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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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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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1596
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Amit
Kumar
Bhandari
Almas
Heshmati
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Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries
This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The ...
(published in: Global Economic Review, 2005, 32(3), 261-290)
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C23, J23, L60
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1595
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Thomas
Dohmen
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Social Pressure Influences Decisions of Individuals: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees
Analyzing the neutrality of referees during twelve German premier league (1st Bundesliga) football seasons, this paper documents evidence that social forces influence agents' preferences and ...
(revised version published as 'The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees' in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46(3), 411-424)
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J00, M50
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1594
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Craig
Gundersen
David
C.
Ribar
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Food Insecurity and Insufficiency at Low Levels of Food Expenditures
This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (4), 704-726.)
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I3
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1591
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Nina
Smith
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark
The word for 'married' in Danish is the same as the word for 'poison'. The word for 'sweetheart' in Danish is the same as the word for 'tax'. In this paper we expand upon the literature documenting a ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 74 (2), 412-433)
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J12, J31
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1590
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Anna Maria
Mayda
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International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of Economic and Non-Economic Determinants
In this paper I empirically investigate economic and non-economic determinants of migration inflows into fourteen OECD countries by country of origin, between 1980 and 1995. The annual panel data set ...
(published as "International mirgration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (4), 1249-1274)
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F22
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1588
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Marco
Caliendo
Sabine
Kopeinig
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Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching
Propensity Score Matching (PSM) has become a popular approach to estimate causal treatment effects. It is widely applied when evaluating labour market policies, but empirical examples can be found in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 31-72)
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C40, H43
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1587
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Daniele
Checchi
Massimo
Florio
Jorge
Carrera
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Privatization Discontent and Its Determinants: Evidence from Latin America
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this discontent. We use the results of Latinobarometro (2002), a survey of a representative ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45(3), 333-350)
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H32, G14, L33
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1586
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Christian
Dustmann
Sonia
C.
Pereira
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Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the U.K. and Germany
This paper investigates job mobility and estimates the returns to tenure and experience in the United Kingdom and Germany. We show evidence that job mobility is higher in the UK than in Germany, and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 374 - 393)
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J24, J31
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1585
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Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
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A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model with an Application to the OLS-IV Puzzle
We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the log wage regression function is set within a correlated random coefficient model and we use the structural ...
(Published in: Journal of Econometrics, 140 (2), 2007, 333-948 )
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J2, J3
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1584
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Alicia
Adsera
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Differences in Desired and Actual Fertility: An Economic Analysis of the Spanish Case
Family size is the outcome of sequential decisions influenced both by preferences and by ongoing changes in the environment where a family lives. During the last two decades the gap between the ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, 4 (1), 75-95)
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J13, J2, J6, Z13
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1583
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
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Norm Enforcement: Anger, Indignation or Reciprocity?
The enforcement of social norms often requires that unaffected third parties sanction offenders. Given the renewed interest of economists in norms, the literature on third party punishment is ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (3), 555-572)
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C79, C91, C92, D64, H41
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1582
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Panos
Tsakloglou
Ioannis
Cholezas
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Education and Inequality in Greece
In the public discourse, education is usually considered as the main vehicle for the promotion of social equality and social mobility. The paper surveys the existing literature and concludes that the ...
(published in: Asplund, R. and E. Barth (eds.), Education and wage inequality in Europe: A literature review, 203-240, ETLA: Helsinki, 2005)
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I22, I28, J31
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1581
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John
S.
Heywood
W. Stanley
Siebert
Xiangdong
Wei
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The Implicit Costs and Benefits of Family Friendly Work Practices
This paper posits that the provision of family friendly practices is, on balance, costly to firms and valuable to workers. As a consequence, we anticipate the emergence of a hedonic equilibrium in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2007, 59 (2), 275-300)
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J31, J32
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1580
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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The Value of Peripatetic Economists: A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory
I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (257), 138-149)
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A14, C21, J24
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1579
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Miles
Corak
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Principles and Practicalities for Measuring Child Poverty in the Rich Countries
This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to ...
(published in: International Social Security Review, 2006, 59 (2), 3-36)
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I30, I32, I38
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1578
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Amit
Kumar
Bhandari
Almas
Heshmati
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Measurement of Globalization and Its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time
The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of ...
(published in: Arno Tausch and Almas Heshmati (eds.), Roadmap to Bangalore? Globalization, the EU's Lisbon Process, the Structures of Global Inequality, Nova Science Publishers, USA, 2007)
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C43, F15, L60, O50
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1577
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Cathy
J.
Bradley
David
Neumark
Zhehui
Luo
Heather
L.
Bednarek
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Employment-Contingent Health Insurance, Illness, and Labor Supply of Women: Evidence from Married Women with Breast Cancer
We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married womens labor supply following a health shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (7), 719-737)
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I12, J2
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1576
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Alicia
Adsera
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Where Are the Babies? Labor Market Conditions and Fertility in Europe
Cross-country differences in both the age at first birth and fertility are substantial in Europe. The paper uses the European Community Household Panel 1994-2000 to investigate the relationship ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2011, 27 (1), 1 - 32)
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J13, J2, J6, H3
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1575
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Mona
Larsen
Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Pathways to Early Retirement in Denmark, 1984-2000
This paper describes and analyses the pathways to early retirement in Denmark. The analyses are based on a 10 per cent panel sample of the population 45-66 years old followed from 1984 onwards. We ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29(5), 384-409)
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J14, J26
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1574
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Wen-Hao
Chen
Miles
Corak
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Child Poverty and Changes in Child Poverty in Rich Countries Since 1990
This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg Income Study project, and focusing upon an analysis of the reasons for changes over ...
