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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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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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1045
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Stephan
Meier
Alois
Stutzer
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Is Volunteering Rewarding in Itself?
Volunteering constitutes one of the most important pro-social activities. Following Adam
Smith, helping others is the way to higher individual well-being. This view contrasts with the
selfish ...
(published in: Economica, 2008, 75 (297), 39-59)
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D64, I31, J22, Z13
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1043
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Friedrich
Schneider
Robert
Klinglmair
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Shadow Economies around the World: What Do We Know?
Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110
developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow
economy (in ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21 (3), 598-642)
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O17, O5, D78, H2, H11, H26
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1041
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Claudio
Lucifora
Dominique
Meurs
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The Public Sector Pay Gap in France, Great Britain and Italy
We investigate public-private pay determination using French, British and Italian microdata.
While traditional methods focus on parametric methods to estimate the public sector pay gap,
in this ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 52(1), 43-59)
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J31, J45, C14
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1040
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Xavier
Chojnicki
Frédéric
Docquier
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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States – A Generational Accounting Perspective
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the
US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and
disaggregate them ...
(published in: Economica, 2007, 47 (294), 329-350)
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E62, H6, J24
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1039
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Matthias
Göcke
Martin
Hebler
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Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union: Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs
With the extension of its competence for social policy legislation in the Maastricht and
Amsterdam treaties, the EU has adopted a significantly new social dimension in the past ten
years. According ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2005, 27 (3), 345-354)
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D81, J23, P26
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1038
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Ralph
Setzer
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Exchange Rate Volatility and Employment Growth: Empirical Evidence from the CEE Economies
According to the traditional 'optimum currency area' approach, not much will be lost from a
very hard peg to a currency union if there has been little reason for variations in the
exchange rate. ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2003, 34 (3), 267-292)
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F36, J32, P27
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1037
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Orley
Ashenfelter
Michael
Greenstone
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Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life: The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased
estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the
context of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (2), 454-460)
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J17, C8, H43, I18, R4
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1036
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture
of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households
over the life ...
(revised version published as "Family labor supply, taxation and saving in an imperfect capital market" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 297-323)
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D13, D91, H31, J2
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1035
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N. Anders
Klevmarken
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Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work
Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to
level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to
estimate a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 55-73)
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J22, C81, C39
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1034
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Maarten
van Ham
Felix
Büchel
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Unwilling or Unable? Spatial, Institutional and Socio-Economic Restrictions on Females' Labor Market Access
We analyze the effects of regional structures on both females’ willingness to work and the
probability of being employed for those willing to work. Special permission was granted to link
regional ...
(published in: [Regional Studies], 2006, 40(3), 1-12)
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R23, J13, J21, J64
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1033
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Rainald
Borck
Michael
P.
Pflüger
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Agglomeration and Tax Competition
Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography settings'
compared to standard tax competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the
mobile factor in the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 647-668)
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F15, F22, H73, R12
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1032
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Bruce
Headey
Mark
Wooden
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The Effects of Wealth and Income on Subjective Well-Being and Ill-Being
The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has
statistically significant but only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income,
however, is ...
(Published in: Economic Record, 2004, 80 (S1), S24-S33. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2004.00181.x)
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D19
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1031
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Dina
Abu-Ghaida
Stephan
Klasen
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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity
At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and
chose as a specific target the achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary
education by the year 2005 ...
(published in: World Development, 2004, 32 (7), 1075-1107)
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I2, J7, J13, J16
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1030
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Ingrid
Woolard
Stephan
Klasen
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Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
In this paper we analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South
Africa’s most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to
industrialized and most ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2005, 41 (5), 865-897)
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D63, J12, J15, J6
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1029
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Maurice
Schiff
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Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza
This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to
trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy
(NDTP) is ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2003, 18 (1), 60 - 104)
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F10, F15, F16, J30, J61
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1028
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Maurice
Schiff
Yanling
Wang
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Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America
This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on
industry-specific ...
(published in: El Trimestre Economico, 2010, 302 (2))
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F10, I20, O30, O38, O54
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1027
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Maurice
Schiff
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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines
labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The
findings are: ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2004, 12 (4), 630-642)
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F16, F22, J61, Z13
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1026
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Nicolai
Kristensen
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Does Low Job Satisfaction Lead to Job Mobility?
This paper seeks to analyse the role of job satisfaction and actual job change behaviour. The
analysis is based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) data for
Danish families 1994-2000. ...
(published as 'Job satisfaction and quits – Which job characteristics matters most?' in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift / Danish Economic Journal, 2006, 144 (2), 230-248)
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J28, J30, J60, M50
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1025
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Guido
Friebel
Sergei
Guriev
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Smuggling Humans: A Theory of Debt-Financed Migration
We introduce financial constraints in a theoretical analysis of illegal immigration.
Intermediaries finance the migration costs of wealth-constrained migrants, who enter
temporary servitude ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (6), 1085-1111)
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O15, O17, J61, N21
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1024
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Hartmut
Egger
Volker
Grossmann
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Noncognitive Abilities and Within-Group Wage Inequality
This paper argues that endogenous restructuring processes within firms towards productivityenhancing
human resource activities, triggered by advances in information and
communication technologies ...
(published as "Non-Routine Tasks, Restructuring of Firms, and Wage Inequality Within and Between Skill-Groups" in: Journal of Economics, 2005, 86 (3), 197-225)
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D20, J31
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