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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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11679
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Alpaslan
Akay
Alexandra
Brausmann
Slobodan
Djajic
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants
How does saving behavior of immigrants respond to changes in purchasing power parity between the source and host countries? We examine this question by building a theoretical model of joint ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103682.)
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F22, J61
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11675
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Anders
Frederiksen
Takao
Kato
Nina
Smith
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Working Hours and Top Management Appointments: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
By combining Danish registry data covering the population of Danish workers with the Danish Labor Force Survey (DLFS) which provides detailed data on working hours, we provide fresh evidence and ...
(revised version published online as 'Working Hours, Top Management Appointments, and Gender: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024)
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M5
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11674
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Daniel
Jones
Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Paying for What Kind of Performance? Performance Pay and Multitasking in Mission-Oriented Jobs
How does pay-for-performance (P4P) impact productivity, multitasking, and the composition of workers in mission-oriented jobs? These are central issues in sectors like education or healthcare. We ...
(substantially revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 142, 480-507)
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C91, M52, J45
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11672
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Orley
Ashenfelter
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Theory and Evidence on Employer Collusion in the Franchise Sector
In this paper we study the role of covenants in franchise contracts that restrict the recruitment and hiring of employees from other units within the same franchise chain in suppressing competition ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (S), S324-S348)
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J42, J41, J63
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11669
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Hans
Fricke
Susanna
Loeb
David
S.
Song
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Too Little or Too Much? Actionable Advice in an Early-Childhood Text Messaging Experiment
Text-message based parenting programs have proven successful in improving parental engagement and preschoolers' literacy development. The tested programs have provided a combination of (a) general ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2021, 16 (2), 209-232)
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I21, I24, J18
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11668
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Francesco
Amodio
Jieun
Choi
Giacomo
De Giorgi
Aminur
Rahman
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Bribes vs. Taxes: Market Structure and Incentives
Firms in developing countries often avoid paying taxes by making informal payments to tax officials. These bribes may raise the cost of operating a business, and the price charged to consumers. To ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics 2022, 50 (2), 435-453)
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D22, D40, H26, H71, O12
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11667
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Philippe
Ruh
Stefan
Staubli
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Financial Incentives and Earnings of Disability Insurance Recipients: Evidence from a Notch Design
Most countries reduce Disability Insurance (DI) benefits for beneficiaries earning above a specified threshold. Such an earnings threshold generates a discontinuous increase in tax liability – a ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11(2), 269-300)
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H53, H55, J14, J21
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11666
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Jonneke
Bolhaar
Nadine
Ketel
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Caseworker's Discretion and the Effectiveness of Welfare-to-Work Programs
In this paper we focus on the role of caseworkers in the assignment and take-up of welfare-to-work programs. We conduct a field experiment that generates exogenous variation in the assignment to ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 183, 104080)
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C93, I38, J64, J08
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11663
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Anne
Nolan
Alan
Barrett
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The Role of Self-Employment in Ireland's Older Workforce
A feature of employment at older ages that has been observed in many countries, including Ireland, is the higher share of self-employment among older labour force participants. This pattern of higher ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2019, 14, 100201)
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D14, H55, J14, J26
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11662
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Mee Jung
Kim
Kyung Min
Lee
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High-Growth Entrepreneurship
Analyzing data on all U.S. employers in a cohort of entering firms, we document a highly skewed size distribution, such that the largest 5% account for over half of cohort employment at firm birth ...
(published as 'Start-Ups, Job Creation, and Founder Characteristics' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2019, 28 (6), 1637–1672)
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D22, J24, L25, L26
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11661
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Pedro
Carneiro
Kai
Liu
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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The Supply of Skill and Endogenous Technical Change: Evidence from a College Expansion Reform
We examine the labor market consequences of an exogenous increase in the supply of skilled labor in several cities in Norway, resulting from the construction of new colleges in the 1970s. We find ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (1), 48–92)
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J23, J24
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11660
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Soham
Sahoo
Stephan
Klasen
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Gender Segregation in Education and Its Implications for Labour Market Outcomes: Evidence from India
This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. ...
