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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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684
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
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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
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Eric
Strobl
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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
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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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681
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Marcus
Hagedorn
Ashok
Kaul
Tim
Mennel
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An Adverse Selection Model of Optimal Unemployment Insurance
We derive the shape of optimal unemployment insurance (UI) contracts when agents can
exert search effort but face different search costs and have private information about their
type. We derive a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (3), 490-502 )
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C61, D82, E61, J64, J65
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679
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Arnd
Kölling
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make
more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee
(e.g., human capital ...
(published in: Beiträge zur Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, 2005, 294, 81-99)
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J3
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675
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Jozef
Konings
Olga
Kupets
Hartmut
Lehmann
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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects
This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using
a unique data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in both the manufacturing and
the ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 321-356)
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E24, F14, J63, P23
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674
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
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The Wealth and Asset Holdings of U.S.- Born and Foreign-Born Households: Evidence from SIPP Data
SIPP data are used to analyze the wealth of the U.S. foreign-born population. We find that
the median wealth level of U.S.-born couples is 2.3 times the median of foreign-born couples,
while the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2006, 51 (1), 17-42)
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J61, G11, J10
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673
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Alison
L.
Booth
Marco
Francesconi
Jeff
Frank
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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?
In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to
regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a “buffer stock” model
of temporary work ...
(published in: Gabriel Fagan, Francesco Paolo Mongelli and Julian Morgan (eds.), Institutions and Wage Formation in the New Europe, Edward Elgar 2003)
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J21, J30, J63
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672
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Douglas
S.
Massey
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Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic
process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from
selection bias. ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 16 (4), 2003, 631-653)
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J61, J2, C4
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671
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s
This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above
and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal,
nationally ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 49 (1), 2003, 5-22)
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J1, J3, A2, C1, C3
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670
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Maristella
Botticini
Zvi
Eckstein
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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations,
such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred
between the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2007, 5 (5), 885-926,)
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N3, O1, J1, J2, Z1
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668
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Jürgen
Meckl
Stefan
Zink
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Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality
The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of
physical capital ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (498), 835-854)
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I21, J31, O15
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667
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Pascal
Arnds
Holger
Bonin
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Arbeitsmarkteffekte und finanzpolitische Folgen der demographischen Alterung in Deutschland
Die deutsche Bevölkerung durchläuft in den nächsten Jahrzehnten einen demographischen
Alterungsprozess, der als erstes die Erwerbsbevölkerung erfasst. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert
die ökonomischen ...
(published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 131-177)
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N30, E66, J00, H55
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666
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Pascal
Arnds
Holger
Bonin
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Frühverrentung in Deutschland: Ökonomische Anreize und institutionelle Strukturen
Das durchschnittliche Rentenzugangsalter in Deutschland liegt erheblich unter der gesetzlichen Regelaltersgrenze. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die arbeitsmarkt- und rentenpolitischen Ursachen der ...
(published in: M. Herfurth, M. Kohli and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Arbeit in einer alternden Gesellschaft (Labor in an Aging Society), Leverkusen: Leske+Budrich, 2003, 65-91)
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J26, H55
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665
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Holger
Görg
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Fancy a Stay at the 'Hotel California'? Foreign Direct Investment, Taxation and Firing Costs
This paper looks at the trade off between investment incentives and exit costs for the location of foreign direct investment (FDI). This issue does not appear to have been tackled in much detail in ...
(revised version published as 'Fancy a stay at the 'Hotel California'? in: Kyklos, 2005, 58 (4), 519-535)
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F23, H25, J65
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664
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Jan
Rose
Skaksen
Anders
Sorensen
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Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages: The Case of Danish Manufacturing
Relative wages have been remarkably rigid for the last two decades in Danish manufacturing despite large shifts in relative employment from unskilled labor towards skilled and educated labor. ...
(published as 'Skill Upgrading and Rigid Relative Wages' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2005, 5(1), Art. 7)
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J31, J51, E32, F02, O39
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663
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Pei
Zhu
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Another Look at the New York City School Voucher Experiment
This paper reexamines data from the New York City school choice program, the largest and best implemented private school scholarship experiment yet conducted. In the experiment, low-income public ...
(published in: American Behavioral Scientist, 2004, 47 (5), 658-698)
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I2
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662
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Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?
In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating ...
(revised version published as "Dealing with Monopsony Power: the Case for Employment Subsidies" in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (1), 83-89 )
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J2, J3
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661
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Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Efficiency Wages and Effort: Are Hard Jobs Better?
