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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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410
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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Wage Arrears and the Distribution of Earnings in Russia
The increase in wage inequality in Russia during its transition process has far exceeded the
increase in wage dispersion observed in other European countries undergoing transition.
Russia also has ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 125-155)
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J6
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409
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply and Public Policy
Historically, in virtually all developed economies there seems to be clear evidence of an
inverse relationship between female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last
decade or ...
(revised version published as 'Fertility, Taxation and Family Policy' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2004, 106 (4), 745-763)
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H31, H53, J13, J22
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408
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Naci
Mocan
Erdal
Tekin
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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers
This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and
the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The
empirical ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 85 (1), 38-50)
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J2, J3, J5, L3
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407
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Ronald
Schettkat
Lara
Yocarini
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in
services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch
institutional ...
(published in: IAW-Report / Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, 2003, 1, 7 - 66)
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E24, J16, J21, J22, J24
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406
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Pietro
Garibaldi
Etienne
Wasmer
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Labor Market Flows and Equilibrium Search Unemployment
This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which individuals do not search for jobs when non-employed. Facing changes in the value ...
(revised version published as 'Equilibrium Search Unemployment, Endogenous Participation, and Labor Market Flows' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (4), 851-882)
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J2, J30
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404
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Harminder
Battu
Clive
R.
Belfield
Peter J.
Sloane
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Human Capital Spill-Overs Within the Workplace
An individual’s human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 65 (5), 575-594)
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I2, J4
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403
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Lars
Ljungqvist
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How Do Layoff Costs Affect Employment?
General equilibrium analyses of layoff costs have had mixed messages on the implications for employment. This paper brings out the economic forces at work and explains the disparate results. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 829-853)
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E24, J63, J68
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402
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Orley
Ashenfelter
David
Card
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Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement Flows?
A special exemption from the 1986 Age Discrimination Act allowed colleges and universities to enforce mandatory retirement of faculty at age 70 until 1994. We compare faculty turnover rates at a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2002, 92 (4), 957-980)
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J26, I21
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401
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Jan
Boone
Peter
Fredriksson
Bertil
Holmlund
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Monitoring and Sanctions
This paper analyzes the design of optimal unemployment insurance in a search equilibrium framework where search effort among the unemployed is not perfectly observable. We examine to what extent the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (518), 399-421)
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J64, J65, J68
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400
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Rob
Euwals
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The Predictive Value of Subjective Labour Supply Data: A Dynamic Panel Data Model with Measurement Error
This paper tests the predictive value of subjective labour supply data for adjustments in working hours over time. The idea is that if subjective labour supply data help to predict next year’s ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (2), 309-329)
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C23, J22
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399
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James
Albrecht
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis
This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis. If employers use education as a signal in the hiring process, they will rely more on education when less is otherwise known about ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2006, 108 (3), 361-372)
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I20
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398
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Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-Health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals
Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the spouse, disability, and a move to a nursing home, may affect the mental health ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2002, 11 (6), 505-520)
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C5, I1
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397
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Manuel
Frondel
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Evaluating Environmental Programs: The Perspective of Modern Evaluation Research
Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2005, 55 (4), 515-526 )
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H43, C40, C90
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396
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Michael A.
Shields
Stephen
Wheatley Price
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Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health
This paper explores the determinants of individuals’ psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey for England data. We find evidence that our dependent variables, defined, ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2005, 168 (3), 513-538)
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I1, I3
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395
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Paola
Manzini
Clara
Ponsatí
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Stakeholders, Bargaining and Strikes
We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a bilateral agreement. We explore the strategic implications of this third party ...
(revised version published as 'Stakeholder Bargaining Games' in: International Journal of Game Theory, 2006, 34 (1), 67-77)
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C78
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394
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Hans
Gersbach
Achim
Schniewind
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Awareness of General Equilibrium Effects and Unemployment
We examine wage-bargaining in a two-sector economy when employers and labor unions in each sector are not always aware of all general equilibrium feedback effects. We show analytically that if agents ...
(published as 'Collective Bargaining, Wareness of General Equilibrium Effects, and Unemployment' in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 693 - 712)
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D58, E24, J60, L13
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392
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Panos
Tsakloglou
Fotis
Papadopoulos
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Identifying Population Groups at High Risk of Social Exclusion: Evidence from the ECHP
In recent years in the public discourse of many European countries there has been a shift in emphasis from "poverty" to "social exclusion". Broadly interpreted, "social exclusion" implies the ...
