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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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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
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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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1204
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Anna
M.
Falzoni
Alessandra
Venturini
Claudia
Villosio
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Wage Differentials and International Trade in Italy Using Individual Micro Data 1991-1996
In this paper we use individual micro data on workers combined with industry and regional
data to study the dynamics of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers in
Italy in the ...
(published as 'Skilled and unskilled wage dynamics in Italy in the 1990s: changes in individual characteristics, institutions, trade and technology' in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2011, 25 (4), 441 – 463, )
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J31, F4, O33
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1203
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Armin
Falk
Michael
Kosfeld
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Distrust – The Hidden Cost of Control
We show experimentally that a principal’s distrust in the voluntary performance of an agent
has a negative impact on the agent’s motivation to perform well. Before the agent chooses
his ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (5), 1611 - 1630)
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C7, C9, M5
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1202
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Rafael
Lalive
Alois
Stutzer
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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms
on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens’
approval of an ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 933-962)
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I31, J16, J31, J70, Z13
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1199
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Peter J.
Sloane
Nigel
C.
O'Leary
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The Return to a University Education in Great Britain
In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, masters degrees and PhDs in
Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject
groups and more ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 193 (1), 75-89)
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I2, J0, J3
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1198
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John
S.
Earle
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Contract Violations, Neighborhood Effects, and Wage Arrears in Russia
We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback
arises because each employer’s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in
the same local ...
(revised version published as' Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation' in: Review of Economicss and Statistics, 2009, 91(4), 832 - 849)
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A12, B52, J30, K42, L14, O17, P31, P37
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1197
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Filipe
Almeida-Santos
Karen
A.
Mumford
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Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain
We use linked data for 1,460 workplaces and 19,853 employees from the Workplace
Employee Relations Survey 1998 to analyse the incidence and duration of employee training
in Britain. We find ...
(revised version published in: Manchester School, 2005, 73 (3), 321-342)
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J24, J31, J41
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1196
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Davide
Pettenuzzo
Allan
Timmermann
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Forecasting Time Series Subject to Multiple Structural Breaks
This paper provides a novel approach to forecasting time series subject to discrete structural
breaks. We propose a Bayesian estimation and prediction procedure that allows for the
possibility of ...
(published in Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 1057-1084)
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C11, C15, C53
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1195
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Panu
Poutvaara
Tuomas
Takalo
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Candidate Quality
We analyze the topical question of how the compensation of elected politicians affects the set
of citizens choosing to run. To this end, we develop a sparse and tractable citizen-candidate
model of ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2007, 14 (1), 7-27)
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D70, D72, D79, J24, J4
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1193
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Steffen
Huck
Andrew
Seltzer
Brian
Wallace
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Deferred Compensation and Gift Exchange: An Experimental Investigation into Multi-Period Labor Markets
This paper examines the relationship between firms’ wage offers and workers’ supply of effort
using a three-period experiment. In equilibrium, firms will offer deferred compensation: first
period ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 819-843)
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C91, J31, J41, M51, M52
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1192
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
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Job Protection: The Macho Hypothesis
This paper shows that employment protection is influenced by the male breadwinner
conception which is itself shaped by religions. First, by using international individual surveys,
we document that ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2006, 22 (3), 390-410)
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J16, J20, J71
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1191
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Tor
Eriksson
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Performance Pay – An Experiment on Incentives and Sorting
Variable pay not only creates a link between pay and performance but may also help firms in
attracting the more productive employees (Lazear 1986, 2000). However, due to lack of
natural data, ...
(revised version published as 'Performance-pay, sorting and social motivation ' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 68 (2), 412-421.)
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M52, J33, J31, C81, C91
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1190
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Bruno
Amable
Donatella
Gatti
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Labour and Product Market Reforms: A Case for Policy Complementarity
This paper is a contribution to the debate on policy complementarity in relation to
deregulation in the product and labour markets. We develop a model of dynamic efficiency
wages and monopolistic ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2006, 15(1), 101-122)
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E24, J41, J63, L13
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1189
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Gueorgui
Kambourov
Iourii
Manovskii
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Occupational Mobility and Wage Inequality
In this study we argue that wage inequality and occupational mobility are intimately related.
We are motivated by our empirical findings that human capital is occupation-specific and that
the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76 (2), 731-759)
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E20, E24, E25, J24, J31, J62
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1188
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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The Effect of Worker Representation on Employment Behavior in Germany: Another Case of -2.5%
Despite recent changes in the relationship between unionism and various indicators of firm
performance, there is one seeming constant in the Anglophone countries: unions at the
workplace are ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2006, 45 (1), 1-25)
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J23, J51
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1187
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Manuela
Angelucci
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Aid and Migration: An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration
This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering
alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially
constrained households. ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2012, 26(1), 124-136)
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I38, J18, J16, O15
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1185
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Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus. First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries
document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from
the same industry ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Do exporters really pay higher wages? First evidence from linked employer-employee data' in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72 (1), 52-74)
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F10, D21, L60
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1184
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Juhana
Vartiainen
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Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion on a Complexity Ladder of Jobs
This paper studies gender differences in the allocation of workers across jobs of different
complexity using panel data on Finnish metalworkers. These data provide a measure for the
complexity of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (2), 285-301)
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J0, J7
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1182
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Belton
M.
