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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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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
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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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1358
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Guido
Heineck
Johannes
Schwarze
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Fly Me to the Moon: The Determinants of Secondary Jobholding in Germany and the UK
This paper analyzes the determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK.
Although differing in labor market regulations, moonlighting is a persistent phenomenon in
both countries. Using ...
(published as 'The determinants of secondary jobholding in Germany and the UK' in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2009, 42 (2), 107-120)
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J22, J29
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1356
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Michael
Gibbs
Kenneth
A.
Merchant
Wim
A.
Van der Stede
Mark
A.
Vargus
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Performance Measure Properties and Incentives
We examine the effects of performance measure properties on incentive system design,
using data on incentive contracts for auto dealership managers. The data include information
on five properties: ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2009, 48(2), 237-264)
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M52, J33
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1355
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Joop
Hartog
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Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? Evidence from Spain
We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual
wages. We carry out separate estimation for men, women, public and private sector
employees. In accordance ...
(published as 'Is there a risk-return trade-off in educational choices? Evidence from Spain' in: Investigaciones Economicas, 2006, 30 (2), 353-380)
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J3, D8
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1354
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Philipp
C.
Bauer
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment: Evidence from Switzerland on Natives and Second Generation Immigrants
This study applies rich data from the 2000 Swiss census to investigate the patterns of
intergenerational education transmission for natives and second generation immigrants. The
level of secondary ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 121-148)
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I21, J61
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1352
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Eric
Verhoogen
Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
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Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor-Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm
This paper draws on evidence from an internal attitude survey in the freight-handling
terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions
on employee ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (4), 477-498)
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J41, Z13, D23
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1351
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Conchita
D'Ambrosio
Joachim
R.
Frick
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Subjective Well-Being and Relative Deprivation: An Empirical Link
This paper explores the relationship between two well-established concepts of measuring
individual well-being: the concept of happiness, i.e. self-reported level of satisfaction with
income and ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2007, 81(3), 497-519)
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D63, I31, D31
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1350
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Richard
Blundell
Amanda
Gosling
Hidehiko
Ichimura
Costas
Meghir
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Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds
This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the
impact of non-random selection into work. We show that bounds constructed without any
economic or statistical ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2007, 75(2), 323–363)
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J31, C24
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1349
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth in the Ukrainian Transition
We analyze the pace and patterns of job reallocation in Ukraine using 1992-2000 panel data
on nearly the surviving universe of manufacturing firms inherited from the Soviet Union.
Employment growth ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (2), 229-251 )
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E24, J63, O47, P23
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1348
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Till
von
Wachter
Stefan
Bender
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In the Right Place at the Wrong Time: The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers' Careers
We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the
long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms
with ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1679-1705)
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J63, J65
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1346
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Robert
E.
Leu
Martin
Schellhorn
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The Evolution of Income-Related Health Inequalities in Switzerland over Time
This paper presents new evidence on income-related health inequality and its development
over time in Switzerland. We employ the methods lined out in van Doorslaer and Jones
(2003) and van ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2006, 52 (4), 666-690)
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D32, I10, I12
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1344
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Arno
Riedl
Frans
van Winden
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Input versus Output Taxation in an Experimental International Economy
This paper is concerned with a policy oriented macroeconomic experiment involving an
'international' economy with a relatively small 'home' country and a large 'foreign' country. It
compares the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (2), 216-232)
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A10, C90, C91, D21, D80, E62, H20
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1343
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Dana
Lup
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic
transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm
growth. ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 54 (1), 33-70)
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M13, O16, O19, P26
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1341
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Stephen
V.
Burks
Eric
Verhoogen
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Comparing Students to Workers: The Effects of Social Framing on Behavior in Distribution Games
To investigate the external validity of Ultimatum and Dictator game behavior we conduct
experiments in field settings with naturally occurring variation in "social framing." Our
participants are ...
(published in: J. Carpenter, G. Harrison, and J. List (eds.), Field Experiments in Economics (Research in Experimental Economics, 10), 2005, 261 - 289)
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C93, J24, Z13
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1340
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Christine
Harbring
Bernd
Irlenbusch
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Incentives in Tournaments with Endogenous Prize Selection
Tournament incentive schemes offer payments dependent on relative performance and
thereby are intended to motivate agents to exert productive effort. Unfortunately, however, an
agent may also be ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2005, 161 (4), 636-663)
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D23, J33, J41, L23, C72
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1339
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Fabrice
Etilé
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
Claudia
Senik
Karine
Van der Straeten
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Heterogeneity in Reported Well-Being: Evidence from Twelve European Countries
This paper models the relationship between income and reported well-being using latent
class techniques applied to panel data from twelve European countries. Introducing both
intercept and slope ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (502), C118-C132)
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C14, C23, I30
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1338
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Almas
Heshmati
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Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships
This paper examines the causal relationship between inequality and a number of
macroeconomic variables frequently found in the inequality and growth literature. These
include growth, openness, ...
