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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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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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1553
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Alan
Barrett
Adele
Bergin
David
Duffy
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The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland
The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2006, 37 (1), 1-26)
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J24, J31, J61
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1552
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Frank
F.
Furstenberg Jr.
David
Neumark
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School-to-Career and Post-Secondary Education: Evidence from the Philadelphia Educational Longitudinal Study
We study a set of programs implemented in Philadelphia high schools that focus on boosting post-secondary enrollment. These programs are less career oriented than traditional school-to-work programs, ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2007, 15(2), 135-157)
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I28, J24
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1551
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Kræn
Blume Jensen
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Peder
J.
Pedersen
Mette
Verner
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At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden
In this paper we study determinants of relative poverty among immigrants and natives in Denmark and Sweden during the 1980s and 1990s. Denmark and Sweden share the same properties in a range of ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2007, 33 (3), 373-396)
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F22, I32, J15
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1549
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Nigel
C.
O'Leary
Peter J.
Sloane
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The Changing Wage Return to an Undergraduate Education
Between 1990/91 and 2000/01 the number of male undergraduates in Britain increased by over one-third while the number of female undergraduates has increased nearly twofold. Given this substantial ...
(published as 'The Wage Premium for University Education in Great Britain During a Decade of Change' in: Manchester School, 2011, 79 (4), 740 - 764 )
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I2, J0, J3
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1548
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Impact of Employment Protection Mandates on Demographic Temporary Employment Patterns: International Microeconomic Evidence
Using 1994-98 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS) microdata, this paper investigates the impact of employment protection laws on the incidence of temporary employment by demographic group. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117(521), F333-F356)
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J21, J23
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1547
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Erdal
Tekin
Sara
Markowitz
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Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the link between suicidal behaviors and labor market productivity of young adults in the United States. Using data from the National Survey of ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75(2), 300-331)
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I1, J24
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1546
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Barbara
L.
Wolfe
Thomas
Kaplan
Robert
Haveman
Yoon
Y.
Cho
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Extending Health Care Coverage to the Low-Income Population: The Influence of the Wisconsin BadgerCare Program on Labor Market Outcomes
The Wisconsin BadgerCare program, which became operational in July 1999, expanded public health insurance eligibility to families with incomes below 185 percent of the U.S poverty line (200 percent ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (6), 1170-1192)
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I18, J21
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1545
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Sebastian
G.
Kessing
Kai
A.
Konrad
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Union Strategy and Optimal Income Taxation
Restrictions on work hours are more important in countries with a large welfare state. We show that this empirical observation is consistent with the strategic effects of such restrictions in a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90(1-2), 393-402)
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H21, H23
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1543
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Salvatore
Barbaro
Jens
Suedekum
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The Interaction of Tax Exemptions and Individual Tax Reform Preferences
The individual voting behavior on the abolishment of single income-tax exemptions crucially depends on how strongly agents are affected by other deduction possibilities that are not at stake in the ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Voting on income tax exemptions' in: Public Choice, 2009, 138 (1-2), 239-253)
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D72, D74
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1540
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Armin
Falk
Josef
Zweimüller
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Unemployment and Right-Wing Extremist Crime
Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right-wing extremist crime. In this paper we ...
(published (with Andreas Kuhn) in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics. 2011, 113 (2), 260 - 285)
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K14, J60, J15
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1539
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Michael
Gibbs
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Returns to Skills and Personnel Management: U.S. DoD Scientists and Engineers
Personnel records are used to examine compensation, recruitment, and retention of a group of very highly skilled workers: civilian scientists and engineers in U.S. Department of Defense laboratories. ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2006, 44(2), 199-214)
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J24, J31, J44, J45
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1538
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Josef
Falkinger
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Limited Attention as the Scarce Resource in an Information-Rich Economy
This paper uses basic empirical facts from attention and perception psychology for a behavioral approach to equilibrium analysis at the industry and the macroeconomic level. The paper endogenously ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118, 1596-1620)
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D50, D80, L10
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1537
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Daniela
Mantovani
Fotis
Papadopoulos
Holly
Sutherland
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective
This paper considers the effects on current pensioner incomes of reforms designed to improve the long-term sustainability of public pension systems in the European Union. We use EUROMOD to simulate a ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 25, 27-71)
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C81, I30, H55
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1536
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Olof
Aslund
Peter
Fredriksson
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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of ...
