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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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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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1502
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Hans
Gersbach
Hans
Haller
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Beware of Workaholics: Household Preferences and Individual Equilibrium Utility
This paper analyzes the effects of sociological changes in the form of a shift of influence within two-member households participating in labor and product markets. The most striking effects occur ...
(updated version published as ' "Hard Workers" and Labor Restrictions' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 469 - 494)
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D10, D50, J22
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1500
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Joshua
Angrist
Jonathan
Guryan
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Does Teacher Testing Raise Teacher Quality? Evidence from State Certification Requirements
The education reform movement includes efforts to raise teacher quality through stricter certification and licensing provisions. Most US states now require public school teachers to pass a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (5), 483-503)
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I28, J44, J45
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1499
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Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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A Quantitative Investigation of the Laffer Curve on the Continued Work Tax: The French Case
It is often argued that the tax on continued work should be removed by implementing actuarially fair schemes. However, these schemes cannot help fund the expected Social Security deficit. This paper ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49(3), 755-797)
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H31, H55, J26
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1498
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Alex
Bryson
Lorenzo
Cappellari
Claudio
Lucifora
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Why So Unhappy? The Effects of Unionisation on Job Satisfaction
We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of unionisation in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 357-380)
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J28, J51
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1497
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Paul
J.
Devereux
Robert
A.
Hart
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The Spot Market Matters: Evidence on Implicit Contracts from Britain
Based on the methodology of Beaudry and DiNardo (1991), this paper investigates the relative importance of the spot market and implicit contracts in the determination of British real wages. Empirical ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2007, 54 (5), 661-683 (Special Issue on Labour Contracts and Wages over the Cycle))
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E24, E32, J31
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1496
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Colm
P.
Harmon
Vincent
O'Sullivan
Ian
Walker
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The Impact of Parental Income and Education on the Schooling of Their Children
This paper addresses the intergeneration transmission of education and investigates the extent to which early school leaving (at age 16) may be due to variations in permanent income, parental ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:8)
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I20, J62
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1495
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Julian
di Giovanni
Justin
McCrary
Till
von
Wachter
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Following Germany's Lead: Using International Monetary Linkages to Identify the Effect of Monetary Policy on the Economy
Forward-looking behavior on the part of the monetary authority leads least squares estimates to understate the true growth consequences of monetary policy interventions. We present instrumental ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 315 - 331)
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E52, J60
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1494
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Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
Bruce
A.
Weinberg
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People People: Social Capital and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups
Despite indications that interpersonal interactions are important for understanding individual labor-market outcomes and have become more important over the last decades, there is little analysis by ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 287-334)
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J16, J21, J24, J31
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1493
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Lihui
Tian
Saul
Estrin
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Retained State Shareholding in Chinese PLCs: Does Government Ownership Reduce Corporate Value?
The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China’s newly privatized large firms. In this paper, we analyze shareholders as agents that can both ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (1), 74-89)
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G32, G34, G15, L33
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1492
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Christoph
Knoppik
Thomas
Beissinger
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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Europe: An Analysis of European Micro Data from the ECHP 1994-2001
This paper substantially extends the limited available evidence on existence and extent of downward nominal wage rigidity in the European Union and the Euro Area. For this purpose we develop an ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 36 (2), 321 - 338)
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J30, E24
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1491
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Michael
Svarer
Coen
Teulings
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Marriage and the City
Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67 (2), 206-218)
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J12, J64
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1490
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Hilmar
Schneider
Holger
Bonin
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Wohlfahrts- und Verteilungseffekte eines allgemeinen Freibetrags bei den Sozialabgaben
Der Beitrag untersucht die Arbeitsmarktwirkungen einer vom Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbund vorgeschlagenen Subventionierung der Sozialbeiträge über einen allgemeinen Freibetrag. Im Rahmen eines mit ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2005, 38 (4), 475-492)
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J68, J38, H24, J22
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1489
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
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Job Security and Job Protection
We construct indicators of the perception of job security for various types of jobs in 12 European countries using individual data from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). We then consider ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (2), 207-239)
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J28, J65, I31
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1488
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Paul
Frijters
John
de New
Michael A.
Shields
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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model
The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent ...
(revised version published as 'The Increasingly Mixed Proportional Hazard Model: An Application to Socioeconomic Status, Health Shocks, and Mortality' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2011, 29 (2), 271-281)
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I1, C23
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1487
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Johannes
Schwarze
Rainer
Winkelmann
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What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (3), 1033-1051)
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D6, D64, C25, J10
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1485
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Andrew
T.
