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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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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
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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
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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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987
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Andrea
Ichino
Gerd
Muehlheusser
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How Often Should You Open the Door? Optimal Monitoring to Screen Heterogeneous Agents
This paper shows that monitoring too much a partner in the initial phase of a relationship may
not be optimal if the goal is to determine his loyalty to the match and if the cost of ending ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 820-831)
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D2, D8, M5
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986
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Herbert
Brücker
Parvati
Trübswetter
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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany
Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the
late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West
migrants should ...
(published in: Empirica, 2007, 34 (4), 371-395)
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R23, J61, P23
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985
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Štepán
Jurajda
Heike
Harmgart
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When Are ‘Female’ Occupations Paying More?
We compare the importance of occupational gender segregation for the gender wage gap in
East and West Germany in 1995 using a sample of social-security wage records of full-time
workers. East ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2007, 35 (1), 170-187)
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J16, J21, J71
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984
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Alison
L.
Booth
Mark
L.
Bryan
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Are There Asymmetries in the Effects of Training on the Conditional Male Wage Distribution?
We use a quantile regression framework to investigate the degree to which work-related
training affects the location, scale and shape of the conditional wage distribution. Human
capital theory ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 251-272)
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J24, J31, C29
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983
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Daniela
Del Boca
Marilena
Locatelli
Daniela
Vuri
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Child Care Choices by Italian Households
In spite of relatively generous public subsidies and a reputation for high quality, only a very
limited proportion of Italian families use public child care. In this paper we explore ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (4), 453-477)
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J2, C3, D1
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982
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Ingo
Geishecker
Holger
Görg
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Winners and Losers: Fragmentation, Trade and Wages Revisited
Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household
panel and combining it with industry level information on industries’ outsourcing activities
from ...
(revised version published as 'Winners and losers: A micro-level analysis of international outsourcing and wages' in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2008, 41(1), 243-270)
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F16, L24, J31
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981
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps
In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender
differences in wages. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the
distributions of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 290-299)
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C14, D31, J16, O54
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980
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
Jaime
Saavedra
Maximo
Torero
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Ethnicity and Earnings in Urban Peru
In this paper we study the relationship between ethnic exclusion and earnings in Urban Peru.
Our approach to the concept of ethnicity involves the usage of instruments in many of its
several ...
(revised version published as 'Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market' in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2007, 55 (4), 709–734)
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J15, J31, J71
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979
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Martin
Moreno
Hugo
R.
Nopo
Jaime
Saavedra
Maximo
Torero
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Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring: A Pseudo Audit Study for Three Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima
In this paper, we adapt the audit studies methodology to analyze gender and racial
differences in hiring for a particular segment of the market of three selected occupations in
Metropolitan Lima: ...
(published as 'Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru ' in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 315-328. )
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C93, D63, J4, J7
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978
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
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How Does the Unemployment Insurance System Shape the Time Profile of Jobless Duration?
This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from
unemployment using data from the 1998 Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from
unemployment to employment are modeled ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 229-234)
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J64, J65
|
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977
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Miles
Corak
Garth
Lipps
John
Zhao
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Family Income and Participation in Post-Secondary Education
The relationship between family income and post-secondary participation is studied in order
to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the
domain of ...
(published in: Charles Beach, Robin Boadway and Marvin McInnis (eds.), Higher Education in Canada. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005)
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I2, J62
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976
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Joshua
Angrist
Kevin
Lang
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Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program
Most integration programs transfer students between schools within districts. In this paper,
we study Metco, a long-running desegregation program that sends mostly Black students out
of the Boston ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (5), 1613-1634)
|
I21, I28, J24
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975
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Occupational Choice Across Generations
There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation
occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important
because occupations ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (4), 299-317)
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D90, F22, J24, J61, J62
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974
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Johannes
Schwarze
Marco
Härpfer
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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State? A Revised Version
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution
at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2007, 36 (2), 233-249)
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C23, D31, D63, I31
|
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973
|
Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
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Structural Estimates of the Intergenerational Education Correlation
Using a structural dynamic programming model, we investigate the relative importance of
family background variables and individual specific abilities in explaining cross-sectional
differences in ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2003, 18 (6), 679-69)
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J2, J3
|
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971
|
Jan
De Loecker
Jozef
Konings
|
Creative Destruction and Productivity Growth in an Emerging Economy: Evidence from Slovenian Manufacturing
In most transition countries the aggregate level evidence suggests that most industries are
just destroying jobs, due to the legacy of communism where over-manning levels of
employment were the ...
