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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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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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1641
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Ernst
Fehr
Urs
Fischbacher
Michael
Kosfeld
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Neuroeconomic Foundations of Trust and Social Preferences
This paper discusses recent neuroeconomic evidence related to other-regarding behaviors and the decision to trust in other people's other-regarding behavior. This evidence supports the view that ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (2), 346-351)
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A13, C90
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1640
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Andrea
Bassanini
Alison
L.
Booth
Giorgio
Brunello
Maria
De Paola
Edwin
Leuven
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Workplace Training in Europe
This paper reviews the existing evidence on workplace training in Europe in different data sources - the CVTS, OECD data and the European Community Household Panel. We outline the differences in ...
(published in: Brunello, Garibaldi and Wasmer (eds.), Education and Training in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2007, Ch. 8 - 13)
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J24
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1638
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Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Arturo
Gonzalez
Todd
C.
Neumann
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Learning but Not Earning? The Value of Job Corps Training for Hispanic Youths
The National Job Corps Study (NJCS) was a four-year longitudinal social experiment that randomized over 15,000 Job Corps eligible applicants into treatment and control groups. Experimental estimators ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2010, 48 (3), 651-667)
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J15, J31, J41
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1637
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Fabien
Postel-Vinay
Hélène
Turon
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The Public Pay Gap in Britain: Small Differences That (Don't?) Matter
The existing literature on inequality between private and public sectors focuses on cross-section differences in earnings levels. A more general way of looking at inequality between sectors is to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1460-1503)
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J45, J31, J62
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1636
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military
Our results indicate that two-thirds of active-duty military personnel report experiencing offensive racial behaviors in the previous 12 months, while approximately one in ten report threatening ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (3), 713-738)
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J16, J28
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1635
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Armin
Falk
Ernst
Fehr
Urs
Fischbacher
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Driving Forces Behind Informal Sanctions
This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2005, 7 (6), 2017-2030)
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A13, D63, D23, C92, K42
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1634
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
Dennis
M.
O'Toole
James
N.
Wetzel
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A Multinomial Logit Model of College Stopout and Dropout Behavior
Studies of college attrition typically assume that all attrition is permanent. We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Postsecondary Survey to distinguish between long-term dropout and short-term ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (3), 319-331)
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I21
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1632
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Mathias
Sinning
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The Savings Behavior of Temporary and Permanent Migrants in Germany
This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011(2), 24, 421-449)
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F22, E21, C24
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1630
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Christian
Belzil
Michael
L.
Bognanno
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Promotions, Demotions, Halo Effects and Earnings Dynamics of American Executives
This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (2), 287-310)
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C33, J41, M5, M51
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1629
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Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry ...
(published in: George J. Borjas (ed.), Mexican Immigration to the United States, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, 229-267)
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J12, J15, J62
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1627
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Ian
Walker
Yu
Zhu
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The College Wage Premium, Overeducation, and the Expansion of Higher Education in the UK
This paper provides findings from the UK Labour Force Surveys from 1996 to 2003 on the financial private returns to a degree – the "college premium". The data covers a decade when the university ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 695-709)
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I20, J30
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1625
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Armin
Falk
Ernst
Fehr
Christian
Zehnder
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The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages
The prevailing labor market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labor supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2006, 121 (4), 1347-1381)
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C91, D63, E64, J38, J42, J58, J68
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1624
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Robert
Breunig
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Xiaodong
Gong
Danielle
Venn
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Disagreement in Partners' Reports of Financial Difficulty
We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past ...
(published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (1), 59-82)
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C42, D14, I31
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1622
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Fathi
Fakhfakh
Felix
FitzRoy
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Dynamic Monopsony: Evidence from a French Establishment Panel
This paper uses a panel of about 6000 French establishments to test some implications of the modern theory of dynamic monopsony or upward sloping labour supply curves for average firm wages. Panel ...
(published in: Economica, 2006, 73 (291), 533-545)
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C23, J30, J31
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1620
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John
T.
