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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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339
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Aomar
Ibourk
Bénédicte
Maillard
Sergio
Perelman
Henri
R.
Sneessens
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The Matching Efficiency of Regional Labour Markets: A Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation, France 1990-1995
We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb-Douglas production frontier model extended to allow the efficiency coefficient to depend on variables meant to ...
(published as 'Aggregate Matching Efficiency: A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach, France 1990 - 1995' in: Empirica, 2004, 31 (1), 1-25)
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J64 C24
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338
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Clive
Bell
Hans
Gersbach
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Child Labor and the Education of a Society
We examine economic growth, inequality and education when the wellspring of growth is the formation of human capital through a combination of the quality of child-rearing and formal schooling. The ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2009, 12 (2), 220-249.)
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H2 I2 O1 O41
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337
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Felix
Büchel
Matthias
Pollmann-Schult
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Thurow’s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2004, 25 (2), 150-166)
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I21 J24 J41 J62
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336
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Francisco
Lima
Pedro
T.
Pereira
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Careers and Wage Growth within Large Firms
The relationship between the worker’s career path and wage growth is studied using a longitudinal sample of large firms. The econometric analysis shows that promoted workers receive a positive wage ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2003, 7 (24), 812-835)
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J32 J33 M12
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335
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, ...
(revised version published as 'Occupational Job Creation: Patterns and Implications' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (3), 407-436)
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E24 J21 J41 J42 J62 J63
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333
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Robin
Naylor
Jeremy
Smith
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A Hazard Model of the Probability of Medical School Dropout in the United Kingdom
From individual-level longitudinal data for two entire cohorts of medical students in UK universities, we analyse the probability that an individual student will ‘drop out’ of medical school prior to ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A. (Statistics in Society), 2004, 167 (1), 157-178)
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J24 I2 C41
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331
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Why Do Firms Recruit Internationally? Results from the IZA International Employer Survey 2000
The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2002, 122 (2), 155-178)
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F22 J61 L20
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329
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Xiaodong
Gong
Arthur
van Soest
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Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five quarters drawn from Mexico's Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (4), 513-529)
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C33, J23, J31, R23
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327
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Hans
Gersbach
Armin
Schmutzler
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A Product Market Theory of Worker Training
We develop a product market theory that explains why firms invest in general training of their workers. We consider a model where firms first decide whether to invest in general human capital, then ...
(published as "Product markets and industry-specific training" in: The RAND Journal of Economics, 2012, 43 (3), 475-491)
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D42 L22 L43 L92
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326
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John
S.
Earle
Álmos
Telegdy
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Privatization and Productivity in Romanian Industry: Evidence from a Comprehensive Enterprise Panel
We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2002, 30 (4), 657-682)
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G32 G34 L32 L33 P20 P31
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325
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Robert
A.
Hart
James
R.
Malley
Ulrich
Woitek
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Real Wages and the Cycle: The View from the Frequency Domain
In the time domain, the observed cyclical behavior of the real wage hides a range of economic influences that give rise to cycles of differing lengths and amplitudes. This may serve to produce a ...
(published as 'Real earnings and business cycles: new evidence' in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (1), 51-71)
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E32, J31
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324
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
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Trade, Technology and Labour Markets: Empirical Controversies in the Light of the Jones Model
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2004, 19 (1), 79-112)
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F16 F21 J31
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323
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Anders
Frederiksen
Ebbe
K.
Graversen
Nina
Smith
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Overtime Work, Dual Job Holding and Taxation
Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 25-55)
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C13 C21 C24 H24 J22
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322
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Olaf
Hübler
Uwe
Jirjahn
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Works Councils and Collective Bargaining in Germany: The Impact on Productivity and Wages
This paper investigates the interaction between establishment-level codetermination and industry-level collective bargaining in Germany. Based on a simple bargaining model we derive our main ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 50 (4), 471-491)
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D23 J24 J31 J51 J53
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321
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Pedro
T.
Pereira
Pedro
S.
Martins
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Is there a Return-Risk Link in Education?
Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2002, 75 (1), 31-37)
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C29 I21 J24
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320
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René
Fahr
Uwe
Sunde
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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions
This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (6), 773-780)
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J41 J64
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319
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Rob
Euwals
Rainer
Winkelmann
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Why Do Firms Train? Empirical Evidence on the First Labour Market Outcomes of Graduated Apprentices
The apprenticeship system is the most important source of formal post-secondary training in Germany. Our paper contributes to the ongoing debate as to why firms are willing to invest in such training ...