(published as: 'Peer Effects in Welfare Dependence: Quasi-experimental Evidence" in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(3), 799–825)
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I38, J15
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1535
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Peter
Kooreman
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The Persistent Segregation of Girls into Lower-Paying Jobs while in School
This paper analyzes gender differences in jobs while in high school. The availability of school class based samples with detailed information on teenage jobs allows for a comparison of the behavior ...
(published as "The early inception of labor market gender differences" in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (2), 135-139 )
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J16, J22
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1534
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Alison
L.
Booth
Nick
Carroll
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The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
We use unique survey data to examine the determinants of self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. We explore the degree to which differences in health are due to differences ...
(shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 99 (3), 604-606)
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I1, I12
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1533
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Shmuel
Nitzan
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The Struggle over Migration Policy
In this paper we analyze the endogenous determination of migration quota viewing it as an outcome of a two-stage political struggle between two interest groups: those in favor and those against the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 703-723)
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J61, J81
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1532
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Bernard
van den Berg
Wolter
Hassink
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Moral Hazard and Cash Benefits in Long-Term Home Care
This paper tests empirically for ex-post moral hazard in a system based on demand-side subsidies. In the Netherlands, demand-side subsidies were introduced in 1996. Clients receive a cash benefit to ...
(published as "Cash benefits in long-term home care" in: Health Policy, 2008, 88 (2-3), 209-221)
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I10
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1531
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Hillel
Rapoport
Frédéric
Docquier
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The Economics of Migrants’ Remittances
This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a ...
(published in: S. Kolm and J. Mercier Ythier (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity Vol. 2, North Holland 2006)
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J61, D31, O15
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1530
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Tito
Boeri
Andrea
Brandolini
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The Age of Discontent: Italian Households at the Beginning of the Decade
In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to “household impoverishment”. Subjective indicators of economic condition show that this concern reflects a common sentiment of ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2004, 63 (3-4), 449-487)
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D31, I3
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1529
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Cindy
Zoghi
Alec
R.
Levenson
Michael
Gibbs
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Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?
In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 107-154)
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M5, M50, J2, J24, L23
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1528
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Miles
Corak
Michael
Fertig
Marcus
Tamm
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A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany
This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001, with a focus on developments since unification in 1991. Data from the German ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (4), 547-571)
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I32, I38, J13
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1527
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Eloic
Peyrache
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Aligning Ambition and Incentives
In many economic situations several principals contract with the same agents sequentially. Asymmetric learning about agents' abilities provides the first principal with an informational advantage and ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2011, 27 (3): 655-688.)
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D82, J33, L14
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1523
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Thomas
Cornelissen
Olaf
Hübler
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Downward Wage Rigidity and Labour Mobility
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) effects of being individually affected by downward wage rigidity on layoffs, quits and intra-firm mobility are investigated. We measure the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 34(2), 205-230 )
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J31, J63
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1522
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Joachim
Wagner
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Nascent and Infant Entrepreneurs in Germany: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite ...
(published in: Joachim Merz and Reihard Schulte (Hrsg.), Neue Ansätze der MittelstandsForschung, Berlin etc.: Lit-Verlag 2008)
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J23
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1521
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Moshe
Buchinsky
Denis
Fougère
Francis
Kramarz
Rusty
Tchernis
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Interfirm Mobility, Wages, and the Returns to Seniority and Experience in the U.S.
Much of the research in labor economics during the 1980s and the early 1990s was devoted to the analysis of changes in the wage structure across many of the world’s economies. Only recently, has ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77 (3), 972-1001)
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C11, C15, J31, J63
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1519
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Markus
Frölich
Katharina
Michaelowa
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Peer Effects and Textbooks in Primary Education: Evidence from Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa
As opposed to many other school inputs, textbooks have frequently been demonstrated to significantly foster student achievement. Using the rich data set provided by the 'Program on the Analysis of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 474-486)
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C14, C21, O15
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1517
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Espen
Bratberg
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Kjell
Vaage
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Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution
The analysis, based on register data for Norwegian cohorts born 1950, 1955, and 1960, shows that the intergenerational earnings mobility is high. Using quantile regression, mobility is found to be ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2007, 46 (1), 112-129)
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J62, C23
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1516
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Adama
Konseiga
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Regionalism in West Africa: Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? A Role for Migration
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth ...
