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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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J0, I3, H3
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734
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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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733
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Stefan
C.
Wolter
Stefan
Denzler
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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland
In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this
paper estimates wages for teachers and non-teachers. The data used are ten surveys of
graduates of all ...
(published in: Brussels Economic Review / Cahiers Economiques de Bruxelles, 2004, 47 (3), 387-408)
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I2, J24, J45
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732
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Armin
Falk
Andrea
Ichino
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Clean Evidence on Peer Pressure
While confounding factors typically jeopardize the possibility to use observational data to
measure peer effects, field experiments offer the possibility to obtain clean evidence. In this
paper we ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (1), 39-57)
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D2, J2, K4
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731
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Noyna
DebBurman
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Educational Attainment: Analysis by Immigrant Generation
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the largely ignored issue of the
determinants of the educational attainment of adults by immigrant generation. Using Current
Population ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23 (4), 361-379)
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I21, J24, J61
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730
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Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Innovation and Employment: Evidence from Italian Microdata
The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and
employment tends to suggest that technological change has a positive effect on jobs, at least
at the level of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economics, 2005, 86(1), 65-83)
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O33
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728
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Michael
Lechner
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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What is the Value Added by Caseworkers?
We investigate the allocation of unemployed individuals to different subprograms within
Swiss active labour market policy by the caseworkers at local employment offices in
Switzerland in 1998. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 135-151)
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J68, H00
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727
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Martin
Raiser
Mark
E
Schaffer
Johannes
Schuchhardt
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Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition
The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern
Europe and the former Soviet Union involves fundamental shifts in the allocation of resources
and deep ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2004, 15 (1), 47-81)
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O14, O40, P20
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726
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Steffen
Habermalz
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Job Matching and the Returns to Educational Signals
This paper develops a multi-period model, in which workers are matched with jobs according
to imperfect educational signals and in which their subsequent productivities depend on both
their ...
(published as 'More Detail on the Pattern of Returns to Educational Signals' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2006, 73 (1), 125–135)
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I20, J41, D8
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724
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John
T.
Addison
Ralph
Bailey
W. Stanley
Siebert
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The Impact of Deunionisation on Earnings Dispersion Revisited
This paper examines the effects of union decline in Britain on changes in earnings dispersion
between 1983 and 1995. As part and parcel of the exercise, the effects of changes in the
wage gap and ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 337-363)
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D3, J31, J51
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723
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Melvyn
Coles
Barbara
Petrongolo
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A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data
This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly
due to search frictions or due to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal
aggregation bias, ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (4), 1113-1141 )
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E24, J41, J63, J64
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722
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C.
Katharina
Spieß
Felix
Büchel
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Children's School Placement in Germany: Does Kindergarten Attendance Matter?
The positive effects of early childhood programs on children's school success have been
demonstrated in the literature. However, most studies were completed in the U.S.A., where
early childhood ...
(published in: Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2003, 18 (2), 255-270)
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I21, I28
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721
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Harminder
Battu
McDonald
Mwale
Yves
Zenou
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Do Oppositional Identities Reduce Employment for Ethnic Minorities?
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social
environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin
(religion, ...
(published as 'Oppositional identities and the labor market' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 643-667)
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J15
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720
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Tapio
K.
Palokangas
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Labour Market Regulation, Productivity-Improving R&D and Endogenous Growth
We present a growth model in which R&D increases productivity, union-firm bargaining
determines the distribution of rents and the government can support unions by labour market
regulation. We show ...
(published as "Union-Firm Bargaining, Productivity Improvement and Endogenous Growth" in: Labour, 2004, 18 (2), 191-205)
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O40, J50
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719
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James
Albrecht
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Susan
Vroman
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Equilibrium Directed Search with Multiple Applications
We analyze a model of directed search in which unemployed job seekers observe all posted
wages. We allow for the possibility of multiple applications by workers and ex post
competition among ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2006, 73 (4), 869-891)
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J64, D83, J41
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718
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Consistency in Organization
Recent thinking has emphasized the importance of consistency in a firm’s compensation
policy. By starting from Williamson’s ideas about idiosyncratic exchange, this view can be
supplied with some ...
