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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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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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1658
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Who Are the Workers Who Never Joined a Union? Empirical Evidence from Germany
Using representative data from the German social survey ALLBUS 2002 and the European Social Survey 2002/03, this paper provides the first empirical analysis of trade union never-membership in ...
(published in: Industrielle Beziehungen, 2006, 13 (2), 118-131)
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J51
|
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1657
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Alison
L.
Booth
Melvyn
Coles
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Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap
We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the ...
(published as 'A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap' in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (7), 1661-1681)
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H24, J13, J24, J31, J42
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1656
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Dolores
Messer
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Are Student Exchange Programs Worth It?
The number of university students participating in exchange programs has risen sharply over the last decade, but a survey of Swiss university graduates (class of 1999 and 2001) shows that ...
(published in: Higher Education, 2007, 54 (5), 647-663)
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I23, J24, J31, J44
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1655
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Revolutionary Effects of New Information Technologies
In markets with imperfect information and heterogeneity, the information technology affects the rate at which agents meet, which in turn affects the distribution of production technologies across ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (509), F10-F28)
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D43, D83, L11, L15, O33, J42, L86
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1654
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Heather
Antecol
Kelly
Bedard
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Unhealthy Assimilation: Why Do Immigrants Converge to American Health Status Levels?
It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential ...
(published in: Demography, 2006, 43 (2), 337-360 )
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I1, J1
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1653
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Marco
Caliendo
Reinhard
Hujer
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The Microeconometric Estimation of Treatment Effects - An Overview
The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD countries spend significant shares of national resources on these measures, ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (1), 197-212)
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C40, H43, J68
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1652
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Giorgina
Brown
John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
Robert
Waldmann
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Cross-National Surveys of Learning Achievement: How Robust are the Findings?
International surveys of learning achievement and functional literacy are increasingly common. We consider two aspects of the robustness of their results. First, we compare results from four surveys: ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2007, 170 (3), 623-646)
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I21, J13
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1651
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Paul
J.
Devereux
Robert
A.
Hart
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Real Wage Cyclicality of Job Stayers, Within-Company Job Movers, and Between-Company Job Movers
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data (NESPD) for the period 1975 to 2001 we estimate the wage cyclicality of job stayers (those remaining within single jobs in a given company), within ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 105-119)
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E32, J31
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1650
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Michael
L.
Bognanno
Lisa
Delgado
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Job Displacement Penalties in Japan
The costs of job displacement are examined on a sample of Japanese workers successfully provided job placement services from 2000 to 2003, a period of economic stagnation and structural change in ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 225-250)
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J31, J41, J63, J65
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1649
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Alison
L.
Booth
Melvyn
Coles
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Societies are characterized by customs governing the allocation of non-market goods such as marital partnerships. We explore how such customs affect the educational investment decisions of young ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(4), 744-775)
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I21, J12, J16, J41
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1646
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Martijn
Egas
Arno
Riedl
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The Economics of Altruistic Punishment and the Demise of Cooperation
Explaining the evolution and maintenance of cooperation among unrelated individuals is one of the fundamental problems in biology and the social sciences. Recent experimental evidence suggests that ...
(published as 'The economics of altruistic punishment and the maintenance of cooperation' in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B -Biological Sciences, 2008, 275 (1637), 871-878)
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C72, C91, C93, D01, D70, H41
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1645
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Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
Till
von
Wachter
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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Germany: Evidence and Interpretation
We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary schools in West German states during the period from 1948 to 1970. While our ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 592-598)
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I21, J24, J31
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1644
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Wolter
Hassink
Pierre
Koning
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Do Financial Bonuses to Employees Reduce Their Absenteeism? Outcome of a Lottery
This paper investigates the effectiveness of a monthly lottery in reducing sick leave among workers in a manufacturing firm. Conditions of participation are not having reported sick in the previous ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (3), 327 - 342)
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J22, J32, M52
|
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1643
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Florian
Englmaier
Achim
Wambach
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Optimal Incentive Contracts under Inequity Aversion
We analyze the Moral Hazard problem, assuming that agents are inequity averse. Our results differ from conventional contract theory and are more in line with empirical findings than standard results. ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2010, 69 (2), 312-328)
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D23, D63, J31, J33, M12, Z13
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1642
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Manuela
Angelucci
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U.S. Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration
This paper investigates the effect of U.S. border enforcement on the net flow of Mexican undocumented migration. It shows how this effect is theoretically ambiguous, given that increases in border ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 60 (2), 311-357)
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F22, J61, K42, O15
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