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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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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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1148
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Armin
Falk
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Charitable Giving as a Gift Exchange: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This study reports data from a field experiment that was conducted to investigate the
relevance of gift-exchange for charitable giving. Roughly 10,000 solicitation letters were sent
to potential ...
(revised version published as 'Gift Exchange in the Field' in: Econometrica, 2007, 75 (5), 1501-1511)
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C93, D63, H41
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1147
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Raul
Eamets
Jaan
Masso
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Labour Market Flexibility and Employment Protection Regulation in the Baltic States
There is increasing pressure for the flexibility of labour markets both in current EU member
states and candidate countries. The paper aims to estimate the strictness of employment
protection ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2005, 11 (1), 71-90)
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J23, J32, J8, K31
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1146
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Joshua
Angrist
Victor
Lavy
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The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards: Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial
In many countries, college-bound high school seniors must pass a test or series of tests. In
Israel, this requirement is known as the “Bagrut”, or matriculation certificate, obtained by
passing a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99 (4), 1384-1414)
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I21, I28, C93
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1145
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Charles
Bellemare
Sabine
Kröger
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On Representative Social Capital
This paper analyzes data for a random sample drawn from the Dutch population who reveal
their propensity to invest and reward investments in building up social capital by means of an
economic ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (1), 183-202)
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Z13, C90, C10
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1144
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Reamonn
Lydon
Ian
Walker
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Welfare-to-Work, Wages and Wage Growth
This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme that acts as a wage subsidy on wage growth by exploiting an expansion to this welfare programme in the UK. The conventional ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2005, 26 (3), 335–370)
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J30, I38
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1143
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Hans
Gersbach
Amihai
Glazer
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High Compensation Creates a Ratchet Effect
We consider a firm which pays a worker for his effort over several periods. The more the firm
pays in one period, the wealthier the worker is in the following periods, and so the more he
must be ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (539), 1208 - 1224)
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D80, J30, J60
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1141
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Accounting for Income Distribution Trends: A Density Function Decomposition Approach
This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using
subgroup decompositions of the income density function. Overall changes are related to
changes in subgroup ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3(1), 43–61)
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C14, D31, D33
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1140
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Francesco
Pastore
Alina
Verashchagina
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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus
This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of
the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is
atypical for a ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48 (3), 351-376)
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D31, J31, P2
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1139
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Anna Maria
Ferragina
Francesco
Pastore
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Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade: Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?
This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in
cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The
hypotheses are those ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2005, 43 (1), 5-33)
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F10, J30, P23
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1138
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Martin
Biewen
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Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status: Are There Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?
Using a sample of prime-aged men from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this
paper examines the effects of past poverty experience on future poverty status, future
employment status and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (7) 1095-1116 )
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C33, D31, I32, J12
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1137
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Truman
Bewley
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Fairness, Reciprocity, and Wage Rigidity
This paper contains a review of empirical work related to wage rigidity, where researchers
have collected their own data. The work includes field studies, economic experiments, and
psychological ...
(published in: H. Gintis et al. (eds), Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life, Cambridge: MIT Press 2005; P. Diamond & H. Vartianen (eds), Behavioral Economics and Its Applications, Princeton University Press, 2007 )
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E32, J31
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1136
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Sara
Lemos
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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage
Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the
literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative
effects ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2005, 4 (1), Art.16)
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J38
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1135
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Sara
Lemos
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices
This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the
minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects
prevalent in the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 397-413)
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J38
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1134
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Joachim
Wagner
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What a Difference a Y Makes: Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany
In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in
entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult
population in Germany ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2007, 28 (1), 1-21)
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J23
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1133
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Tito
Boeri
Michael
C.
Burda
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Preferences for Rigid versus Individualized Wage Setting in Search Economies with Frictions
Firing frictions and renegotiation costs affect worker and firm preferences for rigid wages
versus individualized Nash bargaining in a standard model of equilibrium unemployment, in
which workers ...
