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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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619
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)
This paper examines the changing nature of views towards and reports of sexual harassment
using unique data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the
U.S. Federal ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2004, 57(3), 443-461)
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J16, J28
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618
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Alison
L.
Booth
Marco
Francesconi
Gylfi
Zoega
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Oligopsony, Institutions and the Efficiency of General Training
In oligopsonistic labour markets, firms have some market power, and a wedge is created
between wages and marginal product. When oligopsonistic firms' production technology
requires generally ...
(published in: J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (eds.), Proceedings of the 2004 ECB/CEPR Labour Market Workshop, Edward Elgar 2006)
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E32, J23, J24, J54
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616
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Reinhard
Hujer
Uwe
Blien
Marco
Caliendo
Christopher
Zeiss
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Macroeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Germany – A Dynamic Panel Approach Using Regional Data
Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric
evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric
approach usually ignores ...
(published in: Carloeo, F.E. and Destefanis, S. (eds.): The European Labour Market - Regional Dimensions, Physica Verlag, 2006, 287-310)
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C33, E24, H43, J64, J68
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615
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Winfried
Koeniger
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The Dynamics of Market Insurance, Insurable Assets, and Wealth Accumulation
We analyze dynamic interactions between market insurance, the stock of insurable assets
and liquid wealth accumulation in a model with non-durable and durable consumption. The
stock of the durable ...
(revised version joint with Helge Braun published in: Geneva Risk and Insurance Review, 2007, 32(1), 61-90)
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D81, E21, G22
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614
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Markus
Pannenberg
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Long-Term Effects of Unpaid Overtime: Evidence for West Germany
Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings
gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests
that over a 10-year ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 52 (2), 177-193)
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J22, J23, J31, J33
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613
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Mikal
Skuterud
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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations
After decades of stability, the technologies used by workers to locate new jobs began to
change rapidly with the diffusion of internet access in the late 1990’s. Which types of persons
incorporated ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (1), 218-232)
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J64
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612
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Marcel
Jansen
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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A Matching Model of Crowding-Out and On-the-Job Search (with an Application to Spain)
This paper considers a matching model of heterogenous workers and jobs which includes onthe-
job search. High-educated workers transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to
search for skilled ...
(published in: Economic Journal, (2009), 119, 200-228. )
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J41, J62
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611
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Some Thoughts on Macroeconomic Fluctuations and the Timing of Labor Market Reform
In this paper, I analyze the pros and cons of implementing structural reforms of the labor
market in booms vs. recessions, in light of considerations of social efficiency, political
viability, and ...
(pubished in: Solow, Robert M. (ed.): Structural Reform and Macroeconomic Policy, (International Economic Association), Palgrave MacMillan, 2004)
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E32, E52, E61, J6, K31
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610
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Axel
Heitmueller
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Unemployment Benefits, Risk Aversion, and Migration Incentives
With reference to the EU enlargement, a framework is derived which allows the study of the
effect of unemployment benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the
expected ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18(1), 93-112)
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J60, J61, J65, D81
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608
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics
This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new
reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications
for the long run ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2003, 18 (36), 73-122 )
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J1, J2, J3
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607
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Yves
Zenou
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How Do Firms Redline Workers?
In a city where individuals endogenously choose their residential location, firms determine
their spatial efficiency wage and a geographical red line beyond which they do not recruit
workers. This ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2002, 52 (3), 391-608)
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J41, R14
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606
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Michael
Gerfin
Michael
Lechner
Heidi
Steiger
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Does Subsidised Temporary Employment Get the Unemployed Back to Work? An Econometric Analysis of Two Different Schemes
Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the
chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual
administrative data ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (6), 807-835)
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J38, J68
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605
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Christian
Grund
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The Wage Policy of Firms – Comparative Evidence for the U.S. and Germany from Personnel Data
The wage policy of a German and a U.S. firm is comparatively analysed with a focus on the
relation between wages and hierarchies. While prior studies examine only one particular firm,
in this paper ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2005, 16 (1), 104-119)
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M52, J31, M12
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603
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Thomas
Andrén
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
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Income Effects from Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden During the 80’s and 90’s
Swedish labor market programs appear large from an international perspective, yet their
consequences are not fully investigated and understood. In this paper we estimate a
switching regression ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2004, 25 (8), 688-713)
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J31, J38
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602
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Lilo
Locher
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Migration in the Soviet Successor States
This paper analyzes the migration behavior of ethnic groups in the former Soviet Un-ion (FSU) from 1989 to 1999. The two main migration movements have been return migration of ethnic groups to their ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2002, 48 (1), 67-84)
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F22, J15, P26
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601
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Štepán
Jurajda
Katherine
Terrell
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What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment?
This paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and
destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist
Czech and the rapid ...