(revised version published in: Demography, 2021, 58 (3), 987-1010)
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I20, J16, J24
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11659
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Michela
Carlana
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Implicit Stereotypes: Evidence from Teachers' Gender Bias
I study whether exposure to teachers' stereotypes, as measured by the Gender-Science Implicit Association Test, affects student achievement. I provide evidence that the gender gap in math performance ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134 (3), 1163–1224, )
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J16, J24, I24
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11658
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Elisabeth
Artmann
Nadine
Ketel
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Field of Study and Family Outcomes
This paper uses administrative data from 16 cohorts of the Dutch population to study the relationship between field of study and family outcomes. We first document considerable variation by field of ...
(published as 'Field of study and partner choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2021, 84, 102149 )
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I26, J12, J13
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11657
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Jared
Ashworth
Tyler
Ransom
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Has the College Wage Premium Continued to Rise? Evidence from Multiple U.S. Surveys
This paper examines trends in the college wage premium (CWP) by birth cohort across the five major household surveys in the United States: the Census/ACS, CPS, NLSY, PSID, and SIPP. We document a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 69 (1), 149 -154. )
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I26, J30
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11654
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
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My Choice: Female Contraceptive Use Autonomy in Bangladesh
Previous research has examined the incidence and correlates of contraceptive use and of several dimensions of female autonomy but only rarely the intersection of the two: female contraceptive use ...
(published in: Feminist Economicy, 2019, 25 (4), 68-93 )
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D13, I12, I21
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11653
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Guy
Lacroix
Luca
Tiberti
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Validating the Collective Model of Household Consumption Using Direct Evidence on Sharing
Recent advances in the collective model literature suggest ways to estimate the complete allocation of resources within households, using assignable goods and assuming adult preference similarity ...
(published as 'Intrahousehold Resource Allocation and Individual Poverty: Assessing Collective Model Predictions using Direct Evidence on Sharing' in: Economic Journal, 2022, 132 (643), 865 - 905)
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D11, D12, D36, I31, J12
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11652
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Iga
Magda
Aneta
Kiełczewska
Nicola
Brandt
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The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2020, 10-17 )
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E24, H53, I38, J13, J21, J22
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11651
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Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Arvid
Raknerud
Diana-Cristina
Iancu
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Public R&D Support and Firms' Performance: A Panel Data Study
We analyse all the major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies in Norway in the period 2002-2013 and compare their effects on individual firms' performance. Firms that received support are ...
(published as 'Public R&D support and firm performance: A multivariate dose-response analysis' in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (7), 104067.)
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C33, C52, D24, O38
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11650
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Karsten
Kohn
Solvejg
A.
Wewel
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Skills, Scope, and Success: An Empirical Look at the Start-up Process in Creative Industries in Germany
Creative industries comprise enterprises focusing on the creation, production, and distribution of creative or cultural goods and services. Following an explorative empirical approach, we analyze ...
(published in: Creativity and Innovation Management, 2018, 27 (3), 295-318)
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L26, M13, J21
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11649
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Christoph
Grimpe
Ulrich
Kaiser
Wolfgang
Sofka
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Innovating for the Better? The Role of Advocacy Group Work Experience for Employee Pay
How valuable is work experience with advocacy groups, e.g. Greenpeace, for new hires of innovative firms? We integrate strategic human capital with stakeholder theory and suggest that this experience ...
(published as 'Signalling valuable human capital: Advocacy group work experience and its effect on employee pay in innovative firms' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2019, 40(4), 685-70;)
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J24, J6, C21
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11647
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Adam
Cook
Yong
Yin
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What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century: The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis
Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12 (2), 233–281)
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N3, E24, H42, I2, O1, O57, O4
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11645
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Manudeep
Bhuller
Gordon
B.