(revised version published as 'Preferences for Collective Versus Individualised Wage Setting' in: Economic Journal, 2008, 119 (540), 1440-1463)
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J5, J6, D7
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1132
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Sher
Verick
Wilko
Letterie
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock
The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is
assumed to be separated into various regimes. Using German establishment-level panel
data, we estimate a ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (3), 263-280)
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E22, C23, C24
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1128
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Jens
Suedekum
Uwe
Blien
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Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany
We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model
from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a
highly disaggregated ...
(published as 'Stimulating employment growth with higher wages? A new approach to address an old controversy' in: Kyklos, 2007, 60 (3), 441-467)
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J23, E24, R11
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1127
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Xavier
Raurich
Hector
Sala
Valeri
Sorolla
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Unemployment, Growth and Fiscal Policy: New Insights on the Hysteresis Hypothesis
We develop a growth model with unemployment due to imperfections in the labor market. In
this model, wage inertia and balanced budget rules cause a complementarity between capital
and employment ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2006, 10 (3), 285-316)
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E24, E62, O41
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1126
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Matthias
Göcke
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Real Options Effects on Employment: Does Exchange Rate Uncertainty Matter for Aggregation?
In a baseline micro model a band of inaction due to hiring- and firing-costs is widened by
option value effects of exchange rate uncertainty. Based on this micro foundation an
aggregation approach ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (2), 185-203)
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J23, F41, D81
|
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1125
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Tomer
Blumkin
Yoram
Margalioth
Efraim
Sadka
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On Vertically Challenged and Horizontal Equity – Reassessing Anti-Discrimination Rules
We consider a model of prejudice-driven discrimination, where the advantaged 'tall'
discriminate against the disadvantaged 'short'. We employ an egalitarian social welfare
function to compare ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2007, 91 (5-6), 1167-1176)
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H2, D6
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1124
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Rob
Euwals
Maurice
Hogerbrugge
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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand
Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of
part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD
countries. Women ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (3), 533-557)
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C33, J21, J23
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1123
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Vicente
Cuñat
Maria
Guadalupe
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Executive Compensation and Competition in the Banking and Financial Sectors
This paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages
that firms offer to their executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to
performance. ...
(published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2009, 33 (3), 495-504)
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M52, L1, J31
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1122
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Edwin
Leuven
Mikael
Lindahl
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Dinand
Webbink
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The Effect of Extra Funding for Disadvantaged Pupils on Achievement
This paper evaluates the effects of two subsidies targeted at disadvantaged pupils in the
Netherlands. The first scheme gives primary schools with at least 70 percent minority pupils
extra funding ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (4), 721-736)
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I21, I28, J24
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1121
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Erdal
Tekin
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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers
This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint
employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which
places a high ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2005, 89 (1), 1-6)
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J13, I38
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1120
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches
This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of
NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and
statistically ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2006, 7 (2), 119-149)
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J71, J44, J15, J63
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1119
|
David
Card
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Is the New Immigration Really So Bad?
This paper reviews the recent evidence on U.S. immigration, focusing on two key questions:
(1) Does immigration reduce the labor market opportunities of less-skilled natives? (2) Have
immigrants ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (507), F300-F323)
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J61
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1118
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James
Banks
Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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International Comparisons of Work Disability
Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different
wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions
are ...
(published in: David Cutler and David Wise (eds.), Health at Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly, University of Chicago Press, 2008, 251-294)
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J28, I12, C81
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1117
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Reinhard
Hujer
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Christopher
Zeiss
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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany
This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of
unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the
Federal Employment Office. ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv / Journal of the German Statistical Society, 2006, 90 (2), 299-321)
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J64, J24, I28, J68
|
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1116
|
Alessandro
Cigno
Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Furio
C.
Rosati
Daniela
Vuri
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Is There Such a Thing as a Family Constitution? A Test Based on Credit Rationing
The paper aims to ascertain whether voluntary money transfers may be explained by the
existence of self-enforcing family constitutions. We identify a circumstance in which an agent
will behave ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2006, 4, 183 - 204)
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D13, J13, J14
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1115
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Anna Maria
Mayda
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Who Is Against Immigration? A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes
toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets
used, covering a ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (3), 510-530)
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F22, F1, J61
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