(published in: A. Heshmati ; A. Tausch (eds.), Roadmap to Bangalore? Globalization, the EU Lisbon Process and the Structure of Global Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 109-137)
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C23, D63, F14, O40, O57
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1337
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
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Punishing Free-Riders: How Group Size Affects Mutual Monitoring and the Provision of Public Goods
Because costly punishment is not credible, subgame perfection suggests that punishment will
not deter free riding, regardless of the size or structure of groups. However, experiments
show that ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 60 (1), 31-51)
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C72, C92, H41
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1336
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Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Diploma No Problem: Can Private Schools Be of Lower Quality than Public Schools?
Motivated by anecdotal as well as econometric evidence from Italy, we ask whether private
schools can provide lower quality than public schools. Using a stylized model of the
education market with ...
(published as 'Educational standards in private and public schools' in: The Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (533), 1866-1887)
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H52, H73
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1335
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Jan
Boone
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Effective Active Labor Market Policies
We present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active labor market
policies (ALMP). In our empirical analysis we use data on 20 OECD countries covering the
time period ...
(published as 'Bringing Unemployed Back to Work: Effective Active Labor Market Policies' in: De Economist, 2007, 157 (3), 293-313)
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H55, J65, J68
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1334
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Solomon
Polachek
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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and
foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back
as 1750, ...
(published in: Indian Journal of Economics and Business, 2004, 3 (special issue), 29-42.)
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F1, F2, J61, M55, O24
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1333
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Uwe
Blien
Jens
Suedekum
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Local Economic Structure and Industry Development in Germany, 1993-2001
This paper analyses the impact of dynamic MAR- and Jacobs-externalities on local
employment growth in Germany between 1993 and 2001. In order to facilitate a comparison
between the neighbouring ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2005, 17 (15), 1-8)
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R11, O40
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1332
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Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market
economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological
frontier set by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (2-3), 291–302)
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C33, D20, F23, G32, L20, O33
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1331
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Eloic
Peyrache
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Mixed Up? That's Good for Motivation
An essential ingredient in models of career concerns is ex ante uncertainty about an agent's
type. This paper shows how career concerns can arise even in the absence of any such ex
ante ...
(published in : Economic Theory, 2008, 34 (1), 107-125)
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D80, J33, L14, M12
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1330
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Jessica
Holmes
Peter
Hans
Matthews
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Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation
Auctions are a popular way to raise money for charities, but relatively little is known, either
theoretically or empirically, about the properties of charity auctions. The small ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 92-113)
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C93, D44, D64
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1329
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Thomas
Raferzeder
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Who is on the Rise in Austria: Wage Mobility and Mobility Risk
In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons:
earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings
over ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2007, 5 (1), 39-51)
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I32, J31
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1328
|
Alison
Currie
Michael A.
Shields
Stephen
Wheatley Price
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Is the Child Health / Family Income Gradient Universal? Evidence from England
In an influential study Case et al. (2002) documented a positive relationship between family
income and child health in the US, with the slope of the gradient being larger for older than
younger ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (2), 213-232)
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I1
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1327
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Peter
T.
Gottschalk
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Downward Nominal Wage Flexibility: Real or Measurement Error?
This paper presents a new method to correct for measurement error in wage data and
applies this method to address an old question. How much downward wage flexibility is there
in the U.S? We apply ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87 (3), 556-568)
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J38
|
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1326
|
Michael
P.
Pflüger
Jens
Suedekum
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Integration, Agglomeration and Welfare
This paper studies the social desirability of agglomeration and the efficiency arguments for
policy intervention in a simple, analytically solvable ‘new economic geography’ model with
two trade ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, 63 (2), 544-566 )
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F12, F15, F22, R22, R50
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1325
|
Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine: A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended
period in Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002). There has been an increase in returns to
schooling in both ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 324-350)
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C14, I20, J31, O15, O57, P50
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1324
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Alan
S.
Blinder
Alan
B.
Krueger
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What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?
Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What
are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how
do people ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2004:1)
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D70, E60
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