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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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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.
Westergĺrd-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: Nationalřkonomisk 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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1022
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Philippe
Cattoir
Frédéric
Docquier
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Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions
This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or
a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Drčze's
distributive ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2004, 38 (3), 293-303)
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H60, H77
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1021
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Horst
Entorf
Nicoleta
Minoiu
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PISA Results: What a Difference Immigration Law Makes
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background
and command of national languages for the PISA school performance of teenagers living in
European ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6(3), 355-376)
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I20, J15, J18, O15, Z13
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1020
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Erkki
Koskela
Rune
Stenbacka
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Profit Sharing, Credit Market Imperfections and Equilibrium Unemployment
We investigate the interaction between labour and credit market imperfections for equilibrium unemployment in the presence of profit sharing. In a partial equilibrium with exogenous outside options ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (4), 677-701)
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J51, J41, G32
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1019
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Feng-Cheng
Fu
Chu-Ping
C.
Vijverberg
Wim
P.
Vijverberg
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Public Infrastructure as a Determinant of Intertemporal and Interregional Productive Performance in China
This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both over time and across regions. It finds that public infrastructure is a ...
(revised version published as 'Public infrastructure as a determinant of productive performance in China' in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2011. 36 (1), 91 - 111)
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H54, O47, R11
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1018
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T. H.
Gindling
Katherine
Terrell
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Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica
The dual economy development models hold minimum wages (among other institutions) accountable for persistent dualism. We use 12 years of micro data on thousands workers in Costa Rica to test whether ...
(published in: World Development, 2005, 33 (11), 1905-1921 )
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J23, J31, J38
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1017
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Louis
Jacobson
Robert
J.
LaLonde
Daniel
G.
Sullivan
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Estimating the Returns to Community College Schooling for Displaced Workers
Studies show that high-tenure displaced workers typically incur substantial long-term earnings losses. As these losses have become increasingly apparent, policy makers have
significantly expanded ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125 (1), 271-304)
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J31
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1016
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Subjective Well-Being and the Family: Results from an Ordered Probit Model with Multiple Random Effects
The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (3), 749-761)
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C23, C25, I31, J19
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1015
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Holger
Bonin
Hilmar
Schneider
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Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model
The paper derives analytical transitions probabilities following an exogenous shock to the
deterministic component in the conditional logit model. The solution draws on the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2006, 90 (1), 102-107)
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C35, C15, J22
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1014
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Erdal
Tekin
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Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform
Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of
America’s Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the
standard work (i.e., ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2007, 45 (2), 233-250)
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J13, I38
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1013
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Ernst
Fehr
Jean-Robert
Tyran
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Money Illusion and Coordination Failure
Economists long considered money illusion to be largely irrelevant. Here we show, however,
that money illusion has powerful effects on equilibrium selection. If we represent payoffs in
nominal ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2007, 59 (2), 246-268)
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C9, E32, E52
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1012
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Charles
Bellemare
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A Life-Cycle Model of Outmigration and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany
This paper estimates a structural dynamic life-cycle model of outmigration where, in each
period, immigrants choose whether to work in the host country, not to work but remain in the
host country, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 553-576)
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J61, C61
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1010
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Re-Employment Bonuses in a Signalling Model of Temporary Layoffs
Temporary layoffs are an important feature of the United States labor market. If these
employer-employee relationships exist because of valuable job-matches, unemployment
among high-productivity ...
(published as 'A signaling model of temporary layoffs' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2009, 61 (3), 566-585 )
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J63, J64, J65
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1009
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Signaling in the Labor Market: New Evidence on Layoffs and Plant Closings
In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be
recalled to their former employer and may choose to remain unemployed rather than to
accept a low-wage ...
(published as 'Playing Hard to Get: Theory and Evidence on Layoffs, Recalls, and Unemployment' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2013, 38, 211 - 258)
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J60, J30
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1008
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Labour Income Uncertainty, Risk Aversion and Home Ownership
In this paper we investigate the effect of labour income uncertainty on the probability of homeownership in Germany and Spain. This study is motivated by two facts. Firstly, theoretical models tend ...
(published as 'Labor income uncertainty, skewness and homeownership: A panel data study for Germany and Spain ' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, 58 (1), 156-176)
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D1, R0, J0
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1007
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Winfried
Koeniger
Omar
Licandro
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Substitutability and Competition in the Dixit-Stiglitz Model
The effects of competition on growth are analyzed in the recent literature by comparing
economies with the same market structure but different degrees of substitutability. In this
note, we show ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal in Macroeconomics: Topics in Macroeconomics, 2006, 6(1), Article 2, )
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L16
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1006
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John
S.
