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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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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
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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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1431
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Friedrich
Schneider
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The Size of the Shadow Economies of 145 Countries all over the World: First Results over the Period 1999 to 2003
Using the DYMIMIC approach, estimates of the shadow economy in 145 developing, transition, developed OECD countries, South Pacific islands and still communist countries are presented. The average ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495 - 526)
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O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
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1430
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David
B.
Huffman
Matias
Barenstein
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Riches to Rags Every Month? The Fall in Consumption Expenditures Between Paydays
This paper finds declining consumption expenditure between paydays, for a typical household in the working population of the UK. The magnitude is inconsistent with exponential time preference, but ...
(revised version: "A Monthly Struggle for Self-Control? Hyperbolic Discounting, Mental Accounting, and the Fall in Consumption Between Paydays")
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B49, D11, D12, J33
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1429
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Santiago
Budría
Pedro
T.
Pereira
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On the Returns to Training in Portugal
This paper investigates the earnings effects of training in the Portuguese labour market. We use the Portuguese Labour Force Survey to classify training according to multiple criteria, including ...
(published as "The wage effects of training in Portugal: differences across skill groups, genders, sectors and training types" in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (6), 787-807)
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J7, J24, J31, I2
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1428
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David
Neumark
Olena
Y.
Nizalova
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Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42 (2), 435-452)
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J22, J23, J38
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1427
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Timothy
Dunne
Kenneth
Troske
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Technology Adoption and Workforce Skill in U.S. Manufacturing Plants
This paper examines the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill in US manufacturing plants. Using information on the use and adoption of seven different information technologies, ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 52 (3), 387-405)
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J2, O3
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1424
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Gaëlle
Pierre
Stefano
Scarpetta
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Employment Regulations through the Eyes of Employers: Do They Matter and How Do Firms Respond to Them?
In this paper, we present evidence on how employers perceive labor regulations and react when these are perceived to constrain the operation of their firm. The paper draws from harmonized surveys of ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2013, 2:15)
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J23, J65, K31
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1423
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Dirk
Sliwka
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On the Notion of Responsibility in Organizations
We derive a natural definition of responsibility in a formal model where employees care for their career prospects: A superior holds a subordinate responsible for a task, when she announces her ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2006, 22(2), 523-547)
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D23, M12
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1422
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Simon
Commander
Rupa
Chanda
Mari
Kangasniemi
L. Alan
Winters
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Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry
We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration
from the Indian software sector and the consequences for firms experiencing loss of skilled
workers. ...
(published in: World Economy, 2008, 31 (2), 187-211)
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J31, J61
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1421
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David
Card
Sara
de la Rica
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The Effect of Firm-Level Contracts on the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
In Spain, as in several other European countries, sectoral bargaining agreements are
automatically extended to cover all firms in an industry. Employers and employees can also
negotiate ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 573-592)
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J31, J51
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1420
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Hilmar
Schneider
Arne
Uhlendorff
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The Transition from Welfare to Work and the Role of Potential Labor Income
It is often argued that the high level of welfare claims in Germany causes little incentive for
workers with low productivity to seek for a job. We examine the influence of the ratio ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2005, 125 (1), 51-61)
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I38, J64, C41
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1419
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!
This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment
process among immigrants in Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to
Australia, which comprises ...
(published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148)
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F22, J61, J15, J24
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1418
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Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
Bo
Hammer
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A Danish Profiling System
We describe the statistical model used for profiling new unemployed workers in Denmark.
When a worker – during his or her first six months in unemployment – enters the employment
office for the ...
(published in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift (Danish Economic Journal), 2006, 144 (2), 209-229 )
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J64, J68
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1417
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Gary
Charness
Peter
J.
Kuhn
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Do Co-Workers’ Wages Matter? Theory and Evidence on Wage Secrecy, Wage Compression and Effort
We study worker and firm behavior in an environment where worker effort could depend on
co-workers’ wages. Theoretically, we show that an increase in workers’ ‘concerns’ with coworkers’
wages ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (4), 693-723)
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C92, J33, M12, M52
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1416
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High? The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Births
Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the
mothers as well as those of their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely
to have a teenage ...
(published as 'Staying in the Classroom and out of the maternity ward? The effect of compulsory schooling laws on teenage births' in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (530), 1025–1054)
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I21, J13, J24
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1414
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Joachim
Wagner
John
T.
Addison
Claus
Schnabel
Thorsten
Schank
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Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing
plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along
the conditional ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2006, 226 (5), 505-518)
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J50
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1413
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Panu
Poutvaara
Andreas
Wagener
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Why Is the Public Sector More Labor-Intensive? A Distortionary Tax Argument
Government-run entities are often more labor-intensive than private companies, even with
identical production technologies. This need not imply slack in the public sector, but may be a
rational ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2008, 94 (2), 105–124)
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L33, J45, D24, H21
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1412
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Christiana
Stoddard
Peter
J.
Kuhn
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Incentives and Effort in the Public Sector: Have U.S. Education Reforms Increased Teachers’ Work Hours?
Beyond some contracted minimum, salaried workers’ hours are largely chosen at the
worker’s discretion and should respond to the strength of contract incentives. Accordingly, we
consider the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 1-13)
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I21, I28, J22, J44, J45
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1411
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Paul
L.
Latreille
Peter J.
Sloane
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Crossing the Tracks? More on Trends in the Training of Male and Female Workers in Great Britain
A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing
finding that the ‘advantage’ previously enjoyed by men in respect of training incidence and
reported in ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (2), 268-282.)
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J1, J2, J7
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1410
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials
European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces
population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is
characterized by high levels ...
