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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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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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277
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Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Evaluating an Innovative Redundancy-Retraining Project: The Austrian Steel Foundation
This paper evaluates an Austrian manpower training program, which is highly innovative in its content and financing - and could therefore serve as a role model for other programs. In the late 1980s ...
(published as 'Coping with a structural crisis: evaluating an innovative redundancy-retraining project' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2006, 27 (8), 700 - 721)
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H43 I21 J53 J65 J58
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276
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Bruno
Amable
Donatella
Gatti
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The Impact of Product Market Competition on Employment and Wages
Standard economic wisdom generally stresses the benefits of increased competition on the product market. This paper proposes a model of monopolistic competition with an endogenous determination of ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 667-686)
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E24 J41 J63 L13
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275
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Tikva
Lecker
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Multi-Generation Model of Immigrant Earnings: Theory and Application
The literature, starting with Chiswick (1977, 1978) to Gang and Zimmermann (2000), more recently, focuses on the economic achievements and performance of first- and second-generation migrants. This ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 217-234)
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F22
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274
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Peder
J.
Pedersen
Nina
Smith
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Unemployment Traps: Do Financial Disincentives Matter?
This paper analyses the importance of financial dis-incentives for workers in Denmark. Based on a panel survey which is merged to a number of administrative registers it is possible to calculate ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2002, 18 (3), 271-288)
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I38 J32 J64
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273
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (511), 382-407)
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D3 D42 E11 E24 E25 F12 F15 J31 L12 O14 O15 O3 O41
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268
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Andrew
T.
Newell
Barry
Reilly
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2001, 25 (4), 287-304)
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J16 J31 P23
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266
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Christian
Dustmann
Oliver
Kirchkamp
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The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration
If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2002, 67 (2), 351-372)
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D9 F22 C35
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265
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Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Structurally Dependent Competing Risks
In this paper, we specify and estimate a structurally dependent competing risks model for the transitions out of unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2001, 73 (2), 169-173)
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C41 J64
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264
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Christian
Dustmann
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Return Migration, Wage Differentials, and the Optimal Migration Duration
In simple static models, migration increases with the wage differential between host and home country. In a dynamic framework, and if migrations are temporary, the size of the migrant population in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 47 (2), 2003, 353-369)
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D9 F22
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263
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Nina
Smith
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Children and Career Interruptions: The Family Gap in Denmark
The effect of children and career interruptions on the family gap is analysed based on Danish longitudinal data covering the years 1980-1995. The estimated model controls for unobserved time-constant ...
(published in: Economica, 2002, 69 (276), 609-629)
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J9
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261
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Mikael
Lindahl
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Home versus School Learning: A New Approach to Estimating the Effect of Class Size on Achievement
I estimate the effect of class size on scholastic achievement using that schools are only in session during the school year and out of session during the summer. This seasonal feature of the ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2005, 107 (2), 375-394)
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I21 I28 H52
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260
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Pierre
Cahuc
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
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Temporary Jobs, Employment Protection and Labor Market Performance
Many European labor markets are characterized by heavy employment protection taxes and the widespread use of fixed-duration contracts. The simultaneous use of these two policy instruments seems ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (1), 63-91)
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H29 J23 J38 J41 J64
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259
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Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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Poverty in the Russian Federation
This paper is intended to shed light on the extent of poverty in the Russian Federation. We present estimates of poverty lines and poverty ratios derived from subjective questions used in a during ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2001, 2 (2), 147-172)
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C21 D31 D60 I32
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258
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Michael
Rosholm
Kirk
Scott
Leif
Husted
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The Times They are A-Changin': Organizational Change and Immigrant Employment Opportunities in Scandinavia
This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 318-347)
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J61 J71 L23 O30
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257
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Tito
Boeri
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Transition with Labour Supply
Ten years after the start of transition, there are many puzzles we still have to live with. Why did all countries experience strong declines in output at the outset of economic transformations and ...
(published in: in Berglöf, E. and Roland, G. (eds.) The Economics of Transition: the Fifth Nobel Symposium in Economics, 2007, Palgrave, 94-143.)
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J21 J6 P2
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256
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Tito
Boeri
Herbert
Brücker
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Eastern Enlargement and EU-Labour-Markets: Perceptions, Challenges and Opportunities
This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) on labour markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three ...