(final version published in: Journal of Theoretical and Institutional Economics, 2008, 164(4), 612–623)
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L22, L25, J33, J53
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716
|
Michael
Rosholm
Lars
Skipper
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Is Labour Market Training a Curse for the Unemployed? Evidence from a Social Experiment
In this paper, we investigate the impact of classroom training programmes on individual
unemployment rates in Denmark. In 1994 a social experiment was conducted, where
unemployed applicants for ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (2), 338-365. )
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J64, J68
|
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715
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Ernst
Fehr
Urs
Fischbacher
Bernhard
von Rosenbladt
Jürgen
Schupp
Gert
G.
Wagner
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A Nation-Wide Laboratory: Examining Trust and Trustworthiness by Integrating Behavioral Experiments into Representative Surveys
Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection
biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the
questionability of their ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2002, 122 (4), 519-542)
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A13, C42, C82, C92, C93, D84, J24
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712
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Ernst
Fehr
Joseph
Henrich
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Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism
In recent years a large number of experimental studies have documented the existence of
strong reciprocity among humans. Strong reciprocity means that people willingly repay gifts
and punish the ...
(published in: P. Hammerstein (ed.), Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004 )
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A13, C70, C91, C92
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711
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Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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Healthy Living in Hard Times
Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during
temporary economic downturns ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2005, 24 (2), 341-363)
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E32, I12, J2
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710
|
Zvi
Eckstein
Yoram
Weiss
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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of
immigrants, based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are: (i) the rise
of the return to ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (4), 665-695)
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J24, J31, J6
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709
|
Leif
Danziger
Shoshana
Neuman
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Delays in Renewal of Labor Contracts: Theory and Evidence
In many countries, an expired labor contract is automatically extended during the often
protracted delay before the new contract is signed. Our theoretical model focuses on
macroeconomic factors in ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23(2), 341-372)
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J52
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708
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Western Germany: Evidence from Micro Data, 1980-2000
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that union density
fell substantially in West Germany from 1980 to 2000. Such a negative trend can be
observed for men and ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2005, 3 (1), 1-24)
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J51
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707
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Trade Union Membership in Eastern and Western Germany: Convergence or Divergence?
An empirical analysis of various waves of the ALLBUS social survey shows that the level and
the structure of unionization has become more and more similar in eastern and western
Germany in the ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (3), 213-232 )
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J51
|
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706
|
Sourafel
Girma
Holger
Görg
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Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects after Foreign Acquisitions
This paper investigates whether the acquisition of a domestic establishment by a foreign
owner has any effects on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The
analysis uses plant ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2004, 50 (1), 89-110)
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L25, F23
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705
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Giorgio
Brunello
Daniele
Checchi
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School Quality and Family Background in Italy
We study whether the combined significant reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio and increase
in parental education observed in Italy between the end of World War II and the end of the
1980s have had ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (5), 563-577)
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J24, J31
|
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704
|
Michael
R.
Ransom
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
|
Intrafirm Mobility and Sex Differences in Pay
In this paper we analyze eight years of employment data of a regional grocery store chain in
the U.S. The data include job titles, wage rates, and earnings for all employees. We examine
initial job ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2005, 58 (2), 219-237)
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J3, J6
|
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702
|
M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
Marco
E.
Terrones
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How Does Globalization Affect the Synchronization of Business Cycles?
This paper examines the impact of rising trade and financial integration on international
business cycle comovement among a large group of industrial and developing countries. The
results provide ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2003, 93 (2), 57-62)
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E32, F42, F41
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701
|
Laszlo
Goerke
Jakob
B.
Madsen
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Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits in a Unionised Economy
We show that a stronger earnings relationship of unemployment compensation reduces
wages and increases employment in an economy in which wages are determined by a trade
union that maximises the ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2003, 27 (1), 41-62)
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E24, J51, J65
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