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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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162
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Christian
Dustmann
María
Engracia
Rochina-Barrachina
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Selection Correction in Panel Data Models: An Application to Labour Supply and Wages
In recent years a number of panel estimators have been suggested for sample selection models, where both the selection equation and the equation of interest contain individual effects which are ...
(published as 'Selection correction in panel data models: An application to the estimation of females' wage equations' in: Econometrics Journal, 2007, 10 (2), 263 - 293)
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C33 C34 J3
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161
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Vladimir
Gimpelson
Daniel
Treisman
Galina
Monusova
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Public Employment and Redistributive Politics: Evidence from Russia’s Regions
Public employment grew surprisingly fast in Russia during the 1990s, at a time when total employment was falling. Most of this growth occurred in the country’s 89 regions, and rates varied among ...
(revised version published as 'Fiscal Games and Public Employment: A Theory with Evidence from Russia' in: World Politics, 2002, 54 (2), 145-183)
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H11 H51 H52 H72 H77 J45 P52
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160
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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A Comparison of the Human Capital and Signaling Models: The Case of the Self-Employed and the Increase in the Schooling Premium in the 1980's
This paper utilizes the self-employed to analyze the observed increase in the educational earnings premium in the 1980’s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2001, 20, 191-215)
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J23 J24 J31 D31
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159
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Peter
J.
Jost
Matthias
Kräkel
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Preemptive Behavior in Sequential Tournaments
Rank-order tournaments are usually modeled simultaneously. However, real tournaments are often sequentially. We show that agents’ strategic behavior significantly differs in sequential tournaments ...
(published in: Economics of Governance, 2005, 6(3), 245-252)
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J31 J33 J41
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158
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Anders
Björklund
Tor
Eriksson
Markus
Jäntti
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Eva
Österbacka
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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 15 (4), 2002, 757-772)
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D1 D3 J62
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157
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Household Production, Full Consumption and the Costs of Children
Recent work criticises both the logic and relevance of the theoretical basis of the approach to estimating the costs of raising children adopted in much of the economics literature. This tends to be ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (6), 621-648)
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J13 J22 D13
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156
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Christian
Dustmann
Francesca
Fabbri
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Language Proficiency and Labour Market Performance of Immigrants in the UK
This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2003, 113 (489), 695-717)
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J15 J24 J61 R23
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154
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Michael
Gerfin
Michael
Lechner
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Microeconometric Evaluation of the Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
In the second part of the 1990’s Switzerland conducted an ambitious active labour market policy (ALMP) encompassing a wide variety of programmes. We evaluate the effects of these programmes on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2002, 112 (482), 854-893)
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J64 J68 H43 C14 C40
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153
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Adriaan
Kalwij
Mary
Gregory
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Overtime Hours in Great Britain over the Period 1975-1999: A Panel Data Analysis
Around 40% of the male workforce regularly works 8 to 9 hours a week of paid overtime. This paper investigates the determinants of overtime hours in Britain over the period 1975-1999. For this ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2005, 168 (1), 207-231)
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C23 C33 C44 J00
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152
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Florentino
Felgueroso
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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The Role of the Minimum Wage in the Welfare State: An Appraisal
In order to offer a balanced assessment of the role of minimum wages in the Welfare State, seven basic questions need to be answered: (i) Why is the minimum wage a useful redistributive tool?; (ii) ...
(published in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 136 (2000), 1-33)
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J31
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151
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Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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Gender, Salary and Promotion in the Academic Profession
This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly explained by the differing average characteristics of male and female academics ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2001, 48 (3), 283-302)
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J44 J70
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149
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Rafael
Lalive
Jan
C.
van Ours
Josef
Zweimüller
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The Impact of Active Labor Market Programs and Benefit Entitlement Rules on the Duration of Unemployment
Swiss policy makers created a unique link between unemployment benefits and Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) by making benefit payments conditional on program attendance after 7 months of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (525), 235–257)
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C14 C41 J64 I38
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147
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Michèle
Belot
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reform?
The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2004, 56 (4), 621-642)
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E24 J68
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146
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
John
de New
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Employer Learning and the Returns to Schooling
We examine the dynamic role of education and experience as determinants of wages. It is hypothesized that an employee’s education is an important signal to the employer initially. Over time, the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2001, 8 (2), 161-180)
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J21 J24 J31
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145
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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Decomposition Analysis for a Binary Choice Model
This paper introduces a new and simple decomposition method for a binary choice model that is equivalent to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis for wage differentials. The decomposition method ...