Fleisher
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
Xiaojun
Wang
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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from
planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries,
Russia, and China. We use ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (2), 351-370)
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J31, J24, O15, P2, P3, P5
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1181
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Milan
Vodopivec
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How Changes in Benefits Entitlement Affect Job-Finding: Lessons from the Slovenian "Experiment"
In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential
duration of unemployment benefits substantially and simultaneously improved employment
services offered ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (2), 351-378)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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1176
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Bas
van der Klaauw
Aico
van Vuuren
Peter
Berkhout
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Labor Market Prospects, Search Intensity and the Transition from College to Work
In this paper we develop a structural model for job search behavior of students entering the
labor market. The model includes endogenous search effort and on-the-job search. Since
students usually ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (2), 294-316)
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C41, I20, J64
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1175
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Stefan
Boes
Rainer
Winkelmann
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Income and Happiness: New Results from Generalized Threshold and Sequential Models
Empirical studies on the relationship between income and happiness commonly use standard
ordered response models, the most well-known representatives being the ordered logit and
the ordered probit. ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2010, 95 (1), 111-128)
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C25, I31
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1174
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Steve
Bond
Leblebicioglu
Asli
Fabio
Schiantarelli
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Capital Accumulation and Growth: A New Look at the Empirical Evidence
We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher
growth rate of output per worker, not only temporarily, but also in the steady state. These
results are found ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2010, 5 (7), 1073-1099)
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C23, E22, O40
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1173
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Giorgio
Brunello
Maria
De Paola
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Training and the Density of Economic Activity: Evidence from Italy
We use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between
training and local economic conditions. We identify two aspects of this relationship going in
opposite ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (1), 118-140)
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J24, R12
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1172
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Etienne
Lehmann
Bruno
Van der Linden
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On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse
This paper revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when
homogeneous workers have concave utility functions and wages are bargained over. The
optimal allocation of resources ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007, 9 (5), 867-884)
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J64, J65, J68, H21, D82
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1171
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Gerd
Muehlheusser
Andreas
Roider
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Black Sheep and Walls of Silence
In this paper we analyze the frequently observed phenomenon that (i) some members of a
team ("black sheep") exhibit behavior disliked by other (honest) team members, who (ii)
nevertheless refrain ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 65 (3-4), 387-408)
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D82, C73
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1170
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Francis
Kramarz
Marie-Laure
Michaud
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The Shape of Hiring and Separation Costs
In this article, we estimate the structure of costs of hiring, terminating, and retiring employees
in France. We use a representative panel data set of French establishments that contains
direct ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 27-37)
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J30, D21
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1167
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Pramod
N. (Raja)
Junankar
Satya
Paul
Wahida
Yasmeen
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Are Asian Migrants Discriminated Against in the Labour Market? A Case Study of Australia
This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian
labour market using a unique panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to
Australia (LSIA). This ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2010, 55 (4), 619-646)
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J7, J61, J64, J31
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1166
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
Eskil
Wadensjö
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Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment
In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making ...
(published in: Labour, 2008, 22(3), 495-507)
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J15, J23, J40, J61
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1165
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Miguel
Portela
Rob
Alessie
Coen
Teulings
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads
to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error
on GDP ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2010, 112(3), 618-639)
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I2, O4
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1163
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Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment Duration and the Subsequent Employment Stability
This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and
subsequent employment duration using individual data from the European Community
Household Panel, for France, Germany, ...
(substantially revised version appeared as DP No. 2280)
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J64, J65, C41
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1162
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Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction
In this paper we compare the new satisfaction evaluation approach, developed in the nineties
by Oswald, Clark, Blanchflower and others with the older income evaluation (IEQ) approach,
developed by ...
(published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), Economics and Happiness. Framing the Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2005)
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C24, C25, D31, H31, I31, I39
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1160
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T. H.
Gindling
Katherine
Terrell
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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization
This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of
workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes
in minimum wages ...
(published in: Michigan Journal of International Law, 2004, 26(1), 245-269)
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J23, J31, J38
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1159
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T. H.
Gindling
Katherine
Terrell
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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours
worked and monthly earnings among workers covered by minimum wage legislation as well
as those for whom it ...
(revised version published as 'The effects of multiple minimum wages throughout the labor market: The case of Costa Rica ' in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 485-511)
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J23, J31, J38
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1158
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Ralitza
Dimova
Ira
N.
Gang
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Self-Selection and Earnings During Volatile Transition
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores
determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector
employment and ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (3), 612-629 )
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J21, J23, J31
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1157
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Leonor
Modesto
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Unions, Firing Costs and Unemployment
In this paper we conduct an analysis of the effects of firing costs in models that consider
simultaneously worker heterogeneity, imperfect information on their productivity and union
power. We ...
(published in: Labour, 2008, 22 (3), 509 - 546)
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D83, E24, J65
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1156
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Brahim
Boudarbat
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Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada
In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college
students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who
successfully ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2008, 27 (1), 79-93)
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J24, J31
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1154
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Barry
Hirsch
Edward
J.
Schumacher
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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets
The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of "classic" monopsony, while a "new" monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upward-sloping for reasons ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2005, 24 (5), 969-989)
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J42, I10, J30
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1152
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Armin
Falk
Markus
Knell
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Choosing the Joneses: Endogenous Goals and Reference Standards
A growing economic literature stresses the importance of relative comparisons, e.g., for savings and consumption or happiness. In this literature it is usually assumed that reference standards ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (3), 417-435)
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D62, D63, H31, Z13
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1150
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
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The Wealth of Mexican Americans
This paper analyzes the sources of disparities in the relative wealth position of Mexican
Americans. Results reveal that wealth gaps are in large part not the result of differences in
conditional ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41 (4), 841-868)
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J61, G11, J10
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1149
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Identity and Racial Harassment
In a 1996 survey of U.S. military personnel, more than 65 percent experienced racially
offensive behavior, and approximately one-in-ten reported threatening incidents or careerrelated
racial ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 66(3-4), 529-557)
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J15, J70, J81
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