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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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11562
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Rolf
Aaberge
Ugo
Colombino
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Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation
The purpose of the paper is to provide a discussion of the various approaches for accounting for labour supply responses in microsimulation models. The paper focuses attention on two methodologies ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2018, 11 (1), 162 - 197)
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C50, D10, D31, H21, H24, H31, J20
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11561
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Stefa
Hirsch
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Are Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility Biased by Non-Response? Evidence from the Netherlands
Intergenerational mobility is often studied using survey data. In such settings, selective unit or item non-response may bias estimates. Linking Dutch survey data to administrative income data allows ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2019, 52 (1), 29-63)
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I24, J62
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11560
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Otávio
Bartalotti
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Regression Discontinuity and Heteroskedasticity Robust Standard Errors: Evidence from a Fixed-Bandwidth Approximation
In regression discontinuity design (RD), for a given bandwidth, researchers can estimate standard errors based on different variance formulas obtained under different asymptotic frameworks. In the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2019, 8 (1), 20160007.)
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C12, C21
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11559
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Pedro
Portugal
António
Rua
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Zooming the Ins and Outs of the U.S. Unemployment with a Wavelet Lens
To better understand unemployment dynamics it is key to assess the role played by job creation and job destruction. Although the U.S. case has been studied extensively, the importance of job finding ...
(published as 'How the Ins and Outs Shape Differently the U.S. Unemployment Over Time and Across Frequencies' in: European Economic Review, 2020, 121, 103348)
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C10, E24, E32
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11558
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Amy
Finkelstein
Matthew
J.
Notowidigdo
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Take-up and Targeting: Experimental Evidence from SNAP
This paper develops a framework for evaluating the welfare impact of various interventions designed to increase take-up of social safety net programs in the presence of potential behavioral biases. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 123 (3), 1505–1556, )
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C93, H53, I38
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11556
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Daniel
Fackler
Michaela
Fuchs
Lisa
Hölscher
Claus
Schnabel
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Do Startups Provide Employment Opportunities for Disadvantaged Workers?
This paper analyzes whether startups offer job opportunities to workers potentially facing labor market problems. It compares the hiring patterns of startups and incumbents in the period 2003 to 2014 ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (5), 1123-1148)
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J31, J63, L26, M51
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11555
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Nicole
Gürtzgen
André
Nolte
Laura
Pohlan
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany
This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 132, 103657)
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J64, K42, H40, L96, C26
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11554
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Emilio
Depetris-Chauvin
Ömer
Özak
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The Origins of the Division of Labor in Pre-Modern Times
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2020, 25 (3), 297-340)
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D74, F10, F14, J24, N10, O10, O11, O12, O40, O43, O44, Z10, Z13
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11548
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Delia
Furtado
Huanan
Xu
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Did OPT Policy Changes Help Steer and Retain Foreign Talent into Stem?
Academia and the public media have emphasized the link between STEM majors and innovation, as well as the need for STEM graduates in the U.S. economy. Given the proclivity of international students ...
(published as 'OPT policy changes and foreign born STEM talent in the U.S.' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101752)
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F22, J61, J68
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11547
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Michael
C.
Knaus
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A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills
This study investigates the dose-response effects of making music on youth development. Identification is based on the conditional independence assumption and estimation is implemented using a recent ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2021, 184(1), 282-300)
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J24, Z11, C21, C31
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11546
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
Jin Ho
Kim
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Learning Hope and Optimism: Classmate Experiences and Adolescent Development
This paper explores individual and contextual factors related to the development of hopeful attitudes during adolescence using a nationally representative study. A key focus is on the experiences of ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26 (5), 409-412 )
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J24, D9
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11545
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Rebecca
McDonald
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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The Shadow Prices of Voluntary Caregiving: Using Panel Data of Well-Being to Estimate the Cost of Informal Care
This paper uses the wellbeing valuation (WV) approach to estimate and monetize the wellbeing impacts of informal care provision on caregivers. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from ...
(published online in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2024)
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H8, I18, I31
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11544
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
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Environmental Bottlenecks on Children's Genetic Potential for Adult Socioeconomic Attainments: Evidence from a Health Shock
This paper explores gene-environmental interactions between family environments and children's genetic scores in determining educational attainment. The central question is whether poor childhood ...