(revised version published in: Demography, 2008, 45 (3), 537-553)
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I30, I32, I38
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1573
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Youenn
Lohéac
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"It Wasn't Me, It Was Them!" - Social Influence in Risky Behavior by Adolescents
Many years of concerted policy effort in Western countries has not prevented young people from experimenting with cigarettes, alcohol and marijuana. One potential explanation is that social ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (4), 763-784)
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C23, D12, Z13
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1570
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Maya
Bacache-Beauvallet
Etienne
Lehmann
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Minimum Wage or Negative Income Tax: Why Skilled Workers May Favor Wage Rigidities
This article studies the political choice over the extent and the means of income redistribution between high and low skilled workers. Redistributive tools encompass fiscal transfers with negative ...
(published as 'Minimum wage or negative income tax: why skilled workers may favor wage rigidities' in: Spanish Economic Review, 2008, 10 (1), 63-81)
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D78, E24, H23, J38
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1569
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Thierry
Lallemand
Robert
Plasman
François
Rycx
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The Establishment-Size Wage Premium: Evidence from European Countries
This study examines the magnitude and determinants of the establishment-size wage premium in five European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set. Findings show the ...
(published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (5), 427-451)
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J31
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1568
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Ryo
Takashima
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Trade Policy and Illegal Immigration
We use a version of the Meade model to consider the effects of interdependent import tariffs in the presence illegal immigration. First, we consider the small union case and derive the Nash tariff ...
(published in: International Economics and Finance Journal, 2007, 2(1-2), 51-66)
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F11, F22
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1567
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Gautam
Hazarika
Sudipta
Sarangi
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Household Access to Microcredit and Child Work in Rural Malawi
This paper examines the effect of household access to microcredit upon work by seven to eleven year old children in rural Malawi. Given that microcredit organizations foster household enterprises ...
(published in: World Development, 2008, 36 (5), 843-859)
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J22
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1566
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Scott
Adams
David
Neumark
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The Effects of Living Wage Laws: Evidence from Failed and Derailed Living Wage Campaigns
Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, 78 (2), 177-202)
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J28, J38
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1565
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Anna Maria
Ferragina
Francesco
Pastore
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Mind the Gap: Unemployment in the New EU Regions
The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) models and on ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22 (1), 73-113)
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J6, P2, R1, R23
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1564
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Marcel
Jansen
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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Dual Employment Protection Legislation: A Framework for Analysis
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes different regulations for certain groups of workers who face more disadvantages in the labor market (young workers, women, ...
(published in: Volume VIII of Series on Central Banking, Analysis and Economic Policies: Labour Markets and Institutions, Jorge E. Restrepo and Andrea Tokman (eds.), Central Bank of Chile, 2005)
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J64, J63
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1563
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Brenda
Gannon
Robert
Plasman
François
Rycx
Ilan
Tojerow
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Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from European Countries
This study analyses the interaction between inter-industry wage differentials and the gender wage gap in six European countries using a unique harmonised matched employer-employee data set, the 1995 ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2007, 38 (1), 135-155)
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J16, J31, J71
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1562
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Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Cappellari
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The Labour Market Effects of Alma Mater: Evidence from Italy
We use data from a nationally representative survey of Italian graduates to study whether Alma Mater matters for employment and earnings three years after graduation. We find that the attended ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (5), 564-574)
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J24
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1561
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Sylvain
Dessy
Habiba
Djebbari
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Career Choice, Marriage-Timing, and the Attraction of Unequals
Both men and women wish to have a family and a rewarding career. In this paper, we show that the under-representation of women in high-powered professions may reflect a coordination failure in young ...
(published as 'High-powered careers and marriage: can women have it all?' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 42)
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J12, J16, J24
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1560
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Keith
A.
Bender
Steffen
Habermalz
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Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany
Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines ...
(published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (1), 107-125)
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I0, I12, J0, J60, C13
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1559
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Panu
Poutvaara
Andreas
Wagener
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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription
We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 23 (4), 975-987)
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H20, H57, I21, D63
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1557
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Sara
de la Rica
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Immigrants' Responsiveness to Labor Market Conditions and Its Implications on Regional Disparities: Evidence from Spain
Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey (Encuesta de Población Activa) from 1999 through 2004, we explore the role of regional employment opportunities in explaining the increasing immigrant ...
(published in: SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2010, 1 (1), 387-407)
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J61
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1556
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Maria
Guadalupe
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Product Market Competition, Returns to Skill and Wage Inequality
This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (3), 439-474)
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J31, J33, L22, D21
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1555
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Judith
K.
Hellerstein
David
Neumark
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Using Matched Employer-Employee Data to Study Labor Market Discrimination
Wage gaps between individuals of difference races, sexes, and ethnicities have been documented and replicated extensively, and have generated a long history in labor economics research of empirical ...
(published in: William Rodgers (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Discrimination, Edgar Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham. 2006, 29-60)
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J71
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1554
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René
Böheim
Helmut
Hofer
Christine
Zulehner
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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997
In most OECD countries the wage gap between men and women has declined during the past two decades. Developments of the last 20 years, e.g. increased labour market attachment of women, changes in the ...
(published as 'Wage differences between Austrian men and women: semper idem?' in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (3), 213-29)
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J31, J71
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