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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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1723
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Uwe
Blien
Jens
Suedekum
Katja
Wolf
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Local Employment Growth in West Germany: A Dynamic Panel Approach
In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel techniques, we analyse the timing of the impact of diversity and specialisation, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 445-458)
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R11, O40
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1722
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Stéphane
Auray
Samuel
Danthine
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Bargaining Frictions and Hours Worked
A matching model with labor/leisure choice and bargaining frictions is used to explain (i) differences in GDP per hour and GDP per capita, (ii) differences in employment, (iii) differences in the ...
(revised published as "Bargaining Frictions, Labor Income Taxation and Economic Performance" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (6), 778-802)
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E24, J22, J30, J41, J50, J64
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1721
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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European Asylum Policy
Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194 (1), 106-119)
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F22, H41, H77, H87, J61, K42
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1719
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Orla
Doyle
Patrick
Paul
Walsh
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Did Political Constraints Bind During Transition? Evidence from Czech Elections 1990-2002
Many theoretical models of transition are driven by the assumption that economic decision making is subject to political constraints. In this paper we empirically test whether the winners and losers ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (3), 575–601)
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D72, E24, E61
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1718
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Werner
Eichhorst
Regina
Konle-Seidl
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The Interaction of Labor Market Regulation and Labor Market Policies in Welfare State Reform
Employment protection legislation, unemployment benefits and active labor market policy are Janus-faced institutions. On the one hand they are devices of insurance against labor market risk that ...
(published in: Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal, 2006, 28 (1), 1- 41; also available in Chinese)
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J58, J68, J65
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1717
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Jeremy
Lise
Shannon
Seitz
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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Evaluating Search and Matching Models Using Experimental Data
This paper introduces an innovative test of search and matching models using the exogenous variation available in experimental data. We take an off-the-shelf Pissarides matching model and calibrate ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:16)
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J2, I38, J6
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1716
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Christian
Bjørnskov
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Peder
J.
Pedersen
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What Buys Happiness? Analyzing Trends in Subjective Well-Being in 15 European Countries, 1973-2002
Trends in life satisfaction are examined across 15 European countries employing a modified version of Kendall's Tau. Analyses show that GDP growth relative to growth in the preceding period is a ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2008, 9 (2), 317-330)
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I31
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1715
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective
The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194 (1), 94-105)
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F22, J15, J31, J61, J68, J82
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1713
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Alison
L.
Booth
Hiau
Joo
Kee
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Birth Order Matters: The Effect of Family Size and Birth Order on Educational Attainment
We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (2), 367-397)
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I2, J1
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1712
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Simon
C.
Parker
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Entrepreneurship Among Married Couples in the United States: A Simultaneous Probit Approach
This article proposes a simultaneous probit equation framework to analyse the business ownership patterns of married couples in the United States. A structural model of knowledge spillovers within ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), 515-537)
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J23, J24, M13
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1711
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Contests, NGOs and Decentralizing Aid
International donors usually have particular goals they want to achieve with their foreign aid, for example, poverty alleviation. In the international aid story lobbying by potential recipient groups ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (2), 285-296)
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F35, D72
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1710
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Herbert
Brücker
Boriss
Siliverstovs
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On the Estimation and Forecasting of International Migration: How Relevant Is Heterogeneity Across Countries?
This paper performs a comparative analysis of estimation as well as of out-of-sample forecasting results of more than 20 estimators common in the panel data literature using the data on migration to ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2006, 31(3), 735-754)
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C23, C53, F22
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1709
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Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
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The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change
The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (509), F45-F72)
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J31, O15, O33
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1708
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Nina
Smith
Valdemar
Smith
Mette
Verner
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Do Women in Top Management Affect Firm Performance? A Panel Study of 2500 Danish Firms
Corporate governance literature argues that board diversity is potentially positively related to firm performance. This study examines the relationship in the case of women in top executive jobs and ...
(published in: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, 2006, 55 (7), 569 - 593 )
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G38, J16, M14
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1707
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Jaan
Masso
Raul
Eamets
Kaia
Philips
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Job Creation and Job Destruction in Estonia: Labour Reallocation and Structural Changes
This article documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Estonia over the years 1995-2001, using a database containing the population of officially registered firms in Estonia ...
(published in: H. Hannula, S. Radoševic and N. von Tunzelmann (eds.) , Estonia, the New EU Economy, Building a Baltic Miracle. Ashgate Publishing, 2006, pp. 105-142)
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J6, P2, L11
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1706
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Employment Dynamics of Married Women in Europe
We use eight waves from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to analyze the intertemporal labor supply behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, ...
(substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 3853 )
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C23, C25, D91, J22
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1705
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Lucia
Foster
John
C.
Haltiwanger
Chad
Syverson
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Reallocation, Firm Turnover, and Efficiency: Selection on Productivity or Profitability?