(published in: R. Muffels, P. Tsakloglou and D. Mayes (eds.), Social Exclusion in European Welfare States, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2002, pp. 135-169)
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I30, I31
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391
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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Employment Adjustment in Portugal: Evidence from Aggregate and Firm Data
This paper examines the pattern of employment adjustment in Portugal. First, the issue is addressed using a long time series of aggregate data. Although the employment data show persistence, there is ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2005, 1 (4), 329-348)
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C22 C23 J23 J32
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389
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Thomas
Beissinger
Hartmut
Egger
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Dynamic Wage Bargaining if Benefits are Tied to Individual Wages
In dynamic wage bargaining models it is usually assumed that individual unemployment benefits are a fraction of the average wage level. In most countries, however, unemployment benefits are instead ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (3), 437-460)
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J51 J64 E24
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388
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Lisa
Farrell
Michael A.
Shields
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Child Expenditure: The Role of Working Mothers, Lone Parents, Sibling Composition and Household Provision
This paper uses detailed diary information from the British Family Expenditure Survey (FES) to investigate the expenditure patterns of school-age children. We estimate a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2007, 40 (2), 445-467)
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D11 D12 J13
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387
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Christian
Grund
Dirk
Sliwka
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The Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction - Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored. First, it is empirically established that current job satisfaction rises with absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. Second, ...
(completely revised version published as IZA DP No. 1879)
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J28 J30 M12
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386
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Joachim
Wagner
Claus
Schnabel
Arnd
Kölling
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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms: The Case of the Disability Law
According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 ...
(published in: Ifo Studien, 2001, 47 (1), 65-75)
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J23 J38
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385
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Andrea
Ichino
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation
Employment protection systems are known to generate significant distortions in firms’ hiring and firing decisions. We know much less about the impact of these regulations on worker effort. The goal ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005, 3 (1), 120-143)
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J24 J31 J41
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384
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Daron
Acemoglu
Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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Minimum Wages and On-the-Job Training
Becker’s theory of human capital predicts that minimum wages should reduce training investments for affected workers because they prevent these workers from taking wage cuts necessary to finance ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics 22, 2003, 159-202)
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J24 J31 J41
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383
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David
M.
Blau
Erdal
Tekin
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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers
This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (4), 719 - 741)
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J13 I38
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381
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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The Economics of Employment Protection
Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear’s (1990) pioneering study. Having sketched the theoretical background, we chart the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2003, 24 (1), 85-129)
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E24 J23 J65
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380
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Michael
Sattinger
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A Kaldor Matching Model of Real Wage Declines
A model linking macroeconomic phenomena and income distribution in balanced growth equilibria is developed as a variant to the Kaldor model of factor shares. It departs from the original Kaldor model ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2005, 3 (2), 91-108)
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D33 E1 H2 J31
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379
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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The Sexual Harassment of Female Active-Duty Personnel: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military
This paper examines the relationship between sexual harassment and the job satisfaction and intended turnover of active-duty women in the U.S. military using unique data from a survey of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2006, 61 (1), 55-80)
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J16, J28
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377
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Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (3), 467-489)
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J15 J61 J31
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376
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Giacomo
Corneo
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Work and Television
Evidence from a sample of countries show that people roughly spend as much time watching television as earning their living. Moreover, television viewing and work hours are positively correlated ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2005, 21 (1), 99-113 )
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J2 H0 D1
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374
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Counseling and Monitoring of Unemployed Workers: Theory and Evidence from a Controlled Social Experiment
We investigate the effect of counseling and monitoring on the individual transition rate to employment. We theoretically analyze these policies in a job search model with two search channels and ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2006, 47 (3), 895-936)
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J64 J65 J58
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373
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Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Does the Statutory Overtime Premium Discourage Long Workweeks?
Using a pooled data set consisting of 20 annual observations on each of eleven major industry groups, I estimate the effects of overtime pay regulation on weekly work schedules. After controlling for ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2003, 56 (3), 530-551)
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J33 J38 J23
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372
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Jozef
Konings
Hartmut
Lehmann
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Marshall and Labour Demand in Russia: Going Back to Basics
Using a unique enterprise-level data set, which covers the regions Moscow City, Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk and Chuvashia and the three sectors manufacturing and mining, construction and trade and ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30 (1), 160-190)
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P20 J23
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371
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Stefan
C.