Efficiency wage theory predicts that the wage per unit of effort will be lower in intensively
monitored sectors. This wage differential will increase in effort. Using employer-employee
matched data ...
(revised version published as "Estimating the Shirking Model with Variable Effort" in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 623-647)
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J41
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660
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Eric
Strobl
Robert
Thornton
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Do Large Employers Pay More in Developing Countries? The Case of Five African Countries
Using comparable data sets for five African countries we estimate, and evaluate possible
explanations for, the employer size wage effect across these. Our results indicate, just as has
been ...
(revised version published as "A Comparative Study of the Employer Size Wage Effect in Africa" in: Journal of Economic Development, 2004, 29 (1), 137-161)
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J3, O1
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659
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Eric
Strobl
David
Byrne
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Defining Unemployment in Developing Countries: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) argues for relaxing the standard definition of unemployment in developing countries by eliminating the requirement that a person be actively searching for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2004, 73 (1), 465-476)
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J6, O1
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658
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Giorgio
Brunello
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Why Do Students Expect to Stay Longer in College? Evidence from Europe
We investigate the expected college completion time of European college students by using
data from a survey of more than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess
time to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2003, 80 (2), 247-253.)
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I20, I22
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655
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Robin
Naylor
Jeremy
Smith
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Effects of In-Class Variation and Student Rank on the Probability of Withdrawal: Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis for UK University Students
From individual-level data for nine entire cohorts of undergraduate students in UK
universities, we estimate the probability that an individual will drop out of university during
their first-year. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2005, 24 (3), 251-262)
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J24, I2
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654
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Ulf-G.
Gerdtham
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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Deaths Rise in Good Economic Times: Evidence From the OECD
This study uses aggregate data for 23 OECD countries over the 1960-1997 period to
examine the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and fatalities. The main finding
is that total mortality ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4 (3), 298-316.)
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E32, J2, I12
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653
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Wim
Groot
Henriette
Maassen van den Brink
Erik
Plug
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Money for Health: The Compensating Variation of Cardiovascular Diseases
This paper introduces a new method to calculate the extent to which individuals are willing to
trade money for improvements in their health status. An individual welfare function of income
(WFI) is ...
(published a 'Money for health: the equivalent variation of cardiovascular diseases' in: Health Economics, 2004, 13 (9), 859-872)
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I10, I12
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652
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Erik
Plug
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How Do Parents Raise the Educational Attainment of Future Generations?
The problem with most intergenerational mobility estimates is that unmeasured and inherited
abilities prevent us from drawing inferences. In this paper we estimate the intergenerational
mobility of ...
(published as 'Estimating the Effect of Mother's Schooling on Children's Schooling Using a Sample of Adoptees' in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (1), 358-368)
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I21, J13, J24
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651
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation
It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral
basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange.
Everyday life is, ...
(final version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42)
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A13, A14, B52, D21, D23, L14, L22
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650
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Harminder
Battu
Peter J.
Sloane
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Overeducation and Ethnic Minorities in Britain
This study examines the utilisation of education across ethnic minorities in the UK. In particular, we examine the incidence of mismatch between educational qualifications and occupational ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2004, 72 (4), 535-559)
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I2, J3, J7
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649
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Justus
Veenman
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From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands
This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the
Netherlands. We find that only for employment rates there are some differences across
ethnic groups. ...
(published in: De Economist, 2004, 152 (4), 473-490)
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J15, J61
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648
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Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Works Councils – Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?
Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in
the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that
establishments with ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2004, 11 (3), 159–161)
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J50
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647
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Christian
Grund
Dirk
Sliwka
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Envy and Compassion in Tournaments
Many experiments indicate that most individuals are not purely motivated by material self
interest, but also care about the well being of others. In this paper we examine tournaments
among inequity ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2005, 14 (1), 187-207)
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M51, M52, D23, D63
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645
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Long-Run Inflation-Unemployment Dynamics: The Spanish Phillips Curve and Economic Policy
This paper takes a new look at the long-run dynamics of inflation and unemployment in
response to permanent changes in the growth rate of the money supply. We examine the
Phillips curve from the ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2008, 30 (2), 279-300)
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E2, E3, E4, E5, J3
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643
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Anders
Björklund
Marianne
Sundström
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Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach
This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental
separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We
use data on about ...
