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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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125
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Felix
Büchel
Joachim
R.
Frick
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The Income Portfolio of Immigrants in Germany - Effects of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation Or: Who Gains from Income Re-Distribution?
This paper deals with the economic performance of various population groups in Germany giving special attention to ethnic origin of immigrants as compared to the native born German population. In ...
(published as 'Income Composition and Redistribution in Germany: The Role of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation' in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2001, 70 (1), 135-145)
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J61 J15 J18 D31
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124
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Rational Poverty or Poor Rationality? The Take-up of Social Assistance Benefits
In several countries social assistance dependence has been increasing since the 1980s. After surveying the theoretical and empirical take-up literature, this study presents estimates of recent rates ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2001, 47(3), 379-398)
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I38 I32 D31
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123
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Jennifer
Hunt
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Why Do People Still Live in East Germany?
In 1997 GDP per capita in East Germany was 57% of that of West Germany, wage rates were 75% of western levels, and the unemployment rate was at least double the western rate of 7.8%. One would expect ...
(published as "Staunching Emigration from East Germany: Age and the Determinants of Migration" in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (5), 1014–1037)
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J61 P23 R23
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122
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Daniel
Münich
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2005, 87 (1), 100-123)
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P2 J3 J4
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121
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Jan
C.
van Ours
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Do Active Labor Market Policies Help Unemployed Workers to Find and Keep Regular Jobs?
This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of ...
(published in: Michael Lechner and Friedhelm Pfeiffer (eds.), Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies, Physica-Verlag (2001), 125-152)
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J64 C41
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120
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Pedro
T.
Pereira
Pedro
S.
Martins
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2004, 11 (3), 355-371)
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C29 D31 I21 J24 J31
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118
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Michael A.
Shields
Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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Improving Nurse Retention in the British National Health Service: The Impact of Job Satisfaction on Intentions to Quit
In recent years the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain has experienced an acute shortage of qualified nurses. This has placed issues of recruitment and retention in the profession high on the ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2001, 20(5), 677-801)
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J45 J63 I18
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116
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Christian
Belzil
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Unemployment Insurance and Subsequent Job Duration: Job Matching vs Unobserved Heterogeneity
The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is investigated using a multi-state duration model with state specific unobserved ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2001,16 (5), 619-636)
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J64 J65
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115
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Alessandro
Cigno
Furio
C.
Rosati
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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?
The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2002, 7 (1), 65-84)
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I12 J13 O15
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114
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Giorgio
Brunello
Alfredo
Medio
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An Explanation of International Differences in Education and Workplace Training
We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2001, 45 (2), 307-322)
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J24 J31
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113
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Rob
Euwals
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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
The Dutch mandatory pension system consists of two parts: a public pay-as-you-go part that provides a minimum income to all Dutch inhabitants over age 64; and an occupation-specific capital-funded ...
(published in: De Economist, 2000, 148 (5), 643-670)
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C21 D91 H55
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111
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Vit
Sorm
Katherine
Terrell
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Sectoral Restructuring and Labor Mobility: A Comparative Look at the Czech Republic
Labor mobility is crucial for an efficient allocation of resources and the transition economies are often viewed as suffering from inadequate reallocation of labor. Using quarterly micro data for the ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2000, 28 (2) 431-455)
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C41 H53 J23
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109
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2001, 102 (2), 271-309)
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J64 C41 E24 C51
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108
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Jan
Boone
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Modeling Financial Incentives to Get Unemployed Back to Work
We model how unemployment benefit sanctions - benefit reductions that are imposed if unemployed do not comply with job search guidelines - affect unemployment. In our analysis we find that not only ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2006, 162 (2), 227-252)
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H55 J65 J68
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107
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Geert
Ridder
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Fast Track or Failure: A Study of the Completion Rates of Graduate Students in Economics
This paper presents an analysis of the failure and completion rates of graduate students in economics at three universities in The Netherlands. We find that an indicator of the research productivity ...
