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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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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
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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
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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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1114
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Alessandro
Cigno
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The Supply of Child Labour
The paper develops a theoretical framework, and a diagrammatic apparatus, for explaining
the supply of child labour. It examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as
more than ...
(edited version published as Chapter 2 of: A. Cigno and F. C. Rosati (eds.), The Economics of Child Labour, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005)
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D13, I12, J13, J22, J24, J82, O12
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1111
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Emilia
Del Bono
Daniela
Vuri
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New Mothers' Labour Force Participation in Italy: The Role of Job Characteristics
In this paper we use newly available individual-level data from the Longitudinal Survey of
Italian Households to investigate the factors affecting female labour force participation after
the birth ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (s1), 79–121)
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J13, J21, J23, O17, C3
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1110
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Gueorgui
Kambourov
Iourii
Manovskii
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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993
We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period
at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall
increase in ...
(revised version published as 'Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States, 1968 - 97' in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (1), 41-79)
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E20, J21, J24, J44, J45, J62, J63
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1109
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Karen
A.
Mumford
Peter
N.
Smith
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The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain
The earnings gap between male and female employees is substantial and persistent. Using
new data for Britain, this paper shows that an important contribution to this gap is made by
the workplace in ...
(revised version published as 'The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain: Including the Workplace' in: Manchester School, 2007, 75 (6), 653-672)
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J3, J7
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1108
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Allan
Timmermann
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Real Time Econometrics
This paper considers the problems facing decision makers using econometric models in real
time. It identifies the key stages involved and highlights the role of automated systems in
reducing the ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2005, 21 (1), 212-231)
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C51, C52, C53
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1107
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Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
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The Diffusion of Computers and the Distribution of Wages
When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increased
productivity, output per worker increases immediately, while the productivity benefits increase
only gradually if the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 715-748)
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J31, O15, O33
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1106
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Holger
Bonin
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Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes: Ein Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung?
Die Lockerung des Kündigungsschutzes ist ein wesentliches Element der im Januar 2004 in
Deutschland in Kraft gesetzten Arbeitsmarktreformen. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert die hiervon zu
erwartenden ...
(published in: R. Zwengel (ed.), Gesellschaftliche Perspektiven: Jahrbuch der Hessischen Gesellschaft für Demokratie und Ökologie, 2004, 5, 55-71)
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J23, J38, K31
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1105
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Stefan
Bender
Holger
Bonin
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments
Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of
variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment
dynamics in small ...
(published in: Economica, 2007, 74 (296), 804-821)
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J21, J23, J58
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1104
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Peder
J.
Pedersen
Mariola
Pytlikova
Nina
Smith
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Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000
Recent migration patterns show growing migration pressure and changing composition of
immigrants in many Western countries. During the latest decade, an increasing proportion of
the OECD immigrants ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1160-1186)
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J61, F22, O15
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1103
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Janet
Currie
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The Take-Up of Social Benefits
This paper offers a review of recent literature regarding the take up of social programs in the
U.S. and U.K. A few general conclusions are drawn: First, take up is enhanced by automatic
or default ...
(published in: A.J. Auerbach et al. (eds), Public policy and the income distribution, New York: Russel Sage, 2006)
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I38
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1102
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Solomon
Polachek
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
This paper explores secular changes in women’s pay relative to men’s pay. It shows how the
human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work
expectations become ...
(published in: F. Blau, M. Brinton, and D. Grusky, (eds.) The Declining Significance of Gender?, New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006)
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J1, J2, J3, J7
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1101
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Arnaud
Chevalier
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Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates
Focussing on recent UK graduates, a wage gap of 12% is found. The unexplained
component of the gap is small and a large fraction of the gap can be explained by subject
choice, job characteristics, ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 69 (6), 819-842)
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J16, J13, J29, J70
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1100
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Armin
Falk
Rafael
Lalive
Josef
Zweimüller
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The Success of Job Applications: A New Approach to Program Evaluation
In this paper, we suggest a novel approach to program evaluation that allows identification of
the causal effect of a training program on the likelihood of being invited to a job interview
under ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (6), 739-748)
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I38, C93
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1099
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Michael
Fertig
Jochen
Kluve
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A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany
Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor
market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of
unemployment. To ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2004, 55, 83-112)
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J0
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1098
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Libertad
González
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Nonparametric Bounds on the Returns to Language Skills
This paper applies the theoretical literature on nonparametric bounds on treatment effects to
the estimation of how limited English proficiency (LEP) affects wages and employment
opportunities for ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (6), 771-795)
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C14, J24, J31
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1097
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Libertad
González
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Single Mothers and Work
Western countries differ greatly in the extent to which single mothers participate in the labor
market. Using LIS data for 15 countries, I propose and estimate a simple structural model of
labor ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2004, 2 (2), 285-313)
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J52, J12, I38
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1096
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Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
Barbara
E.
Baarsma
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Using Happiness Surveys to Value Intangibles: The Case of Airport Noise
Inhabitants of houses near Amsterdam Airport are complaining of noise nuisance, caused by
aircraft traffic. The usual assumption is that the effect of the externality will be perfectly
reflected by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (500), 224-246)
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D62, D61, H23, L93, C25
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1095
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Markus
Frölich
Michael
Lechner
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Regional Treatment Intensity as an Instrument for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies
The effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) on individual employment chances and
earnings are evaluated by nonparametric instrumental variables based on Swiss
administrative data with ...
(substantially revised version published as IZA DP 2144)
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C14, J68
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1093
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Christopher
R.
Bollinger
Amitabh
Chandra
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Iatrogenic Specification Error: A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data
In empirical research it is common practice to use sensible rules of thumb for cleaning data.
Measurement error is often the justification for removing (trimming) or recoding ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (2), 235-257)
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C1, J1
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1092
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Steven
Stillman
Duncan
Thomas
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The Effect of Economic Crises on Nutritional Status: Evidence from Russia
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to examine
the relationship between nutritional status and both longer-run household resources and
short-run fluctuations ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (531), 1385–1417)
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D12, I12, O12, P36
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