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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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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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806
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays
a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous
production ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2003, 44 (4), 1337-1357)
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J3, D83, J42, J6, C72
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805
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Aico
van Vuuren
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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages
Labor market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of
the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the
popularity ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 875-885)
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J3, J6, J4, C5
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802
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Heather
Antecol
Peter
J.
Kuhn
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Assimilation via Prices or Quantities? Labor Market Institutions and Immigrant Earnings Growth in Australia, Canada, and the United States
How do international differences in labor market institutions affect the nature of immigrant
earnings assimilation? Using 1980/81 and 1990/91 cross-sections of census data from
Australia, Canada, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41 (4), 821-840)
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J38, J64
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800
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Thomas
Beissinger
Christoph
Knoppik
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Sind Nominallöhne starr? Neuere Evidenz und wirtschaftspolitische Implikationen
Bei Vorliegen nach unten starrer Nominallöhne erschwert niedrige Inflation
Reallohnanpassungen und führt so möglicherweise zu erhöhter gleichgewichtiger
Arbeitslosigkeit. Dieser Aufsatz analysiert ...
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2005, 6 (2), 171-188)
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J30, E24, E31, E52
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799
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Robert
A.
Hart
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General Human Capital and Employment Adjustment in the Great Depression: Apprentices and Journeymen in UK Engineering
The relationship between training and firm-level employment adjustment given an
unanticipated fall in product demand has been central to human capital theory. The most
cataclysmic negative output ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2005, 57 (1), 169-189)
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E24, J24, N34
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798
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James
J.
Heckman
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program: Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program
This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility,
awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine
the sources of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (2), 243-298)
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J24
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797
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Espen
Bratberg
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Kjell
Vaage
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Assessing Changes in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility
Previous research on changes in intergenerational mobility suggests that mobility is
decreasing over time. One explanation for this pattern is increased cross-sectional income
inequality. In ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Norway: Levels and Trends' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107(3), 419-435)
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J62, C23
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795
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Barry
Hirsch
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Reconsidering Union Wage Effects: Surveying New Evidence on an Old Topic
I examine evidence on private sector union wage gaps in the U.S. The consensus opinion
among labor economists of an average union premium of roughly 15 percent is called into
question. Two forms of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2004, 25 (2), 233-266)
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J3, J5, C81
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794
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Paul
Frijters
Michael A.
Shields
Stephen
Wheatley Price
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Investigating the Quitting Decision of Nurses: Panel Data Evidence from the British National Health Service
There is currently a worldwide shortage of registered nurses, driven by large shifts in both the
demand for and supply of nurses. Consequently, various policies to increase the recruitment
and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (1), 57-74)
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J45, J63, I18
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793
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Tapio
K.
Palokangas
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Foreign Direct Investment, Labour Market Regulation and Self-Interested Governments
This document examines foreign direct investment (FDI) when multinationals and labour
unions bargain over labour contracts and lobby the self-interested government for taxation
and labour market ...
(revised version published as "Investment, Expropriation and Unionization" in: Economics of Governance, 2009, 10 (1), 27-42)
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F21, F23, J51, D78
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792
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Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
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What Happens When Agent T Gets a Computer? The Labor Market Impact of Cost Efficient Computer Adoption
This paper offers a model to explain how computer technology has changed the labor
market. It demonstrates that wage differentials between computer users and non-users are
consistent with the fact ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2004, 54 (2), 137-151)
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J30, J31, O33
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790
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Alessandro
Cigno
Annalisa
Luporini
Anna
Pettini
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Hidden Information Problems in the Design of Family Allowances
We consider a case where some of the parents have higher ability to raise children than
others. First-best policy gives both types of parents the same level of utility. If parental
actions are not ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (4), 645-655)
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D13, D82, H31, J13, J24
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789
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José
António Cabral
Vieira
Ana Rute
Cardoso
Miguel
Portela
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Recruitment and Pay at the Establishment Level: Gender Segregation and the Wage Gap in Portugal
This paper aims at quantifying the trend in worker segregation at the establishment level and
its impact on wages in Portugal over a fifteen year period. We concentrate on the gender
dimension, to ...
(published as 'Gender segregation and the wage gap in Portugal: An analysis at the establishment level' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3 (2), 145-168)
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J31, D21, J7
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788
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Felix
Büchel
Joachim
R.
Frick
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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany – Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects
Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance
of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income
redistribution on these ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (3), 553–581)
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J15, J18, D31
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787
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Pietro
Garibaldi
Lia
Pacelli
Andrea
Borgarello
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Employment Protection Legislation and the Size of Firms
The existing literature ignores the fact that in most European countries the strictness of
Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) varies across the firm size distribution. In Italy firms
are ...
(published in: Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di Economia, 2004, 33 (1), 33 - 68)
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J4
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786
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Peter
R.
Mueser
Kenneth
Troske
Alexey
Gorislavsky
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Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance
This paper uses administrative data from Missouri to examine the sensitivity of job training
program impact estimates based on alternative nonexperimental methods. In addition to
simple regression ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89 (4), 761–783.)
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J2, J6, C1
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785
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Rita
K.
Almeida
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The Effects of Foreign Owned Firms on the Labor Market
Cross sectional evidence shows that foreign firms have a more educated workforce and pay
higher wages than domestic firms. These results do not necessarily imply that foreign direct
investment ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2007, 72 (1), 75-96)
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C31, F23, J31
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784
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Olivier
Pierrard
Henri
R.
Sneessens
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Low-Skilled Unemployment, Biased Technological Shocks and Job Competition
The unemployment rise in EU countries has been particularly strong for low-skilled workers.
This observation has often been explained in terms of biased technical change and relative
wage ...
(revised version published as "Biased Technological Shocks, Relative Wage Rigidities and Low-Skilled Unemployment”in Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 55(3), 330-352)
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E24, J21, J23
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783
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Barry
Hirsch
Edward
J.
Schumacher
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Match Bias in Wage Gap Estimates Due to Earnings Imputation
About 30% of workers in the CPS have earnings imputed. Wage gap estimates are biased
toward zero when the attribute being studied (e.g., union status) is not a criterion used to
match donors to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (3), 689-722)
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J3, J5, C81
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782
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Maia
Güell
Barbara
Petrongolo
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How Binding Are Legal Limits? Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Work in Spain
In the mid-1980s, several European countries, characterized by high levels of employment
protection, introduced fixed-term contracts. Since then most accessions to employment have
been through ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 153-183 )
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C41, J41, J60
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