(published in: De Economist, 2005, 153 (4), 425-450)
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J61, J21, J68, J82, F22
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1409
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Francesco
Pastore
Alina
Verashchagina
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Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition: A Case Study of Belarus
The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a
priori expectation that the rate of return to education is low and the earnings profile by work
experience ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2006, 25(1), 91-107)
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J31, P52
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1408
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Panu
Poutvaara
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On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education
This paper analyzes simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public
education with three overlapping generations and productivity differences inside each cohort.
Wage tax revenue ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 345-365)
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H52, H55, D72
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1407
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Paul
Frijters
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Job Search with Nonparticipation
In a non-stationary job search model we allow unemployed workers to have a permanent
option to leave the labor force. Transitions into nonparticipation occur when reservation
wages drop below the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 45-83)
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J41, J64, J68, J24, C15
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1405
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Albrecht
Morgenstern
Philippe
Raab
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An Experimental Test of Career Concerns
Holmström’s (1982/99) career concerns model has become an important workhorse for the
analysis of agency issues in many fields. The underlying signal jamming argument requires
players to use ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (1), 571-588)
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C91, D83, L14
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1403
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Wouter
J.
den Haan
Christian
Haefke
Garey
Ramey
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Turbulence and Unemployment in a Job Matching Model
According to Ljungqvist and Sargent (1998), high European unemployment since the 1980s
can be explained by a rise in economic turbulence, leading to greater numbers of
unemployed workers with ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1360-1385)
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E24, J64
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1402
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Christian
Grund
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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The Dispersion of Employees’ Wage Increases and Firm Performance
In this contribution we examine the interrelation between intra-firm wage increases and firm
performance. Previous studies have focused on the dispersion of wages in order to examine
for the ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (4), 485-501)
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M52, J31, L25
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1400
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James
Albrecht
Aico
van Vuuren
Susan
Vroman
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Decomposing the Gender Wage Gap in the Netherlands with Sample Selection Adjustments
In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap
between men and women who work full time in the Netherlands. Because the fraction of
women working full ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 383-396)
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C24, J22, J31, J71
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1399
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Alicia
Adsera
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Marital Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain
Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain
have dropped dramatically. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study
whether the ...
(published in: Population Studies, 2006, 60 (2), 205-221)
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J1, Z12
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1398
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Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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How Different Are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and
natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France,
Germany, the ...
(published in: C. A. Parsons ; T. M. Smeeding (eds.), Immigration and the Transformation of Europe, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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I21, J15, O15
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1396
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Income Volatility and Residential Mortgage Delinquency: Evidence from 12 EU Countries
We investigate the socio-economic determinants of mortgage delinquency in 12 EU countries
and observe that income volatility significantly increases the mortgage delinquency risk. This
pattern even ...
(published as 'Income volatility and residential mortgage delinquency across the EU' in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2005, 14 (3), 153-177)
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D1, R0, J0
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1395
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Sergiy
Pivnenko
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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship
Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper
investigates the economic costs and benefits derived from citizenship to rationalize the
differential ...
(published in: Journal of Immigration and Integration, 2006, 6 (3-4), 435-468)
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F22, J61, J68
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1394
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Ingo
Lückgen
Dirk
Oberschachtsiek
Rolf
Sternberg
Joachim
Wagner
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Nascent Entrepreneurs in German Regions: Evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)
Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are (alone or with others) actively engaged in
creating a new venture and who expect to be the owner or part owner of this start-up. Given
that newly founded ...
(published in: M. Fritsch and J. Schmude (eds.), Entrepreneurship in the Region, Berlin: Springer 2006)
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J23
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1393
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Daniel
Münich
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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Do Markets Favor Women's Human Capital More than Planners?
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures
of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition
(2002). ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 278-298)
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J24, J31, P20, P31
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1392
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Anne
Flipo
Denis
Fougère
Lucile
Olier
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Is the Household Demand for In-Home Services Sensitive to Tax Reductions? The French Case
Our paper examines the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home.
For that purpose, we estimate a structural model of demand for such services by using
household individual ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (1-2), 365-385)
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D13, J12
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1391
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Philippe
Mahler
Rainer
Winkelmann
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Single Motherhood and (Un)Equal Educational Opportunities: Evidence for Germany
We examine the effect of single motherhood on children's secondary school track choice
using a sample of 14 years old children drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In
line with previous ...
(published in: Schriften des Vereins für Socialpolitik, 2006, 313, 39-54.)
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I21, J12
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1390
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
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Religion as a Determinant of Economic and Demographic Behavior in the United States
This paper critically reviews and synthesizes research on the role of religion on various
aspects of the economic and demographic behavior of individuals and families in the United
States, ...
(published in: Population and Development Review, 2004, 30 (4), 707-726)
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J1, J2
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1389
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Shelly
Lundberg
Richard
Startz
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Information and Racial Exclusion
This paper presents several economic models that explore the relationships between
imperfect information, racial income disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal
arises here, as in ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 621 - 642)
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J7, D83
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1386
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives
Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or selfemployed.
We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across
the business cycle. It ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Self-employment against employment or unemployment: Markov transitions across the business cycle' in: Eurasian Business Review, 2014, 4 (1), 51-87)
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E32, J23, J61, M13
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1385
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Daniele
Checchi
Laura
Pagani
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The Effects of Unions on Wage Inequality: The Italian Case in the 1990s
In this paper we analyse the contribution of union activity to reducing earnings inequality.
Given the specific nature of the system of industrial relations, Italian unions may contribute ...
(published in: Politica Economica, 2005, 1, 41-68)
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J31
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1384
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Maurice
Schiff
Yanling
Wang
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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the “Natural Trading Partners” Hypothesis
Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise
welfare if member countries are “natural trading partners,” while other studies claim the
opposite. ...
(published in: Revue d'économie du développement, 2007, 21 (5), 69-84)
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F02, F13, F15, F43, O39
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