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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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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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1383
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Mirko
Cardinale
Mike
Orszag
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Severance Pay and Corporate Finance: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Austrian and Italian Firms
This paper examines the empirical link between severance pay and corporate finance.
Severance pay is an economic debt of the employer and hence should be taken into account
by the market in its ...
(published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 309-343)
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J65, J32, G39
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1382
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Firm-Level Social Returns to Education
Do workers benefit from the education of their co-workers? This question is examined first by
introducing a model of on-the-job schooling, which argues that educated workers may
transfer part of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23(2), 539-558)
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J24, J31, I20
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1381
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Armin
Falk
Urs
Fischbacher
Simon
Gächter
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Living in Two Neighborhoods: Social Interactions in the Lab
Field evidence suggests that people belonging to the same group often behave similarly, i.e.,
behaviour exhibits social interaction effects. We conduct an experiment that avoids the
identification ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 563–578)
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C91, H41, K42, H26
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1380
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants
Many countries are placing a greater emphasis on productive skills in the immigrant selection
policies as a way of achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes
stem primarily ...
(published in: D.A. Cobb-Clark and S. Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Edward Elgar 2006)
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J61, J22, J20
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1378
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John
T.
Addison
Christopher
J.
Surfield
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The Use of Alternative Work Arrangements by the Jobless: Evidence from the CAEAS/CPS
Alternative work arrangements (AWAs), such as contracting, consulting, and temporary work,
have been criticized as providing only atypical, even precarious, employment. Yet they may
also allow ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2006, 27(2), 149-162)
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J21, J24, J63, M50
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1376
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Rent Sharing Before and After the Wage Bill
Many biases plague the estimation of rent sharing in labour markets. Using a Portuguese
matched employer-employee panel, these biases are addressed in this paper in three
complementary ways: 1) ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41(17), 2133-2151)
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C33, J31, J41
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1375
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Simon
Gächter
Arno
Riedl
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Dividing Justly in Bargaining Problems with Claims: Normative Judgments and Actual Negotiations
Theoretical research on claims problems has concentrated on normative properties and
axiomatizations of solution concepts. We complement these analyses by empirical evidence
on the predictability ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27, 571-594)
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D63, C78, C92
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1373
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Alison
L.
Booth
Mark
L.
Bryan
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Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution
Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay
gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender
pay gap in the raw ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 163-186)
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J16, J31, J7
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1372
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Holger
Görg
Aoife
Hanley
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Does Outsourcing Increase Profitability?
We investigate the relationship between outsourcing and profitability paying particular
attention to the endogeneity of outsourcing. The empirical analysis uses unique plant level
data for the ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2004, 35(3), 267-288)
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L23, L63
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1371
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Tito
Boeri
J. Ignacio
Conde-Ruiz
Vincenzo
Galasso
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Cross-Skill Redistribution and the Tradeoff between Unemployment Benefits and Employment Protection
We document the presence of a trade-off between unemployment benefits (UB) and
employment protection legislation (EPL) in the provision of insurance against labor market
risk. Different countries' ...
(revised version published as 'The Political Economy Of Flexicurity' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 684–715)
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J68, J65, D72
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1370
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Swati
Basu
Saul
Estrin
Jan
Svejnar
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Employment Determination in Enterprises under Communism and in Transition: Evidence from Central Europe
In this paper, we present a comparative analysis of employment determination in four
transition economies as they move from central planning to a market economy in the early
1990s. We use firm ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2005, 58 (3), 353-369)
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J23, J50, J66
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1368
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Annette
Bergemann
Antje
Mertens
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Job Stability Trends, Layoffs, and Transitions to Unemployment: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany
This paper studies the evolution of job stability in West Germany. Using data from the
German Socio-Economic Panel, we first show that the median elapsed tenure declined for
men between 1984 and ...
(revised version published as 'Job Stability Trends, Lay-offs, and Transitions to Unemployment in West Germany' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (4), 421–446)
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J63, C41
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1367
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Max
Gruetter
Rafael
Lalive
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The Importance of Firms in Wage Determination
Firms are central to many theories of the labor market. However, the extent to which firms
affect wages has only recently been explored using matched employer-employee data. This
paper investigates ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (2), 149-160)
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C23, J31
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1366
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Axel
Heitmueller
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The Chicken or the Egg? Endogeneity in Labour Market Participation of Informal Carers in England
Informal care is a vital pillar of the British welfare state. A well-known fact in the small
economic literature on informal care is the apparent negative relation between care
responsibilities and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (3), 536-559)
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J22, I11, C10
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1365
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Kerry
L.
Papps
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Income Inequality and Gender in New Zealand, 1998-2003
A number of authors have documented an increase in earnings or income inequality in New
Zealand during the late 1980s and early 1990s, a period of major economic reform, however
no study has ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2010, 44 (3), 217-229)
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J3
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1364
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Arnaud
Chéron
Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
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Labor Market Institutions and the Employment-Productivity Trade-Off: A Wage Posting Approach
This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the
employment-labor productivity trade-off. We consider an equilibrium search model with wage
posting and specific ...
(published as "A quantitative evaluation of payroll tax subsidies for low-wage workers: An equilibrium search approach" in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92(3-4), 817-843)
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C51, J24, J31, J38
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1363
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Rafael
Lalive
Jan
C.
van Ours
Josef
Zweimüller
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How Changes in Financial Incentives Affect the Duration of Unemployment
This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance – the
benefit replacement rate (RR) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) – affect the
duration of ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 1009-1038)
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C41, J64, J65
|
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1362
|
Shoshana
Neuman
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Wage Differentials in the 1990s in Israel: Endowments, Discrimination, and Selectivity
The purpose of this paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the
Israeli labor market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for
selectivity at the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2005, 26(3), 217-236)
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J15, J16, J31, J44, J71
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1360
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Oluyemisi
Kuku
Peter
F.
Orazem
Rajesh
Singh
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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition
Data from nine transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe are used to examine the
role of computer adoption for returns to education. As in western economies, computers are
adopted most ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2007, 15 (1), 33-56)
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O, P2, J31
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1359
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Bernard
Fortin
Guy
Lacroix
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Tax Evasion and Social Interactions
The paper extends the standard tax evasion model by allowing for social interactions. In
Manski’s (1993) nomenclature, our model takes into account social conformity effects (i.e.,
endogenous ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (11-12), 2089-2112.)
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H26, D63, C24, C92, Z13
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