Wolter
André
Zbinden
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Rates of Return to Education: The View of Students in Switzerland
Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2002, 23 (5), 458-470)
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C81 I20 J24 J31
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370
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Adriaan
Kalwij
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Individuals' Unemployment Experiences: Heterogeneity and Business Cycle Effects
This study examines individuals’ unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 66 (2), 205-237)
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J64 C41 E32
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368
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Joshua
Angrist
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How Do Sex Ratios Affect Marriage and Labor Markets? Evidence from America's Second Generation
Sex ratios, i.e., relative numbers of men and women, can affect marriage prospects, labor force participation, and other social and economic variables. But the observed association between sex ratios ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2002, 117 (3), 997-1038)
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J12 J13 D13 N32
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367
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Christian
Dustmann
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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages
The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (2), 209-230)
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I2 J24 J31
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365
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Michael
Rosholm
Nina
Smith
Leif
Husted
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Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2004, 29 (4), 855-885)
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J15, J16, J31, J71
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364
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Markus
Jäntti
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Examining the Impact of Macro-Economic Conditions on Income Inequality
This paper proposes a new approach for analyzing the relationship between macroeconomic factors and the income distribution. The conventional method of analysis is regression of summary inequality ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8(2), 221–240)
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C51 D31 E6
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363
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 192-218)
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J61 J68 J31
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362
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Joshua
Angrist
Victor
Lavy
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New Evidence on Classroom Computers and Pupil Learning
The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs. In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 735-765)
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H41 I28 J24
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361
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Mark
C.
Berger
John
S.
Earle
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Worker Training in a Restructuring Economy: Evidence from the Russian Transition
We use 1994-1998 data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) to measure the incidence and determinants of several types of worker training and to estimate the effects of training on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2001, 20, 159-190)
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J3 J4
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360
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Jörgen
Hansen
Magnus
Lofstrom
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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior
This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2009, 22 (4), 941 - 970)
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I30 I38 J15 J18 J61
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359
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
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A Simple, Analytically Solvable Chamberlinian Agglomeration Model
This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core-periphery (CP) model, two agglomerative forces are at work. However, the present model ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics 2004, 34 (5), 565-573)
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F12 F15 F22 R12
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358
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Thomas
Beissinger
Oliver
Buesse
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Bismarck versus Beveridge: Which Unemployment Compensation System is More Prone to Labor Market Shocks?
Based on a model with imperfectly competitive labor and product markets the real consequences of labor market shocks for economies with either an earnings-related or flat-rate unemployment ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv, 2001, 58 (1),78-102)
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E24 F41 J23 J51 J65
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357
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Christoph
Knoppik
Thomas
Beissinger
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How Rigid are Nominal Wages? Evidence and Implications for Germany
Many of the recent attempts to find evidence of downward nominal wage rigidity in micro data have suffered from a number of problems, including composition bias and the effects of measurement error. ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2003, 105 (4), 619-641)
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E24 J30
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356
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Christopher
Heady
Theodore
Mitrakos
Panos
Tsakloglou
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The Distributional Impact of Social Transfers in the European Union: Evidence from the ECHP
Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2001, 22 (4), 547-565)
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I38 H55
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355
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Jochen
Kluve
Hartmut
Lehmann
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Disentangling Treatment Effects of Polish Active Labor Market Policies: Evidence from Matched Samples
This paper estimates causal effects of two Polish active labor market policies - Training and Intervention Works - on employment probabilities. Using data from the 18th wave of the Polish Labor Force ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6), 1270-1295)
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C41, J68
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354
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Jochen
Kluve
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On the Role of Counterfactuals in Inferring Causal Effects of Treatments
Causal inference in the empirical sciences is based on counterfactuals. This paper presents the counterfactual account of causation in terms of Lewis’s possible-world semantics, and reformulates the ...
(revised version published as 'On the Role of Counterfactuals in Inferring Causal Effects' in: Foundations of Science, 2004, 9 (1), 65-101)
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B30 C19 Z00
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352
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John
T.
Addison
John
S.
Heywood
Xiangdong
Wei
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Unions and Plant Closings in Britain: New Evidence from the 1990/98 WERS
In this paper we exploit the longitudinal element of the 1990 and 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Surveys for Britain to investigate the effect of unionism on establishment closings. Contrary to ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2003, 69 (4), 822-841)
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J51 J65
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