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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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879
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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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878
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John
T.
Addison
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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The Course of Research into the Economic Consequences of German Works Councils
In a survey published in the British Journal of Industrial Relations, Frege (2002) evaluates
research on the German works council from the perspective of several disciplines, including
economics. ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004, 42 (2), 255-281)
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J50
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877
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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Decomposing Differences in the First Moment
We propose a simple methodology for decomposing differences in the first moment into
characteristics and coefficients effects. This methodology provides a way to apply the
Blinder-Oaxaca ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2004, 82 (2), 275-280)
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C20, J70
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876
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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The European Phillips Curve: Does the NAIRU Exist?
This paper has two aims. First, it provides simple theoretical models that highlight two
channels whereby monetary shocks have permanent real effects and the interactions
between these channels. ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (2), 93-121)
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E2, E3, E4, E5, J3
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875
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Christian
Grund
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Severance Payments for Dismissed Employees in Germany
This contribution investigates severance payments for dismissed employees in Germany.
Subsequent to an overview about the legal framework, we respond to the following
questions: Who receives ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 22, 49-71)
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M51, M52, J32, J53
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874
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Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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The Impact of Length of the School Year on Student Performance and Earnings: Evidence from the German Short School Years
This paper investigates how changing the length of school year, leaving the basic curriculum
unchanged, affects learning and subsequent earnings. I use variation introduced by the
West-German short ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (523), 1216-1242)
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J24, J31
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873
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Martin
Falk
Bertrand
Koebel
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The Impact of Office Machinery and Computer Capital on the Demand for Heterogeneous Labour
We study the impact of office and computing machinery (OCM) on the demands for workers
with different educational levels. The empirical analysis relies on a system of demand
equations that nests ...
(published in: Labour Economics , 2004, 11 (1), 99-117)
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J23, O33
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872
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Jakob
R.
Munch
Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Are Home Owners Really More Unemployed?
This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment
duration. We distinguish between finding employment locally or by being geographically
mobile. We find that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (514), 991-1013)
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C41, J61, J64, R23
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871
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Yannick
L'Horty
Christophe
Rault
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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment: Lessons from the French Experience
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling
where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost.
Estimations using quarterly ...
(published in: Labour, 2005, 19 (3), 595-620)
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E24, J22, J23
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870
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Stephan
Klasen
Andrey
Launov
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Analysis of the Determinants of Fertility Decline in the Czech Republic
In this paper we study the decline in total fertility rates in the Czech Republic during the
transition process. To identify transition-specific features of this decline we use a multiperiod
model ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19(1), 25-54)
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J00, J13
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869
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Alexandre
Mas
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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires
This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We
consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at
Bridgestone/Firestone’s ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112 (2), 253-289)
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J5, M5, M1
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868
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Pablo
Brañas
Garza
Shoshana
Neuman
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Analyzing Religiosity Within an Economic Framework: The Case of Spanish Catholics
Using a sample of Spanish Catholics, we examined the level of religiosity (measured by
beliefs, prayer and church attendance) and the relationship between religiosity and various
socio-economic ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2004, 2, 5-22)
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Z12, I21
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867
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Thomas
Dohmen
Ben
Kriechel
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Monkey Bars and Ladders: The Importance of Lateral and Vertical Job Mobility in Internal Labor Market Careers
The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and
insightful history. Theory ahead of measurement asks for testing newly developed human
resource concepts. These ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (2), 193-228)
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J31, J41, J63
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866
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Amelie
F.
Constant
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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives
The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts
on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the
economics of ...
(published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know, Oxford: OUP, 2005)
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F22, J18, J24, J31, J61, J62
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865
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Solomon
Polachek
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Mincer's Overtaking Point and the Lifecycle Earnings Distribution
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand earnings distribution.
In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended
the original ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 273-304)
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B20, B31, D31, J24, J31, J33, J41, J6, J7
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864
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Chris
Ryan
Robert
Breunig
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A Couples-Based Approach to the Problem of Workless Families
The goal of this paper is to evaluate a “couples-based” policy intervention designed to reduce
the number of Australian families without work. In 2000 and 2001, the Australian Government
piloted a ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2006, 82 (259), 428-444)
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H3, I38, J68
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862
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John
T.
Addison
Clive
R.
Belfield
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Union Voice
This paper offers a critical evaluation of the notion of collective voice, advanced by Freeman
and Medoff (1984) in their pioneering contribution What Do Unions Do? It takes note of
theoretical and ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2004, 25 (4), 563-597)
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J51, J53
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861
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Yannick
L'Horty
Christophe
Rault
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Inflation, Minimum Wage and Other Wages: An Econometric Study on French Macroeconomic Data
This paper examines the set of interdependences between the formation of wages, prices
and the minimum wage (SMIC) through a vectorial error correction model estimated on
French quarterly ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2004, 36 (4), 277-290)
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C32, E31, J31, J38
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860
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Jens
Bonke
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Nina
Smith
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Timing and Flexibility of Housework and Men and Women's Wages
This paper analyses the effect of housework on men and women’s wages in Denmark by
estimating quantile regressions on Danish time use survey data from 1987, merged to
register information on hourly ...
