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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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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
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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
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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
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Eswar
Prasad
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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
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Astrid
Kunze
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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
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Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
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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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507
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Ernst
Fehr
Armin
Falk
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Psychological Foundations of Incentives
During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding
incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow
and empirically ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2002, 46 (4-5), 687-724)
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J41, C91, D64
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506
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Pilar
Diaz-Vazquez
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Can Insider Power Affect Employment?
Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim
higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has
no influence on ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2003, 4 (2), 139-150)
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E24, J23, J31, J42, J64
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505
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
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Migration, Sozialstaat und Zuwanderungspolitik
Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird die Frage analysiert, ob ein großzügig ausgestalteter
Sozialstaat zusätzliche Wanderungsanreize generieren kann, die eine nennenswerte
Zuwanderung in das ...
(published in: Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2002, 71(2), 249-271)
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H53, I38, J61
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504
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Modelling Low Income Transitions
We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that
control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom
sample) ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (5), 593-610)
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D31, I32, C23, C35
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502
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency (speaking,
reading and writing) among immigrants. It presents a model of immigrant destination
language acquisition ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 97-139)
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J15, J61, I29
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501
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Christian
Dustmann
Najma
Rajah
Arthur
van Soest
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Class Size, Education, and Wages
This paper examines the effects of class size on the decision to stay on in full time schooling
at the age of 16 and on wages at later stages in life. Little research exists on the effect of
school ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (485), F99-F120)
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C35, I20, J24
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500
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David
A.
Jaeger
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Estimating the Returns to Education Using the Newest Current Population Survey Education Questions
This paper examines the 1997 additions to the Current Population Survey education
question. These new questions allow researchers to come closer to the “highest grade
completed” measure available ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2003, 78 (3), 385-394)
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J3, I2
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499
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Gerard
A.
Pfann
Hans
van Kranenburg
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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure
A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable
production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability
of new ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2003, 46 (1), 61-84)
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C41, D43, L13, L16, L82
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498
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Paul
Frijters
John
de New
Michael A.
Shields
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Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification
In this paper we test the Rational Expectations hypothesis using longitudinal data on
expectations and realizations of individual welfare for East Germans in the years following
reunification. ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2009, 42 (4), 1326 - 1346)
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C23, C25, I31, Z1
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496
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Michael
P.
Keane
Eswar
Prasad
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Changes in the Structure of Earnings During the Polish Transition
We document changes in the structure of earnings during the economic transition in Poland.
We find that inequality in labor earnings increased substantially from 1988 to 1996. A
common view is that ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 80 (2), 389-427)
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J31, O33, P20
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495
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John
T.
Addison
Lutz
Bellmann
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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German Works Councils Old and New: Incidence, Coverage and Determinants
Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations,
there is little reliable information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from
the ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 123 (3), 2003, 339-358)
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J50
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494
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Joachim
Wagner
Rolf
Sternberg
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The Role of the Regional Milieu for the Decision to Start a New Firm: Empirical Evidence for Germany
Although comprehensive data from official statistics on new firm formation and entrepreneurs starting a new business are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2004, 38 (2), 219-240)
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J23, R12
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492
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Rafael
Lalive
Josef
Zweimüller
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Benefit Entitlement and Unemployment Duration: The Role of Policy Endogeneity
The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of
unemployment duration. This paper evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged
entitlement to regular ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88 (12), 2587-2616)
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C41, J64, J65
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491
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Ralph
Rotte
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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On the Production of Victory: Empirical Determinants of Battlefield Success in Modern War
Using a data set of historical battles from 1600 to 1973, this paper analyzes the empirical
determinants of tactical success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we
consider key elements ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2003, 14 (3), 175-192)
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C25, D29, H56, N40, O39
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490
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Wolfram
F.
Richter
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Social Security and Taxation of Labour Subject to Subsidiarity and Freedom of Movement
In Europe, the competence for social security and the right to levy income tax lie with the
country of employment in cross-border matters. This has two disadvantages. First, the
Employment ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2002 (9), 47-74)
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H21, H70, J61
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489
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Daniela
Del Boca
Silvia
Pasqua
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Employment Patterns of Husbands and Wives and Family Income Distribution in Italy (1977-1998)
The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past
decades. While the employment rate of women has risen, that of men has continued to
decline. Disproportionate ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 49 (2), 221-245)
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D31, J22
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488
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Antonio
Ciccone
Giovanni
Peri
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Identifying Human Capital Externalities: Theory with an Application to US Cities
Identification of the strength of human capital externalities at the aggregate level is still not
fully understood. The existing method may yield positive or negative externalities even if
wages ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 73 (2), 2006, 381-412)
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O0, O4, R0, J3
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487
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Robin
L.
Lumsdaine
Eswar
Prasad
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Identifying the Common Component of International Economic Fluctuations: A New Approach
In this paper, we develop an aggregation procedure using time-varying weights for
constructing the common component of international economic fluctuations. The
methodology for deriving time-varying ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (484), 101-127)
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E32, C51, E37
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486
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Alison
L.
Booth
Mark
L.
Bryan
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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women
We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period ...
(revised version published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 85-123)
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J24, J31, I2
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485
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Ludger
Woessmann
Martin
R.
West
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Class-Size Effects in School Systems Around the World: Evidence from Between-Grade Variation in TIMSS
We estimate the effect of class size on student performance in 18 countries, combining
school fixed effects and instrumental variables to identify random class-size variation
between two adjacent ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2006, 50 (3), 695-736)
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I2
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484
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John
H.
Bishop
Ludger
Woessmann
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Institutional Effects in a Simple Model of Educational Production
The paper presents a model of educational production which tries to make sense of recent
evidence on effects of institutional arrangements on student performance. In a simple
principal-agent ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2004, 12 (1), 17-38)
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I20, L32, H52
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483
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Hillel
Rapoport
Avi
Weiss
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In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main
phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period,
due mainly to ...
(published in: C. Chiswick, T. Lecker and N. Kahana (eds.): Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2007, 103-28.)
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D64, J15, J61
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482
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Catherine
Weinberger
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Leadership Skills and Wages
American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ “leadership” skills. Is there such
a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High
School and ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2005, 23 (3), 395-436)
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I21, J24, J31
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