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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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1784
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Boris
Kralj
Jasmin
Kantarevic
Darrel
Weinkauf
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'Taxing' Doctors: The Impact of Income Caps on the Provision of Medical Services
Income cap or threshold systems rely on incentives that encourage physicians to limit medical expenditures, but little is known about how physicians respond to these incentives. Conceptually, the ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, 41(4), 1262-1284)
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I10, I18
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1783
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Takao
Kato
Woochan
Kim
Ju Ho
Lee
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Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Chaebols in Korea: Evidence from New Panel Data
This paper provides the first rigorous econometric estimates on the pay-performance relations for executives of Korean firms with and without Chaebol affiliation. To do so, we have assembled for the ...
(published in: Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2007, 15 (1), 36-55)
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M52, M12, G30, G15, J33, O53
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1782
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena
This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned with the international mobility of high-skilled workers, previously referred to as ...
(published in: T.R. Shastri (ed.), Emigration: Economic Implications, Icfai University Press, India, 2007, 84-95)
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F22, J61, J31, O15
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1780
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John
T.
Addison
Lutz
Bellmann
Thorsten
Schank
Paulino
Teixeira
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The Demand for Labor: An Analysis Using Matched Employer-Employee Data from the German LIAB. Will the High Unskilled Worker Own-Wage Elasticity Please Stand Up?
This paper uses matched employee-employer LIAB data to provide panel estimates of the structure of labor demand in Germany, 1993-2002, distinguishing between highly skilled, skilled, and unskilled ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2008, 29 (2), 114-137)
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F15, J23, J31, O33, F15
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1779
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Daniela
Del Boca
Daniela
Vuri
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Labor Supply and Child Care Costs: The Effect of Rationing
In Italy the participation of women has not increased very much in the last few decades relative to other developed countries and it is still among the lowest in Europe. The female employment rate ...
(published as 'The mismatch between employment and child care in Italy: the impact of rationing' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20(4), 805-832 )
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J2, C3, D1
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1778
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Thierry
Lallemand
François
Rycx
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Establishment Size and the Dispersion of Wages: Evidence from European Countries
We investigate how the wage distribution differs among small and large establishments in four European countries. Findings show that within-establishment wage dispersion rises with size because large ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2006, 52 (4), 309-336)
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J21, J31
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1777
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Christine
Harbring
Bernd
Irlenbusch
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How Many Winners Are Good to Have? On Tournaments with Sabotage
From an employer's perspective a tournament should induce agents to exert productive activities but refrain from destructive ones. We experimentally test the predictive power of a tournament model ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 65 (3), 682-702)
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D23, J33, L23, C72
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1774
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David
Neumark
Junfu
Zhang
Brandon
Wall
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Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series
We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source – the National Establishment Time Series (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 39-83)
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J2, C8, L0
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1773
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Robert
Breunig
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Xiaodong
Gong
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Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply
We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations We ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84(267), 466-485)
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C51, D10, J22
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1772
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ira
N.
Gang
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Ethnic Conflict and Economic Disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo
We use the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo to examine economic deprivation among Serbs and Albanians. Economic deprivation is measured by per ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34(4), 754-773)
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I32, O12, J15
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1771
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Jackline
Wahba
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The Influence of Market Wages and Parental History on Child Labour and Schooling in Egypt
This paper examines the influence of adult market wages and having parents who were child labourers on child labour, when this decision is jointly determined with child schooling, using data from ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 823-852)
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J13, J20, O15
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1770
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Norberto
Pignatti
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in the Ukrainian Labor Market
We examine the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in Ukraine, using the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) for the years 1992 to 2002. ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (2), 248-271)
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J64, J65, P50
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1769
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Jordi
Brandts
Arno
Riedl
Frans
van Winden
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Competition and Well-Being
This paper experimentally studies the effects of competition in an environment where people's actions can not be contractually fixed. We find that, in comparison with no competition, the presence of ...
(published as "Competitive Rivalry, Social Disposition, and Subjective Well-Being: An Experiment" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1158-1167)
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A13, C92, D30, J50, M50
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1767
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Takao
Kato
Cheryl
Long
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Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and Corporate Governance in China: Evidence from Firms Listed in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges
This paper provides evidence on how executive compensation relates to firm performance in listed firms in China. Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2006, 54 (4), 945-983)
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M52, M12, J33, P31, P34, O16, G30, O53, G15
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1766
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Astrid
Kunze
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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among Young Workers
This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005, 21(3), 392-415)
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C21, J16, J24, J31, J62, J7
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1765
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Dale
T.