There is considerable evidence that producer-level churning contributes substantially to aggregate (industry) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2008, 98 (1), 394-425)
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L10, J63
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1704
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Beatrice
d'Hombres
Giorgio
Brunello
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Does Obesity Hurt Your Wages More in Dublin than in Madrid? Evidence from ECHP
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity ...
(published as 'Does body weight affect wages? Evidence from Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2007, 5 (1), 1-19 )
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I12, J3
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1703
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Hans-Theo
Normann
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Giving in Dictator Games: Regard for Others or Regard by Others?
Recent bargaining experiments demonstrated an impact of anonymity and incomplete information on subjects' behavior. This has rekindled the question whether "fair" behavior is inspired by regard for ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 223-231. revised working paper version )
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A13, C91, D64
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1702
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Luojia
Hu
Christopher
Taber
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Layoffs, Lemons, Race and Gender
This paper expands on Gibbons and Katz (1991) by looking at how the difference in wage losses across plant closing and layoff varies with race and gender. We find that the differences between white ...
(substantially revised version published as `Displacement, Asymmetric Information and Heterogeneous Human Capita' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (1), 113-152.)
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J6, J7
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1700
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James
J.
Heckman
Lance
John
Lochner
Petra
E.
Todd
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Earnings Functions, Rates of Return and Treatment Effects: The Mincer Equation and Beyond
Numerous studies regress log earnings on schooling and report estimated coefficients as "Mincer rates of return". A more recent literature uses instrumental variables. This chapter considers the ...
(published in: E. Hanushek and F. Welch, eds., Handbook of the Economics of Education, North Holland: Amsterdam, 2006, 307-458)
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C31
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1698
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Ken
Clark
Stephen
Drinkwater
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Dynamics and Diversity: Ethnic Employment Differences in England and Wales, 1991-2001
This paper uses microdata from the 1991 and 2001 Population Censuses to examine differences in the employment experiences of ethnic minorities living in England and Wales. It focuses on two main ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 299-333)
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J15, J21, J7
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1696
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Axel
Heitmueller
Kostas
Mavromaras
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On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany
German post-unification in the 1990s is a period that was marked by substantial economic change, part of which was East German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (4), 422–444)
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J78, J31
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1695
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Roland
Benabou
Jean
Tirole
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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior
We develop a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. Rewards or punishments (whether material or ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1652-1678)
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D64, D82, H41, Z13
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1694
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Howard
J.
Wall
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Immigration and Outsourcing: A General Equilibrium Analysis
This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2010, 14(3), 433-446)
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F1, F2, O1, J1, J3
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1692
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Fabrice
Etilé
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Don't Give Up On Me Baby: Spousal Correlation in Smoking Behaviour
We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (5), 958-978)
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C33, D83, I12, I18
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1691
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Erika
Seki
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Competitive Work Environments and Social Preferences: Field Experimental Evidence from a Japanese Fishing Community
Models of job tournaments and competitive workplaces more generally predict that while individual effort may increase as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2006, 5 (2), Article 2)
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C90, C93, H41, M54, Z13
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1688
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Avner
Ahituv
Robert
I.
Lerman
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How Do Marital Status, Wage Rates, and Work Commitment Interact?
How marriage interacts with men's earnings is an important public policy issue, given debates over programs to directly encourage healthy marriages. This paper generates new findings about the ...
(published in: Demography, 2007, 44 (3), 623-647)
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C23, J12, J15, J22, J31, J88
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1687
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Coen
Teulings
Aico
van Vuuren
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On-The-Job Search and Sorting
We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with ...
(published as "On-the-job search, mismatch and efficiency" in: Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77 (1), 245-272)
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J3, J6
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1684
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Michael
Lechner
Ruth
Miquel
Conny
Wunsch
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The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification
We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2007, 8 (4), 468-509)
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J68
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1683
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
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The Roots of Low European Employment: Family Culture?
OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross-national and cross-temporal heterogeneity relies on specific demographic groups: ...
(published in: J. Frenkel and C. Pissarides (eds.), NBER Macroeconomic Annual, MIT Press: 2007)
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J21, J22, Z13
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1681
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Daniele
Checchi
Cecilia
García-Peñalosa
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Labour Market Institutions and the Personal Distribution of Income in the OECD
We examine what determines differences across countries and over time in the distribution of personal incomes in the OECD. We first model the wage determination process and show that unemployment, ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (307), 413-450)
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D31, D33
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1680
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Joel
Slemrod
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The Economics of Workaholism: We Should Not Have Worked on This Paper
A large literature examines the addictive properties of such behaviors as smoking, drinking alcohol and eating. We argue that for some people addictive behavior may apply to a much more central ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 3)
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J26, H21
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1679
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Luc
Behaghel
Bruno
Crépon
Béatrice
Sédillot
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The Perverse Effects of Partial Employment Protection Reform: Experience Rating and French Older Workers
French firms laying off workers aged 50 and above have to pay a tax to the unemployment insurance system, known as the Delalande tax. This is an original case of experience rating in the European ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 696-721.)