(published as "Job Reallocation in Two Cases of Massive Adjustment in Eastern Europe" in: World Development, 2008, 36 (11), 2144-2169)
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E0, J2, O1, O4, P2
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600
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Jana
Stefanová
Lauerová
Katherine
Terrell
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Explaining Gender Differences in Unemployment with Micro Data on Flows in Post-Communist Economies
Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates
grew from zero to double digits and gender differences began to vary greatly across these
countries. We ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2007, 49 (1), 128-155)
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C23, J64, J48, P20
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599
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Naci
Mocan
Benjamin
Scafidi
Erdal
Tekin
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Catholic Schools and Bad Behavior
Although there is a sizeable literature of the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, there is a dearth of studies of the impact of school sector on non-academic outcomes. ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2006, 5(1), Article 13)
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I2
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598
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Daniela
Del Boca
Annamaria
Lusardi
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Credit Market Constraints and Labor Market Decisions
In this paper, we examine whether imperfections in credit markets spill over to other markets,
particularly the labor market. We take the case of Italy, a country that experienced changes in
the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2003, 10 (5), 681-703)
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J2, D91
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597
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Scott
M.
Fuess Jr.
Meghan
Millea
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Disentangling Pay and Productivity in a Corporatist Economy: The Case of Germany
Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases,
however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy?
Focusing on Germany, we ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2006, 27(3), 397-409)
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J41, C22, J50, J30
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595
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Alison
L.
Booth
Mark
L.
Bryan
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Work-Related Training and the New National Minimum Wage in Britain
In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel
Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the
work-related ...
(summary of main results published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (494), C87-C94)
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J24, J31, J41
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593
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Patrick
J.
Dross
John
de New
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Sheepskin Effects in Japan
Using data for the 1990’s, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to
education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the
total ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2005, 26 (4), 320-335)
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J31, J24, I21
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592
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Joachim
Wagner
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Testing Lazear’s Jack-of-All-Trades View of Entrepreneurship with German Micro Data
This paper tests the theory recently put forward by Edward Lazear that individuals with competence in many skills should have a higher probability of being self-employed than others. The empirical ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2003, 10 (11), 687-689)
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J23, R12
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591
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Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
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Spillovers From Foreign Firms Through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation
While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to
domestic firms this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as
a black ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107 (4), 693-709)
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F21, F23, J61
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590
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Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
Frank
Walsh
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Why Do Foreign-Owned Firms Pay More? The Role of On-the-Job Training
Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms
to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries
alike. Although a ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2007, 143(3), 464-482)
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J24, F23
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589
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Štepán
Jurajda
Katherine
Terrell
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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths
Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known
about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 291-320)
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O1, O4, P2, P5, J2
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588
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Markus
Frölich
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Nonparametric IV Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects with Covariates
In this paper nonparametric instrumental variable estimation of local average treatment
effects (LATE) is extended to incorporate confounding covariates. Estimation of local average
treatment ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 139 (1), 35-75)
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C13, C14
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587
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Holger
Bonin
Wolfram
Kempe
Hilmar
Schneider
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Kombilohn oder Workfare? Zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien
Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung
eines Niedriglohnsektors. Dies ist eine wesentliche Ursache für die hohe ...
(published in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2003, 72 (1), 51-67)
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J68, J38, H24, J22
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586
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Pilar
Diaz-Vazquez
Dennis
J.
Snower
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On-the-Job Training and the Effects of Insider Power
Suppose insiders use their market power to push up their wages, while entrants receive their
reservation wages. How will employment and productivity be affected? In addressing this
question, we ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2006, 13 (3), 317-341)
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E24, J23, J24, J31, J42, J64
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585
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Human Capital Formation, Life Expectancy and the Process of Economic Development
This paper provides a unified theory of the transition in income, life expectancy, education and population, experienced by the Western world when passing from an environment of economic stagnation ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2005, 95 (5), 1653-1672)
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E10, J10, O10, O40, O41
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584
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Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
Peter
R.
Mueser
Kenneth
Troske
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Welfare to Temporary Work: Implications for Labor Market Outcomes
Recent welfare reforms are prompting some state and local welfare agencies to use
temporary help service firms to help place welfare recipients into jobs. Concerns have arisen
that these jobs are ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87 (1), 154-173)
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I3, J0, J4
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583
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Pierre
Cahuc
Francois
Fontaine
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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers
can be matched together through social networks and through more efficient, but also more
costly, methods. In ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11 (3), 411–439)
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E24, J64, J68
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581
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Pierre
Cahuc
Franck
Malherbet
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Unemployment Compensation Finance and Labor Market Rigidity
The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment
benefit system. In most states, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in
proportion to their ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88 (3-4), 481-501)
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J41, J64, J65
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580
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Ira
N.
