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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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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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1253
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Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Geographic Labour Mobility and Unemployment Insurance in Europe
Conventional wisdom suggests that unemployment benefits create a stronger geographic attachment by lowering the willingness of the unemployed to accept job offers. We assess empirically the effect of ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22(2), 267-283)
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J61, J65, C23, C25
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1251
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Kenneth
Troske
Alexandru
Voicu
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Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques
In this paper we estimate the causal effect of children on the labor supply of women using panel data on women from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). We examine the effect of ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 150-169)
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C11, C15, J13, J22
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1250
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Jungmin
Lee
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Observable and Unobservable Household Sharing Rules: Evidence from Young Couples' Pocket Money
The leading evidence against the unitary household models is that "who gets what" is
significantly dependent upon "who earns how much." However, it is difficult to pin down the
causal effect of ...
(published as 'Marriage, the Sharing Rule, and Pocket Money: The Case of South Korea' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (3), 557-582)
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D1, J1
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1249
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Alexander
Hijzen
Holger
Görg
Robert
C.
Hine
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International Outsourcing and the Skill Structure of Labour Demand in the United Kingdom
This paper investigates empirically the link between international outsourcing and the skill
structure of labour demand in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for
the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (506), 860-878)
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F14, J31
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1248
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Marco
Francesconi
Wilbert
van der Klaauw
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The Consequences of ‘In-Work’ Benefit Reform in Britain: New Evidence from Panel Data
In October 1999, the British government enacted the Working Families’ Tax Credit, a
generous tax credit aimed at encouraging work among low-income families with children.
This paper uses ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2007, 42 (1), 1-31 )
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C23, H31, I38, J12, J13, J22
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1247
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Milan
Vodopivec
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A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy
The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor
force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan
scheme to partly ...
(published in: Higher Education, 2009, 57 (4), 429-448)
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I28, C15, J24
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1246
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages
This paper develops a scalar or quantitative measure of the “distance” between English and
a myriad of other (non-native American) languages. This measure is based on the difficulty
Americans have ...
(published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11)
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I29, J15, J24
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1245
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Fernando
Galindo-Rueda
Anna
Vignoles
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The Heterogeneous Effect of Selection in Secondary Schools: Understanding the Changing Role of Ability
Previous work by the authors suggested that during the 1970s and 1980s, a person’s early
cognitive ability became a less important determinant of his or her eventual educational
achievement. ...
(published in: P. Peterson and L. Woessmann (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT Press: 2007)
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I2
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1244
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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The Influence of Others on Migration Plans
The willingness to migrate and locational choice may be influenced by others’ choices or
plans, particularly if the “other people”, such as family and friends, are migrants, former
migrants, or ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2006, 10 (4), 652 - 665)
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F22, J61
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1242
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Josef
Falkinger
Volker
Grossmann
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Institutions and Development: The Interaction between Trade Regime and Political System
This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution
of political power has been a major determinant of the comparatively slow development of
resource- or ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2005, 10 (3), 229-270)
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O10, N10, N16, F43, H50
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1241
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Marloes
Zijl
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Arjan
Heyma
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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed: The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work
Transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from
temporary into regular work. This paper investigates whether temporary work increases the
transition rate ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 107-139)
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J64, C41
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1240
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
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General Diagnostic Tests for Cross Section Dependence in Panels
This paper proposes simple tests of error cross section dependence which are applicable to
a variety of panel data models, including stationary and unit root dynamic heterogeneous
panels with short ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2021, 60, 13–50)
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C12, C13, C33
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1239
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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Rationalizing Boundedly Rational Choice: Sequential Rationalizability and Rational Shortlist Methods
A sequentially rationalizable choice function is a choice function which can be obtained by
applying sequentially a fixed set of asymmetric binary relations (rationales). A Rational
ShortlistMethod ...
(published as "Sequentially Rationalizable Choice" in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (5), 1824-1839)
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D0
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1237
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Who Is the Enemy?
We examine who benefits when there is a strong leader in place, and those who benefit
when a situation lacks a proper leader. There are fractious terrorist groups who seek to serve
the same people ...
(published in: Defense and Peace Economics, 2007, 18 (6), 469–484)
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D71, D72, D74
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1236
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Cheng
Hsiao
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Random Coefficient Panel Data Models
This paper provides a review of linear panel data models with slope heterogeneity, introduces
various types of random coefficients models and suggest a common framework for dealing
with them. It ...
(published in: L. Mátyás and P. Sevestre (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data, Springer 2008 (3rd ed.))
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C12, C13, C33
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1235
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Christian
Dustmann
John
Micklewright
Arthur
van Soest
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In-School Work Experience, Parental Allowances, and Wages
In many industrialised countries, teenagers have a significant spending power, and they are
important customers for specialised industries. The income of teenagers still in full time
education ...
(published under revised title in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 201-218)
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J22, C7, C35
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1234
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Amelie
F.
Constant
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Immigrant versus Native Businesswomen: Proclivity and Performance
Career positions in German economic life are still male-dominated, and the driving forces
behind success are not yet well understood. This paper contributes to a better understanding
by classifying ...
(substantially revised version published in: Kyklos, 2006, 59 (4), 465-480)
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J23, M13, J15, J16, J24, J61, J31
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1232
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Ethnic Networks and International Trade
There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic
networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal ...
(published in: Foders, Federico and Langhammer, Rolf J. (eds), Labor Mobility and the World Economy. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg 2006, 85-103)
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D74, F23, I20, J61, L14
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1231
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2004, 6 (2), 185-197)
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J15, J61, R21
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1230
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Jeffrey
G.
Williamson
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe
The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s.
And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000
per annum to half ...