(published as 'Job reallocation and productivity growth in a post-socialist economy: Evidence from Slovenian manufacturing' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (2), 388-408)
|
L60, D21, P20
|
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969
|
Joerg-Peter
Schraepler
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Identification, Characteristics and Impact of Faked Interviews in Surveys: An Analysis by Means of Genuine Fakes in the Raw Data of SOEP
To the best of our knowledge, most of the few methodological studies which analyze the
impact of faked interviews on survey results are based on "artificial fakes" generated by
project students in ...
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, 2005, 89 (1), 7-20 )
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C8, C4
|
|
968
|
Maite
Blázquez Cuesta
Marcel
Jansen
|
Efficiency in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Agents: Too Many Good or Bad Jobs?
This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two
types of workers and jobs. The basic assumption is that high-skill workers can perform both
skilled and ...
(revised version published as "Search, mismatch and unemployment" in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (3), 498-526)
|
C78, D61, J64
|
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965
|
Monika
Merz
Eran
Yashiv
|
Labor and the Market Value of the Firm
What role does labor play in firms’ market value? We explore this question using a production-based asset pricing model with frictions in the adjustment of both capital and
labor. We posit that ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (4), 1419 - 1431)
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E22, E23, E24, G12
|
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964
|
Ronald
Schettkat
Lara
Yocarini
|
The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature
The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2006, 17 (2), 127-147)
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E2, J2, J3, L0, L8, O1, O3, O4, N1
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963
|
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Joop
Hartog
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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Compensating Wage Differentials for Schooling Risk in Denmark
In this paper we test for risk compensation in wages using Danish panel data. With the conviction that the type of education is as important as the education length, we use a very detailed ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110(4), 711-731)
|
D8, J3
|
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962
|
Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
|
Norm-Based Trade Union Membership: Evidence for Germany
In the absence of closed-shops and discriminatory wage policies, union membership can be explained by the existence of social norms. We describe a model, incorporating institutional features of the ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2004, 5(4), 481-504)
|
D71, J51
|
|
961
|
Coen
Teulings
Casper
G.
de Vries
|
Generational Accounting, Solidarity and Pension Losses
The creeping stock market collapse eroded the wealth of funded pension systems. This led to
political tensions between generations due to the fuzzy definition of property rights on the
pension ...
(published in: De Economist, 2006, 154 (1), 63-83)
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E2, G2, G23, J32, H55
|
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960
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
|
Circular Movements and Time Away from the Host Country
The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat migration. This
paper studies repeat or circular migration as it is manifested by the frequency of exits of
migrants living ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Circular and Repeat Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2011, 30 (4), 495-515)
|
F22, J15, J61
|
|
959
|
Thomas
K.
Bauer
Holger
Bonin
Uwe
Sunde
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Real and Nominal Wage Rigidities and the Rate of Inflation: Evidence from West German Micro Data
The paper examines real and nominal wage rigidities. We estimate a switching regime
model, in which the observed distribution of individual wage changes, computed from West
German register data for ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117, 508-529)
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J31, J51, E52
|
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958
|
Tilman
Brück
John
de New
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work
We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy.
The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic
employment, is used to estimate ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (8), 899-911)
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D13, H24, J23, K42
|
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956
|
Michael
Fertig
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
|
Gerontocracy in Motion? European Cross-Country Evidence on the Labor Market Consequences of Population Ageing
Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important
issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive
overview of the ...
(published in: Wright, Robert E. (ed.), Scotland's Demographic Challenge, Scottish Economic Policy Network, Stirling-Glasgow, 2004)
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J11, J21
|
|
955
|
Volker
Grossmann
|
Risky Human Capital Investment, Income Distribution, and Macroeconomic Dynamics
This paper analyzes the interaction between intergenerational wealth transmission, human
capital investments under uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small
open ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008, 30 (1), 19-42)
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I20, O11, O40
|
|
954
|
Pedro
Portugal
John
T.
Addison
|
Six Ways to Leave Unemployment
This paper uses a unique Portuguese data set to examine the effect of unemployment benefit
receipt and maximum duration of benefits on escape rates from unemployment. The focus is
on the time ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55 (4), 393 - 419)
|
J64, J65
|
|
953
|
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Erik
Ø.
Sørensen
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The Impact of a Primary School Reform on Educational Stratification: A Norwegian Study of Neighbour and School Mate Correlations
School quality is hard to define and measure. It is influenced by not only school expenditures,
but also characteristics that are hard to measure like norms and peer effects among teachers
and ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2003, 10 (2), 143-170)
|
I21, J13, R23
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