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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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868
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Pablo
Brańas
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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825
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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
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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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821
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Pedro
Carneiro
James
J.
Heckman
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Human Capital Policy
This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targeted to
different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and
noncognitive ...
(published in: J. Heckman and A. Krueger, Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policy?, MIT Press, 2003)
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J31
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819
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Michel
Beine
Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers
We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source
countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels
(Carrington and ...
(new version entitled "Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries: winners and losers" published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (528), 515-843 )
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F22, J24, O15
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818
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John
H.
Pencavel
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The Surprising Retreat of Union Britain
After expanding in the 1970s, unionism in Britain contracted substantially over the next two
decades. This paper argues that the statutory reforms in the 1980s and 1990s were of less
consequence in ...
(published in: David Card, Richard Blundell, and Richard B. Freeman (eds.), Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2004, 181-232)
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J5
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817
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Torben
M.
Andersen
Tryggvi Thor
Herbertsson
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Measuring Globalization
The multivariate technique of factor analysis is used to combine several indicators of
economic integration and international transactions into a single measure or index of
globalization. The index ...
(published as 'Quantifying Globalization' in: Applied Economics, 37 (10), 2005, 1089 - 1098 )
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F02, C82
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815
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Arild
Aakvik
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Kjell
Vaage
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Measuring Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education in Norway Using Educational Reforms
The decision to take more education is complex, and is influenced by individual ability,
financial constraints, family background, preferences, etc. Such factors, normally unobserved
by the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (4), 483-500)
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C3, I2
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814
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Geert
Ridder
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job
durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose
and apply an ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1 (1), 224-244 )
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J6, J3, C4, C5
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813
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Edward
Lazear
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Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Skill-Weights Approach
One problem with the theory of firm-specific human capital is that it is difficult to generate
convincing examples of investment that could generate the sometimes observed large and
continuing ...
(Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 117 (5), 914 - 940)
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M5, J24
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812
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John
T.
Addison
Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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German Works Councils in the Production Process
In a sharp break with past German research, some recent estimates have suggested that
plants with work councils have 25 to 30 per cent higher productivity than their works-councilfree
counterparts. ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften/Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2006, 126 (2), 251-283)
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J50
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811
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Miles
Corak
Wen-Hao
Chen
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Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data
Administrative data on the universe of employees, firms, and unemployment insurance (UI)
recipients in Canada over an 11 year period are used to examine the operation of UI using
the firm as the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 299-336)
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J65, H25
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809
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Simon
Commander
Mari
Kangasniemi
L. Alan
Winters
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The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon?
The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered
to be costly for the sending country, due to lost investments in education, high fiscal costs
and labour ...
(published in: R. Baldwin and L. A. Winters (eds.), Challenges to Globalisation. NBER and University of Chicago Press, 2004)
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J6, F2, O1
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808
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Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model
We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality,
and investigate how migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality
in the origin ...
(new version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (2), 187-200)
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O11, O15, J61, D31
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