Mortensen
Éva
Nagypál
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More on Unemployment and Vacancy Fluctuations
Shimer (2005a) argues that the Mortensen-Pissarides equilibrium search model of unemployment explains only about 10% of the response in the job-finding rate to an aggregate productivity shock. Some ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics 2007, 10 (3), 327-347)
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E24, E32, J41, J63, J64
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1764
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Luca
Flabbi
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Gender Discrimination Estimation in a Search Model with Matching and Bargaining
Gender wage differentials, conditional on observed productivity characteristics, have been
considered a possible indication of prejudice against women in the labor market. However,
there is no ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51(3), 745-783)
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C51, J7, J64
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1763
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Santiago
Budría
Pedro
T.
Pereira
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Educational Qualifications and Wage Inequality: Evidence for Europe
This paper explores the connection between education and wage inequality in nine European
countries. We exploit the quantile regression technique to calculate returns to lower
secondary, upper ...
(published in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2011, 56 (19), 5-34)
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C29, D31, I21
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1762
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Manfred
Königstein
Marie Claire
Villeval
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The Choice of the Agenda in Labor Negotiations: Efficiency and Behavioral Considerations
The labor economics literature has shown that the "efficient bargaining" model, in which wage
and employment are negotiated simultaneously, is less frequently used on unionized markets
than the ...
(revised version published as 'Efficiency and Behavioral Considerations in Labor Negotiations' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 599-611.)
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C72, C78, C91, J51, J53
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1761
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Hyung-Jai
Choi
Jutta
M.
Joesch
Shelly
Lundberg
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Work and Family: Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child ...
(published as 'Sons, daughters, wives, and the labour market outcomes of West German men' in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (5), 795-811)
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J22, J12, J13, J16
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1759
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Pedro
Carneiro
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Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labor and Firm Performance
This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm ...
(published as 'Enforcement of labor regulation and firm size' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 28-46)
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J3, J6, O17
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1757
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Joachim
Wagner
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German Works Councils and Productivity: First Evidence from a Nonparametric Test
This paper presents the first nonparametric test whether German works councils go hand in hand with higher labor productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15 (9), 727-730)
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J50
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1756
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Josef
Falkinger
Volker
Grossmann
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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development: Growth Dynamics with Two Elites
This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A ...
(published as 'Oligarchic Land Ownership, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101 (1), 206-215.)
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O10, H50
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1755
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (2), 129-157)
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F22, D13, J15, J24, J31, J61
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1754
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Jacob
K.
Goeree
Arno
Riedl
Aljaz
Ule
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In Search of Stars: Network Formation among Heterogeneous Agents
This paper reports the results of a laboratory experiment on network formation among heterogeneous agents. The experimental design extends the basic Bala-Goyal (2000) model of network formation with ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2009, 67 (2), 445-466)
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C72, C91, C92, D01, D85
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1753
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Joop
Hartog
Aslan
Zorlu
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How Important Is Homeland Education for Refugees' Economic Position in The Netherlands?
We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by immigration officers. Such data are seldom available. We investigate the quality and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (1), 219-246)
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I21, J31, J61
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1752
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Murat
Iyigun
Randall
P.
Walsh
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Building the Family Nest: Pre-Marital Investments, Marriage Markets and Spousal Allocations
We develop a model of the household in which spousal incomes are determined by pre-marital investments, the marriage market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2007, 74 (2), 507-532)
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C78, D61, D70
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1751
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Marcela
Eslava
John
C.
Haltiwanger
Adriana
Kugler
Maurice
Kugler
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Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants
In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 92 (2), 378-391:)
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E22, E24, O11, C14, J63
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1750
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis
This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51 (4), 485-503)
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F22, J31, J61
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1749
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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Trends of School Effects on Student Achievement: Evidence from NLS:72, HSB:82, and NELS:92
The impact of schools on student achievement has been of great interest for the last four decades. This study examines trends of school effects on student achievement employing three national ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2006, 108, 2550-2581)
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I2
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1748
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Xavier
Ramos
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Using Efficiency Analysis to Measure Individual Well-Being with an Illustration for Catalonia
This paper shows how distance functions, a tool typically employed in production economics to measure the distance between a set of inputs and a set of outputs, can be employed to approximate a ...
(published in: Nanak Kakwani and Jacques Silver (eds.): Quantitative Approaches to Multidimensional Poverty Measure, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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D31, D63, I31, I32
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1746
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Jeffrey
B.
Nugent
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Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany
Although economic agents routinely face various types of economic uncertainty, their effects are often unclear and hard to assess, in part due to the absence of suitable measures of uncertainty. ...