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J23, J63, J65
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1678
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Pierre
Cahuc
Andre
Zylberberg
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Optimum Income Taxation and Layoff Taxes
This paper analyzes optimum income taxation in a model with endogenous job destruction that gives rise to unemployment. It is shown that optimal tax schemes comprise both payroll and layoff taxes ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 2003-2019)
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H21, H32, J38, J65
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1676
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Xavier
Chojnicki
Frédéric
Docquier
Lionel
Ragot
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Should the U.S. Have Locked the Heaven's Door? Reassessing the Benefits of the Postwar Immigration
This paper examines the economic impact of the second great immigration wave (1945-2000) on the US economy. Contrary to recent studies, we estimate that immigration induced important net gains and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 317-359)
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J61, I3, D58
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1675
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
Lance
John
Lochner
Dimitriy
V.
Masterov
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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation
This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a ...
(published in: E. Hanushek; F. Welch (eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Education, North Holland: Amsterdam, 2006, 697-812)
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J31, I21, I22, I28
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1674
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Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
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A Cure for Discrimination? Affirmative Action and the Case of California Proposition 209
Proposition 209, enacted in California in 1996 and made effective the following year, ended state affirmative action programs not only in education, but also for public employment and government ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 379-396)
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J71, J78
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1673
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Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Development
This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(5), 958-983)
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I20, J13, J18, J22
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1672
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Bertrand
Koebel
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Exports and Labour Demand: Searching for Functional Structure in Multi-Output Multi-Skill Technologies
In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2006, 24 (1), 91-103)
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C33, D24, E10, J23, L60
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1671
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Jean
Kimmel
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Moonlighting Behavior over the Business Cycle
Using data from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we examine the cyclicality by sex of moonlighting and moonlighting hours. We find that, once we account for the sample selection into ...
(published as 'Moonlighting over the Business Cycle' in: Economic Inquiry, 2009, 47 (4), 754 - 765)
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J2
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1670
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Age-Specific Cyclical Effects in Job Reallocation and Labor Mobility
We present an empirical analysis of job reallocation and labor mobility using matched worker-firm data for the Netherlands to investigate how firms adjust their workforce over the cycle. Our data ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (4), 493-504)
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J23, J62, J63
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1669
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Marisa
Ratto
Wendelin
Schnedler
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Division of Labour and Directed Production
We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy , 2008, 8 (1), Article 27)
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L23, M52, D82, J24
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1668
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Frédéric
Docquier
Olivier
Lohest
Abdeslam
Marfouk
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Brain Drain in Developing Regions (1990-2000)
In this paper, we analyze the distribution of the brain drain in the LAC region (Latin America and the Caribbean), Asia and Africa. We rely on an original data set on international migration by ...
(revised version published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2007, 21 (2), 193-218)
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F22, O15, J11, J24
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1666
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Charles
Bellemare
Sabine
Kröger
Arthur
van Soest
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Actions and Beliefs: Estimating Distribution-Based Preferences Using a Large Scale Experiment with Probability Questions on Expectations
We combine the choice data of proposers and responders in the ultimatum game, their expectations elicited in the form of subjective probability questions, and the choice data of proposers ...
(published as ' Measuring Inequity Aversion in a Heterogeneous Population using Experimental Decisions and Subjective Probabilities' in: Econometrica, 2008, 76 (4), 815-839)
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C93, D63, D84
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1664
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José
António Cabral
Vieira
João Pedro Almeida
Couto
Maria Teresa
Borges Tiago
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Inter-Regional Wage Dispersion in Portugal
This paper examines the size o inter-regional wage dispersion in Portugal. For this purpose, we estimate a Mincer-type human capital wage equation, including controls for a large number of regions, ...
(published in: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, 2006, 6 (1))
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J31, R10
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1662
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John
W.
Budd
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Family-Friendly Work Practices in Britain: Availability and Perceived Accessibility
Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices – parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, ...
(revised version published in: Human Resource Management , 2006, 45 (1), 23-42)
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J13, J32, J70
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1661
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Albrecht
Morgenstern
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From Team Spirit to Jealousy: The Pitfalls of Too Much Transparency
Free riding in team production arises because individual effort is not perfectly observable. It seems natural to suppose that greater transparency would enhance incentives. Therefore, it is puzzling ...
(substantially revised version available as 'Coordination under the Shadow of Career Concerns', IZA DP No. 4039)
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D82, J30, L14
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1660
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Regional Dependencies in Job Creation: An Efficiency Analysis for Western Germany
This paper investigates the efficiency of the matching process between job seekers and vacancy posting firms in West-Germany, using variation across labor market regions and across time. The results ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (10), 1193-1206)
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J61, J64, J21, R12
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1659
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Peter
Fredriksson
Björn
Öckert
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Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance
In Sweden, children typically start compulsory school the year they turn seven. Hence, individuals born just before or just after the new year, have about the same date of birth but start school at ...
(published as: 'Life-cycle Effects of Age at School Start' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124, 977-1004)
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J24, I21
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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