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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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952
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Oddbjørn
Raaum
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Erik
Ø.
Sørensen
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Using a variance decomposition framework which provides bounds on the effect of families
and neighbourhoods, we find important effects of family characteristics and residential
location on ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 200-222)
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I21, J13, R23
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951
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Pietro
Garibaldi
Etienne
Wasmer
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Raising Female Employment: Reflexions and Policy Tools
While there is consensus on the need to raise the time spent in the market by European
women, it is not clear how these goals should be achieved. Tax wedges, assistance in the
job search process, ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2-3), 320-330)
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J0, J2
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948
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Adriana
Kugler
Giovanni
Pica
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Effects of Employment Protection and Product Market Regulations on the Italian Labor Market
Labor market regulations have often been blamed for high and persistent unemployment in
Europe, but evidence on their impact remains mixed. More recently, attention has turned to
the impact of ...
(published in: J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (eds.), Labour Market Adjustments in Europe, Edward Elgar 2006)
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E24, J63, J65, L11, L43
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947
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Uwe
Sunde
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Potential, Prizes and Performance: Testing Tournament Theory with Professional Tennis Data
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven
tournaments, where the contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion;
this is a ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Heterogeneity and Performance in Tournaments: A Test for Incentive Effect using Professional Tennis Data' in: Applied Economics, 2010, 41 (25), 3199-3208)
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J41, J33, M12
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946
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Marco
Leonardi
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Earnings Instability of Job Stayers and Job Changers
I use the PSID to decompose the rise in wage inequality into a permanent and a transitory
component. I consider separately job stayers and job changers. I find that earnings instability
(the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55(1), 260-280)
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J21, J31
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945
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Ronnie
Schöb
David
Wildasin
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Economic Integration and Labor Market Institutions: Worker Mobility, Earnings Risk, and Contract Structure
This paper investigates the effects of labor market integration, in the form of worker mobility,
in a model with long-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment.
Reflecting ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2007, 37(2), 141-164)
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R0, J1, J6
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944
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Holger
Görg
David
Greenaway
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Much Ado About Nothing? Do Domestic Firms Really Benefit from Foreign Direct Investment?
Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment,
motivated by the expectation of spillover benefits to augment the primary benefits of a boost
to national ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2004, 19(2), 171-197)
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F21, F23
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943
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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What Have We Learned About the Employment Effects of Severance Pay? Further Iterations of Lazear et al.
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and
unemployment development using data on industrialized OECD countries. Our starting point
is Lazear’s (1990) empirical ...
(published in: Empirica, 2005, 32 (3-4), 345-368)
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E24, J23, J64, J65
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941
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
J. S.
Butler
Gulcin
Gumus
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Option Value and Dynamic Programming Model Estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance Application Timing
This paper develops dynamic structural models - an option value model and a dynamic
programming model - of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) application timing
decision. We estimate ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamic programming model estimates of Social Security Disability Insurance application timing" in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (6), 671-685)
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H31, H55
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940
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Yochanan
Shachmurove
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany.
We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong
entrepreneurial ...
(published in: International Migration, 2007, 45 (4), 69-98)
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J23, M13, J24, J61, J31
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939
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Eric
Toulemonde
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Acquisition of Skills, Education Subsidies, and Agglomeration of Firms
An analytically solvable model of new economic geography is developed. Acquisition of skills
is costly for workers but it allows them to earn wages that are larger than those of the
unskilled. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2006, 59 (3), 420-439)
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F12, F15, J51, R12
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938
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Daniela
Del Boca
Alessandra
Venturini
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Italian Migration
Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration.
The paper first surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the
Italian ...
(published in: K. F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, 2005)
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F22, J61
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937
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Wolfgang
Eggert
Laszlo
Goerke
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Fiscal Policy, Economic Integration and Unemployment
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment
due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the
government chooses the ...
(published in: Journal of Economics/Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie, 2004, 82 (2), 137-167)
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H21, J41, J65
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936
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Paul
L.
Latreille
Peter J.
Sloane
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Disability, Gender and the Labour Market
Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market
outcomes by gender. Our results indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of
employment and ...
(revised version published as 'Disability, gender, and the British labour market ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58 (3), 407-449)
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I1, J2, J3
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935
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Thomas
Dohmen
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Performance, Seniority and Wages: Formal Salary Systems and Individual Earnings Profiles
This paper replicates studies by Medoff and Abraham (1980, 1981) and Flabbi and Ichino (2001) using personnel data from the Dutch national aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It shows how a formal salary ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (6), 741-763)
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M52, J30, J31
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934
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Mariacristina
Piva
Enrico
Santarelli
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications
Previous empirical literature has shown that technological change can be considered the main cause of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2005, 34 (2), 141-157)
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O33, J50
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933
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Alison
L.
Booth
Mark
L.