(published as 'Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Analysis on Swedish Register Data' in: Economica, 2006, 73 (292), 605-624)
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J12, I20, I30
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642
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Joop
Hartog
Aslan
Zorlu
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The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on
natives’ wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for
The Netherlands, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (1), 113-151)
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J15, J31
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641
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Joop
Hartog
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education: A Cross-Section Test for Spain
We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2007, 10 (1) , 1-28)
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I21
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640
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Joop
Hartog
Nicole
Jonker
Hans
van Ophem
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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?
In the Netherlands auditors can be trained in a part-time educational track in which students
combine working and studying or in a full-time educational track. The former training is
relatively ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38, (9), 1019-1035)
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C35, C41, J24, J31, J63
|
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639
|
Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?
If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive
activities and depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which
cares about ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (1), 129-144)
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D3, H23, I3, J24, J31, O34
|
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637
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Holger
Bonin
Wolfram
Kempe
Hilmar
Schneider
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Household Labor Supply Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies in Germany
This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy
schemes proposed to foster low-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-
Economic Panel, we estimate ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 199-208)
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J68, J38, H24, J22
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636
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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A Reappraisal of the Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff
This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional
growth" describing the interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the
money supply grows ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21 (1), 1-32)
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E2, E3, E4, E5, J3
|
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634
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Adriana
Kugler
Robert
M.
Sauer
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Doctors Without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel
Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this
paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained
physicians ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 437-466)
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D45, J17, J24, J31, J61, J62, L15, L51
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633
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Adriana
Kugler
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Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages
Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage
sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals
because they help ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2003, 10 (5), 531-556)
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E24, J41, J63, J64, J68
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632
|
Bart
Cockx
Muriel
Dejemeppe
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Duration Dependence in the Exit Rate out of Unemployment in Belgium: Is It True or Spurious?
On the basis of aggregate data for the early nineties, we analyse the determinants of
unemployment duration for laid-off male workers in Wallonia (Belgium). Our results
demonstrate that if ranking ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (1), 1-23 )
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C41, J64
|
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629
|
Ira
N.
Gang
Kunal
Sen
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India
This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the
Scheduled Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled
population. The ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty in Rural India: Caste and Tribe' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2008, 54 (1), 50-70)
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I32, O12, J15
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628
|
Robert
Breunig
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Yvonne
Dunlop
Marion
Terrill
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Assisting the Long-Term Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Trial
Welfare reform in Australia centres on the concept of both economic and social participation.
The policy concern is that people who fail to participate in economic and social life may
become ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2003, 79 (244), 84-102)
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H3, I38, J68
|
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627
|
Jan
Boone
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents
This paper presents a theory and an empirical investigation on cyclical fluctuations in
workplace accidents. The theory is based on the idea that reporting an accident dents the
reputation of a ...
(revised version published as 'Are recessions good for workplace safety? ' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2006, 25 (6), 1069-1093)
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I31, J28
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626
|
Astrid
Kunze
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Gender Differences in Entry Wages and Early Career Wages
In this paper we investigate the evolution of the gender wage gap over early careers of skilled
workers in Germany using administrative longitudinal data. Advantages of the data for this
type of ...
(revised version published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2003, 71/72, 245-266)
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J16, J3, J7
|
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624
|
Joachim
Wagner
Rolf
Sternberg
|
Personal and Regional Determinants of Entrepreneurial Activities: Empirical Evidence from the REM Germany
This paper contributes to empirical research in entrepreneurship by focusing on the link
between two stylized facts that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other
countries: Entry ...
(published in: Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft / Review of Regional Reseach, 2005, 25 (1), 91-105)
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J23, R12
|
|
623
|
Ana Rute
Cardoso
Priscila
Ferreira
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The Dynamics of Job Creation and Destruction for University Graduates: Why a Rising Unemployment Rate Can Be Misleading
This study uses a matched employer-employee data set on the Portuguese economy to
analyze systematic information on job creation and job destruction for university graduates,
compared to other ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2009, 41 (1), 2513-2521)
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J21, J60, J63
|
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621
|
Gilles
Saint-Paul
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On Market Forces and Human Evolution
This paper studies how an institution such as markets affects the evolution of mankind. My
key point is that the forces of natural selection are made weaker because trade allows people
to ...
(published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2007, 247, 397- 412, )
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J1, J21
|
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620
|
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
|
Public Policy and the Labor Market Adjustment of New Immigrants to Australia
Two separate cohorts of immigrants to Australia are compared in order to assess the
potential role of immigrant selection criteria, labor market conditions, and income-support
policy in ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 655-681)
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J6, J1
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