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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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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
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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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1061
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Thierry
Magnac
Jean-Marc
Robin
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The Dynamics of Local Employment in France
We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local
employment is decomposed into the product of the average plant size and the number of
plants in the area and industry. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 56 (2), 217-43)
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J21, C33, R23, J23
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1059
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Irwin
Collier
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Can Gerhard Schröder Do It? Prospects for Fundamental Reform of the German Economy and a Return to High Employment
The year 2003 has witnessed several major reform policy initiatives in Germany intended to
contribute to a solution to Germany's high unemployment problem and to improve the longrun
sustainability ...
(published in: David P. Conradt et al., A Precarious Victory: Schroeder and the German Elections of 2002, New York, Berghahn Books, 2005)
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J68, E65, O52
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1057
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Claude
Montmarquette
Jean-Louis
Rullière
Marie Claire
Villeval
Romain
Zeiliger
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Redesigning Teams and Incentives in a Merger: An Experiment with Managers and Students
After a merger, company officials face the challenge of making compensation schemes
uniform and of redesigning teams with managers from companies with different incentives,
work habits and ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2004, 50 (10), 1379-1389.)
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C81, C92, J33, M52
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1056
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Janet
Currie
Matthew
Neidell
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Air Pollution and Infant Health: What Can We Learn From California's Recent Experience?
We examine the impact of air pollution on infant death in California over the 1990s. Our work offers several innovations: First, many previous studies examine populations subject to far greater ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2004, 120 (3), 1003-1030)
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Q53, I12, I18
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1055
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Giorgio
Brunello
Francesca
Gambarotto
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Agglomeration Effects on Employer-Provided Training: Evidence from the UK
Recent empirical evidence suggests that the density of local economic activity – measured as
the number of employees per squared kilometer – positively affects local average
productivity. In this ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37 (1), 1-22)
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J24, R12
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1054
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Estimating the Smoothing Parameter in the So-Called Hodrick-Prescott Filter
This note gives a fairly complete statistical description of the Hodrick-Prescott Filter (1997)
which has been proposed in the context of my seasonal adjustment method (Schlicht 1981,
1984). A ...
(published in: Journal of the Japan Statistical Society, 2005, 35 (1), 99-119)
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C22
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1053
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Ronald
G.
Ehrenberg
Randy
A.
Ehrenberg
Christopher
L.
Smith
Liang
Zhang
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Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?
Our paper analyzes historical data for New York State on the percentage of school board
budget proposals that are defeated each year and panel data that we collected for individual
school districts ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2004, 26 (1), 111-125)
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I22, H71
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1052
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Giuseppe
Bertola
Winfried
Koeniger
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Consumption Smoothing and the Structure of Labor and Credit Markets
Smoother labor incomes alleviate credit constraints by reducing workers' desire to borrow,
and prospects of upward income mobility have smaller beneficial effects for currently poor
workers when ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (8), 1941-1958)
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E21, E24, E61
|
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1049
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Jan
Goebel
Edna
Schechtman
Gert
G.
Wagner
Shlomo
Yitzhaki
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Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience
A particular shortcoming of panel surveys is potential bias arising from selective attrition.
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) we analyze potential
artifacts (level, ...
(published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2006, 34 (4), 427-468)
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C81, D31, D63
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1046
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Samuel
Bentolila
Ana
Fernandes
Andrea
Ichino
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Job Insecurity and Children’s Emancipation
The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. We
present a theoretical model predicting that higher job security of parents and lower job
security of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (3), 1047-1071)
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J1, J2
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