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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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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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1468
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Giovanni
Russo
Wolter
Hassink
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty: A Career Perspective
Part-time employment has become an extremely popular work arrangement in the Netherlands because it renders employment compatible with non-work activities. We posit that there may be a downside to ...
(published as "The Part-Time Wage Gap: a Career Perspective" in: De Economist, 2008, 156 (2), 145-174)
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J31, J24, J22
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1467
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Marc
Gurgand
David
N.
Margolis
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Does Work Pay in France? Monetary Incentives and the Guaranteed Minimum Income
Most welfare programs generate high marginal tax rates on labor income. This paper uses a representative sample of individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or ...
(published as 'Does work pay in France? Monetary incentives, hours constraints, and the guaranteed minimum' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (7), 1669-1697)
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I38, J31, C34
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1466
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
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Joint Estimation of Price-Cost Margins and Union Bargaining Power for Belgian Manufacturing
This paper extends Hall's (1988) methodology to analyse imperfections in both the product and the labour market for firms in the Belgian manufacturing industry over the period 1988-1995. We ...
(published in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2004, 22(10), 1381-1398)
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C23, D21, J50, L13
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1465
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Etienne
Wasmer
Yves
Zenou
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Equilibrium Search Unemployment with Explicit Spatial Frictions
Assuming that job search efficiency decreases with distance to jobs, workers’ location in a city depends on spatial elements such as commuting costs and land prices and on labour elements such as ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (2), 143-165)
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E24, J41, R14
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1464
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Determinants of Union Membership in 18 EU Countries: Evidence from Micro Data, 2002/03
Using representative individual-level data from the first round of the European Social Survey fielded in 2002/03, this paper provides an empirical analysis of unionization in 18 countries of the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2007, 38 (1), 5-32)
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J51
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1463
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Sergiy
Pivnenko
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Self-Selection, Immigrant Public Finance Performance and Canadian Citizenship
This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant’s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her subsequent performance as a taxpayer and recipient of public finance transfers. Our ...
(published in: P. Bevelander and D. DeVoretz (eds.), The Economics of Citizenship, IMER Press, Malmo Sweden, 2008)
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J61, J68, F22
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1462
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Jens
Suedekum
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The Home Market Shadow
The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the “new” theory of international trade, but it is uncertain whether this effect survives if one moves beyond the simplifying setup with ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2007, 92 (3), 208-229)
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F12, F14, R12
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1460
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Mathias
Hungerbühler
Etienne
Lehmann
Alexis
Parmentier
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation in a Search Equilibrium Model
This paper characterizes optimal non-linear income taxation in an economy with a continuum of unobservable productivity levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73(3), 743-767)
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D82, H21, H24, J64
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1457
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Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (4), 981-999)
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C33, D20, G32, L20
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1456
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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An Economic Perspective on Religious Education: Complements and Substitutes in a Human Capital Portfolio
This paper models the tradeoffs between education in secular subjects, formal and informal, and the formation of religion-specific human capital. It explores some implications of negative ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 449-467)
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Z12, J20, J15
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1454
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Ricardo
Alonso
Niko
Matouschek
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Relational Delegation
We explore the optimal delegation of decision rights by a principal to a better informed but biased agent. In an infinitely repeated game a long lived principal faces a series of short lived agents. ...
(published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2007, 38 (4), 1070 - 1089)
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D23, D82, L23
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1453
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Pedro
Carneiro
James
J.
Heckman
Dimitriy
V.
Masterov
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Labor Market Discrimination and Racial Differences in Premarket Factors
We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial/ethnic wage gaps. We show that cognitive test scores taken prior to entering the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 48(1), 1-39)
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J31
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1452
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Xin
Meng
Bob
Gregory
Youjuan
Wang
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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality, reduction in social welfare provision, deregulation of grain prices, and increases ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (4), 710-729)
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I31, D31, O40, O15
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1451
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Nicolas
Moreau
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Is the Collective Model of Labor Supply Useful for Tax Policy Analysis? A Simulation Exercise
The literature on household behavior contains hardly any empirical research on the within-household distributional effect of tax-benefit policies. We simulate this effect in the framework of a ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2007 (14), 317-344)
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C71, D11, D12, H31, J22
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1450
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Matteo
Cervellati
Piergiuseppe
Fortunato
Uwe
Sunde
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Hobbes to Rousseau: Inequality, Institutions, and Development
We analyze the endogenous evolution of economic and political institutions and the interdependencies with the process of economic development. Favorable economic institutions ensure the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118(531), 1354-1384)
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H10, O20, N10
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1448
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Xin
Meng
Xiaodong
Gong
Youjuan
Wang
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Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Intake in Urban China: 1986-2000
Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low income group declined in the 1990s. Does this imply a zero or negative income ...