(see DP 877 for a revised and general decomposition method)
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J21 C25 C35
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144
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?
In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result ...
(published in: Jonas Agell, Michael Keen and Alfons Weichenrieder (eds.), Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation, 2004, 101-122)
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J20 J21 J23 J41 J42 J63 E24
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142
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Florentino
Felgueroso
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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Explaining Youth Labor Market Problems in Spain: Crowding-Out, Institutions, or Technology Shifts?
This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labor market in Spain over the last two decades, which entails very high unemployment for both higher and lower ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2000, 44 (4-6), 943-956)
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J63 J64
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140
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Giorgio
Brunello
Simona
Lorena
Comi
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Education and Earnings Growth: Evidence from 11 European Countries
We use cohort data from 11 European countries to study whether experience profiles differ by educational attainment. Previous literature does not provide a clear answer to this question, that is ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23 (1), 75-83)
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J30
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139
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Robert
A.
Hart
Yue
Ma
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Wages, Hours and Human Capital over the Live Cycle
We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2008, 228 (5-6), 446-464, (Special Issue: Labormetrics))
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J41 J33
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138
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Josef
Zweimüller
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Firm-specific Training: Consequences for Job Mobility
This paper analyzes the impact of formal training on worker mobility. Using data from the Swiss Labor Force Survey, we find that on-the-job search activities and, to a smaller extent, actual job ...
(published as 'On-the-job-training, job search and job mobility' in: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie und Statistik / Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2003, 139 (4), 563-576)
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J63 J24
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137
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Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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Continuous Training in Germany
Using data from the German Socio Economic Panel, I analyze the incidence, financing, and returns to workplace training in Germany for the years 1986 to 1989. Much of this training seems general, and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2001, 14 (3), 523-548)
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J24 J31
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136
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Michael
Bräuninger
Markus
Pannenberg
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Unemployment and Productivity Growth: An Empirical Analysis within the Augmented Solow Model
Does a country’s level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2002, 19 (1), 105-120)
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O40 O57 E24
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135
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Alan
Barrett
Philip
J.
O'Connell
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Is There a Wage Premium for Returning Irish Migrants?
Higher rates of economic growth in recent years have led Ireland from being a country characterised by emigration to one where population inflows have become an important issue. This paper contains ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2001, 32(1), 1-21)
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J61
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134
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Adriana
Kugler
Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection and Long-term Unemployment
In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2004, 22(3), 553-584.)
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E24 J41 J63 J64 J65 J71
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132
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Robert
A.
Hart
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Hours and Wages in the Depression: British Engineering, 1926-1938
On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2001, 38 (4), 478-502)
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E24 J31 N34
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131
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal ...
(published in: Brettel, C./J. Hollifield (eds.), Migration Theory, New York 2000, 61-76 / 2nd ed., 2008, 63-82)
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J61 J15 J24 J31
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130
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Giorgio
Brunello
Simona
Lorena
Comi
Claudio
Lucifora
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The Returns to Education in Italy: A New Look at the Evidence
The purpose of this paper is to provide an update of the empirical evidence on the private returns to education in Italy. First, we show that, whilst returns to education in Italy (based on gross ...
(published in: Harmon, C./I. Walker/N. Westergard-Nielsen (eds.), The Returns to Education in Europe, Edward Elgar, 2001)
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I21 I22 J24 J31
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129
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Michael
E.
Hurst
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The Employment, Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation Benefits of Immigrants
This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and in comparison with the native born. The empirical analysis uses microdata from ...
(published in: Bassi, L. J./Woodbury, S. A. (eds.), Long-Term Unemployment and Reemployment Policies (Research in Employment Policy, V. 2), Stamford, Conn. (2000), 87-115.)
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J61
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128
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Orley
Ashenfelter
David
Ashmore
Olivier
Deschenes
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Do Unemployment Insurance Recipients Actively Seek Work? Evidence From Randomized Trials in Four U.S. States
In this paper we report the results of the only field test of which we are aware that uses randomized trials to measure whether stricter enforcement and verification of work search behavior alone ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2005, 125 (1-2), 53-75)
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C93 J65
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126
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Josef
Fersterer
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Smoking, Discount Rates, and Returns to Education
Individual time preference determines schooling enrolment. Moreover, smoking behavior in early ages has been shown to be highly related to time preference rates. Accordingly, we use smoking at age 16 ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (6), 561-566)
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J31 I22
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