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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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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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1091
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Dean
R.
Hyslop
Steven
Stillman
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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth
workers in New Zealand since 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to
16-19 year-olds, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 201-230)
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J38, J22, J23, J24
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1089
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Sara
Lemos
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil
The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries.
This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the
informal ...
(published as: 'Minimum Wage Effects in a Developing Country' in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16(2), 224-237.)
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J38
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1088
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Sergiy
Pivnenko
Morton
Beiser
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The Economic Experiences of Refugees in Canada
Canada admits refugees on the basis of compassion and not economic criteria. It is however,
important to document the economic successes or failures among Canada’s refugee
population in order to ...
(published in: P. Waxman and V. Colic-Peisker (eds.), Homeland Wanted: Interdisciplinary Perspective on Refugee Settlement in the West, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2004)
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J61
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1087
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Mark
Gradstein
Maurice
Schiff
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The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy
Minorities, such as ethnic and immigration groups, have often been subject to exclusion
through labor market discrimination, residential and employment segregation policies,
business ownership ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 327-344)
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D74, H41, I20, J61
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1086
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Wage Mobility: Do Institutions Make a Difference? A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK
This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens
(2000) and progressing to discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework,
which is more ...
(fully revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (3), 387-404)
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J31, J60
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1085
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Karen
A.
Mumford
Peter
N.
Smith
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Job Tenure in Britain: Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects
We consider differences in current job tenure of individuals using linked employee and
workplace data. This enables us to distinguish between variation in tenure associated with
the characteristics ...
(revised version published in: Economica, 2004, 71 (282), 275-298)
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J2
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1084
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Ilham
Haouas
Mahmoud
Yagoubi
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Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence from Tunisia
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalization on labor demand elasticities.
Employment demand equation is estimated by using data (1971-1996) for manufacturing
industries in Tunisia. ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2008, 15 (4), 277-286)
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F10, F12, J23, L60
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1080
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Anders
Björklund
Bernt
Bratsberg
Tor
Eriksson
Markus
Jäntti
Oddbjørn
Raaum
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Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and Unobserved Ability: Siblings Evidence from Five Countries
This paper examines the role of unobserved ability in explaining inter-industry wage
differentials, drawing on data on brothers. Such data allow us to account for unmeasured
abilities due to common ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2007, 46 (1), 171-202)
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J31, J62
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1079
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Maia
Güell
Luojia
Hu
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Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using Uncompleted Spells from Repeated Cross-Section Data
This paper proposes a new econometric estimation method for analyzing the probability of
leaving unemployment using uncompleted spells from repeated cross-section data, which
can be especially ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2006, 133 (1), 307-341)
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C41, J64
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1074
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Fabian
Bornhorst
Simon
Commander
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Regional Unemployment and its Persistence in Transition Countries
We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries
and their persistence over time. We analyse the role various adjustment mechanisms play.
While movement ...
(published in: Economics of Tranistion and Institutional Change, 2006, 14 (2), 269-288)
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J61, P2
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1073
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Simon
Commander
János
Köllő
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The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill
content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition
has exerted a ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2008, 16 (2), 199-221. )
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J21, J23, J63, P31
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1072
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Sara
Lemos
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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices
It is well established in the international literature that minimum wage increases compress the
wages distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment,
reducing ...
(published as: 'A Survey of the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 187-212.)
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J38
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1071
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Sara
Lemos
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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil
There is very little empirical evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on prices in the
international literature and none whatsoever for developing countries. This paper estimates
the minimum ...
(published as: 'Anticipated Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices' in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38(3), 325-337.)
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J38
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1070
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Sara
Lemos
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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?
A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions.
Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables
on wages or ...
(published as: 'Comparing Employment Estimates Using Different Minimum Wage Variables: the case of Brazil' in: International Review of Applied Economic, 2009, 23(4), 405-425.)
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J38
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1069
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Sara
Lemos
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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from
developing countries. Brazil’s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the
Brazilian economy. ...
(published as 'Minimum Wage Policy and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil' in: Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2004, 5 (1), 219-266)
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J38
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1068
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
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Earnings Mobility Among Italian Low Paid Workers
This paper uses Italian panel data to analyse transition probabilities at the bottom of the
earnings distribution during the 1990s. The analytical framework is characterised by the
ability to ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 465-482)
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C23, C35, D31, J31
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1067
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents
This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe
during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of
measures: wage ...
(published in: Labor Markets and Institutions, Santiago: Central Bank of Chile 2005; 281-300)
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D3, E24, J3
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1066
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?
During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has
remained high in others. The paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of
recent ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004, 18 (4), 49-68)
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D7, E24, J6
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1063
|
Kalena
E.
Cortes
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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and
economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation.
The analysis uses the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86(2), 465-480)
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C81, F22, J24, J31
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1062
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Peter
Fredriksson
Per
Johansson
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Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data
This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of
treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that the duration framework in
discrete time ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 2008, 26 (4), 435–445)
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C14, C41
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