(published as 'Impact of Income Growth and Economic Reform on Nutrition Availability in Urban China: 1986–2000' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (2), 261-295)
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I31, D31, O40, O15
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1447
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Andreas
Schaal
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Venture Capital Investment and Labor Market Performance: New Empirical Evidence for OECD Countries
Anglo-Saxon countries have been successful in the 1990s concerning labor market performance compared to the former role models Germany and Japan. This reversal in relative economic performance might ...
(published in: Keuschnigg, Christian / Kanniainen, Vesa (eds.), Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, CESifo Seminar Series, MIT Press, Cambridge/MA, 2004, 97-126)
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E22, E24, E44, G24, G32
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1445
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Kristian
Orsini
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In-Work Policies in Europe: Killing Two Birds with One Stone?
Earning an income is probably the best way of avoiding poverty and social exclusion, hence the recent trend of promoting employment through in-work transfers in OECD countries. Yet, the relative ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (6), 667-693)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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1444
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James
J.
Heckman
Dimitriy
V.
Masterov
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Skill Policies for Scotland
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful ...
(published in: D. Coyle, W. Alexander and B. Ashcroft, eds., New Wealth for Old Nations: Scotland's Economic Prospects, Princeton University Press: 2005)
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J31, I21, I22, I28
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1443
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Michael
Lechner
Ruth
Miquel
Conny
Wunsch
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Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany
Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training programmes for the unemployed. We base our empirical analysis on a new ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 742-784)
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J68
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1442
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Felix
FitzRoy
Kornelius
Kraft
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Co-Determination, Efficiency, and Productivity
We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board-level co-determination. Although our data span two severe recessions when labour ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 43 (2), 233-248)
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D2, J5, L2
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1441
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
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Normative Evaluation of Tax Policies: From Households to Individuals
We analyze the impact on French couples of a tax policy change – the introduction of a family tax credit – using jointly a collective model of household labor supply and a tax-benefit microsimulation ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (2), 339-371)
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C71, D13, D31, D63, H21, H31, J22
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1440
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2006, 26 (3), 279-300)
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J23, M13, J24, J61, J31
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1439
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Jens
M.
Heine
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Specialisation Patterns and the Synchronicity of Regional Employment Cycles in Europe
This paper examines the degree of correlation of EU regional employment cycles and attempts to show whether these cycles reflect changing patterns of specialisation. By focusing on the regional level ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2006, 3 (2), 91-104)
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E32, F15, R23
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1438
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
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The (Unexpected) Structure of "Rents" on the French and British Labour Markets
This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 180-196)
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C30, J28, J31, J41, M51
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1437
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
Salvador
Navarro
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Separating Uncertainty from Heterogeneity in Life Cycle Earnings
This paper develops and applies a method for decomposing cross section variability of earnings into components that are forecastable at the time students decide to go to college (heterogeneity) and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (2), 191-261)
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C33, D84, I21
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1435
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Christian
Dustmann
Uta
Schönberg
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Training and Union Wages
This paper tests the hypothesis that unions, through imposing wage floors that lead to wage compression, increase on-the-job training. Our analysis focuses on Germany which provides an interesting ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91 (2), 363-376)
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J24, J40, J51, I2
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1434
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Pramod
N. (Raja)
Junankar
Stephane
Mahuteau
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia
This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2005, 81 (s1), S34-S46)
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J61, J68, C25
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1433
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Javier
Ortega
Thomas
P.
Tangerås
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Unilingual Versus Bilingual Education System: A Political Economy Analysis
We consider an economy with two language groups, where only agents who share a language can produce together. Schooling enhances the productivity of students and may modify their language endowment. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6(5), 1078-1108)
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I2, J15
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1432
|
Alicia
Adsera
Barry
R.
Chiswick
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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
The paper uses the 1994-2000 waves of the European Community Household Panel to conduct a systematic analysis of the earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495-526 )
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J1, J61, F22
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