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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Michael
R.
Ransom
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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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
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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
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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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699
|
David
N.
Margolis
Véronique
Simonnet
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Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes
Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide
individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks
help? In this paper, ...
(published in French as "Filières éducatives, réseaux et réussite professionnelle" in Economie et prévision, 2005164-165, 2005.)
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J31, J38, J21, J23, I28
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698
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Torben
M.
Andersen
Jan
Rose
Skaksen
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Product Market Integration, Comparative Advantages and Labour Market Performance
In a two-country model with trade driven by comparative advantages, it is considered how
imperfectly competitive labour markets are affected by lower frictions in international goods
trade. Easier ...
(published as "Labour Demand, Wage Mark-ups and Product Market Integration" in: Journal of Economics, 2007, 92 (2), 103-135)
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F15, J30, J50
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696
|
Ronald
Schettkat
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Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?
This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state
institutions (especially employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the
functioning of the ...
(CESifo Dice Report , 2003, 2, 27-33)
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E2, J0, P1, P5
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695
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Sule
Alan
Thomas
F.
Crossley
Paul
Grootendorst
Michael
R.
Veall
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Out-of-Pocket Prescription Drug Expenditures and Public Prescription Drug Programs
Canadian household prescription drug expenditures are studied using different years of the
Statistics Canada Family Expenditure Survey. Master files are used, expanding the number
of available ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2005, 38(1), 128-148)
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I18, J42
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694
|
Eswar
Prasad
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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages
of unemployed workers and macroeconomic factors – including aggregate and local
unemployment rates, ...
(published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe: Proceedings of the ECB's Annual Labor Market Workshop, London: Edward Elgar, 2004)
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J6, J3
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693
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Laurent
Gobillon
Harris
Selod
Yves
Zenou
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Spatial Mismatch: From the Hypothesis to the Theories
Since the 1950s, there has been a steady decentralization of entry-level jobs towards the
suburbs of American cities, while racial minorities —and particularly blacks— have remained
in city ...
(published as 'The Mechanisms of Spatial Mismatch ' in: Urban Studies, 2007, 44 (12), 2401-2427)
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J15, J41, R14
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692
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Tony
E.
Smith
Yves
Zenou
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Spatial Mismatch, Search Effort and Urban Spatial Structure
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism for the spatial mismatch hypothesis.
Spatial mismatch can here be the result of optimizing behavior on the part of the labor market
participants. ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2003, 54 (1), 129-156)
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D83, J64, R14
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691
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Barbara
Petrongolo
Christopher
A.
Pissarides
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Scale Effects in Markets with Search
Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching
functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the
reactions of job ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (508), 21-44)
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J31, J64, D83
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689
|
Almas
Heshmati
Ilham
Haouas
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The Effects of Union Wage-Settings on Firms’ Production Factor Decisions
This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of the interaction between firms and trade union in determining
wages and ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11 (7), 415-420)
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C33, D21, E24, J50, L60
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688
|
Ilham
Haouas
Mahmoud
Yagoubi
Almas
Heshmati
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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971–96) for importable
and exportable ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2005, 17 (4), 527-551)
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C23, E24, J23, J31, F10, L60
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687
|
Ilham
Haouas
Mahmoud
Yagoubi
Almas
Heshmati
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Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971–96. The adjustment ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2003, 1 (3), 195-214)
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C23, E24, J23, L60
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686
|
Adriaan
Kalwij
Rob
Alessie
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Permanent and Transitory Wage Inequality of British Men, 1975-2001: Year, Age and Cohort Effects
We examine the variance-covariance structure of log-wages over time and over the lifecycle of British men from 1975 to 2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2007, 22 (6), 1063 - 1093)
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C23, D31, J31, J60
|
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685
|
Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
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Do We Need Computer Skills to Use a Computer? Evidence from Britain
Using data from the 1997 Skills Survey of the Employed British Workforce, we examine the
returns to computer skills in Britain. Many researchers, using information on computer use,
have concluded ...
(published in: Labour, 2006, 20 (3), 505-532)
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J31, O30
|
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684
|
Patrick
A.
Puhani
|
The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants
Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise
in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997.
This paper ...
(published as 'Relative Demand Shocks and Relative Wage Rigidities During the Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment' in: Kyklos, 2003, 56 (4),541-562)
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E24, J21, J31, J64
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683
|
Eric
Strobl
|
Is Education Used as a Signaling Device for Productivity in Developing Countries? Evidence from Ghana
This paper investigates whether education is used as a signaling device for worker
productivity in developing countries. To do such we employ a simple test of employer
learning on Ghana ...
(published as "Do employers use education as a signal for ability in developing countries? Evidence from Ghana" in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11(4), 259-261)
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O12, J30
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682
|
Bart
Cockx
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Vocational Training of Unemployed Workers in Belgium
In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational
classroom training on the rate of transition from unemployment. We propose a “control
function” estimator ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (1), 23-48)
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C41, J24, J64, J68
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