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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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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
|
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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1291
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Winfried
Koeniger
Marco
Leonardi
Luca
Nunziata
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Labour Market Institutions and Wage Inequality
In this paper we investigate the importance of labor market institutions such as unemployment insurance, unions, firing regulation and minimum wages for the evolution of wage inequality across ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2007, 60 (3), 340-356)
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E24, J31, J51, J65
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1290
|
Kirsten
Daniel
W. Stanley
Siebert
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Does Employment Protection Reduce the Demand for Unskilled Labor?
Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution – the inexperienced and the old – have more chance of job failure (mismatch). ...
(published in: International Economic Journal, 2005, 19 (2), 197-222)
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J21, J83
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1288
|
Monika
Merz
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Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany: The Role of Parental Leave
This paper investigates trends and changes in the structural composition of women’s weekly market hours worked in former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from the German micro census ...
(published in: R. Goméz-Salvador et al. (eds.), Labour Supply and Incentive to Work in Europe, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005)
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J13, J22
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1287
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Thomas
Fuchs
Ludger
Woessmann
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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? A Re-Examination Using PISA Data
We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2007, 32 (2-3), 433-464)
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I28, J24, H52, L33
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1286
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Maarten
Lindeboom
Eddy
van Doorslaer
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Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health
There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (6), 1083-1099)
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D30, D31, I10, I12
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1284
|
Ludger
Woessmann
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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States
This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 78 (1), 45-70)
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I21, J62, H52
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1282
|
Francois
Fontaine
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Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We ...
(published in: Recherches Économique de Louvain / Louvan Economic Reivew, 2008, 74 (1), 5-31)
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E24, J64, J68, Z13
|
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1281
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Doreen
Au
Thomas
F.
Crossley
Martin
Schellhorn
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The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians
Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2005, 14 (10), 999-1018)
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I12, J26
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1280
|
Pernilla
Andersson Joona
Eskil
Wadensjö
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Why Do Self-Employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden Have Such Low Incomes?
When studying income differences and income distribution, the self-employed are often excluded from the population studied. There are several good reasons for this, for example that incomes from ...
(published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2006, 48 (1-2), 43-71)
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J15, J23, J61
|
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1279
|
Vlad
Manole
Maurice
Schiff
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Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital
This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 281–294 )
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F11, F16, F22, J61
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