(published as 'Real Options and Demographic Decisions: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (21), 2739 - 2749)
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J13, J22, D81
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1745
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William
M.
Rodgers III
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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The Male Marital Wage Differential: Race, Training, and Fixed Effects
Married white men have higher wages and faster wage growth than unmarried white men. Using the NLSY, we examine whether racial differences in intrahousehold specialization and formal training explain ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48(3), 722-742)
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J31, J12
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1743
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Adriana
Kugler
Giovanni
Pica
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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
This paper uses the Italian Social Security employer-employee panel to study the effects of the Italian reform of 1990 on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 78-95)
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E24, J63, J65
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1742
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara
de la Rica
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The Impact of Gender Segregation on Male-Female Wage Differentials: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data for Spain
This paper presents new evidence on the role of gender segregation within industry, occupation, establishment, and occupation-establishment cells in explaining gender wage differentials of full-time ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policyy, 2006, 5 (1), Article 10)
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J16, J7
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1741
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Frank
Baumgärtner
Friedrich
Schneider
Ralph
Setzer
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The Different Extent of Privatisation Proceeds in EU Countries: A Preliminary Explanation Using a Public Choice Approach
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations ...
(published in: Finanzarchiv, 2007, 63 (2), 211-243)
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H42, E62, L33
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1740
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David
Neumark
Donna
Rothstein
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Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?
This paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence – often termed the "forgotten half" in the STW literature. ...
(published in: David Neumark (ed.), Improving School-to-Work Transitions. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007, pp. 87-133)
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I28, J15, J24
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1739
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Anders
Björklund
Mikael
Lindahl
Erik
Plug
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The Origins of Intergenerational Associations: Lessons from Swedish Adoption Data
We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121 (3), 999-1028)
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I20, J30 J62
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1736
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The ...
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2007, 27 (1), 80-111)
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J15, J16, J22, Z1
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1735
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Solomon
Polachek
Jun
Xiang
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The Effects of Incomplete Employee Wage Information: A Cross-Country Analysis
In this paper, we define a tractable procedure to measure worker incomplete information in the labor market. The procedure, which makes use of earnings distribution skewness, is based on econometric ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 35-75)
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J3, J6
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1734
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Almas
Heshmati
Jong-Eun
Oh
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Alternative Composite Lisbon Development Strategy Indices
This study addresses the measurement of two composite Lisbon strategy indices that quantifies the level and patterns of development for ranking countries. The first index is nonparametric labelled as ...
(published in: European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 3(2), 133-170)
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O10, C43, F15, O57
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1732
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Herbert
Buscher
Christian
Dreger
Raul
Ramos
Jordi
Surinach
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The Impact of Institutions on the Employment Performance in European Labour Markets
This paper investigates the role of institutions for labour market performance across European countries. As participation rates have been rather stable over the past, the unemployment problem is ...
(published in: Economic Issues, 2009, 14 (1), 17-34)
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E24, J23, J51
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1731
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?
This paper is concerned with why immigrants appear to have consistently lower partial effects of schooling on earnings than the native born, both across destinations and in different time periods ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6),1317-1340)
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F22, I21, J24, J31, J61
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1730
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Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
Jürgen
Schupp
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in ...
(revised version published as 'Individual Risk Attitudes: Measurement, Determinants, and Behavioral Consequences' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (3), 522–550)
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D0, D1 D80, D81, C91, C93
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1729
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Panu
Poutvaara
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Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor
Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human capital investments in both countries. The possibility of emigration boosts ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (7-8), 1299-1325)
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H55, I2, F22
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1728
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Marianne
P.
Bitler
Jonah
B.
Gelbach
Hilary
W.
Hoynes
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What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments
Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (4), 988–1012.)
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J2, I38, H53
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1727
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Esfandiar
Maasoumi
Almas
Heshmati
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Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes
We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests ...
(published in: Betti and Lemmi (eds.), Advances in Income Inequality and Concentration Measures, Routledge: London, 2008)
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C14, D33, D63, H24
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1726
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Michael
Wenz
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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 179-216)
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F22, J6, J31, J24
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1725
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
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Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women's Educational Attainment and Wages
Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the ...
(published in: Christopher Ellison and Robert Hummer (eds.) , Religion, Families and Health: Population Based Research in the United States, Rutgers University Press, 2010)
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J24, J31
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1724
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Ina
Ganguli
Katherine
Terrell
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Institutions, Markets and Men's and Women's Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine
Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for major structural reforms. As in most developing economies, the "Orange ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2006, 34 (2), 200-227)
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C14, I2, J16
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