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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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208
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Joop
Hartog
Rainer
Winkelmann
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Dutch Migrants in New Zealand: Did they Fare Well?
We analyse postwar Dutch migration to New Zealand. We document that history, reflect on analytical and econometric modelling and then combine a sample of Dutch migrants in New Zealand with a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (4), 683-705)
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F22 J61
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207
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Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme
(Title: Active Labor Market Policy and its Evaluation: The Current State of Affairs) Despite the considerable effort and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market ...
(published in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2000, 69 (3), 425-437)
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J68 H43 H53
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205
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Alison
L.
Booth
Marco
Francesconi
Jeff
Frank
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Temporary Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends?
In Britain about 7% of male employees and 10% of female employees are in temporary jobs. In contrast to much of continental Europe, this proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (480), F585-606)
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J21 J30 J63
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204
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Gil
S.
Epstein
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Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants
This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2003, 7 (1), 30-43)
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F22 K42 P16
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201
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Thomas
Dohmen
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Worker Separations in a Nonstationary Corporate Environment
This paper investigates differences in worker turnover characteristics between periods of workforce expansion and contraction in a firm. We derive a Cox proportional hazard model from a simple model ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2004, 48 (3), 645-663)
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J63 J26 M12
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200
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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What are Migration Networks?
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant’s country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and ...
(revised version published as 'Measuring ethnic linkages among migrants' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 56-69)
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F22 J61
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199
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Horst
Entorf
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Rational Migration Policy Should Tolerate Non-Zero Illegal Migration Flows: Lessons from Modelling the Market for Illegal Migration
The debate on the immigration policies in OECD countries has turned its attention towards illegal migrants. Given that migration flows are determined by immigration laws, the probability of potential ...
(published in: International Migration, 40 (1), 2002, 27-43)
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F22 D61
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198
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Michaela
Kreyenfeld
C.
Katharina
Spieß
Gert
G.
Wagner
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A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of ...
(published in: European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2003, 11 (2), 159-175)
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D1 D3 H2 H4
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197
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Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Options to Quit
This paper develops a theoretical model of a worker’s decision problem under uncertainty about the optimal separation time, when holding a representative outside offer but facing fixed costs of ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2001, 70 (2), 59-265)
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J63
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196
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John
S.
Earle
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In
We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer’s arrears affect the costs of ...
(revised version published as' Complementarity and Custom in Wage Contract Violation' in: Review of Economicss and Statistics, 2009, 91 (4), 832 - 849)
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J30 J33 K42 L14 O17 P23 P31
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195
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Felix
Büchel
Antje
Mertens
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Overeducation, Undereducation, and the Theory of Career Mobility
The Theory of career mobility (Sicherman and Galor 1990) claims that wage penalties for overeducated workers are compensated by better promotion prospects. A corresponding empirical test by Sicherman ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2004, 36 (8), 803 - 816 )
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J62 J31 I21
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194
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Andrew
T.
Newell
Francesco
Pastore
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Regional Unemployment and Industrial Restructuring in Poland
This paper studies regional unemployment inequality in Poland. We find that higher unemployment regions are those experiencing greater change in industrial structure. We also find high unemployment ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2006, 44 (3), 5-28)
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J63 P23
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193
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Astrid
Kunze
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The Determination of Wages and the Gender Wage Gap: A Survey
In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in the specified human capital wage ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Gender wage gap studies: Consistency and decomposition' in: Empirical Economics, 2008, 35 (1), 63-76)
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J70 J31 C51
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192
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Giorgio
Brunello
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Absolute Risk Aversion and the Returns to Education
Individual absolute risk aversion is measured for a sample of 1373 male household heads, using the 1995 wave of the Survey on the Income and Wealth of Italian households. This measure, conditional on ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2002, 21(6), 635-640)
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J24 J31
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191
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Chiara
Monfardini
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Joint Decisions on Household Membership and Human Capital Accumulation of Youths - The role of expected earnings and local markets
This paper analyses the effects of expected earnings and local markets conditions on the behaviour of young adults with high school diplomas. Decisions to either remain in the parental home or form a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2003, 16 (2), 265-285)
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C25 J12 J24 J31
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190
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Christian
Dustmann
Ian
Preston
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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration
Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7 (1), Article 62)
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J15 F22
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189
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Wiji
Arulampalam
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Is Unemployment Really Scarring? Effects of Unemployment Experiences on Wages
This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) conducted over the period 1991- 1997. In ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2001, 111 (475), F585-606)
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J30 J60
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188
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Arie
Kapteyn
Adriaan
Kalwij
Asghar
Zaidi
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The Myth of Worksharing
Worksharing is considered by many as a promising public policy to reduce unemployment. In this paper we present a review of the most pertinent theoretical and empirical contributions to the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 293-313)
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C33 E24 J2 J3
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187
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Magnus
Lofstrom
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries
As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2000, 7 (2), 11-53)
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J61 F22
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186
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Christian
Dustmann
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Temporary Migration and Economic Assimilation
In this paper, I study temporary migrations, and its consequences for immigrants’ behaviour. I distinguish between temporary migrations where the return time is exogenous, and temporary migrations ...