(published in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2019, 73 (1), 139-148)
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J62, J1, J24
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11543
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Elena
Grinza
François
Rycx
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The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity: New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data on Belgian private firms. We deal with endogeneity, which arises from ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2020, 59 (1), 150-194)
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D24, M59, I15
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11542
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Soohyung
Lee
Heesun
Yoo
Minhyuk
Nam
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Impact of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution and Infant Health: Evidence from South Korea
This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and infant health. To identify the causal effect, we exploit the time and geographical ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2018, 168, 98-101)
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I18, K32, Q52
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11541
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Karen
Clay
Margarita
Portnykh
Edson
Severnini
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Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility
Using U.S county level data on lead in air for 1978-1988 and lead in topsoil in the 2000s, this paper examines the impact of lead exposure on a critical human function with societal implications – ...
(published in:Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2021, 8 (5), 975–1012 )
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Q53, J13, N52, N92
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11540
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Gregory
DeAngelo
Laura
Katherine
Gee
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Peers or Police? Detection and Sanctions in the Provision of Public Goods
Sanctions are a common method to discourage free-riding in the provision of public goods. However, we can usually only sanction those who are detected performing the bad act of free-riding. There has ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2020, 123, 210-227)
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C72, C91, C92, D7, H41
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11539
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Ohto
Kanninen
Petri
Böckerman
Ilpo
Suoniemi
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Domain-Specific Risk and Public Policy
We develop a method to estimate domain-specific risk. We apply the method to sickness insurance by fitting a utility function at the individual level, using European survey data on life satisfaction. ...
(published online as ' Income–Well-Being Gradient in Sickness and Health' in: Health Economics, 19 November 2025)
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D02, H55, I13
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11538
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Eric
Cardella
Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Michael
Parent
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Less Is Not More: Information Presentation Complexity and 401(k) Planning Choices
This paper presents the results of an experiment that is designed to examine how information presentation and complexity impact retirement-savings behavior. The experiment is performed twice, using ...
(published as 'Less is not more: 401(k) plan information and retirement planning choices' in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2023, 22 (3), 331-351.)
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G11, G41, H31, J32, D83, C90
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11537
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Pia
Pinger
Sebastian
Schäfer
Heiner
Schumacher
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Locus of Control and Consistent Investment Choices
We document that an internal locus of control can be hindering in financial market situations, where short-term outcomes are determined by chance. The reason is that internally controlled individuals ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 75, 66-75)
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D03, G02, C91
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11535
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Duccio
Gamannossi degl’Innocenti
Matthew
D.
Rablen
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Tax Evasion on a Social Network
We relate tax evasion behavior to a substantial literature on self and social comparison in judgements. Taxpayers engage in tax evasion as a means to boost their expected consumption relative to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 169, 79-91)
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H26, D85, K42
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11534
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Delphine
Boutin
Hugues
Champeaux
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Women's Political Participation and Intrahousehold Empowerment: Evidence from the Egyptian Arab Spring
Egyptian women have played an unprecedented role in the Arab Spring democratic movement, possibly changing women's perception about their own rights and role. We question whether these events have ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102379)
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J12, J16, D74, I14
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11533
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Kamila
Cygan-Rehm
Daniel
Kühnle
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Paid Parental Leave and Families' Living Arrangements
We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 182 - 197)
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J12, J13, J18, I30
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11532
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Quentin
Lippmann
Claudia
Senik
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Math, Girls and Socialism
This paper argues that the socialist episode in East Germany, which constituted a radical experiment in gender equality in the labor market and other instances, has left persistent tracks on gender ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 874-888.)
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I2, J16, J24, P36, Z13
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11531
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Soohyung
Lee
Chiara
Orsini
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Girls and Boys: Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes
We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2018, 33 (7), 1044-1063)
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H0, I1, J1
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11528
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Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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Ancestral Characteristics of Modern Populations
We construct a database, with global coverage, that provides measures of the cultural and environmental characteristics of the pre-industrial ancestors of the world's current populations. In this ...