(published in: D.S. Hamermesh and G.A. Pfann (eds.). Contributions to Economic Analysis, Vol. 271, Elsevier Press, 2004)
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D13, J16
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859
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René
Fahr
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Loafing or Learning? The Demand for Informal Education
Using detailed time use data for Germany a positive correlation is found between the level of
schooling education and time investments in informal education. Two hypotheses explain ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2005, 49 (1), 75-98 and in: D. Hamermesh and G. Pfann (eds.). The Economics of Time Use, Elsevier, 2005)
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C24, D13, J22, J24
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858
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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History of Historical Statistics of the United States
Historical Statistics of the United States is the premier source of quantitative evidence on
American economic, social, political, demographic, and institutional history. Introduced in
1949 as a ...
(published as 'Appendix 3' in: Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 5-819 - 5-824)
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C1, C8
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857
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Marco
Francesconi
Abhinay
Muthoo
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An Economic Model of Child Custody
This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to
the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage,
altruistic ...
(revised version published as 'Control Rights in Complex Partnerships' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9(3), 551-589)
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C78, D23, D64, J12, J13, K10
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856
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Dirk
Sliwka
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Management Incentives, Signaling Effects and the Costs of Vertical Integration
The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is
shown that a company when being vertically integrated with a supplier may well decide to
buy certain ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2004, 74 (1), 27-52)
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C22, L22, M55
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855
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Bernd
Irlenbusch
Dirk
Sliwka
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Career Concerns in a Simple Experimental Labour Market
We experimentally investigate a simple version of Holmström’s career concerns model in
which firms compete for agents in two consecutive periods. Profits of firms are determined by
agents’ unknown ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (1), 147-170)
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C72, C91, J33
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854
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Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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Income Satisfaction Inequality and its Causes
In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of
individual responses to an Income Satisfaction question posed in the German Socio-
Economic Panel ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2003, 1 (2), 107-127)
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D63, I32
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853
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Ivar
Ekeland
James
J.
Heckman
Lars
Nesheim
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Identification and Estimation of Hedonic Models
This paper considers the identification and estimation of hedonic models. We establish that in
an additive version of the hedonic model, technology and preferences are generically
identified up to ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112 (S1), S60-S109)
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C31
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852
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Adriana
Kugler
Maurice
Kugler
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The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence from Colombia
We use a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the rise in payroll tax
rates over the 1980’s and 1990’s affected the labor market. Our estimates indicate that
formal wages fall ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57(2), 335-358.)
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J31, J32, H23
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851
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Joshua
Angrist
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Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Theory and Practice
Instrumental Variables (IV) methods identify internally valid causal effects for individuals
whose treatment status is manipulable by the instrument at hand. Inference for other
populations ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (494), C52-C83)
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C31, J12, J13
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850
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Lars
Osberg
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Nobody to Play With? The Implications of Leisure Coordination
We hypothesize that an individual’s time use choices are contingent on the time use choices
of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of
companionable ...
(published in: D. Hamermesh and G. Pfann (eds), The Economics of Time Use, Contributions to Economic Analysis, No. 271, Chapter 5, 113–145, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2005)
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D13, I31, J22
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847
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
This paper reviews Jacob Mincer’s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the
distribution of earnings through his pioneering focus on labor market experience or on-the-job
training. It ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 343-361 )
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B21, J24, J31, D31
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846
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David
de la Croix
Frédéric
Docquier
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Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View
We evaluate the effect of technology, demographics and policy on the differential evolution of
the skill premium and on the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a
computable ...
(published as 'School attendance and skill premiums in France and the US: a general equilibrium approach' in: Fiscal Studies, 2007, 28 (4), 383-416)
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J31, D58
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845
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Gerda
Dewit
Holger
Görg
Catia
Montagna
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI
This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of
multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model,
using OECD-data on ...
(published as 'Should I stay or should I go? Foreign direct investment, employment protection and domestic anchorage' in: Review of World Economics, 145 (1), 2009, 93-110 )
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D80, F23, J80
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844
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Dirk
Sliwka
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On the Hidden Costs of Incentive Schemes
By enriching a principal-agent model it is shown that the introduction of monetary incentives
may reduce an agent’s motivation. In a first step, we allow for the possibility that some agents
stick ...
(revised version published as IZA DP 2293 and in: American Economic Review, 2007, 97 (3), 999 - 1012)
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M52, J33, D23
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843
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James
J.
Heckman
Rosa
Matzkin
Lars
Nesheim
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Simulation and Estimation of Hedonic Models
Making use of restrictions imposed by equilibrium, theoretical progress has been made on
the nonparametric and semiparametric estimation and identification of scalar additive hedonic
models ...
(published in: T. Kehoe, T.N. Srinivasan, and J. Whalley (eds.)- Frontiers in Applied General Equilibrium, Cambridge, 2005, 277 - 340)
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C31
|
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842
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Michael
Svarer
Michael
Rosholm
Jakob
R.
Munch
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Rent Control and Unemployment Duration
In this paper we investigate whether rent control affects the functioning of the labour market.