Addison
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The Determinants of Firm Performance: Unions, Works Councils, and Employee Involvement/High Performance Work Practices
Drawing on evidence from the United States and Germany, this paper offers a survey of the effects of worker representation (in unions and works councils) and innovative work practices on firm ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 52 (3), 406-450)
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J51, J53, M54
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1618
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Making Sense of Bolkestein-Bashing: Trade Liberalization under Segmented Labor Markets
Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called "Bolkestein" directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 73 (1), 152-174)
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F16, F11, F13
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1617
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John
Ekberg
Rickard
Eriksson
Guido
Friebel
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Parental Leave – A Policy Evaluation of the Swedish "Daddy-Month" Reform
Many countries are trying to incentivize fathers to increase their share in parental leave and in household work to improve female labor market opportunities. Our unique data set stems from a natural ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97, 131-143)
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J48, J13, J16, J22
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1616
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Michael
Gerfin
Martin
Schellhorn
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Nonparametric Bounds on the Effect of Deductibles in Health Care Insurance on Doctor Visits – Swiss Evidence
We evaluate the effect of the size of deductibles in the basic health insurance in Switzerland on the probability of a doctor visit. We employ nonparametric bounding techniques to minimise ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2006, 15 (9), 1011-1020)
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C14, I19
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1614
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Hakan
Berument
Nukhet
Dogan
Aysit
Tansel
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Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy - Turkey
This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2006, 27(7), 604-623)
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E24, C32
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1612
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Axel
Dreher
Panu
Poutvaara
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Student Flows and Migration: An Empirical Analysis
Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of ...
(published as "Foreign Students and Migration to the United States" in: World Development, 2011, 39(8), 1294-1307)
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F22, I2, J61, O15
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1611
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Roberto
Alvarez
Holger
Görg
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Multinationals and Plant Exit: Evidence from Chile
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and plant exit in Chile. We investigate three main questions: are affiliates of foreign multinationals more likely to exit than domestic ...
(published in: International Review of Economics and Finance, 2009, 18 (1), 45-51)
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F2, L6
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1610
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Andrew
E.
Clark
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Your Money or Your Life: Changing Job Quality in OECD Countries
Job quality may usefully be thought of as depending on both job values (how much workers care about different job outcomes) and the job outcomes themselves. Here both cross-section and panel data are ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 43 (3), 377-400)
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J28, J3, J81
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1608
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Joachim
Wagner
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"Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb" – Nascent Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of ...
(published in: RWI-Mitteilungen, 2003/2004, 54/55 (3-4), 287-303)
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J23
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1606
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Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
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Do Government Subsidies Stimulate Training Expenditure? Microeconometric Evidence from Plant Level Data
This paper examines whether financial assistance provided by government induces firms to spend more of their own funds on training expenditures, using plant level data for the Republic of Ireland. We ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 72(4), 860-876)
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J24, H25
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1603
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Opening the Black Box of Intra-Household Decision-Making: Theory and Non-Parametric Empirical Tests of General Collective Consumption Models
We non-parametrically test a general collective consumption model with public consumption and externalities inside the household. We further propose a novel approach to model special cases of the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117 (6), 1074 - 1104)
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D11, D12, C14
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1602
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René
Böheim
Alfred
M.
Stiglbauer
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms
While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 17-19)
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J23, J63, E24, E32
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1601
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia
According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and higher than all other English-speaking nations. This paper questions that ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2005, 38 (3), 307-319)
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E6
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1600
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Tito
Boeri
Herbert
Brücker
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Migration, Co-ordination Failures and EU Enlargement
European migration policies are characterised by a fundamental paradox: they are getting tighter and tighter just while public opinion is becoming more favourable to migrants and the immobility of ...
(published as 'Why are Europeans so tough on migrants?' in: Economic Policy, 2005, 20 (44), 629-703)
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J61, F16, F2
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1599
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Maurice
Schiff
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Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated
Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the "new brain drain" literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, ...
(published in: Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff (eds.), International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain, Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2006)
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D61, D62, F22, H20, H41, I12, J61
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1598
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Nil Demet
Güngör
Aysit
Tansel
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The Determinants of Return Intentions of Turkish Students and Professionals Residing Abroad: An Empirical Investigation
The study estimates an empirical model of return intentions using a dataset compiled from an internet survey of Turkish professionals and Turkish students residing abroad. In the migration ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Brain Drain from Turkey: Return Intentions of Skilled Migrants' in: International Migration, 2012, 52(5), 208-226)
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F20, F22
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1597
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
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Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index
In many Western countries, the relative weight of people - measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI) - has increased substantially in recent years, leading to an increasing incidence of overweight and ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4(1), 39-61)
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I1
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