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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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83
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Rob
Euwals
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Female Labour Supply, Flexibility of Working Hours, and Job Mobility in the Netherlands
In the empirical literature on labour supply, several static models are developed to incorporate constraints on working hours. These models do not address to what extent working hours are constrained ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2001, 111 (471), C120-C134)
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C20 J22 J60
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82
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Kai
A.
Konrad
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Privacy, time consistent optimal labor income taxation and education policy
Incomplete information is a commitment device for time consistency problems. In the contextof time consistent labor income taxation privacy can lead to a Pareto superior outcome and increases the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2001, 79(3), 503-519)
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H21 H23
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81
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Stephen
Wheatley Price
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Migration, Migrants and Policy in the United Kingdom
This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom’s international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include ...
(published in: Zimmermann, K. (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know? Oxford University Press, 2005)
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J15 J61
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80
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Justus
Veenman
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The Netherlands: Old Emigrants - Young Immigrant Country
Since the mid 1960s the Netherlands has an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and because of immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. ...
(published in: K. Zimmerman (ed.) European Migration: What Do We Know? Oxford: OUP, 2005)
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J15 J61
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78
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Jörgen
Hansen
Roger
Wahlberg
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Endogenous Schooling and the Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap
Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2005, 30 (1), 1-22)
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J3 J7
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76
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Giorgio
Brunello
Massimo
Giannini
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Selective Schools
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2004, 56 (3), 207-225)
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J31 J24
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75
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Brian
Henry
Marika
Karanassou
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Adjustment Dynamics and the Natural Rate: An Account of UK Unemployment
This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 52 (2000), 178-203)
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J32 J60 J64 E30 E37
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74
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Matthias
Kräkel
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Strategic Mismatches in Competing Teams
This paper discusses the strategic role of mismatching, where players voluntarily form inefficient teams or forego the formation of efficient teams, respectively. Strategic mismatching can be ...
(published as 'Strategic mismatching and competing teams' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2003, 50 (3), 355-372)
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C72 D21 J41 J44
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72
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Josef
Fersterer
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Are Austrian Returns to Education Falling Over Time?
In this paper we make a systematic presentation of returns to education in Austria for the period 1981-1997. We use consistent cross-sections from the Mikrozensus and find falling returns over time. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2003, 10 (1), 73-89)
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I21 J31
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71
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Laszlo
Goerke
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The Wedge
It is often argued that the quantity which is traded on the market is independent of the side of the market which is taxed. However, this assertion need not hold, especially in imperfectly ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2000, 68(5), 608-623)
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H22 H55 J41
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69
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Myeong-Su
Yun
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Generalized Selection Bias and The Decomposition of Wage Differentials
The major contribution of this paper is ending a new and flexible way to measure the effects of selection on log-wages. In this context, we offer a general approach to performing decomposition ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2007, 32 (1), 15-22)
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J71 J31 C34
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67
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Anja
Thalmaier
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Behavioral Effects of Probation Periods: An Analysis of Worker Absenteeism
The theoretical probation literature shows that individuals have incentives to mimick "good workers" during periods of employment probation. This study empirically tests at the example of absence ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2001, 221(2), 179-201)
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J22 D80
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66
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Edward
J.
Bird
Hilke
Kayser
Joachim
R.
Frick
Gert
G.
Wagner
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The Immigrant Welfare Effect: Take-Up or Eligibility?
Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 35 (2001), 726-748)
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H53 I38 J61
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65
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Jonathan
Wadsworth
Alessandro
Acquisti
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Grime and Punishment: Insecurity and Wage Arrears in the Russian Federation
Using information from two complementary household survey data sets, we show that the dominant form of labor market adjustment in the Russian transition process has been the delayed receipt of wages. ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 27 (1999), 595-617)
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J6 J30 P20
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64
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Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
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Salary and the Gender Salary Gap in the Academic Profession
The academic profession is an occupation in which pay has fallen dramatically, resulting in the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to examine both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay ...
(published as 'The gender salary gap in British academia' in: Applied Economics, 2001, 33 (3),1669-1681)
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J44
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61
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Rainer
Winkelmann
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Immigration: The New Zealand Experience
A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 New Zealand Censuses are used to illustrate changes in the characteristics of ...
(published in: K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration - What Do We Know? Oxford University Press, 2005)
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J15 J61 J68
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59
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Samuel
A.
Laryea
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Canadian Immigration Experience: Any Lessons for Europe?
This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada’s post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of ...
(published in: : K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration - What Do We Know? Oxford University Press, 2005)
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J15 J61 J68
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57
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Ira
N.
Gang
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2000, 35 (3), 550-569)
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I21 J15 J62
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56
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Assar
Lindbeck
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking and Work Incentives
The paper examines the implications for wage bargaining of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking. The analysis ...
(published as 'Centralized bargaining and reorganized work: Are they compatible?' in: European Economic Review, 2001, 45 (10), 1851-1875)
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D23 J24 J31 J51 J53
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55
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Laszlo
Goerke
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Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions
In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 1999, 219 (3/4), 308-325)
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H24 H25 J32 J41
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