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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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231
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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The Economics of Human Cloning
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone’s income can ...
(published as 'Economic aspects of human cloning and reprogenetics' in: Economic Policy, 2003, 18 (36), 72 - 122)
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J12 J13 J24 J31 O15
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230
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Leonor
Modesto
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Educational Choices and Earnings: An Empirical Study for Portugal
In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese educational system. At each potential exit level we consider two decisions: the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (2), 307-322)
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I20 J31
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229
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Rui
Coimbra
Teresa
Lloyd-Braga
Leonor
Modesto
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Unions, Increasing Returns and Endogenous Fluctuations
We analyse the implications of unions (efficient bargaining) for multiplicity of stationary states and welfare, local indeterminacy, bifurcations and endogenous fluctuations (deterministic and ...
(published as 'Endogenous fluctuations in unionized economies with productive externalities' in: Economic Theory, 2005, 26 (3), 629-649)
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E32 J51 D60 D62
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227
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Lilo
Locher
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Immigration from the Eastern Block and the former Soviet Union to Israel: Who is coming when?
Average education of new immigrants from the East European countries and the former Soviet Union (FSU) in Israel declined during the last ten years. I present a simple two-period model of migration ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2004, 48 (6), 1243-1255)
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J24 J61
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226
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
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On the Identification of Relative Wage Rigidity Dynamics. A Proposal for a Methodology on Cross-Section Data and Empirical Evidence for Poland in Transition
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We ...
(revised version published as 'Relative Wage and Unemployment Changes in Poland: Microeconometric Evidence' in: Economic Systems. 2002, 26 (2), 99-126)
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J31 J64 P20
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225
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Leonor
Modesto
Jonathan
P.
Thomas
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An Analysis of Labour Adjustment Costs in Unionized Economies
In this paper we conduct a theoretical analysis of the implications of a union which can exploit the existence of firm labour adjustment costs. We consider a model involving a large number of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (4), 475-501)
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J51 J32 J23 J65
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224
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Johannes
Schwarze
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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity
In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2003, 49 (3), 359-372)
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C23 D31 I31
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223
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Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Wages, Training and Job Turnover in a Search-Matching Model
In this paper we extend a job search-matching model with firm-specific investments in training developed by Mortensen (2000) to allow for different offer arrival rates in employment and unemployment. ...
(revised version published as 'Endogenous wage dispersion in a search-matching model ' in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (5), 623-645)
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C51 D83 J31 J41 J6
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221
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Christian
Grund
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Wages as Risk Compensation in Germany
The theory of compensating wage differentials is generally accepted. Still, there has been no strong or even contrary evidence for compensating wage differentials in Germany so far. Estimating wage ...
(revised version published as 'Do Firms Pay for Perceived Risks at Work?' in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2001, 53, 229-229)
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J28 J31
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220
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Wayne
A.
Cornelius
Enrico
A.
Marcelli
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more ...
(published in: Latin American Research Review, 2001, 36 (3), 105-131 )
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J61 F22
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219
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Francis
Kramarz
Thomas
Philippon
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The Impact of Differential Payroll Tax Subsidies on Minimum Wage Employment
In this article, we study the impact of changes of total labor costs on employment of low-wage workers in France in a period, 1990 to 1998, that saw sudden and large changes in these costs. We use ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2001, 82 (1), 115-146)
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J31 J23
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218
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Christian
Dustmann
Arthur
van Soest
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Parametric and Semiparametric Estimation in Models with Misclassified Categorical Dependent Variables
We consider both a parametric and a semiparametric method to account for classification errors on the dependent variable in an ordered response model. The methods are applied to the analysis of ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2004, 22 (3), 312-321)
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C14 C35 J15
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217
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Jörgen
Hansen
Roger
Wahlberg
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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Sweden
We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality in Sweden compared to the U.S., we expect a lower wage penalty of job ...
(published as 'Occupational gender composition and the gender wage gap in Sweden' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 353-369)
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J31 J71
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216
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Felix
Büchel
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The Effects of Overeducation on Productivity in Germany - The Firms' Viewpoint
Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a consequence of frustration, overeducated employees are less productive than their ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2002, 21(3), 263-276)
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J21 J24 J28 J63
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215
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John
Ermisch
Marco
Francesconi
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The Effect of Parents' Employment on Children's Educational Attainment
This paper presents the conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which ...
(revised version published as 'The Effect of Parental Employment on Child Schooling' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28(5), 796-822 )
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I21 J13 J22 J24
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214
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Xiaodong
Gong
Arthur
van Soest
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Family Structure and Female Labour Supply in Mexico City
This paper investigates labour supply of married women in Mexico City. A static neoclassical structural mode is used. We assume that each woman chooses her labour supply and corresponding income so ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37(1), 163-191)
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C31 C35 J16 J22 O54
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213
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Xiaodong
Gong
Arthur
van Soest
Elizabeth
Villagomez
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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the informal sector, and not working. We use a dynamic multinomial logit panel data ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2004, 53 (1), 1-36)
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C23 C25 J60 R23
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212
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Xiaodong
Gong
Arthur
van Soest
Ping
Zhang
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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China
We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, ...
(revised version published as 'The effects of the gender of children on expenditure patterns in rural China: A semiparametric analysis' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2005, 20 (4), 509-527)
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C14 C20 D12 D63 J16 R20
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211
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Arthur
van Soest
Marcel
Das
Xiaodong
Gong
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A Structural Labour Supply Model with Nonparametric Preferences
Nonparametric techniques are usually seen as a statistic device for data description and exploration, and not as a tool for estimating models with a richer economic structure, which are often ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2002, 107 (1-2), 345-374)
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C14 C31 C35 C51 J21
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210
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Thomas
Dohmen
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Housing, Mobility and Unemployment
This paper develops a model that shows why high-skilled workers move more and are therefore unemployed less than low-skilled workers. The model can explain the paradoxical empirical regularity that ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2005, 35 (3), 305-325)
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J6
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