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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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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
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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
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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
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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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1323
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Jungmin
Lee
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Sibling Size and Investment in Children's Education: An Asian Instrument
This study consistently estimates the trade-off between child quantity and quality by
exploiting exogenous variation in fertility due to son preferences. Under son preferences,
childbearing and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (4), 855 - 875)
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D13, J13, O12
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1322
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Helen
Connolly
Peter
T.
Gottschalk
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Do Earnings Subsidies Affect Job Choice?
It is widely acknowledged that tax and transfer policies can affect employment. This paper explores a different potential impact of transfer policy by asking whether subsidies also affect job ...
(published as 'Do earnings subsidies affect job choice? The impact of SSP subsidies on job turnover and wage growth' in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2009, 42 (4), 1276 - 1304)
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J23, J38
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1321
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Maia
Güell
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Is Seniority-Based Pay Used as a Motivation Device? Evidence from Plant Level Data
In this paper we use data from industrial plants to investigate if seniority-based pay is used
as a motivational device for production workers. Alternatively, seniority-based pay could
simply be a ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30, 155-187)
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M52, M12, J30
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1319
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Sarit
Cohen Goldner
M. Daniele
Paserman
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Mass Migration to Israel and Natives' Transitions from Employment
This paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on
natives’ probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labor
market that is ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 630-652)
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J00, J30, J61, J21, F22
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1318
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Peter
Kooreman
Riemer
Faber
Heleen
Hofmans
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Charity Donations and the Euro Introduction: Some Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Money Illusion
We compare the revenues of a house-to-house collection for a charity before and after the
introduction of the euro in a ceteris paribus setting. We find strong evidence of money
illusion, ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 2004, 36 (6), 1121-1124)
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D12
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1317
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Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Gender Equality in Educational Achievement: An East-West Comparison
Data on educational access show gender parity of pupils attending primary and secondary
schools in transition countries. The first aim of this analysis is to examine whether the gender
balance in ...
(revised version published in : Schnepf (ed.): Women in Central and Eastern Europe: Measuring Gender Inequality Differently. Saarbruecken, Germany: Verlag Mueller, 2007)
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I21, J16, J24
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1316
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Robert
E.
Leu
Martin
Schellhorn
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The Evolution of Income-Related Inequalities in Health Care Utilization in Switzerland over Time
This study investigates equity in access to health care in Switzerland over time, using nationwide representative survey data from 1982, 1992, 1997 and 2002. Both simple quintile distributions and ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2006, 52 (4), 666-690)
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D32, I10, I12
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1315
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Sarit
Cohen Goldner
M. Daniele
Paserman
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The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Israel
This paper studies the dynamic impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to
Israel on natives’ labor market outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the
short-run and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (8), 1027-1045)
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J00, J30, J61, J21, F22
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1314
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John
T.
Addison
Mario
Centeno
Pedro
Portugal
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Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory: International Evidence
This paper exploits the informational value of search theory, after Lancaster and Chesher
(1983), in conjunction with survey data on the unemployed to calculate key reservation wage
and duration ...
(published as 'Unemployment Benefits and Reservation Wages: Key Elasticities from a Stripped-Down Job Search Approach' in Economica, 2010, 77 (305), 46-59.)
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J64, J65
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1313
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
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A Pair-Wise Approach to Testing for Output and Growth Convergence
This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all
N(N-1)/2 possible pairs of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general
probabilistic ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 138 (1), 312-355)
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C32, C33, D90, O47
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1312
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Arthur
van Soest
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Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples: Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models
A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called
"health-wealth gradient", is repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar
levels of health ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (5), 1312-1325)
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C33, D31, I12, J14
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1311
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Jobs for Young University Graduates: Is It Worth Having a Degree?
This study addresses the question: Are workers who hold a university degree increasingly
filling job openings meant for people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal,
where the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (2), 271-277)
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J21, J31, J24, I20
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1309
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Joyce
P.
Jacobsen
Peter
Kooreman
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Timing Constraints and the Allocation of Time: The Effects of Changing Shopping Hours Regulations in the Netherlands
A 1996 change in shopping hours regulations in the Netherlands provides an opportunity to study the effects of timing constraints on total time spent in shopping, working, and other activities as ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 9-27)
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D12, J22
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1308
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Robert
Drago
David
Black
Mark
Wooden
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Female Breadwinner Families: Their Existence, Persistence and Sources
We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner – what we term female breadwinner households – and test it using data from the first two waves of the ...
(published in: Journal of Sociology, 2005, 41 (4), 343-362)
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J12, J16
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1307
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Almas
Heshmati
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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the ...
