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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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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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560
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John
W.
Budd
Jozef
Konings
Matthew
J.
Slaughter
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Wages and International Rent Sharing in Multinational Firms
We use a unique firm-level panel data set of multinational parents and their foreign affiliates
to analyze whether profits are shared across borders within multinational firms. Using ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 81 (1), 73-84)
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F23, J30
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559
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Timothy
J.
Hatton
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International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets
This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of intercontinental
migration over the past four centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-
Atlantic ...
(published in: M. Bordo, A. Taylor, J. Williamson (eds), Globalization in Historical Perspective, NBER Conference Report, 2003, 65-119)
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N30, J61, J31
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558
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks)
negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the
choice of ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 649–662)
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J15, J61, F22
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557
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Cristina
Braschi
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Reducing Hours of Work: Does Overtime Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy
In recent years the question of overtime work has become increasingly relevant as part of
the wider issue of the reduction in the working day. A direct relation between policies aiming
at reducing ...
(published in: Revue de l’IRES, 2005, http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/rdli.049.0093)
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J21, J22, J23
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556
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Sandra
E.
Black
Elizabeth
Brainerd
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Importing Equality? The Impact of Globalization on Gender Discrimination
While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly
competitive environment, there has been little work testing this dynamic process. This paper
tests the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2004, 57 (4), 540-598)
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J31, J70
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553
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Stephen
Machin
Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Subject of Degree and the Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from the UK and Germany
We show that controlling for subject of degree explains a significant part of the male/female
gender wage differential amongst graduates. Using data from the labour force surveys of the
United ...
(published in: Economics Letters; 2003, 79 (3), 393-400)
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J16, J31, J71
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552
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Estimations of Occupational and Regional Matching Efficiencies Using Stochastic Production Frontier Models
By applying a stochastic production frontier approach to the matching process of unemployed
and vacancies, this paper provides novel detailed insights into the process of job creation.
For ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 1660)
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J64, C24
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551
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the
relative importance and interaction of two alternative explanations of immigrant clustering: (1)
network ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 199-229)
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F22, J61
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549
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Etienne
Wasmer
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Interpreting Europe and US Labor Markets Differences: The Specificity of Human Capital Investments
This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital
especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while
the European ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (3), 811-831)
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J63, J30
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548
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Markus
Frölich
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What is the Value of Knowing the Propensity Score for Estimating Average Treatment Effects?
Propensity score matching is widely used in treatment evaluation to estimate average
treatment effects. Nevertheless, the role of the propensity score is still controversial. Since
the propensity ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2004, 23 (2), 167-174)
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C13, C14
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546
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Alfred
M.
Stiglbauer
Florian
Stahl
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
Josef
Zweimüller
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Job Creation and Job Destruction in a Regulated Labor Market: The Case of Austria
We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset
where we correct for “spurious” entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of ...
(published in: Empirica 30, 2003, 127-148.)
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D21, J23, L11
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544
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Pedro
Portugal
Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations
Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for
analysis of the employment effects of mandatory minimum wages, as the minimum wage
increased sharply for ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (5), 988-1013. Reprinted in J. T. Addison (ed.) Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Vol. I, UK, 2007, 179-204)
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D21, J23, J38
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543
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Julia
Darby
Robert
A.
Hart
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Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression
This paper reviews the mains identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic
policy evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple
programmes, ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (1), 91-103)
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J24, J31, N62
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542
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Markus
Frölich
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Programme Evaluation with Multiple Treatments
This paper reviews the main identification and estimation strategies for microeconomic policy
evaluation. Particular emphasis is laid on evaluating policies consisting of multiple
programmes, which ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2004, 18 (2), 181-224)
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C13, C14
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540
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Astrid
Kunze
Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population
The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for
highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy
debate as ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 56 (3), 332–352)
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F22, J41, J61, L20
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539
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Yu-Fu
Chen
Dennis
J.
Snower
Gylfi
Zoega
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Labour-Market Institutions and Macroeconomic Shocks
Macroeconomic shocks and labour-market institutions jointly determine employment growth
and economic performance. The effect of shocks depends on the nature of these institutions
and the effect of ...
(published in: Labour, 2003, 17(2), 247-270)
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E32, J23, J24, J54
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537
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Mike
Orszag
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Unemployment Vouchers versus Low-Wage Subsidies
The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing
unemployment and working poverty: unemployment vouchers and low-wage subsidies. The
unemployment vouchers are ...
(published in: Edmund S. Phelps (ed.), Designing Inclusion: Tools to Raise Low-end Pay and Employment in Private Enterprise, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 131 - 160)
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J23, J32, J38, J64, J65, J68
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533
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Stefan
Fölster
Robert
Gidehag
Mike
Orszag
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Assessing Welfare Accounts
The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in
Sweden, namely, the introduction of comprehensive welfare accounts. Under this policy,
individuals make ...
(published in: Torben Andersen and Per Molander (eds,): Alternatives for Welfare Policy: Coping with Internationalisation and Demographic Change, Cambridge, 2003, 255 - 275)
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H11, H21, H23, H51, H52, H53, H55
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531
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Unemployment in the European Union: A Dynamic Reappraisal
This paper examines the movements in EU unemployment from two perspectives: (a) the
NRU/NAIRU perspective, in which unemployment movements are attributed largely to
changes in the long-run ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2003, 20 (2), 237-273)
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J32, J60, J64, E30, E37
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530
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Marika
Karanassou
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Unemployment Invariance
This paper provides a critique of the “unemployment invariance hypothesis,” according to
which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is
independent of the ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2004, 5 (3), 297-317)
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J21, j23, J30, J38, J64, J68
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529
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Mike
Orszag
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Incapacity Benefits and Employment Policy
The paper explores the employment implications of allowing people the opportunity of using a
portion of their incapacity benefits to provide employment vouchers for employers that hire
them. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (5), 631-641 )
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J23, J24, J31, J32, J64
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528
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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Arbitration and Mediation: An Economic Perspective
This paper deals with the effects that intermediation has on strategic behaviour in
negotiations. To this end, we use the tools of game theory to analyse how different
institutional settings can ...
