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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Michael
Gerfin
Robert
E.
Leu
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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
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Edward
Lazear
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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
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Edward
Lazear
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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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757
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Jennifer
Hunt
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Teen Births Keep American Crime High
The United States has a teenage birth rate that is high relative to that of other developed
countries, and falling more slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods
and hence ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 533-566)
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J12, K42
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756
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
Nina
Smith
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Swimming Upstream, Floating Downstream: Comparing Women's Relative Wage Positions in the U.S. and Denmark
We compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps have developed between 1983 and
1995 using U.S. PSID and Danish Longitudinal Sample data. Using a new decomposition
method, we show that changes in ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (2), 243-266)
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J7
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755
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Thomas
Dohmen
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In Support of the Supporters? Do Social Forces Shape Decisions of the Impartial?
Analyzing the neutrality of referees during nine German premier league (1. Bundesliga)
soccer seasons, this paper documents evidence that social forces influence agents'
preferences and decisions. ...
(revised version published as IZA DP 1595)
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J00, M50
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753
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Simon
Burgess
Hélène
Turon
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Unemployment Equilibrium and On-the-Job Search
This paper uses the search and matching framework to explore the impact of employed job
search on the labour market. The specific features of our model are endogenous employed
job search, flows in ...
(published as 'Worker Flows, Job Flows and Unemployment in a Matching Model' in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (3), 393-408)
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J64
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752
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Nikolaj
Malchow-Møller
Jan
Rose
Skaksen
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Skill-Biased Technological Change in Denmark: A Disaggregate Perspective
In this paper, we provide an industry-level analysis of skill-biased technological change
(SBTC) in Denmark over the last two decades. The analysis shows that SBTC has varied
considerably across ...
(published as 'Changes in Demand for Skilled Labour in Denmark - A Disaggregate Perspective' in: Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift / Danish Journal of Economics, 2004, 142 (1), 67 - 80)
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J24, J31, L6
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751
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Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
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Are Computer Skills the New Basic Skills? The Returns to Computer, Writing and Math Skills in Britain
The large increase in computer use has raised the question whether people have to be
taught computer skills before entering the labour market. Using data from the 1997 Skills
Survey of the Employed ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 85-98)
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J30, J31
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750
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Reinhard
Hujer
Marco
Caliendo
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
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New Evidence on the Effects of Job Creation Schemes in Germany - A Matching Approach with Threefold Heterogeneity
This paper evaluates the effects of job creation schemes on the participating individuals in
Germany. Since previous empirical studies of these measures have been based on relatively
small datasets ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2004, 58(4), 257-302 )
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H43, J64, J68, C13, C40
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749
|
Vibeke
Jakobsen
Nina
Smith
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The Educational Attainment of the Children of the Danish ‘Guest Worker’ Immigrants
This paper analyses the educational attainment of young first generation immigrants in
Denmark who are children of the ‘guest workers’ who immigrated from Turkey, Pakistan and
Ex-Yugoslavia in the ...
(published in: Danish Economic Journal, 2006, 144 (2), 18-42)
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J61, J24
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748
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies
This paper uses a two country trade and geography model of monopolistic competition to
study the effects of wage policies and social policies on the location of industry. It is first
shown that a ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (1), 135-150)
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F12, F15, F16, F21, F22, R12
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747
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Julián
Messina
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Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations
The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the
presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures
the ...
(revised version published as 'The role of product market regulations in the process of structural change' in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (7), 1863-1890)
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O11, O41, L5
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746
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Andreas
Ammermüller
Hans
Heijke
Ludger
Woessmann
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Schooling Quality in Eastern Europe: Educational Production During Transition
We estimate educational production functions for seven Eastern European transition
countries, using student-level TIMSS data for lower secondary education. The results show
substantial effects of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 579-599)
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I21, P36
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745
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Ludger
Woessmann
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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational
performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family
background and ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (3), 331-353)
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O15, I20, H52
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744
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Martin
R.
West
Ludger
Woessmann
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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence
We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized
classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of
national school ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, 22 (4), 944-968)
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I28, H52, D73
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742
|
Richard
A.
Easterlin
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Building a Better Theory of Well-Being
What do social surveys of life cycle experience tell us about the determinants of subjective
well-being? First, that the psychologists’ setpoint model is wrong. Life events in the
nonpecuniary ...
(published in: Luigino Bruni and Pierluigi Porta (eds.), Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2006)
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D60, I10, I31, J12, Z13
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741
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Barry
Hirsch
David
A.
Macpherson
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Wages, Sorting on Skill, and the Racial Composition of Jobs
Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density
of black employees, following standard controls. Such correlations can exist absent
discrimination or as ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (1), 189-210)
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J3, J7
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740
|
Barry
Hirsch
Stephen
L.
Mehay
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Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design
A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from
unmeasured differences between military veterans and nonveterans. The effects of activeduty
service are ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (3), 673-700)
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J3
|
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738
|
Volker
Grossmann
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Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium
This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible
assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms’ performance. Despite an ex
ante symmetry ...
(published as "Firm Size, Productivity, and Manager Wages: A Job Assignment Approach" in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Advances in Theoretical Economics, 2007, 7 (1), Article 8)
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D40, J31, L16
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737
|
Alison
L.
Booth
Marco
Francesconi
Gylfi
Zoega
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Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey from 1991 to 1996, the authors
investigate the impact of union coverage on work-related training and how the union-training
link affects wages and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 57 (1), 68-91 )
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J24, J31, J41
|
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735
|
Raphaël
Desmet
Alain
Jousten
Sergio
Perelman
Pierre
Pestieau
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Micro-Simulation of Social Security Reforms in Belgium
The present paper analyzes the budgetary impact of various Social Security reforms in the
Belgian institutional setting. Our approach relies on parameters that were derived in Dellis et
alii (2002) ...
(published in: J. Gruber and D. Wise, (eds.), “Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Fiscal Implications of Reform”, 2007, University of Chicago Press and NBER)
|
J0, I3, H3
|
|
734
|
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Sibling Rivalry: A Six Country Comparison
In this paper we analyse with the PISA data on literacy achievement of fifteen-year-old pupils
in six member countries of the OECD, whether the fact of having many siblings affects the
individual ...
(published together with Maja Coradi Vellacott as 'Sibling Rivalry for Parental Resources: A Problem for Equity in Education? A Six-Country Comparison with PISA Data' in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie / Swiss Journal of Sociology /Revue suisse de sociologie , 2003, 29 (3), 377-398)
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D1, I2, J2
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