Dahl
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Magne
Mogstad
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Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment
Understanding whether, and in what situations, time spent in prison is criminogenic or preventive has proven challenging due to data availability and correlated unobservables. This paper overcomes ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(4),1269-1324)
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K42, J24
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11644
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Robert
Dur
Ben
Vollaard
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Salience of Law Enforcement: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment to examine whether the deterrent effect of law enforcement depends on the salience of law enforcement activity. Our focus is on illegal disposal of household garbage in ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 93, 208-220)
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C93, K42
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11643
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
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Estimating Causal Effects of Alcohol Access and Use on a Broad Set of Risky Behaviors: Regression Discontinuity Evidence
A growing body of evidence suggests large increases in criminal behavior and mortality coinciding with a young adult's 21st birthday, when alcohol consumption becomes legal. The policy implications ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37 (3), 427-448)
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I12, I18
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11642
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Thomas
Dohmen
Simone
Quercia
Jana
Willrodt
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Willingness to Take Risk: The Role of Risk Conception and Optimism
We show that the disposition to focus on favorable or unfavorable outcomes of risky situations affects willingness to take risk as measured by the general risk question. We demonstrate that this ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 15763 )
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D91, C91, D81, D01
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11641
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Conny
Wunsch
Renate
Strobl
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Risky Choices and Solidarity: Why Experimental Design Matters
Negative income shocks can either be the consequence of risky choices or random events. A growing literature analyzes the role of responsibility for neediness for informal financial support of ...
(published as 'Risky Choices and Solidarity: Disentangling Different Behavioural Channels' in. Experimental Economics, 2021, 24, 1185–1214)
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C91, D63, D81, O12
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11639
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Lucas
van der Velde
Karolina
Goraus-Tanska
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How (Not) to Make Women Work?
Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap with respect to men was cut in half. This positive trend has often been ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2018, 75, 154-167)
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J2, J7, P7
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11638
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Mahdi
Majbouri
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Twins, Family Size, and Female Labor Force Participation in Iran
Despite the remarkable increase in women's education levels and the rapid fall of their fertility rate in Iran, female labor force participation (FLFP) has remained low. Using the instrumental ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2018, 51 (4), 387–397)
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J13, J22, O53
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11637
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Damien
de Walque
Christine
Valente
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Incentivizing School Attendance in the Presence of Parent-Child Information Frictions
Education conditional cash transfer programs may increase school attendance in part due to the information they transmit to parents about their child's attendance. This paper presents experimental ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, 15 (3), 256–285)
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I25, D82, N37
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11636
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Michael
J.
Osei
John
V.
Winters
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Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?
This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on 321 US metropolitan statistical areas, we estimate the medium- and long-run ...
(published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2019, 33(3), 212-219)
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J23, O18, R12, R23, R31
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11635
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Terhi
Maczulskij
Petri
Böckerman
Tuomas
Kosonen
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Job Displacement, Inter-Regional Mobility and Long-Term Earnings
We examine the effect of job displacement on regional mobility using linked employer-employee panel data for the 1995-2014 period. We also study whether displaced movers obtain earnings and ...
(published as 'Losing a Job and (Dis)incentives to Move: Interregional Migration in Finland' in: European Urban and Regional Studies, 2023, 30 (4), 430-445)
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J61, J63
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11634
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Martin
Biewen
Daniela
Plötze
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The Role of Hours Changes for the Increase in German Earnings Inequality
Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 239, 1-28)
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C14, J22, J31
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11632
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Seamus
McGuinness
Paul
Redmond
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Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland
On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator ...
(revised verion published as 'The impact of a Minimum Wage increase on Temporary Worker Contracts' in: 2019, 40 (2), 149-173)
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E24, J22, J23, J31, J42
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11631
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Michael
Kvasnicka
Thomas
Siedler
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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The Health Effects of Smoking Bans: Evidence from German Hospitalization Data
This paper studies the short-term impact of public smoking bans on hospitalizations in Germany. It exploits the staggered implementation of smoking bans over time and across the 16 federal states ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (11), 1738-1753)
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D12, H19, I12, I18
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11630
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Miriam
Gensowski
Torben
Heien
Nielsen
Nete
Munk
Nielsen
Maya
Rossin-Slater
Miriam
Wüst
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Childhood Health Shocks, Comparative Advantage, and Long-Term Outcomes: Evidence from the Last Danish Polio Epidemic
A large literature documents that childhood health shocks have lasting negative consequences for adult outcomes. This paper demonstrates that the adversity of childhood physical disability can be ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 27 - 36)
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I14, J24, I24, I10
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11629
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Elira
Kuka
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Quantifying the Benefits of Social Insurance: Unemployment Insurance and Health
While the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program is one of the largest safety net program in the U.S., research on its benefits is limited. This paper exploits plausibly exogenous changes in state UI ...
(published: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (3), 490–505.)
