396)
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C31
|
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1789
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Jasmin
Kantarevic
Stéphane
Mechoulan
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Birth Order, Educational Attainment and Earnings: An Investigation Using the PSID
Whether siblings of specific birth order perform differently has been a longstanding open empirical question. We use the family tree structure of the PSID to examine two claims found in the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41(4), 755-777)
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I2, J1
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1788
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Jonathan
Gardner
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Do Divorcing Couples Become Happier By Breaking Up?
Divorce is a leap in the dark. This paper investigates whether people who split up actually become happier. Using the British Household Panel Survey, we are able to observe an individual's level of ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, (Statistics in Society), 2006, 169 (2), 319-336)
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J12, I3
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1786
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Francois
Fontaine
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Why Are Similar Workers Paid Differently? The Role of Social Networks
We provide a matching model where identical workers are embedded in ex-ante identical social networks. Job arrival rate is endogenous and wages are bargained. We study the evolution of networks over ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2008, 32(12), 3960-3977)
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E24, J64, J68
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1785
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Richard
Blundell
Pierre-André
Chiappori
Thierry
Magnac
Costas
Meghir
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Collective Labour Supply: Heterogeneity and Nonparticipation
We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and nonparticipation in employment. We derive the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74 (2), 417-445)
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D11, D12, D13, D70, J22
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