(published in: World Economics, 2001, 2(1), 49-68)
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F1 F2 J0
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250
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Jeffrey
G.
Williamson
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Demographic and Economic Pressure on Emigration out of Africa
Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending and receiving regions and demographic booms in the low-wage sending regions ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2003, 105 (3), 465-486)
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F22, J11, J61, O15
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248
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Pierre
M.
Picard
Eric
Toulemonde
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The Impact of Labor Markets on Emergence and Persistence of Regional Asymmetries
This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2004, 55 (3), 458-477)
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J23 R30
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247
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Erik
Plug
Wim
P.
Vijverberg
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Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Is it Nature or is it Nurture?
When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2003, 111 (3), 611-641)
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I21 J13 J24
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246
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Erik
Plug
Wim
P.
Vijverberg
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Schooling, Family Background, and Adoption: Does Family Income Matter?
One would expect that family income is an important positive factor in the school attainment of children. However, evidence on this relationship is often tainted by the lack of control for parental ...
(published as 'Does Family Income Matter for Schooling Outcomes? Using Adoptees as a Natural Experiment' in: Economic Journal, 2005, 115 (506), 879-906)
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D31 I21 J13 J24
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245
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Fredrik W.
Andersson
Kai
A.
Konrad
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Globalization and Human Capital Formation
This paper compares education investment in closed and open economies without government and with a benevolent government. The fact that the time consistency problem in taxation can make labor ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2003, 10(3), 211-228)
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H21 H23
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243
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Elizabeth
Brainerd
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Economic Reform and Mortality in the Former Soviet Union: A Study of the Suicide Epidemic in the 1990s
Male suicide rates in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic countries increased substantially in the early 1990s and are now the highest in the world. To what extent is this suicide epidemic ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2001, 45 (4-6), 1007-1019)
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I12 P20
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242
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Giulia
Faggio
Jozef
Konings
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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's
In this paper we document and analyse gross job flows in five transition countries, Poland, Estonia, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Using comparable firm level data over the years 1993- 1997, we ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2003 (27), 129-154)
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J6 P2
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240
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Winfried
Koeniger
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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to ...
(revised version published in: Geneva Papers of Risk and Insurance Theory, 2004, 29 (1), 55-74.)
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D12 D81 G22 J31
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239
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Fredrik W.
Andersson
Kai
A.
Konrad
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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States
This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (7-8), 1539-1555)
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H21 H23
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238
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Rob
Euwals
Axel
H.
Börsch-Supan
Angelika
Eymann
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The Saving Behaviour of Two Person Households: Evidence from Dutch Panel Data
As wives generally are younger than their husbands, and as they also have a higher life expectancy, wives generally have larger incentives to save for old age than their husbands. This paper analyses ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2004, 25 (2), 195-211)
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C33 C35 D19 D91
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237
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Stephan
Klasen
Ingrid
Woolard
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Surviving Unemployment without State Support: Unemployment and Household Formation in South Africa
High unemployment in many OECD countries is often attributed, at least in part, to the generosity and long duration of unemployment compensation. It is therefore instructive to examine a country ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2009, 18 (1), 1-51)
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J23 J12 J61 O15
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236
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Reinhard
Hujer
Marco
Caliendo
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Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy: Methodological Concepts and Empirical Estimates
Persistently high unemployment, tight government budgets and the growing scepticism regarding the effects of active labour market policies (ALMP) are the basis for a growing interest in evaluating ...
(published in: Becker, I., Ott, N. and Rolf, G. (eds.), Soziale Sicherung in einer dynamischen Gesellschaft, Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt, 583-617, 2001)
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C14 C33 H43 J64 J68
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234
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Ralph
Rotte
Martin
Steininger
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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999
Empirical research on the determinants of right and left-wing extremist election successes is still dominated by descriptive statistical methods. The existing literature in political economy and ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2001, 121 (3), 53-406)
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D60 D72 I28 J60 P16
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232
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Elena
Bardasi
Marco
Francesconi
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The Effect of Non-Standard Employment on Mental Health in Britain
This paper explores the relationship between non-standard types of employment and mental health. The analysis uses data on workers from the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Study, ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2004, 58 (9), 1671-1688 )
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I12 J21 J22
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