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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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1278
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Alois
Stutzer
Bruno
S.
Frey
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Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox
People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labor or on the housing
market so that ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2007, 110 (2), 339 - 366)
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D12, D61, R41
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1277
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Almas
Heshmati
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The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation
This paper introduces two composite indices of globalisation. The first is based on the Kearney/Foreign Policy magazine and the second is obtained from principal component analysis. They indicate the ...
(published in: Nissanke and Thorbecke (eds.), The Impact of Globalization on the Worlds Poor, Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2006)
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C23, D63, F15, O57
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1274
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Daniela
Del Boca
Silvia
Pasqua
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Why Are Fertility and Women's Employment Rates So Low in Italy? Lessons from France and the U.K.
According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most ...
(published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (s1), 51-79)
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J2, C3, D1
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1273
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Axel
Heitmueller
Kirsty
Inglis
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Carefree? Participation and Pay Differentials for Informal Carers in Britain
A substantial proportion of working age individuals in Britain are looking after sick, disabled, and elderly people and combine work and caring responsibilities. Using the British Household Panel ...
(published as "The earnings of informal carers: Wage differentials and opportunity costs" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2007, 26 (4), 821-841)
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J70, J31, J40, C23
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1272
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Saul
Estrin
Klaus
Meyer
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Determinants of Employment Growth at MNEs: Evidence from Egypt, India, South Africa and Vietnam
Foreign investors are expected to contribute to economic development through a variety of channels. However, many foreign investment operations are small, and almost insignificant in their impact on ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2007, 49 (1), 61-80)
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O13, O33, J21, F23
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1271
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Almas
Heshmati
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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as ...
(published in: ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 2005, 5 (1), 7-52 )
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C10, D31, D63, I30, N30
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1270
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Matthias
Kräkel
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Emotions and Incentives
We introduce a concept of emotions that emerge when workers compare their own performance with a given standard or with the performances of co-workers. Assuming heterogeneity among the workers the ...
(published as 'Emotions in tournaments' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (1), 204 - 214)
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J3, M5
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1269
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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The More the Merrier? The Effect of Family Composition on Children's Education
Among the perceived inputs in the “production” of child quality is family size; there is an extensive theoretical literature that postulates a tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2005, 120 (2), 669-700)
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I2, J1
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1268
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Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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Labor Market Institutions, Wages, and Investment
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2005, 51 (1), 47-75)
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E22, E24, J23, J24, J31
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1267
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Almas
Heshmati
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The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality
This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in empirical analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with ...
(published as "The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality: A Review of the Economic Literature" in: Journal of World-Systems Research, 2006, 12 (1), 61-107)
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C10, D31, D63, I30, N30
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1265
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
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High Performance Workplace Practices and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from Europe
Using individual data from the European Survey on Working Conditions (ESWC) covering all EU member states, this study aimed at contributing to our understanding of the effects of
High Performance ...
(published in: RWI-Mitteilungen, 2003/2004, 54/55 (1), 57-85)
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J24, J5, L23, M11
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1264
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John
T.
Addison
Clive
R.
Belfield
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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey
This paper uses a combination of workplace and matched-employee workplace data from the British 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions and firm-provided training ...
(published as 'Unions, Training, and Firm Performance' in: Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 2007, 40 (4), 361-381)
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J24, J33, J51
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1263
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Almas
Heshmati
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, ...
(revised version published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2007)
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C10, D31, D63, I32, N30
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1262
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Aysit
Tansel
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Public-Private Employment Choice, Wage Differentials and Gender in Turkey
The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration, state owned enterprises and the formal private ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 53 (2), 453-477)
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J31, J45, J16
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1261
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Barry
Hirsch
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Why Do Part-Time Workers Earn Less? The Role of Worker and Job Skills
The wages of part-time workers are considerably lower than are those of full-time workers. Measurable worker and job characteristics, including occupational skill requirements, account for much of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2005, 58 (4), 525-551)
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J31, J24, J22
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1259
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Anders
Björklund
Donna
K.
Ginther
Marianne
Sundström
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Family Structure and Child Outcomes in the United States and Sweden
It is well known that children reared in non-intact families on average have less favorable educational outcomes than children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 183-201)
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J1, J12, I21
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1258
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Aysit
Tansel
H. Mehmet
Tasci
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Determinants of Unemployment Duration for Men and Women in Turkey
There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household
Labor Force Surveys ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Hazard Analysis of Unemployment Duration by Gender in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey' in: Labour, 2010, 24 (4), 501-530 )
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J64, C41, J16
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1257
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Jungmin
Lee
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Outlier Aversion in Evaluating Performance: Evidence from Figure Skating
The quality of subjective performance evaluation is dependent on the incentive structures faced by evaluators, in particular on how they are monitored and themselves evaluated. Figure skating ...
(published as 'Outlier Aversion in Subjective Evaluation: Evidence From World Figure Skating Championships' in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2008, 9 (2), 141-159)
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D7, M5
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1255
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Aysit
Tansel
Fatma
Bircan
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Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey
This is the first study on private tutoring in Turkey. Private tutoring especially for the purpose of preparing for the competitive university entrance examination is an important, widespread ...
(revised version published as 'Demand for education in Turkey: A tobit analysis of private tutoring expenditures' in: Economics of Education Review, 2006, 25, 303-313)
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I20, I21, I22, R20
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1254
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Gerrit
Mueller
Erik
Plug
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Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings
This paper uses the Five-Factor Model of personality structure as an organizing framework to explore the effects of personality on earnings. Using data from a longitudinal survey of American high ...
(published as 'Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male and Female Earnings ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 60 (1), 3-22)
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J16, J31
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