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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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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
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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
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Marco
Leonardi
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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900
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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
|
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897
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Martin
Brown
Armin
Falk
Ernst
Fehr
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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
|
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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
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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
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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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891
|
Lennart
Flood
Elina
Pylkkänen
Roger
Wahlberg
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From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden
In this paper we propose a tax and benefit reform to increase the working hours and to
decrease the welfare participation of single mothers in Sweden. We have access to highquality
tax and income ...
(published in: Labour, 2007, 21 (3), 443-471)
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J22, I38
|
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889
|
David
Wildasin
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Fiscal Policy, Human Capital, and Canada-US Labor Market Integration
This paper analyzes some of the implications of North American labor market integration for
fiscal policy. The economies of Canada and the US are both characterized by highly
integrated internal ...
(published in: Richard G. Harris and Thomas Lemieux (eds.), Social and Labour Market Aspects of North American Linkages,Calgary, 2005, 489–536.)
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J0, H0, F2, R0
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888
|
Winfried
Koeniger
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Collective Dismissal Cost, Product Market Competition and Innovation
Collective dismissal costs are an important part of employment protection legislation (EPL)
and make firms' exit more costly. We show in a model with step-by-step innovations that
dismissal costs ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2005, 88 (1), 79-84)
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J65, L16, O31
|
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887
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Bernd
Irlenbusch
Dirk
Sliwka
|
Transparency and Reciprocal Behavior
The impact of transparency on the extent of reciprocal behavior is investigated in a simple
repeated gift exchange experiment, where principals set wages and agents respond by
choosing effort ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2005, 56 (3), 383-403)
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C72, C91, J33
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886
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Marcel
Jansen
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers
This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and
workers (low and high-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers.
The latter are ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (534), 200-228)
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J63, J64
|
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885
|
Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis
While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return
migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using
Markov chain ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2012, 46 (2), 361-387)
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F22, J61, C25, C41, C44
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884
|
Jaan
Masso
Almas
Heshmati
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The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises
For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring
and reallocation of labour force and for coping with the requirements of the European
Monetary Union. In ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2004, 12 (4), 683-720)
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C23, J23, P23
|
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883
|
Sandra
Groeneveld
Joop
Hartog
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Overeducation, Wages and Promotions within the Firm
We analyse data from personnel records of a large firm producing energy and
telecommunication and test for the effect of deviations between required and attained
education of workers. Required ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (6), 701-714)
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J31, J41, M51
|
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881
|
Robert
A.
Hart
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Worker-Job Matches, Job Mobility, and Real Wage Cyclicality
Using the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data from 1980 to 2001, this paper examines
male and female real wage cyclicality. Estimation is undertaken separately for job stayers
and job movers. A ...
(published in: Economica, 2006, 73 (290), 287-298)
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E32, J31, J62
|
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879
|
Amelie
F.
Constant
Yochanan
Shachmurove
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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials Between Germans and Immigrants
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in
Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and
then we ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2006, 27 (3), 208-229 )
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J23, M13, J24, J61, J31
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