(published as 'Fast track or failure: a study of the graduation and dropout rates of Ph D students in economics' in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (2), 157-166)
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C41 I21
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105
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Giorgio
Brunello
Clara
Graziano
Bruno
Parigi
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Ownership or Performance: What Determines Board of Directors' Turnover in Italy?
This paper studies the turnover of board of directors members in a sample of 72 companies listed on the Milan Stock Exchange during the period 1988-1996. We investigate whether board members change ...
(published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2003, 27 (6), 1027-1051)
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G34 J63
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102
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Bas
van der Klaauw
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Labor Supply and Matching Rates for Welfare Recipients: An Analysis Using Neighborhood Characteristics
This paper investigates how in addition to personal characteristics the neighborhood affects the individual transition rate from welfare to work. We use a unique administrative database on welfare ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2003, 87 (5), 957-985)
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C41 J64
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101
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Leif
Husted
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Michael
Rosholm
Nina
Smith
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Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark
Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2001, 22 (1/2), 39-68)
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J61 J71
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100
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Jörgen
Hansen
Magnus
Lofstrom
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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare
This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 74-98)
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H53 I30 I38 J15 J61
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99
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions
In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial log it models are estimated for ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15(1), 115-135)
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J24 J64 J68
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97
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Alan
Barrett
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Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences
The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists, largely economists. For most of its modern history, Ireland has experienced large ...
(published in: Zimmermann, K. F. (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
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J15 J61
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94
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Martin
Eichler
Michael
Lechner
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An Evaluation of Public Employment Programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt
In East Germany, active labour market policies (ALMPs) are used on a large scale to contain fast rising unemployment after unification. This paper evaluates the effects for participants in public ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 9 (2), 143-186)
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C14 C23 H43 J64 J68
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93
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Michael
Lechner
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An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany
This study analyses the effects of public-sector-sponsored continuous vocational training and retraining in East Germany after unification with West Germany in 1990. It presents econometric estimates ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2000, 35 (2), 347-375)
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J24 J31 J60 C33
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91
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Michael
Lechner
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Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects of Multiple Treatments Under the Conditional Independence Assumption
The assumption that the assignment to treatments is ignorable conditional on attributes plays an important role in the applied statistic and econometric evaluation literature. Another term for it is ...
(published in: M. Lechner, F. Pfeiffer (eds.), Econometric Evaluation of Labour Market Policies, Heidelberg: Physica, 2001, 43-58)
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C30 C40
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90
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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Tenures that Shook the World: Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
We study worker turnover in a transition economy to investigate to what extent the length of time a worker has been employed by a firm shapes the turnover process. Using data from the Polish Labor ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2000, 28 (4), 639-664)
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J6
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89
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Shoshana
Neuman
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Aliyah to Israel: Immigration under Conditions of Adversity
A snapshot at figures of immigration (Aliyah) to the Land of Israel (Palestine) and to the State of Israel reveals the following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 ...
(published in: Zimmermann, Klaus F. (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know, 2005, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 459-506)
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J15 J61
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88
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Olympia
Bover
Pilar
Velilla
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Migration in Spain: Historical Background and Current Trends
We review the different migration episodes in Spain since the beginning of the 20 th century, with special emphasis on the pieces of empirical work that have tried to identify the factors behind ...
(published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know?, CEPR and OUP, 2005)
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J15 J61
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87
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
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Educational Mismatch and Wages in Germany
This paper contributes to the literature considering the wage effects of educational mismatch in Germany. It uses a large German panel data set for the period from 1984 to 1997 and stresses the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2002, 21 (2), 221-229)
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I21 J31
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85
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Stephen
Pudney
Michael A.
Shields
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Gender and Racial Discrimination in Pay and Promotion for NHS Nurses
For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2000, 62 (s1), 801-835)
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C5 I1 J3 J7
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84
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Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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The Heterogeneity and Cyclical Sensitivity of Unemployment: An Exploration of German Labor Market Flows
It is often argued that the labor market outcomes of several "problem groups" of German workers suffer disproportionately in an economic downturn. These groups are women, the unskilled, and young and ...
(published in: Ifo Studien, 2000, 46 (1), 73-98)
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J63 J64 J21
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