Bryan
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Training in Europe
Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the period 1994-1999. We focus on ‘lifelong learning’, fixed-term contracts, part-time ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2/3), 346-360)
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J16, J24, J40
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932
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Naci
Mocan
Erdal
Tekin
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Guns, Drugs and Juvenile Crime: Evidence from a Panel of Siblings and Twins
Using a nationally-representative panel data set of U.S. high school students (AddHealth data) that contains a relatively large sample of siblings and twins, the paper investigates the impacts of gun ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49(2), 507-532)
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H0, K4, I12
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931
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Peter
Kooreman
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Time, Money, Peers, and Parents: Some Data and Theories on Teenage Behavior
In the first part of the paper I analyze a data set on teenage behavior. The data is a sample of high school students in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (1), 9-33)
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D12
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930
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Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Individual Mortality and Macro-Economic Conditions from Birth to Death
This paper analyzes the effects of macro-economic conditions throughout life on the
individual mortality rate. We estimate flexible duration models where the individual’s mortality
rate depends on ...
(published as: 'Economic Conditions Early in Life and Individual Mortality' in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (1), 290-302)
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N3, J1, C5, I1
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929
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Zvi
Eckstein
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey
This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically
analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor
market transitions ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 136 (2), 531-564)
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J6, J42, J41, J31, J21, D8, C4
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928
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Harris
Selod
Yves
Zenou
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Does City Structure Affect the Labor Market Outcomes of Black Workers?
In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously
choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2013, 74, 113-132.)
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J15, R14
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927
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Lorenz
Götte
David
B.
Huffman
Ernst
Fehr
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Loss Aversion and Labor Supply
In many occupations workers’ labor supply choices are constrained by institutional rules
regulating labor time and effort provision. This renders explicit tests of the neoclassical theory
of labor ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (2-3), 216-228)
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J22, B49
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926
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Why the Apple Doesn't Fall Far: Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
Parents with higher education levels have children with higher education levels. However, is
this because parental education actually changes the outcomes of children, suggesting an
important ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (1), 437-449)
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I21, J13, J24
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925
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Anna
Piil
Damm
Michael
Rosholm
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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part II: Empirical Evidence
How do dispersal policies affect labour market integration of refugee immigrants subjected to
such policy? To investigate this, we estimate the effects of location characteristics and the
average ...
(combined with IZA DP 924 published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 105–146)
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J64, J61, J15
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924
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Anna
Piil
Damm
Michael
Rosholm
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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I: Theory
This paper formulates a partial search model in which unemployed individuals simultaneously
search for job and location of residence. Most importantly, we show that, ceteris paribus, a
decrease in ...
(combined with IZA DP 925 published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 105–146)
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J64, J68, J15
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923
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Uwe
Dulleck
Paul
Frijters
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers.
This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions
and hence ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108 (2); 317-337.)
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J24, D73, J68
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921
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Peter
Egger
Michael
Pfaffermayr
Andrea
Weber
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Sectoral Adjustment of Employment: The Impact of Outsourcing and Trade at the Micro Level
This paper analyzes the effects of trade and outsourcing on the transition probabilities of
employment between sectors, using a dynamic multinomial logit framework with fixed effects.
The data ...
(published as 'Sectoral adjustment of employment to shifts in outsourcing and trade: evidence from a dynamic fixed effects multinomial logit model' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (3), 559-580)
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F16, J63, C23, C25
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920
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Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Fabio
Schiantarelli
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Employment Changes, the Structure of Adjustment Costs, and Plant Size
In this paper we analyze the pattern of employment adjustment using a rich panel of
Norwegian plants. The data suggest that the frequency of episodes of zero net employment
changes is inversely ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2007, 51 (3), 577-598)
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D21, C23, E24
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917
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Rob
Euwals
Hans
Roodenburg
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A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration
In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The
gain on the aggregated level is called the ‘immigration surplus’, which can be seen as
analogous to a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 85 (2), 241-256)
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D30, D60, J31, J61
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916
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Stefan
C.
Wolter
Samuel
Mühlemann
Jürg
Schweri
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Why Some Firms Train Apprentices and Many Others Do Not
The latest study investigating the cost-benefit ratio of apprenticeship training for Swiss
companies has shown that most apprentices offset the cost of their training during their
apprenticeship on ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2006, 7(3), 249-264)
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J24, J31, J44
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914
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Pedro
Portugal
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Bargained Wages, Wage Drift and the Design of the Wage Setting System
This paper aims at answering the question: How does a typically 'European' bargaining
system - with collective bargaining, extension mechanisms and national minimum wage -
coexist with low ...
(published as 'Contractual wages and the wage cushion under different bargaining settings' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (4), 875-902)
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D21, J31, J51
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912
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Daniele
Checchi
Antonio
Filippin
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An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis
The “prospect of upward mobility” (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok
(2001a) finds explicit assumptions under which some individuals that are poorer than the
average optimally choose to ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2004, 11, 15-136)
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C91, D31, D63
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911
|
Joachim
Wagner
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Are Nascent Entrepreneurs Jacks-of-All-Trades? A Test of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
In a recent paper Edward Lazear proposed the jack-of-all-trades view of entrepreneurship.