(published in: Economic History of Developing Regions, 2018, 33 (1), 1-17)
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N00, Z10, Z13
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11527
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Gregory
Verdugo
Sorana
Toma
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Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France
Recent decades have seen a rapid increase in the share of non-European immigrants in public housing in Europe, which has led to concern regarding the rise of "ghettos" in large cities. Using French ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (5), 1803-1828)
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J15, R31
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11524
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Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
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Language Assimilation and Performance in Achievement Tests among Immigrant Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We provide new evidence about language assimilation and its effect on test scores using data from two rounds (conducted approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101970)
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J15, I20, Z13
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11523
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Takao
Kato
Antti
Kauhanen
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Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity: The Details Matter
Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by ...
(published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2018, 1 (1), 61-73 )
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M52, J33, J24, J53, O53
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11522
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Rolf
Aaberge
Anthony
B.
Atkinson
Sebastian
Königs
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From Classes to Copulas: Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes
Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring pay for top executives and financial-sector employees. But can the change in the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2018, 16 (2), 295–320.)
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C14, D31, D33
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11521
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Farzana
Afridi
Amrita
Dhillon
Sherry
Xin
Li
Swati
Sharma
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Using Social Connections and Financial Incentives to Solve Coordination Failure: A Quasi-Field Experiment in India's Manufacturing Sector
Production processes are often organised in teams, yet there is limited evidence on whether and how social connections and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 144, 102445)
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C93, D20, D22, D24, J33
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11520
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Elena
Grinza
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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L'union fait la force? Evidence for Wage Discrimination in Firms with High Diversity
Measuring the economic impact of coworkers from different countries of origin sparked intense scrutiny in labor economics, albeit with an uncomfortable methodological limitation. Most attempts ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18 (2), 181-211)
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J15, J16, J24, J31, J7
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11519
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Nancy
H.
Chau
Ravi
Kanbur
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Employer Power, Labor Saving Technical Change, and Inequality
How does employer power mediate the impact of labor saving technical change on inequality? This question has largely been neglected in the recent literature on the wage and distributional ...
(published in: Kaushik Basu, Maitreesh Ghatak, Kenneth Kletzer, Sudipto Mundle, and Eric Verhoogen (eds.), Development, Distribution, and Markets, Oxford University Press, 2021)
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J31, J42, D31, O34
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11518
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Tobias
Brändle
Laszlo
Goerke
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The One Constant: A Causal Effect of Collective Bargaining on Employment Growth?
A large number of articles have analysed 'the one constant' in the economic effects of trade unions, namely that collective bargaining reduces employment growth by two to four percentage points per ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economic, 2018, 65 (5), 445 - 478)
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J23 J52, J53, J63
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11516
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Daniel
O.
Gilligan
Naureen
Karachiwalla
Ibrahim
Kasirye
Adrienne
Lucas
Derek
Neal
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Educator Incentives and Educational Triage in Rural Primary Schools
In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to drop ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 79-111)
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I0, J3, O1
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11514
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nathan
Kettlewell
Stefanie
Schurer
Sven
Silburn
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The Effect of Quarantining Welfare on School Attendance in Indigenous Communities
We analyze the impact of a recent initiative by the Australian Government to reduce disadvantage and improve children's welfare in Aboriginal communities. The policy – known as income management ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2023, 58 (6), 2072-2110 )
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D04, I28, I38
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11512
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Mercedes
Ayuso
Jorge Miguel
Bravo
Robert
Holzmann
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Getting Life Expectancy Estimates Right for Pension Policy: Period versus Cohort Approach
In many policy areas it is essential to use the best estimates of life expectancy, but such estimates are vital to most areas of pension policy – from indexed access age and the calculation of ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2021, 20 (2), 212 - 231)
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D9, G22, H55, J13, J14, J16
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11511
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Giam Pietro
Cipriani
Francesco
Pascucci
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Pension Policies in a Model with Endogenous Fertility
We set up an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility to study pensions policies in an ageing economy. We show that an increasing life expectancy may not be detrimental for the economy ...