(published as 'Training intensity and first labor market outcomes of apprenticeship graduates' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2004, 25 (5), 447-462)
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C24 C41 J24 J31 J44
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317
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Health Care Reform and the Number of Doctor Visits - An Econometric Analysis
The paper evaluates the German health care reform of 1997, using the individual number of doctor visits as outcome measure. A new econometric model, the Probit-Poisson-log-normal model with ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2004, 19 (4), 455-472)
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I11 I18 C25
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316
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Manuel
Frondel
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2003, 80 (1), 5-21)
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C3 D2
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313
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Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses due to Chronic Diseases: An Alternative Model Appraisal
This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2002, 11 (8), 709 - 722)
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I10 I12
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312
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Carina
Furnée
Marius
Kemler
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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The Value of Pain Relief
This paper measures the value of functional capacity improvement from electronic pain treatment among a sample of Dutch workers with peripheral nerve injuries. Randomized clinical trial data and ...
(published in: De Economist, 2003, 151 (2), 171-192)
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J32 I10 I12
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310
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Uwe
Sunde
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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality
This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Human Capital Formation, Education and Earnings Inequality' in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2008, 54(1), 7 - 26)
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E20, J30, J31, O30
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309
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Giorgio
Brunello
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On the Complementarity between Education and Training in Europe
This paper is an empirical investigation of the complementarity between education and training in 13 European countries, based on the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). After confirming the ...
(published in: D. Checchi, C. Lucifora (eds.), Education, Training and Labour Market Outcomes in Europe, MacMillan 2003)
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J24 J31
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308
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Gerard
A.
Pfann
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Two-Sided Learning, Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement
We construct a general dynamic structural model of two-sided learning between a firm and its workers. We estimate an empirical version of the model using personnel data from Fokker Aircraft that ...
(published as 'Two-Sided Learning with Applications to Labor Turnover and Worker Displacement' in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 423 - 445)
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J33 J63
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307
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Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Downsizing
Optimal layoff rules in closed form are derived for all workers in a firm that downsizes under uncertainty and faces heterogeneous firing costs. The theoretical model predicts that the firm displaces ...
(revised version published as 'Downsizing and Heterogeneous Firing Costs' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006, 88 (1), 158-170)
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J33 J63
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306
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Holger
Bonin
Gemma
Abio
Eduardo
Berenguer
Joan
Gil
Concepció
Patxot
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Is the Deficit under Control?A Generational Accounting Perspective on Fiscal Policy and Labour Market Trends in Spain
According to the 2001 Spanish budgetary previsions, the government deficit is about to disappear. We analyse this matter within a generational accounting framework. Accounting for the recent ...
(published in: Investigaciones Economicas, 2003, 27 (2), 309-341)
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E62 H55
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305
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Holger
Bonin
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Fiskalische Effekte der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland - Eine Generationenbilanz
Der Beitrag untersucht die Bedeutung von Zuwanderung für die langfristige Entwicklung öffentlicher Haushalte in Deutschland. Mit Hilfe der Generationenbilanzierung werden die Nettosteuerzahlungen von ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2001, 52, 127-156)
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F22 E66
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304
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Pierre
Cahuc
Etienne
Wasmer
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Labor Market Efficiency, Wages and Employment when Search Frictions Interact with Intrafirm Bargaining
In search of a macroeconomic theory of wage determination, the agnostic reader should be puzzled by the apparent contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2008, 48 (3), 943-972)
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J30 J50 J64
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302
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Avi
Weiss
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A Theory of Immigration Amnesties
This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations ...
(published as "The Why, When and How of Immigration Amnesties" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (1), 285-316)
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J61 J68 H59
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301
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Economic and Social Perspectives of Immigrant Children in Germany
Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the vulnerable position of Germany’s children are necessary. These policies should ...
(published in: E. Currle and T. Wunderlich (eds.), Deutschland – ein Einwanderungsland? Rückblick, Bilanz und neue Fragen - Festschrift für Friedrich Heckmann, Stuttgart 2001)
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J13 I30 I21
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300
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Alois
Stutzer
Rafael
Lalive
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Social norms are usually neglected in economics because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2004, 2 (4), 696-719)
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I31 J64
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299
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Giorgio
Brunello
Claudio
Lucifora
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Wage Expectations of European College Students
Expected earnings and expected returns to education are seen by labor economists as a major determinant of educational attainment. In spite of this, the empirical knowledge about expectations and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2004, 39 (4), 1116-1142)
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J30
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298
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Pedro
T.
Pereira
Pedro
S.
