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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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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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481
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Hiring Standards and Market Clearing
Consider a labour market with heterogeneous workers. Firms recruit workers by fixing a
hiring standard and a wage offer simultaneously. A more demanding hiring standard
necessitates a better wage ...
(final version published as 'Hiring Standards and Labor Market Clearing' in: Metroeconomica, 2005, 56(2), 263-279 )
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J31, J41
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479
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John
T.
Addison
Clive
R.
Belfield
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Unions and Employment Growth: The One Constant?
Sequential analyses of the major workplace data sets available to British researchers – the
Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys (WIRS/WERS) – have revealed shifts in
some previously ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2004, 43 (2), 305-323)
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J53
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477
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Melissa
A.
Clark
David
A.
Jaeger
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Natives, the Foreign-Born and High School Equivalents: New Evidence on the Returns to the GED
In this paper we explore the labor market returns to the General Education Development
exam, or GED. Using new data from the Current Population Survey, we examine how the
return to the GED varies ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 769-793)
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J31, J61, I2
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476
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Wayne
A.
Cornelius
Takeyuki
Tsuda
Zulema
Valdez
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Human Capital versus Social Capital: A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Wages and Labor Market Incorporation in Japan and the United States
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the
United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such
as education, language ...
(published in: Migraciones Internacionales, 2004, 2 (1), 5-35)
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J15, J24, J31, J61, D63
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474
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John
T.
Addison
Lutz
Bellmann
Arnd
Kölling
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Unions, Works Councils and Plant Closings in Germany
This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works
councils and collective agreements on plant closings, using data from the IAB establishment
panel. We find ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2004, 42 (1), 125-148)
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J51, J53, J58, J65
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473
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Jan
C.
van Ours
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A pint a day raises a man's pay; but smoking blows that gain away
This paper studies the wage effects of the use of alcohol and tobacco. The analysis based on
a recent survey in the Netherlands shows that for males the use of tobacco has a negative
wage effect of ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2004, 23 (5), 863-886)
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C41, D12, I19
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472
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Reto
Foellmi
Josef
Zweimüller
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Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth
We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth
process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment;
and the Kaldor facts ...
(published as 'Structural change, Engel's consumption cycles and Kaldor's facts of economic growth' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2008, 55 (7), 1317-1328)
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O40, O11, O31, L16, D91
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471
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
This paper is concerned with the determinants of English language proficiency among
immigrants in a longitudinal survey for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and
variables derived from an ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450)
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J61, J24, J18
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470
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Alessandro
Cigno
Furio
C.
Rosati
Lorenzo
Guarcello
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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?
There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade
theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to
indicate that trade ...
(published in: World Development, 2002, 30 (9), 1579-1589)
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D13, F12, I20, J13, J24, O15
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469
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Rafael
Lalive
Jan
C.
van Ours
Josef
Zweimüller
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The Effect of Benefit Sanctions on the Duration of Unemployment
This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment
duration. Data from the Swiss labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a
warning that a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (6), 1386-1417)
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J64, J65, J68
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468
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Joachim
Wagner
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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment: Empirical Evidence for Germany
The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an
entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto
neglected issues: What ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2003, 223 (2), 204-221)
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J23, R12
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467
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Alessandra
Venturini
Claudia
Villosio
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of
natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of
immigrants on ...
(revised version published in: International Labour Review, 2006, 145 (1-2), 91-118)
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J61, F22
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466
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Jan
Erik
Askildsen
Espen
Bratberg
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
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Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest
disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the
labour force. A ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2005, 14 (11), 1087-1101)
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H55, J22, J28, J32
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465
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John
Ermisch
Marco
Francesconi
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Intergenerational Social Mobility and Assortative Mating in Britain
This paper investigates the links between the socio-economic position of parents and the
socio-economic position of their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socioeconomic
position of ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679 )
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J12, I20, D31, D64
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463
|
Etienne
Wasmer
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Labor Supply Dynamics, Umemployment and Human Capital Investments
In the last decades, the OECD labor markets faced important labor supply changes with the
arrival of women and the cohorts of the baby-boom. Using a survey where workers declare
their true ...
(published in:Recherches Economiques de Louvan / Louvain Economic Review, 2004, 70 (4), 461-482)
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E24, J21, J31
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462
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia
This study develops a theoretical framework for the study of the tendency for immigrant
groups to be geographically concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the
extent of geographic ...
(published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2001, 7 (2), 125-150)
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J15, J61
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460
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
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Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition
This paper is concerned with the relationship among family members in the determinants of
destination language proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language
proficiency is augmented ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 631–647)
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J15, J16, J24, J61
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459
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Martin
Biewen
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The Covariance Structure of East and West German Incomes and its Implications for the Persistence of Poverty and Inequality
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes the
dynamics of equivalent income in Germany in the eighties and nineties. Special emphasis is
given to the separation ...
(revised version published in: German Economic Review, 2005, 6 (4), 445-469)
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C23, D31, I32
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458
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Marzio
Galeotti
Louis
J.
Maccini
Fabio
Schiantarelli
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Inventories, Employment and Hours
The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that integrates inventory and labor decisions.
We extend a model of inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of
labor input ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2005, 52 (3), 575-600)
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D24, E23, E24, J23, J24, J32
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457
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Maarten
Lindeboom
Marcel
Kerkhofs
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Health and Work of the Elderly: Subjective Health Measures, Reporting Errors and the Endogenous Relationship between Health and Work
This paper aims to explore the interrelation between health and work decisions of elderly
workers, taking the various ways in which health and work can influence each other explicitly
into account. ...
(published as: 'Health and work of the elderly: subjective health measures, reporting errors and endogeneity in the relationship between health and work' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (6), 1024 - 1046)
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I12, J14
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456
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Torben
M.
Andersen
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International Integration, Risk and the Welfare State
How does international integration affect the welfare state? Does it call for a leaner or an
expanded welfare state? International integration may affect the distortions caused by
welfare state ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2002, 104 (3), 343-364)
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E30, F10, H11
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455
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John
T.
Addison
Clive
R.
Belfield
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Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys
An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/
Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment
performance in the ...
(published in: Phanindra V. Wunnava (ed.), The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, April 2004)
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J24, J51, J53, J58, J63, J65
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454
|
Winfried
Koeniger
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Defensive Innovations
Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that
openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a
substantial increase in the ...
(revised version published in: Berkeley Electronic Journal in Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2007, 7(1), Article 5)
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F1, F4, O3
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453
|
Pedro
Carneiro
Karsten
T.
Hansen
James
J.
Heckman
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Removing the Veil of Ignorance in Assessing the Distributional Impacts of Social Policies
This paper summarizes our recent research on evaluating the distributional consequences of
social programs. This research advances the economic policy evaluation literature beyond
estimating ...
(published in: Swedish Policy Review, 2001, 8 (2), 273-301)
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D33, H43, I28
|
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452
|
Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
|
Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational
mobility of immigrants and tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the
Longitudinal Survey of ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2005, 39 (2), 332-353)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
|
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451
|
Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
|
The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male
immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with
schooling, pre-immigration ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (5), 469-480)
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I21, J24, J31, J61
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450
|
Barry
R.
Chiswick
Yew
Liang
Lee
Paul
W.
Miller
|
Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success
This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Survey of Aspects of Literacy to examine the
effects on labour market outcomes of literacy, numeracy and educational attainment. The
survey includes a ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2003, 79 (245), 165-181)
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J31, I21
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