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, 2000, 7 (2), 213-244)
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D9 F22 J24
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185
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Holger
Bonin
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Post-Unification German Labor Market
This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in the last decade, East Germans were faced with very high levels of joblessness ...
(published in: R. T. Riphahn/ D. J. Snower / K. F. Zimmermann (Eds.), Employment Policy in Transition: The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market, Springer Verlag, 2001, 8-30)
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J40 O50 P27
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184
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Miles
Corak
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Torun
Österberg
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Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden
The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual’s use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a young adult is influenced by past experience with the program, and by having had ...
(published in: Miles Corak (ed.), Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe. Cambridge University Press 2004)
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I38 J62 J65
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183
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Michael
Fertig
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address ...
(published in: Slobodan Djajic (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, London/New York, 2021, 110-136)
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J11 J61 C23
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182
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Michael
Fertig
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Discretionary Measures of Active Labor Market Policy: The German Employment Promotion Reform in Perspective
This paper provides a preliminary assessment of recent reforms of German employment promotion policy. While several recent studies analyze the impact of measures of employment promotion for the case ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2000, 120 (4), 537-565)
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J68 H43 R23
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181
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Etienne
Wasmer
Yves
Zenou
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Space, Search and Efficiency
We investigate the role of spatial frictions in search equilibrium unemployment. For that, we develop a model of the labor market in which workers’ location in an agglomeration depends on commuting ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2002, 51(3), 515-541)
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E24 J41 R14
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180
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Ira
N.
Gang
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry ...
(published in: Labour, 2001, 15 (2), 237-255)
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J24 J16 I21 J15
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179
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Etienne
Wasmer
Philippe
Weil
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The Macroeconomics of Labor and Credit Market Imperfections
Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections, driven by microeconomic frictions and impacted upon by macroeconomic factors ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2004, 94 (4), 944-963)
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J64 G24 E51
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178
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Rob
Euwals
Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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The Remuneration of British Academics
This paper examines both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination within the UK academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 635 academics from five ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2005, 37 (14), 1655-1672)
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A22 C35 J31 J44
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177
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Gaston
Repetto
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Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings
This paper is an analysis of the determinates of Hebrew language speaking and writing skills and the determinates of earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of ...
(published in: Djajic, S. (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, New York, 2001, 204-228)
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J15 J24 J31 J61
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176
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Olaf
Hübler
Wolfgang
Meyer
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Industrial Relations and the Wage Differentials between Skilled and Unskilled Blue-Collar Workers within Establishments: An Empirical Analysis with Data of Manufacturing Firms
Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften /Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2001, 121(3), 285-312)
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J31 J51
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175
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to ...
(published in: Cornelius, W. A. / Espenshade, T. J. (eds.), The International Migration of the Highly Skilled: Demand, Supply and Development Consequences, La Jolla, CA, 163-195)
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J15 J23 J61
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174
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Ernst
Fehr
Jean-Robert
Tyran
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Does Money Illusion Matter? An Experimental Approach
Money illusion means that people behave differently when the same objective situation is represented in nominal terms rather than in real terms. This paper shows that seemingly innocuous differences ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2001, 91 (5), 1239-1262)
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C92 E32 E52
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173
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Timing, Togetherness and Time Windfalls
By examples this study illustrates that with the right data the analysis of time use, labor supply and leisure can and should move beyond the standard questions of the wage and income elasticities ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15 (4), 601-623)
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J20
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170
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Immigration Policy in Integrated National Economies
Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged ...
(published in: C. Lankowski (ed.): Responses to Globalization in Germany and the United States, AICGS Research Report No. 10, Washington, D. C., 1999, 15-30)
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J61 J68
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169
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Immigration Policies and their Impact: The Case of New Zealand and Australia
The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered ...
(published in: Djajic, Slobodan (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policies and Economic Impact, Routledge, 2001, 1-20)
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J61 J68
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168
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Arye
L.
Hillman
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Social Harmony at the Boundaries of the Welfare State: Immigrants and Social Transfers
The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments financed by citizens’ taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (7-8), 1641-1655)
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I38 F22 P16
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167
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Alan
Barrett
John
FitzGerald
Brian
Nolan
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2002, 9 (5), 665-680)
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J61
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166
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Ziggy
MacDonald
Michael A.
Shields
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The Impact of Alcohol Consumption on Occupational Attainment in England
In this study we provide evidence on the effect of alcohol consumption on occupational attainment in England. To do this we use samples of employees from the Health Survey for England between 1992 ...
(published in: Economica, August 2001, 68 (271), 427-453)
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J24
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165
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Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Immigration in a High Unemployment Economy: The Recent Danish Experience
The purpose in this paper is to survey the course of immigration into Denmark and research and studies related to the problems encountered in this area. The first part of the paper describes the ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.): European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005)
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J15 J61
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164
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Michael A.
Shields
Stephen
Wheatley Price
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Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession
This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on intentions to quit. Using data for ethnic minority nurses in Britain, we find ...
(published in: Economica, 2002, 69(274), 295-326)
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J15 J24 J71
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