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H05, I1
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11628
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Stefan
Bauernschuster
Anastasia
Driva
Erik
Hornung
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Bismarck's Health Insurance and the Mortality Decline
We study the impact of social health insurance on mortality. Using the introduction of compulsory health insurance in the German Empire in 1884 as a natural experiment, we estimate flexible ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18 (5), 2561-2607)
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I13, I18, N33, J11
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11627
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Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
Jeanne
Wendel
Miaomiao
Zou
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Impacts of Shifting Responsibility for High-Cost Individuals on Health Insurance Exchange Plan Premiums and Cost-Sharing Provisions
States with Section 1332 Waivers to operate high-risk pools (HRPs) or reinsurance programs can receive federal pass through funds equal to reductions in federal expenditures generated by the Waiver. ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 180-194.)
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I11, I13, I18
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11624
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Sofoklis
Goulas
Rigissa
Megalokonomou
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Marathon, Hurdling or Sprint? The Effects of Exam Scheduling on Academic Performance
Would you prefer a tighter or a prolonged exam schedule? Would you prefer to take Math before Reading or the other way around? We exploit variation in end-of-course exam schedules across years and ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, 20 (2), 20190177. )
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I20, I24
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11621
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Joanna
Tyrowicz
Krzysztof
Makarski
Marcin
Bielecki
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Inequality in an OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Cohorts and Pension Systems
We analyze the consumption and wealth inequality in an OLG model with mandatory pension systems. Our framework features within cohort heterogeneity of endowments and heterogeneity of preferences. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (4), 583-606)
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H55, E17, C60 C68, E21, D63
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11620
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Maarten
Lindeboom
Raymond
Montizaan
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Pension Reform: Disentangling Retirement and Savings Responses
In January 2006, the Dutch government implemented a pension reform that substantially reduced the public pension wealth of workers born in 1950 or later. At the same time, a tax-facilitated savings ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 192(3), 104297)
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J26, H55, J14
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11619
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Chiara
Canta
Helmuth
Cremer
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Uncertain Altruism and Non-Linear Long-Term Care Policies
We study the design of public long-term care (LTC) insurance when the altruism of informal caregivers is uncertain. We consider non-linear policies where the LTC benefit depends on the level of ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 54, 2021, 259-283.)
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H2, H5
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11616
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Sabrina
Genz
Lutz
Bellmann
Britta
Matthes
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Do German Works Councils Counter or Foster the Implementation of Digital Technologies?
As works councils' information, consultation and co-determination rights affect the decision process of the management, works councils play a key role in the implementation of digital technologies in ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2019, 239 (3), 523 - 564)
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J50, J53
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11615
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John
Forth
Alex
Bryson
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State Substitution for the Trade Union Good: The Case of Paid Holiday Entitlements
The literature on the union wage premium is among the most extensive in labour economics but unions' effects on other aspects of the wage-effort bargain have received much less attention. We ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 5 - 23)
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J51, J32, K31
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11614
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Eric
D.
Gould
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Torn Apart? The Impact of Manufacturing Employment Decline on Black and White Americans
This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment decline on the socio-economic outcomes within and between black and white Americans from 1960 to 2010. Exploiting variation across cities ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (4), 770–785.)
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J10
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11612
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Cynthia
Bansak
Susan
Pozo
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Refugee Admissions and Public Safety: Are Refugee Settlement Areas More Prone to Crime?
According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees worldwide rose to 21.3 million in 2015. Yet, resistance to the welcoming of refugees appears to have grown. The ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2021, 55 (1), 135-165.)
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F22, J61, J68
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11610
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Michal
Burzynski
Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post-crisis wave (2011–2015) for OECD native citizens. To do so, we develop a general ...
(published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66(3), 564-601)
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C68, F22, J24
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11609
|
Jake
Anders
Simon
Burgess
Jonathan
Portes
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The Long-Term Outcomes of Refugees: Tracking the Progress of the East African Asians
Refugees are often perceived as an economic "burden", as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates. But there is little quantitative evidence on the medium-term outcomes of ...
(published in: Journal of Refugee Studies, 2021, 34 (2), 1967-1998 )
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J15
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11608
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Carsten
Feuerbaum
Marc
Piopiunik
Ludger
Woessmann
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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children’s acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1297 - 1344)
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J15, I20, R23, J61
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