(published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge and New York, 2007, 121-155)
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C10, D31, D63, I30, N30
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1306
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Magnus
Lofstrom
John
Tyler
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Measuring the Returns to the GED: Using an Exogenous Change in GED Passing Standards as a Natural Experiment
In this paper, we exploit an exogenous change in the passing standard required to obtain a General Educational Development (GED) credential to identify the impact of the GED on the quarterly earnings ...
(published as 'Modeling the signaling value of the GED with an application to an exogenous passing standard increase in Texas' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 305-352.)
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I2, J31
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1305
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Menzie
D.
Chinn
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide: A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration
To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2007, 59 (1), 16-44)
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O30, L96
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1304
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Jeffrey
G.
Williamson
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International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publicly-subsidized ...
(published in: D. Snower (ed.) Labour Mobility and the World Economy, Kiel: Kiel Institute for World Economics, 2005)
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F22, J1, O1
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1303
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
Peter
Dolton
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Survey Non-Response and Unemployment Duration
Social surveys are often used to estimate unemployment duration distributions. Survey non-response may then cause a bias. We study this using a unique dataset that combines survey information of ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2006, 169 (3), 585-604)
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J64, C41, C81, C23, C14, C42
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1302
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Craig
A.
Gallet
John
A.
List
Peter
F.
Orazem
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Cyclicality and the Labor Market
Using a unique sample of new Ph.D. economists in 1987 and 1997, we examine how job seekers and their employers alter their search strategies in strong versus weak markets. The 1987 academic market ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2005, 72 (2), 284-304)
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J44, J60
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1301
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Boris
Augurzky
Jochen
Kluve
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Assessing the Performance of Matching Algorithms When Selection into Treatment Is Strong
This paper investigates the method of matching regarding two crucial implementation choices, the distance measure and the type of algorithm. We implement optimal full matching – a fully efficient ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2006, 22 (3), 533-557)
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C14, C61
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1300
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Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Estimating the Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes
We combine two techniques to consistently estimate the effect of active labour market programmes and, in particular, active labour market policy regimes. Our aim is to explicitly estimate the threat ...
(Published as: 'The Threat Effect of Active Labour Market Programmes' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (2), 385 - 401)
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C41, J64
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1299
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Giorgio
Brunello
Charlotte
Lauer
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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings
We exploit the cross-country and time variation in the demographics and education structure in 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the ...
(published as "The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 273 - 290)
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J11, J31
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1298
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Andreas
Roider
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Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract
The present paper aims to contribute to the literature on the foundations of incomplete contracts by providing conditions under which simple delegation of authority is the solution to the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2006, 162(3), 391-411)
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D82, D23, L14, L22
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1297
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Peter
F.
Orazem
Milan
Vodopivec
Ruth
Wu
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Worker Displacement during the Transition: Experience from Slovenia
The transition to market in Slovenia created labor displacements that were on par or greater than that experienced in North America in the 1980s. A simple theoretical model suggests that factors ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2005, 13 (2), 311-340)
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J63, P2
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1296
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Alicia
Robb
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Families, Human Capital, and Small Business: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
An important finding in the rapidly growing literature on self-employment is that the probability of self-employment is substantially higher among the children of business owners than among the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (2), 225-245)
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J23
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1295
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
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The Enrollment Effect of Secondary School Fees in Post-War Germany
This study utilizes the heterogeneity of the fee abolition for West German secondary schools to identify its effect on enrollment and to obtain an estimate of the price elasticity of demand for ...
(published as 'Effect of Secondary School Fees on Educational Attainment' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 147 - 176)
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I20, H52, H71, C21
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1294
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Frederic
Vermeulen
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A Collective Retirement Model: Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities
We study the labor supply dynamics of elderly couples by means of a structural collective model. The model allows for general externalities with respect to spouses' leisure. Preferences and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 159-167)
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D13, H31, J22, J26
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1293
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Joachim
Wagner
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Nascent Entrepreneurs
Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are engaged in creating new ventures. This chapter reviews the international evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who ...
(published in: Simon C. Parker (ed.), The Life Cycle of Entrepreneurial Ventures (International Handbook Series on Entrepreneurship, Vol. 3), New York: Springer 2006, 15-37)
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J23
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1292
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Alicia
Robb
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Why Are Black-Owned Businesses Less Successful than White-Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital
Four decades ago, Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan made the argument that the black family "was not strong enough to create those extended clans that elsewhere were most helpful for ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2007, 25 (2), 289-323)
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J15, J23
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