Particularly, we focus on the effect of rent control on the length of individual ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89 (11-12), 2165-2181)
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C41, J61, J64, D45, L51
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841
|
Badi
H.
Baltagi
Daniel
P.
Rich
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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
This article applies recent advances in productivity and efficiency measurement to the
evaluation of skillbiased technical change. Using the general index approach we are able to
establish an ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 126 (2), 549-570)
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J23, C33, O33
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840
|
Erkki
Koskela
Rune
Stenbacka
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Equilibrium Unemployment Under Negotiated Profit Sharing
We study employment, employee effort, wages and profit sharing when firms face stochastic
revenue shocks and when base wages and profit shares are determined through
negotiations. The negotiated ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 87(2), 2006, 159-180)
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J51, J41, G32
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839
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Andrea
Bassanini
Giorgio
Brunello
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Is Training More Frequent When Wage Compression is Higher? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel
When labor markets are imperfectly competitive, firms may be willing to finance general
training if the wage structure is compressed, that is, if the increase of productivity after
training is ...
(revised version published as 'Is training more frequent when the wage premium is smaller? Evidence from the European Community Household Panel' in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15(2), 272-290)
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J24, J31, J41
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838
|
Sourafel
Girma
Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
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Government Grants, Plant Survival and Employment Growth: A Micro-Econometric Analysis
In this paper we analyse the impact of governmental grant provision on plant performance.
To this end we utilise rich information derived from three data sources for the manufacturing
sector in ...
(revised version published as 'The effect of government grants on plant survival: A micro-econometric analysis' in: International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2007, 25(4), 701-720 )
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J2, L2, H2
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837
|
Wendelin
Schnedler
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What You Always Wanted to Know About Censoring But Never Dared to Ask – Parameter Estimation for Censored Random Vectors
This article considers a wide class of censoring problems and presents a construction rule for
an objective function. This objective function generalises the ordinary likelihood as well ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2005, 24 (2), 195-217)
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C13, C24
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836
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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A Simple Solution to the Identification Problem in Detailed Wage Decompositions
Oaxaca and Ransom (1999) show that a detailed decomposition of the coefficients effect is
destined to suffer from an identification problem since the detailed coefficients effect
attributed to a ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2005, 43 (4), 766-772)
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C20, J70
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835
|
Gilles
Joseph
Olivier
Pierrard
Henri
R.
Sneessens
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Job Turnover, Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions
This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical
properties of job flows. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (4), 451-468)
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E24, J38, J63, J65
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833
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Hans
Gersbach
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Structural Reforms and the Macroeconomy: The Role of General Equilibrium Effects
We examine the macroeconomic consequences of industry wage bargaining and product
market reforms. We suggest that general equilibrium effects may be important for the
evaluation of ...
(published in: R. Solow (ed.), Macroeconomics and Structural Reform, Palgrave 2004)
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D58, E24, J50, L50, O33
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831
|
Jaap
H.
Abbring
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Analyzing the Effect of Dynamically Assigned Treatments Using Duration Models, Binary Treatment Models, and Panel Data Models
Often, the moment of a treatment and the moment at which the outcome of interest occurs
are realizations of stochastic processes with dependent unobserved determinants. Notably,
both treatment and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2004, 29 (1), 5-20)
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C14, C31, C41
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830
|
Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Emigration from the UK, 1870-1913 and 1950-1998
The international labour market has not been ‘globalised’ to the same degree over the last 40
years as have international markets for goods and capital. Immigration policies in developed
economies ...
(published in: European Review of Economic History, 2004, 8 (2), 149-171)
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F2, J6, N3
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829
|
James
J.
Heckman
Xuesong
Li
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Selection Bias, Comparative Advantage and Heterogeneous Returns to Education: Evidence from China in 2000
This paper uses newly available Chinese micro data to estimate the return to college
education for late 20th century China when allowing for heterogeneous returns among
individuals selecting into ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2004, 9(3), 155-171)
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C31
|
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828
|
Daniele
Checchi
Tullio
Jappelli
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School Choice and Quality
The 1993 Survey of Household Income and Wealth, a representative survey of the Italian
population covering 24,000 individuals, reports detailed information on children attendance of
public and ...
(published as "The Impact of Perceived Public-School Quality on Private-School Choice in Italy" in: L. Woessmann and P. Petersen (eds.), Schools and the Equal Opportunity Problem, MIT 2007, 293-310)
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I21, I22
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826
|
Karsten
T.
Hansen
James
J.
Heckman
Kathleen
Mullen
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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores
This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test
scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and
test scores ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2004, 121 (1-2), 39-98)
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C35, C15, I21
|
|
825
|
Antonio
Filippin
Andrea
Ichino
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Gender Wage Gap in Expectations and Realizations
This paper explores the extent to which the gender wage gap is anticipated by workers'
expectations. Data collected among second year students of Bocconi University convey
information about their ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (1), 125-145)
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J3, J7
|
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822
|
Doris
Weichselbaumer
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials
between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive
markets eliminate ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2007, 22 (50), 235-287)
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J16, J31, J71
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