Gang
John
Landon-Lane
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Gender Differences in German Upward Income Mobility
We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the
GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File. Women have greater overall income mobility.
However, utilizing a measure of ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123(1), 3-14)
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D3, D63, J7
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579
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Ira
N.
Gang
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Decomposing Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition
This paper studies the cause of the changes, or lack of, in wage inequality in East Germany
during its transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economic system. We are interested
in how ...
(published as: 'Decomposing Male Inequality Change in East Germany During Transition' in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2003, 123 (1), 43-54)
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D30, J30
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578
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Ira
N.
Gang
Francisco
L.
Rivera-Batiz
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union
This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners
displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans
who compete with ...
(revised version published as 'Changes in Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall', in: Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Emerald, 2010, 649-676)
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J15, J61, F22
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577
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Kenn
Ariga
Giorgio
Brunello
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Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand
This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm,
both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees
conducted ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2006, 59 (4), 613-629)
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J24, J31
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576
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Michael
Fertig
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
Hilmar
Schneider
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Active Labor Market Policy in Germany – Is There a Successful Policy Strategy?
Each year Germany and many other developed economies spend tens of billions of Euros on
active measures of employment promotion with the explicit aim of contributing to the
reduction of ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36 (3), 399-430)
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J68, H43, R23
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575
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian female immigrants have
higher levels of English fluency, education (relative to native-born women), and income
(relative to native-born ...
(published in: Host Societies and the Reception of Immigrants, Jeffrey G. Reitz (ed.), San Diego: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2003, 327-359)
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J61, J68, J31
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574
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Randall
Kuhn
Steven
Stillman
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Understanding Interhousehold Transfers in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Russia
This paper uses data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey to describe and model the determinants of interhousehold transfers. Russian households have experienced large reductions in income ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 53 (1), 131-56)
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D12, J14, O12, P36
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573
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Oliver
Serfling
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Item Non-Response on Income and Wealth Questions
After reviewing the literature on item non-response we focus on three issues: First, is there
significant heterogeneity in item non-response across financial questions and in the
association of ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (2), 521-538)
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C81, J30, I32
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572
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Catherine
Y.
Co
Ira
N.
Gang
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Self-Employment and Wage Earning: Hungary During Transition
We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in
the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or nonworking
for every ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2005, 9 (2), 150-165)
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C34, J31, P23
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571
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Orley
Ashenfelter
Michael
Greenstone
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Using Mandated Speed Limits to Measure the Value of a Statistical Life
In 1987 the federal government permitted states to raise the speed limit on their rural interstate roads, but not on their urban interstate roads, from 55 mph to 65 mph for the first time in over a ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2004, 112 (S1), S226-S267)
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J17, H43, I18, R4
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570
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Stefan
Bender
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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the
effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The
empirical results indicate ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 265-291)
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J63, L23, O33
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569
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John
C.
Haltiwanger
Milan
Vodopivec
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Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia
Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of
the labor market with potentially greater flexibility in terms of both wage and employment
adjustment. We ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 253-290)
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J23, J31, J41, J61, P23, P31
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567
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Kaia
Philips
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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The Incidence and Cost of Job Loss in a Transition Economy: Displaced Workers in Estonia, 1989-1999
We examine the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform-
oriented transition countries, Estonia, as the transition process develops. Using Labour Force
Survey data ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2005, 33 (1), 59-87)
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J64, J65, P50
|
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565
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Hans
van Kranenburg
Franz
C.
Palm
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands
This paper studies the effects of aggregate, industry-, and firm-specific factors on the exit
hazard rates in the market for daily newspapers in The Netherlands from 1950 to 1996. We
present a ...
(published as 'Exit and Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands' in: Review of Industrial Organization, 2002, 21 (3), 283-303)
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C41, D21, L13, L16, L82
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564
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry: New Evidence on Measures and Determinants
Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent
survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an
examination of ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2003, 11 (2), 221-252)
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E24, J23, J63, P23, P31
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563
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Timothy
Dunne
Lucia
Foster
John
C.
Haltiwanger
Kenneth
Troske
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Wage and Productivity Dispersion in U.S. Manufacturing: The Role of Computer Investment
By exploiting establishment-level data, this paper sheds new light on the sources of the
changes in the structure of production, wages, and employment that have occurred over the
last several ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22 (2), 397-430)
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J3, D3
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562
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John
T.
Addison
W. Stanley
Siebert
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Changes in Collective Bargaining in the U.K.
Perhaps no other country in recent years has witnessed greater change in its collective
bargaining framework than the UK. This paper describes the dramatic developments and
their consequences. Like ...
(published in: John T. Addison and Claus Schnabel (eds.), International Handbook of Trade Unions, Cheltenham and Northampton, 2003, 415-460)
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K31, J31, J51, J53, J58, J81, J83, J88
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