(published in: European Business Organization Law Review, 2002, 3 (3), 623-642)
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J52
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527
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Jan
C.
van Ours
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The Locking-in Effect of Subsidized Jobs
Recent evaluations of active labor market policies are not very optimistic about their
effectiveness to bring unemployed back to work. An important reason is that unemployed get
locked-in, that is ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2004, 32 (1), 37-55)
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J68, C41
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526
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Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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A New Approach to Estimate the Wage Returns to Work-Related Training
This paper proposes a new approach to identify the wage effects of training. The idea is to
narrow down the comparison group by only taking into consideration the workers who wanted
to participate ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23, 423-434)
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C21, J24, J31
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525
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James
J.
Heckman
Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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The Performance of Performance Standards
This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated
model for inducing efficiency in government organizations. We present a model of how
performance incentives may ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37(4), 778-811)
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C31
|
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524
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Florentino
Felgueroso
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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Recent Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender: A Look Across the Atlantic
In this paper, we analyse the recent patterns of occupational segregation by gender in the EU
countries vis-à-vis the US. Given the lack of long time-series data on homogeneous LFS data
about ...
(revised version published in: Annales D'Économie et De Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 293-315)
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J16, J71
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523
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Josef
Falkinger
Volker
Grossmann
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Workplaces in the Primary Economy and Wage Pressure in the Secondary Labor Market
This paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model in which firms in the primary economy have to create workplaces prior to production and product market competition. For this, we introduce ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2003, 159 (3), 523-544)
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J26, C23, C25
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522
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Svenn-Åge
Dahl
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Kjell
Vaage
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Gender Differences in Early Retirement Behaviour
In this paper we analyse early retirement for men and women focusing on family characteristics such as marital status, spouse income and wealth, and spouses' labour market status. The female ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2003, 19 (2), 179-198)
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J26, C23, C25
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521
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets
This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job
seekers. The importance of the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is
highlighted in ...
(revised version published as 'Spatial mobility and competition for jobs: Some theory and evidence for Western Germany' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2006, 36 (6), 802 - 825)
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J61, J64, J21, R12
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520
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Uwe
Sunde
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Unobserved Bilateral Search on the Labor Market: A Theory-Based Correction for a Common Flaw in Empirical Matching Studies
This paper develops a model of equilibrium unemployment with (unobservable) endogenous
on-the-job search and (partly unobservable) endogenous search behavior by firms. The
model allows to analyze ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Empirical Matching Functions: Searchers, Vacancies, and (Un-)biased Elasticities' in: Economica, 2007, 74 (295), 537-560)
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J41, J60, J63, J64, C23
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519
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Sarit
Cohen Goldner
Zvi
Eckstein
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Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities
This paper analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants
who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic
choice model for ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 49 (3), 837-872)
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J31, J68
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518
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Pedro
Carneiro
James
J.
Heckman
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The Evidence on Credit Constraints in Post-Secondary Schooling
This paper examines the family income—college enrollment relationship and the evidence on
credit constraints in post-secondary schooling. We distinguish short-run liquidity constraints
from the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 705-734)
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I28, D33, H43
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517
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Erdal
Tekin
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Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment
decisions of single mothers in the early post-welfare reform environment, using data from the
National Survey of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 42 (2), 2007, 453-487)
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J13, C14, J23
|
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516
|
Holger
Bonin
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Eine fiskalische Gesamtbilanz der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland
Dieser Beitrag analysiert die fiskalischen Gesamtwirkungen der Zuwanderung nach
Deutschland mit Hilfe der demographisch basierten langfristigen Budgetmethode der
Generationenbilanzierung. Für den ...
(published in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2002, 71 (2), 215-229)
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F22, E66
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513
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Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education
We estimate a dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the degree of
risk aversion can be inferred from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are
heterogeneous with ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2004, 23, 335-358)
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J2, J3
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512
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Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
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A Structural Analysis of the Correlated Random Coefficient Wage Regression Model
We estimate a finite mixture dynamic programming model of schooling decisions in which the
log wage regression function is set in a random coefficient framework. The model allows for
absolute and ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2007, 140 (2), 333-948 )
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J2, J3
|
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511
|
Felix
Büchel
Harminder
Battu
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The Theory of Differential Overqualification: Does it Work?
The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that
married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they
are ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 50 (1), 1-16)
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I21, J16, J24, J61
|
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510
|
Eswar
Prasad
|
Wage Inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-99
This paper uses micro data from the New Earnings Survey to document that cross-sectional
wage inequality in the U.K., which rose sharply in the 1980s and continued to rise moderately
through the ...
(published in: IMF Staff Papers, 2002, 49 (3), 339-362)
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J31, E24
|
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509
|
Astrid
Kunze
|
The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation
This paper explores the short and long run effects of career interruptions on wages for young
skilled workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career
interruptions: ...
(published as 'Types of absence from work and wages of young German workers with apprenticeship training' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 51 (5), 1-24)
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J16, J3, J7
|
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508
|
Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
|
Unobserved Ability and the Return to Schooling
We estimate a structural dynamic programming model of schooling decisions with
unobserved heterogeneity in school ability and market ability on a sample taken from the
National Longitudinal Survey ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2002, 70 (2), 2078-2091)
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J2, J3
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