Based on a coherent model of the choice between self-employment and paid employment he
shows that having a ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (20), 2415-2419)
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J23, R12
|
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910
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Pilar
Diaz-Vazquez
Dennis
J.
Snower
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On-the-Job Training, Firing Costs and Employment
This paper explores the influence of on-the-job training on the employment effect of firing
costs. It shows that on-the-job training (generating firm specific skills) causes firing costs to
have a ...
(published in: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 2005, 4 (1))
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E24, J23, J24, J32, J64
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909
|
Marco
Leonardi
|
Firm Heterogeneity in Capital/Labor Ratios and Wage Inequality
This paper provides some empirical evidence and a theory of the relationship between
residual wage inequality and the increasing dispersion of capital/labor ratios across firms. I
document the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (518), 375-398)
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J21, J31
|
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907
|
Arnaud
Dupuy
Lex
Borghans
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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality: An International Comparison
In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study
to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by
differences in ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2005, 37 (9), 1073-1088)
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J21, J23, J31
|
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906
|
Doris
Weichselbaumer
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials
between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage
gap have been ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2005, 9 (3), 479-511)
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J16, J31, J71
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905
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Doris
Weichselbaumer
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials
Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive
and direct further research efforts. What determines whether results are discussed in a
neutral or a ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2006, 45 (3), 416–436)
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J7, J16, B4
|
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904
|
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility
We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are
related to the pattern of income growth across the income range, and the reshuffling of
individuals in the ...
(published in:
Oxford Economic Papers, 2006, 58 (3), 531-548)
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D31, I32
|
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903
|
Sourafel
Girma
Holger
Görg
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Evaluating the Causal Effects of Foreign Acquisition on Domestic Skilled and Unskilled Wages
This paper investigates the effects of the takeover of a domestic establishment by foreign
owners on the domestic target’s development of wages for skilled and unskilled workers. We
pay particular ...
(revised version published as 'Evaluating the foreign ownership wage premium using a difference-in-differences matching approach' in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72(1), 97-112)
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F23, J31
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902
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Paul
Frijters
Michael A.
Shields
Stephen
Wheatley Price
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Immigrant Job Search in the UK: Evidence from Panel Data
Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries
native population, but it is as yet unclear whether differences in job search behaviour, or its
success, can ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (507), F359-376)
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J61, J64
|
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901
|
Peter
F.
Orazem
Milan
Vodopivec
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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001
The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on
competition. Using a unique longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over
the period ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2009, 76(2), 553-576)
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L1, P27
|
|
900
|
Mark
C.
Berger
Glenn
C.
Blomquist
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Compensating Differentials in Emerging Labor and Housing Markets: Estimates of Quality of Life in Russian Cities
The existence of compensating differentials in Russian labor and housing markets is examined
using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) augmented by city ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 63 (1), 2008, 25 - 55)
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D5, H4, J3, J6, P2, P3, Q2, R1, R2
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898
|
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Gijsbert
van Lomwel
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Nonparametric Estimation of a Dependent Competing Risks Model for Unemployment Durations
In this paper we simultaneously analyze transitions from unemployment to employment and
to nonparticipation. We estimate a dependent competing risks model with nonparametric
specifications of the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 34 (3), 477-491 )
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J64, C41
|
|
897
|
Martin
Brown
Armin
Falk
Ernst
Fehr
|
Relational Contracts and the Nature of Market Interactions
We provide evidence that long-term relationships between trading parties emerge
endogenously in the absence of third party enforcement of contracts and are associated with
a fundamental change in ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2004, 72 (3), 747-780)
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D2, D4, C7, C9
|
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896
|
Solomon
Polachek
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What Can We Learn About the Decline in U.S. Union Membership from International Data?
This paper is composed of two parts. First, using international data, I corroborate that union
density in the U.S. declined because of asymmetric growth between the union and nonunion
sectors. I ...
(published in: Phanindra V. Wunnava (ed.), The Changing Forms of Unions: New Forms of Representation, M.E. Sharpe 2004)
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J4, J5, F16
|
|
895
|
John
M.
Fitzgerald
David
C.
Ribar
|
Transitions in Welfare Participation and Female Headship
This study uses data from the 1990, 1992, 1993 and 1996 panels of the Survey of Income
and Program Participation to examine how welfare policies and local economic conditions
contribute to women's ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2004, 23 (5-6), 641-670)
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I3, J1
|
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894
|
Rainer
Winkelmann
|
Parental Separation and Well-Being of Youths
This paper uses recent data for Germany and a new outcome variable to assess the
consequences of parental separation on the well-being of youths. In particular, it is
considered how subjective ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2006, 35 (2), 197-208)
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I31, J12, C25
|
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892
|
Barry
Hirsch
|
What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?
Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay
assesses their analysis of how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance
- productivity, ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2004, 25 (3), 415-455)
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J5, L1, D2
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