(published in: Journal of Pension Economics and Finance, 2020, 19 (1), 109-125)
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D15, H55, J13, J18, J26
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11509
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
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Moral Nimby-ism? Understanding Societal Support for Monetary Compensation to Plasma Donors in Canada
The growing demand for plasma, especially for the manufacture of therapeutic products, prompts discussions on the merits of different procurement systems. We conducted a randomized survey experiment ...
(published in: Law and Contemporary Problems, 2018, 81, 83 - 105)
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C01, D63, D64, I11
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11508
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Arthur
P.
Hayen
Tobias
J.
Klein
Martin
Salm
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Does the Framing of Patient Cost-Sharing Incentives Matter? The Effects of Deductibles vs. No-Claim Refunds
In light of increasing health care expenditures, patient cost-sharing schemes have emerged as one of the main policy tools to reduce medical spending. We show that the effect of patient cost-sharing ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2021, 80, 102520)
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I13, D91, H51
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11506
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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What Do Workers Want? The Shortfall in Employee Participation at the European Workplace
A shortfall in employee voice attendant upon union decline has long been forewarned. Data from the third European Company Survey is used to establish perceived shortfalls in employee involvement ...
(revised version published as 'What Do Workers Want? The Representation Gap at the EU Establishment as Perceived by Their Workplace Representatives' in: Research in Labor Economics, 2020, 49, 1-39)
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J53, J58, J83
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11505
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Andrea
Essl
Frauke
von Bieberstein
Michael
Kosfeld
Markus
Kröll
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Sales Performance and Social Preferences
We use an incentivized experimental game to uncover heterogeneity in otherregarding preferences among salespeople in a large Austrian retail chain. Our results show that the majority of agents take ...
(published in: Journals of Economics & Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (4), 882-905)
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C91, D91, M31
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11504
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Andy
Snell
Heiko
Stüber
Jonathan
P.
Thomas
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Downward Real Wage Rigidity and Equal Treatment Wage Contracts: Theory and Evidence
Recent dynamic contracting models of downward real wage rigidity with "equal treatment" – newly hired workers cannot price themselves into jobs by undercutting incumbents – imply that real wages are ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 30, 265-284)
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E24, E32, C23
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11503
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Magdalena
Smyk
Joanna
Tyrowicz
Lucas
van der Velde
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A Cautionary Note on the Reliability of the Online Survey Data: The Case of Wage Indicator
We investigate the reliability of data from the Wage Indicator (WI), the largest online survey on earnings and working conditions. Comparing WI to nationally representative data sources for 17 ...
(published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2021, 50 (1), 429-464)
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C81, J30, J31
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11502
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Karina
Doorley
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland
Women are disproportionately in low paid work compared to men so, in the absence of rationing effects on their employment, they should benefit the most from minimum wage policies. This study examines ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (3), 514-539)
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C14, I2, J16
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11501
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Alexander
Konon
Michael
Fritsch
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Business Cycles and Start-ups across Industries: An Empirical Analysis of German Regions
We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find correlations that are ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2018, 33(6), 742-761 )
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E32, L16, L26, R11
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11500
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Gerda
Dewit
Holger
Görg
Yama
Temouri
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Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence
We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (344), 663-688)
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F23, L23, J88
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11499
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Martyna
Marczak
Thomas
Beissinger
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level: New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that ...
(Part of this discussion paper has been published as: Marczak, M. and Beissinger, T., 2021, A new sectoral unit cost indicator based on global value chains, Applied Economics Letters. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2021.1915461)
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J30, C67, E01, F16, F23
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11498
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Maurizio
Bussolo
Simon
Commander
Stavros
Poupakis
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Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions
Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. We use a unique dataset for seven ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (1), 256–280,)
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L14, L53, P26
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11496
|
Steven
G.
Dieterle
Otávio
Bartalotti
Quentin
Brummet
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Revisiting the Effects of Unemployment Insurance Extensions on Unemployment: A Measurement Error-Corrected Regression Discontinuity Approach
We document two potential biases in recent analyses of UI benefit extensions using boundary-based identification: from using county-level aggregates and from across-border policy spillovers. To ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020, 12 (2), 84–114)
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J61, J65
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