Earle
Andrew
Spicer
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999
What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational
practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of
wage arrears, the ...
(revised version published as 'The Normalization of Deviant Organizational Practices: Wage Arrears in Russia, 1991-98' in: Academy of Management Journal, 2010, 53 (2), 218 - 237 )
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A12, A14, B52, J30, L14, O17, P31, P37
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1005
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Stephen
Machin
Sandra
McNally
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The Literacy Hour
In this paper, we evaluate the effect of the literacy hour in English primary schools on pupil
attainment. The National Literacy Project (NLP) was undertaken in about 400 English primary
schools in ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (5-6), 1441-1462)
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I2
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1004
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Christina
Gathmann
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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border
This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the
market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories
from illegal Mexican ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (10-11), 1926-1941)
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J61, K42
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1003
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Christian
Belzil
Michael
L.
Bognanno
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The Promotion Dynamics of American Executives
We formulate an empirical model of promotion with dynamic self-selection where the current
promotion probability depends on the hierarchical level in the firm, individual human capital,
unobserved ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2010, 30,189-231)
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C33, J41, M5, M51
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1002
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Ernst
Fehr
Lorenz
Götte
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Do Workers Work More When Wages Are High? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Most previous studies on intertemporal labor supply found very small or insignificant substitution effects. It is not clear, however, whether these results are due to institutional constraints on ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (1), 298-317)
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J22, C93, B49
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1001
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Advising Policymakers Through the Media
In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics
profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key
issue is the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2004, 35 (4), 395-405)
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A11, A20
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1000
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Jan
Boone
Abdolkarim
Sadrieh
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Experiments on Unemployment Benefit Sanctions and Job Search Behavior
This paper presents the results of an experimental study on unemployment benefit sanctions.
The experimental set-up allows us to distinguish between the effect of benefit sanctions once
they are ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2009, 53 (8), 937-951 )
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C91, J64, J65
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999
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Astrid
Kunze
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The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a
new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while
workers from ...
(published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economique de Bruxelles, 2004, 47 (1), 1-19)
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F22, J61
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997
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M. Daniele
Paserman
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Job Search and Hyperbolic Discounting: Structural Estimation and Policy Evaluation
This paper estimates the structural parameters of a job search model with hyperbolic
discounting and endogenous search effort. It estimates quantitatively the degree of
hyperbolic discounting, and ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (531), 1418–1452)
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C11, C41
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995
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Giorgio
Brunello
Massimo
Giannini
Kenn
Ariga
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The Optimal Timing of School Tracking
We develop a simple model which determines the optimal timing of school tracking as the
outcome of the trade off between the advantages of specialization, which call for early
tracking, and the ...
(published in: L. Woessmann and P. Petersen (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT 2007, 129-156)
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H52, H73
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994
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Michael
Fertig
Robert
E.
Wright
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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias
Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment
(PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis
suggests that ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2005, 88 (1), 109-114)
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I2
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992
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Axel
Heitmueller
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model
The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension
sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching
model, and testing for ...
(published as 'Public-private sector pay differentials in a devolved Scotland' in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2006, 9, 295-323)
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J71, J31, C24
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990
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Holger
Bonin
Concepció
Patxot
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Generational Accounting as a Tool to Assess Fiscal Sustainability: An Overview of the Methodology
The paper surveys the methodology of generational accounting, a tool for gauging
intertemporal imbalance in government finances facing demographic transition. Starting from
the fiscal balance rule ...
(published in: E. Berenguer (ed.), Generational Accounting in Spain, Madrid: IFS, 2005, 27-66)
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H61, E62, B41
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989
|
Joachim
Wagner
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Are Young and Small Firms Hothouses for Nascent Entrepreneurs? Evidence from German Micro Data
Using a large recent representative sample of the German population this paper contributes
to the entrepreneurship literature by empirically testing the hypothesis that young and small
firms are ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (4), 379-391)
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J23, R12
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988
|
Marcel
Jansen
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Can Job Competition Prevent Hold-Ups?
We consider an economy in which firms need to invest in capital before they can advertise a
job, while applicants may have to compete for jobs. Our aim is to investigate how this
competition ...
(published as "Job auctions and hold-ups" in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 608-619)
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C78, D44, D83
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