(published in: Natalia Dinello and Ernest Aryeetey (eds.), Testing Global Interdependence: Issues on Trade, Aid, Migration and Development, Edward Elgar, 2007, Ch. 8)
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E13, F22, J24, C23, O15, C82
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1515
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Katharina
Wrohlich
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The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany
The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2008, 40 (10), 1217-1228)
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J13, C35, D12
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1514
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Sudeshna
C.
Bandyopadhyay
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Trade and Child Labor: A General Equilibrium Analysis
This paper augments the existing literature on trade and child labor by exploring the effects of terms of trade changes in the context of a three good general equilibrium model, where one of the ...
(published in: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2009, 45(1), 5-18)
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F1, O19
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1513
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Sandra
Cavaco
Denis
Fougère
Julien
Pouget
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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program for Displaced Workers on Their Transition to Permanent Jobs
In this paper we estimate the short-term effects of a French retraining program that was intended to improve reemployment prospects of displaced workers. Our empirical analysis uses non-experimental ...
(published in French under the title: "Conventions de conversion et retour à l'emploi", Economie et Prévision, 2004 (164-165), 93-111)
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C41, J24, J64, J68
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1512
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Marco
Caliendo
Reinhard
Hujer
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
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The Employment Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany: A Microeconometric Evaluation
In this paper we evaluate the employment effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in Germany. Job creation schemes are a major element of active labour market policy in ...
(published in: Millimet, D., Smith, J. and Vytlacil, E. (eds.), Advances in Econometrics, Volume 21: Estimating and Evaluating Treatment Effects in Econometrics, 2008, 383-430, )
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J68, H43, C13
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1511
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Olivier
Donni
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Labor Supply, Home Production and Welfare Comparisons
We consider the collective model of labor supply with marketable domestic production. We first show that, if domestic production is mistakenly ignored, the “collective” indirect utilities that are ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 92 (7), 1720-1737)
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D13, J22
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1510
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Luca
Nunziata
Christopher
Bowdler
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Inflation Adjustment and Labour Market Structures: Evidence from a Multi-Country Study
An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 109 (3), 619-642)
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E31, J51
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1509
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Manos
Matsaganis
Cathal
O'Donoghue
Horacio
Levy
Manuela
Coromaldi
Magda
Mercader-Prats
Carlos
Farinha
Rodrigues
Stefano
Toso
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 25, 101-124)
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C81, D31, I38
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1508
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Thierry
Kamionka
Guy
Lacroix
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Assessing the External Validity of an Experimental Wage Subsidy
In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become self-reliant was implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstration randomly ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2008, 91-92)
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I38, C41, C93
|
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1506
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Olivier
Donni
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Collective Female Labour Supply: Theory and Application
In this paper, we deal with female labour supply in the collective framework. We study married couples and start from the empirical observation that the husband’s labour supply is generally fixed at ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (516), 94-119)
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D12, J22
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1505
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Gordon
D. A.
Brown
Jonathan
Gardner
Andrew
J.
Oswald
Jing
Qian
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Does Wage Rank Affect Employees' Wellbeing?
What makes workers happy? Here we argue that pure ‘rank’ matters. It is currently believed that wellbeing is determined partly by an individual’s absolute wage (say, 30,000 dollars a year) and partly ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2008, 47 (3), 355-389)
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J28, J30
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1504
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Eric
Maurin
Sandra
McNally
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Vive la Révolution! Long Term Returns of 1968 to the Angry Students
The famous events of May 1968, starting with student riots, threw France into a state of turmoil. The period of ‘revolution’ coincided with the time in which important examinations are undertaken. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, 26 (1), 1-33)
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I2
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