Newell
Mieczyslaw
Socha
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The Distribution of Wages in Poland, 1992-2002
This paper analyses the changes in the size distribution of wages in Poland over a decade of transition. Until about 1998 there were some forces tending to increase wage inequality and other forces ...
(published as Chapter 11 of World Bank, "Poland: Growth, Employment and Living Standards in Pre-Accession Poland", Volume 2, 2004)
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J31, P23
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1484
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Saul
Estrin
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How Transition Paths Differ: Enterprise Performance in Russia and China
We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 82(2): 374-392, 2007)
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D23, L22, O12, P31
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1483
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Sara
de la Rica
Juan
J.
Dolado
Vanesa
Llorens
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Ceiling and Floors: Gender Wage Gaps by Education in Spain
This paper analyses the gender wage gaps by education throughout the wage distribution in Spain using individual data from the ECHP (1999). Quantile regressions are used to estimate the wage returns ...
(published in Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (3), 751-776)
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J16, J71
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1481
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Elizabeth
U.
Cascio
Ethan
Gatewood
Lewis
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Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws
Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical for drawing inferences from studies in which it is employed. In this paper, we ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41(2), 294-318)
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I20, J24, J15
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1480
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Nicolas
Moreau
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Cooperative Models in Action: Simulation of a Nash-Bargaining Model of Household Labor Supply with Taxation
Several theoretical contributions, starting with McElroy and Horney (1981) and Manser and Brown (1980), have suggested to model household behavior as a Nash-bargaining game. Since then, very few ...
(published as 'The Impact of Tax-Benefit Reforms on Labor Supply in a Simulated Nash-bargaining Framework' in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34(1), 77-86)
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C25, C52, C71, D11, D12, H31, J22
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1478
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Kai
A.
Konrad
Amedeo
Spadaro
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Education, Redistributive Taxation and Confidence
We consider redistributional taxation between people with and without human capital if education is endogenous and if individuals differ in their perceptions about own ability. Those who see their ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2006, 90(1-2), 171-188)
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D78, H23, I21
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1477
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John
T.
Addison
Christopher
J.
Surfield
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‘Atypical Work’ and Compensation
Atypical work, or alternative work arrangements in U.S. parlance, has long been criticized for providing poorly-compensated employment. Although one group of atypical workers (contractors) seems to ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 73(4), 1038–1065)
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J31, J33, J4
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1476
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David
N.F.
Bell
Axel
Heitmueller
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The Disability Discrimination Act in the UK: Helping or Hindering Employment Amongst the Disabled?
The enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 triggered a substantial academic debate about its consequences on employment rates of disabled people. In contrast, the employment ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28, 465-480)
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J2, I18, J71, J78
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1475
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Giorgio
Brunello
Daniele
Checchi
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School Vouchers Italian Style
School vouchers introduced recently in some Italian regions have lowered the cost of private schools. On one side, we provide evidence that Italian private schools may be selected for different ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2005, 357-399)
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I22
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1474
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Stefano
Staffolani
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Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time
In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (6), 489-512)
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J22, J23, J50, M12
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1473
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John
T.
Addison
Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Do Works Councils Inhibit Investment?
Theory suggests that firms confront a hold-up problem in dealing with workplace unionism: unions will appropriate a portion of the quasi rents stemming from long-lived capital. As a result, firms may ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 187-203)
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J50
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1472
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
David
M.
Cutler
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Autopsy on an Empire: Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union
Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2005, 19 (1), 107 - 130)
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I12, J10, P36
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1471
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Richard
Akresh
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Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure: Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso
Researchers often assume household structure is exogenous, but child fostering, the institution in which parents send their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(4), 976-997)
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O15, J12, D10
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1470
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Avner
Ahituv
Robert
I.
Lerman
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Job Turnover, Wage Rates, and Marital Stability: How Are They Related?
This study examines the interplay between job stability, wage rates, and marital instability. We use a Dynamic Selection Control model in which young men make sequential choices about work and ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 221-249)
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C15, C33, J12, J31, J63
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1469
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Christian
Dreger
Hans-Eggert
Reimers
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Health Care Expenditures in OECD Countries: A Panel Unit Root and Cointegration Analysis
This paper investigates the link between health care expenditures and GDP for a sample of 21 OECD countries using recent developed panel cointegration techniques. In contrast to previous studies, the ...
(published in: International Journal of Applied Econometrics and Quantitative Studies, 2005, 2(2), 5-20 )
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C23, I10
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