Martins
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Returns to Education and Wage Equations
We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2004, 36 (6), 525-531)
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C4 I2 J3
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297
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Justus
Veenman
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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in The Netherlands
Since the mid-1960’s the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrants ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 739-753)
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J15 J61
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296
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Michael
Rosholm
Nina
Smith
Leif
Husted
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Intergenerational Transmissions and the School-to-Work Transition of 2nd Generation Immigrants
We analyse the extent of intergenerational transmission through parental capital, ethnic capital and neighbourhood effects on several aspects of the school-to-work transition of 2 nd generation ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 755-786)
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J61 J71
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294
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Štepán
Jurajda
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Estimating the Effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation on the Labor Market Histories of Displaced Workers
In this paper, U.S. data on labor market histories of displaced workers are used to quantify the effect of Unemployment Insurance Compensation (UIC) on both unemployment and employment durations. ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 108(2), 227-252)
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C41 J63 J65
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293
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Thomas
F.
Crossley
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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families
The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 373-393)
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J61 J22 D10
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291
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Cohort Effects in the Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in Germany: An Analysis of Census Data
Even though second generation immigrants make up ever increasing population shares in industrialized countries we know little about their social integration and wellbeing. This study focuses on the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 711-737)
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I21 J24 J61
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290
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Marie D.
Connolly
Christopher
Worswick
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The Job Search and Education Investments of Immigrant Families
This paper examines the post-migration investments in schooling and job search of immigrant families using new longitudinal data for Australia. Higher education levels at time of arrival are ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 663–690)
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J61 J22 J60
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289
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Old-Age Support in Developing Countries: Labor Supply, Intergenerational Transfers and Living Arrangements
Without broad-based public pension schemes, the majority of the elderly in developing countries are left to rely on their own current and accumulated earnings and support from children as means of ...
(published as 'Do coresidency and financial transfers from the children reduce the need for elderly parents to works in developing countries?' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21(4), 1007-1033)
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J22 J14
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288
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Getting Ahead: The Determinants of and Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this paper examines the role of gender in the promotion process and the importance of promotions in the relative labor market outcomes of ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2001, 20, 339-372)
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J16 J24 J62
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287
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Patrik
Guggenberger
Ashok
Kaul
Martin
Kolmar
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Efficiency Properties of Labor Taxation in a Spatial Model of Restricted Labor Mobility
We examine the efficiency properties of labor taxation. A spatial model of an economy is introduced whose key feature is a new approach to restricted labor mobility. We characterize the efficient ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2002, 32 (4), 447-473)
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H7 R5 J61
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286
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Michael
Fertig
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think
This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the ...
(published in: Ralph Rotte / Peter Stein (eds.), Migration Policy and the Economy: International Perspectives, Munich 2001)
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J61 J15 I30
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285
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Jürgen
Jerger
Christian
Pohnke
Alexander
Spermann
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Gut betreut in den Arbeitsmarkt? Eine mikroökonometrische Evaluation der Mannheimer Arbeitsvermittlungsagentur
In diesem Beitrag wird ein vom Bundesministerium für Arbeit bezuschusstes Modellprojekt - die Mannheimer Arbeitsvermittlungsagentur (MAVA) - mit Hilfe von Matching-Methoden untersucht. In der MAVA ...
(published in: Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, 2001, 34 (4), 567-576)
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H43 J68
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284
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Hillel
Rapoport
Avi
Weiss
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The Optimal Size for a Minority
We investigate a setting in which members of a population, bifurcated into a majority and a minority, transact with randomly matched partners. All members are uniformly altruistic, and each ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2003, 52 (1), 27-45 )
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D64 J15 J61
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283
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Marcus
Hagedorn
Ashok
Kaul
Volker
Reinthaler
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Welfare Analysis in a Schumpeterian Growth Model with Capital
In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2007, 15(7), 1-8.)
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O41 E22 O32
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282
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James
Albrecht
Anders
Björklund
Susan
Vroman
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Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?
Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail of the distribution, which we interpret as a glass ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2003, 21 (1), 145-177)
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J16 J71
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281
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2007, 137 (1), 104-126)
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J3 I2 O3 O4
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279
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Torben
M.
Andersen
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Product Market Integration, Wage Dispersion and Unemployment
Even when international product market integration is taking place between fairly similar countries with low labour mobility, it may have important effects for labour markets by increasing the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2005, 12 (3), 379-406)
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F15 J30 J50
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278
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Torben
M.
Andersen
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Welfare Policies, Labour Taxation and International Integration
How will international integration affect welfare policies? This paper considers the possibilities of financing public sector activities (public consumption and social security expenses) by general ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2003, 10 (1), 43-62)
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F10 J30 H20 H30
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