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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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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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780
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Axel
Engellandt
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort
Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and
have been shown to provide "stepping stones" into permanent employment for workers. For
both reasons workers ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (3), 281-299)
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J24, J41, M50, C25
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779
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Martin
Biewen
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Who Are the Chronic Poor? Evidence on the Extent and the Composition of Chronic Poverty in Germany
Based on a multiple spells approach, this paper studies the extent and the composition of
chronic poverty in Germany. The results indicate that about one third of cross-sectional
poverty in a given ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2006, 13 (1), 31-62)
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C23, D31, I32
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777
|
Armin
Falk
Michael
Kosfeld
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It's all about Connections: Evidence on Network Formation
We present an economic experiment on network formation, in which subjects can decide to
form links to one another. Direct links are costly but being connected is valuable. The gametheoretic
basis ...
(published in: Review of Network Economics: 2012, 11 (3), Article 2)
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C92, C72, D63, Z13
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776
|
Laura
Arranz-Aperte
Almas
Heshmati
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Determinants of Profit Sharing in the Finnish Corporate Sector
This study investigates the role of factors that determine individual employees’ and firms’
participation in profit sharing schemes. Using a large panel data of Finnish employees for the
period ...
(published in: Indian Economic Review, 2004, 39 (1), 55-79)
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C23, E24, J30, J41
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775
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James
J.
Heckman
Lance
John
Lochner
Petra
E.
Todd
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Fifty Years of Mincer Earnings Regressions
The Mincer earnings function is the cornerstone of a large literature in empirical economics.
This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of the Mincer model and examines the
empirical support ...
(updated version published as 'Earnings Functions and Rates of Return' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2008, 2 (1), 1-31 )
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C31
|
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774
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Douglas
S.
Massey
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Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers
In this paper we study the occupational progress and earnings attainment of immigrants in
Germany over time and compare them to native Germans. Our analysis is guided by the
human capital and ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2005, 24 (6), 5-30)
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J2, J3, J4, J6, J7
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773
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Axel
Heitmueller
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Job Mobility in Britain: Are the Scots Different? Evidence from the BHPS
The Scottish extension-sample of the British Household Panel Study (BHPS) is used to shed
light on differences in job mobility patterns in England and Scotland for both men and
women. Based on ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 51(3), 329-358)
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J60, J62, C25
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772
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Eleonora
Patacchini
Yves
Zenou
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Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labor Markets in Britain
A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a tradeoff between
short-run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting…) and long-run
gains due to a ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36(2), 227-248)
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C23, D83, J64, R1
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771
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Antoni
Calvó-Armengol
Yves
Zenou
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate
through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From
this micro scenario, ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2005, 57 (3), 500-522)
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D83, J64
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770
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Axel
Heitmueller
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Coordination Failures in Network Migration
Previous migration facilitates future population moves, a phenomenon called network
migration. However, thus far, network migration has been closely linked to network
externalities. In contrast, ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2006, 74(6), 701-710)
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J60, J61, C70
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769
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Lennart
Flood
Jörgen
Hansen
Roger
Wahlberg
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Household Labor Supply and Welfare Participation in Sweden
In this paper, we formulate and estimate a structural, static model of household labor supply
and multiple welfare program participation. Given the complicated nature of both the income
tax ...
(published in Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (4), 1008-1032)
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J2
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768
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James
J.
Heckman
Salvador
Navarro
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Using Matching, Instrumental Variables and Control Functions to Estimate Economic Choice Models
This paper investigates four topics. (1) It examines the different roles played by the
propensity score (probability of selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control
functions methods. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86(1), 30-57)
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C31
|
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767
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Pedro
Carneiro
Karsten
T.
Hansen
James
J.
Heckman
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Estimating Distributions of Treatment Effects with an Application to the Returns to Schooling and Measurement of the Effects of Uncertainty on College Choice
This paper uses factor models to identify and estimate distributions of counterfactuals. We
extend LISREL frameworks to a dynamic treatment effect setting, extending matching to
account for ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2003, 44 (2), 361-422)
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C31
|
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765
|
Wendelin
Schnedler
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On the Prudence of Rewarding A While Hoping for B
In multiple-task hidden-action models, the (mis-)allocation of effort may play an important role
for benefit creation. Signals which capture this benefit and which are used in incentive
schemes ...
(improved version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 2124)
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M52, D82, M41
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764
|
Patrick
A.
Puhani
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental
European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in
the ...
(published as 'Transatlantic Differences in Labour Markets: Changes in Wage and Non-Employment Structures in the 1980s and the 1990s' in: German Economic Review, 2008, 9 (3), 312-338)
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E24, J21, J31, J64
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763
|
Martin
Biewen
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data
Applying a method suggested by Woodruff (1971), we derive the sampling variances of
Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices when estimated from complex survey
data. It turns out that ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 68 (3), 371-383 )
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C14, D31
|
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762
|
Michael
Gerfin
Robert
E.
Leu
|
The Impact of In-Work Benefits on Poverty and Household Labour Supply: A Simulation Study for Switzerland
Income support for working low income families (the “working poor”) is on top of the political
agenda in Switzerland. The current social assistance system is considered inadequate to
support ...
(revised version published as ''Evaluationg the Cost-Effectiveness of In-Work Benefits: A Simulation Study for Switzerland' in: German Economic Review, 2007, 8 (4), 447 - 467)
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I38, J22, C25
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761
|
Edward
Lazear
|
Output-Based Pay: Incentives, Retention or Sorting?
Variable pay, defined as pay that is tied to some measure of a firm’s output, has become
more important for executives of the typical American firm. Variable pay is usually touted as a
way to ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2004, 23, 1-25)
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J3
|
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759
|
Edward
Lazear
|
The Peter Principle: A Theory of Decline
Some have observed that individuals perform worse after being promoted. The Peter
Principle, which states that people are promoted to their level of incompetence, suggests that
something is ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112 (S1), S141-S163)
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J00, J6
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