(published in: D. Snower (ed.) Labour Mobility and the World Economy, Kiel: Kiel Institute for World Economics, 2005)
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F22, J61, J68, O19
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1229
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Axel
Engellandt
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Incentive Effects of Bonus Payments: Evidence from an International Company
This study uses panel data describing about 6,500 employees in a large international
company to study the incentive effects of performance related pay. The company uses two
performance related ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (2), 241-257)
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J33, M12, J24, J41, M50, C25
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1228
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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A Vague Theory of Choice over Time
We propose a novel approach to modelling time preferences, based on a cognitive
shortcoming of human decision makers: the perception of future events becomes
increasingly ‘blurred’ as the events ...
(published in:B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Advances in Theoretical Economics , 2006, 6 (1), 1265-1265)
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A12, C70, D90
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1227
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Ira
N.
Gang
Gil
S.
Epstein
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Understanding the Development of Fundamentalism
We use economic theory to examine the intensity of fundamentalist sects. Leaders work to
enhance their followers’ observance level. We model three stylized situations under which
fundamentalist ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2007, 132 (3-4), 257-271)
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Z12, D72, D74
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1226
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Noyna
DebBurman
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Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation
There has been minimal research on the pre-school enrollment of immigrant children. Using
1990 U.S. Census data, this paper investigates pre-school enrollment of child immigrants,
those who ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2006, 35 (1), 60-87)
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I21, J15, J13
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1225
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Sarit
Cohen Goldner
Zvi
Eckstein
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Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants
Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We
address this question in the context of female immigrants who first learn the new language
and then choose ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 156 (1), 86-105)
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J31, J68
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1224
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Maristella
Botticini
Zvi
Eckstein
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Jewish Occupational Selection: Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to
explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled
occupations. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65 (4), 922-948)
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J10, J20, N30, O10
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1223
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Gianluca
Grimalda
Marco
Vivarelli
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One or Many Kuznets Curves? Short and Long Run Effects of the Impact of Skill-Biased Technological Change on Income Inequality
We draw on a dynamical two-sector model and on a calibration exercise to study the impact
of a skill-biased technological shock on the growth path and income distribution of a
developing economy. ...
(published in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2010, 20 (2), 265-306)
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O33, O41
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1222
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David
L.
Dickinson
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Does Monitoring Decrease Work Effort? The Complementarity Between Agency and Crowding-Out Theories
Agency theory assumes that tighter monitoring by the principal should motivate the agent to
raise his effort level whereas the “crowding-out” literature suggests that it may reduce the
overall work ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2008, 63 (1), 56-76.)
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M5, J24, C92
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1221
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Almas
Heshmati
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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality
This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches
to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit
characteristics. ...
(revised version published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 27-48)
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C10, D31, I32, N30
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1220
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Maarten
van Ham
Felix
Büchel
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Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
We analyze the effects of regional structures on females’ willingness to work as well as on
the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job
search. ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (4), 363 - 378)
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R23, J13, J64
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1219
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Almas
Heshmati
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Inequalities and Their Measurement
This paper is a review of the recent advances in the measurement of inequality. Inequality
can have several dimensions. Economists are mostly concerned with the income and
consumption dimensions of ...
(published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 11-25)
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D31, I30, N30
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1218
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Bruce
Headey
Ruud
Muffels
Mark
Wooden
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Money Doesn’t Buy Happiness… Or Does It? A Reconsideration Based on the Combined Effects of Wealth, Income and Consumption
The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that economic well-being
has a statistically significant but only weak effect on happiness/subjective well-being (SWB).
This view is ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2008, 87(1), 65-82. )
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D19, D31, I31
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1217
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
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Immigration Policy: Methods of Economic Assessment
This paper outlines a set of economic criteria to assess an immigrant receiving country’s
immigration policy from three perspectives. These three perspectives include the resident
population, the ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 390-418)
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J68
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1216
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among
immigrants by explicitly incorporating dynamics among family members – mother, father and
children. ...
(published as 'Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (3), 243-268)
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J15, J16, J24, J61
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1215
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Yann
Bramoullé
Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Social Networks and Labor Market Transitions
We study the influence of social networks on labor market transitions. We develop the first
model where social ties and job status coevolve through time. Our key assumption is that the
probability ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 188-195)
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E24, J6, Z13
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1213
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Michael
Fertig
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The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany
This paper investigates whether and to what extent immigrants in Germany are integrated
into German society by utilizing a variety of qualitative information and subjective data
collected in the ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang. (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 375-400)
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J15, J61
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1209
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Jörgen
Hansen
Roger
Wahlberg
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Poverty Persistence in Sweden
This paper analyzes the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based
on multiple spells. The model also accounts for unobserved heterogeneity and possibly
endogenous initial ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty and its Persistence: A Comparison of Natives and Immigrants in Sweden' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2009, 7 (2), 105-132)
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C23, C41, D31, I32, J15, J61
|
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1208
|
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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On the Negative Relationship between Labor Income Uncertainty and Homeownership: Risk Aversion vs. Credit Constraints
Barriers to homeownership have traditionally been an important research and policy issue. In
particular, the role of income volatility and credit constraints have been one of the main
focuses in ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2005, 14 (2), 109-126)
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D1, R0, J0
|
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1206
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Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
Daniela
Vuri
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Does Parental Divorce Affect Adolescents' Cognitive Development? Evidence from Longitudinal Data
In this paper we analyse data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 to
investigate whether experiencing parental divorce during adolescence reduces measured
cognitive ability. To ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 69(3), 321-338)
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J12
|
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1205
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Michael
Fertig
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The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers – An Evaluation Study for Saxony
This paper investigates whether and to what extent employment policy measures (co-)
financed by the European Social Fund in Germany meet their objective. Specifically, it is
analyzed whether ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2007, 39 (18), 2279–2301)
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H43, J68
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