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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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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
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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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11495
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Karina
Doorley
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Taxation, Work and Gender Equality in Ireland
In most developed countries, economies are facing population ageing, falling fertility rates and stagnating labour force participation. The ability of governments to fund future pension and ...
(published in: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2017-18, 47, 71-87 )
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J08, J20, H31
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11494
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Gergö
Motyovszki
Evi
Pappa
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Monetary Policy and Inequality under Labor Market Frictions and Capital-Skill Complementarity
In order to improve our understanding of the channels through which monetary policy has distributional consequences, we build a New Keynesian model with incomplete asset markets, asymmetric search ...
(published in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2021,13 (2), 292-332.)
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E24, E25, E52, J64
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11492
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Malvina
Bondy
Sefi
Roth
Lutz
Sager
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Crime is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship between Air Pollution and Crime
Many empirical studies have examined various determinants of crime. However, the link between crime and air pollution has been surprisingly overlooked despite several potential pathways. In this ...
(published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (3), 555-585.)
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H23, K42, Q53
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11491
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Nicola
Mastrorocco
Luigi
Minale
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News Media and Crime Perceptions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 165, 230-255)
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D72, D83, K42, L82
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11490
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Tom
Kirchmaier
Stephen
Machin
Matteo
Sandi
Robert
Witt
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Prices, Policing and Policy: The Dynamics of Crime Booms and Busts
In many historical episodes, the extent of criminal activity has displayed booms and busts. One very clear example is the case of metal crime, where in the face of big increases in value driven by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, 1040-77)
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K42
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11488
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Tim
Krieger
Laura
Renner
Jens
Ruhose
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Long-Term Relatedness between Countries and International Migrant Selection
This paper studies the effect of the long-term relatedness between countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. Analyzing bilateral migrant stocks of the 15 main ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2018, 113, 35-54)
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F22, J61, Z1
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11487
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Cemal
Eren
Arbatli
Quamrul
Ashraf
Oded
Galor
Marc
Klemp
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Diversity and Conflict
This research advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that interpersonal population diversity has contributed significantly to the emergence, prevalence, recurrence, and severity of ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2020, 88 (2), 727-797)
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D74, N30, N40, O11, O43, Z13
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11486
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Chloe
N.
East
Philip
Luck
Hani
Mansour
Andrea
Velasquez
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The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement
This paper examines the effects of reducing the supply of low-skilled immigrant workers on the labor market outcomes of domestic workers. We use temporal and geographic variation in the introduction ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 957–996)
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F22, J11, J23, K37
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11484
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Nicolas
Herault
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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How Valid Are Synthetic Panel Estimates of Poverty Dynamics?
A growing literature uses repeated cross-section surveys to derive 'synthetic panel' data estimates of poverty dynamics statistics. It builds on the pioneering study by Dang, Lanjouw, Luoto, and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (1), 51 - 76 )
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I32, D31, C52
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11483
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Maurice
Schiff
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Beneficial Brain Drain and Non-Migrants' Welfare
Though a net brain gain has tended to be seen as a benefit and referred to as a 'beneficial brain drain' in the literature, its welfare impact for source country residents - or ...
(published as 'Brain drain, brain gain and optimal education policy: Implications for non-migrant welfare 'in: Revue d'économie du développement, 2020, 28, 5 - 29 )
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F22, I20, J61
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11482
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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Immigrant Responses to Social Insurance Generosity
Immigrants from lowâ€income source countries tend to be underrepresented in employment and overrepresented in social insurance programs. Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine how ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101854)
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H53, J15, J22
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11481
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Robert
Holzmann
Jacques
Wels
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Status and Progress in Cross-Border Portability of Social Security Benefits
The importance of cross-border portability of social benefits is increasing in parallel with the rise in the absolute number of international migrants and their share of the world population, and ...
(published in: International Social Security Review, 2020, 73(1), 65-107)
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D69, H55, I19, J62
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11480
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William
W.
Olney
Dario
Pozzoli
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The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring
This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign workers reduces the need for firms to relocate jobs abroad. We exploit a Danish ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (1), 177 - 195)
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F22, F16, J61, F23, F66
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11479
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Organisational Accreditation and Worker Upskilling in Britain
Britain has lagged behind the G7 countries in labour productivity in recent years. There is also an emerging concern about a potential post-Brexit skills deficit. Upskilling the existing workforce ...
(published as 'Organisational accreditation, workforce training and perceptions of performance' in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2021, 52 (4), 291-314)
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J24, L5, M53, D22
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11478
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Stephen
Machin
Matteo
Sandi
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Autonomous Schools and Strategic Pupil Exclusion
This paper studies whether pupil performance gains in autonomous schools in England can be attributed to the strategic exclusion of poorly performing pupils. In England there were two phases of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130, 125-59 )
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I20, I21, I28
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11477
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David
Carroll
Christopher
Heaton
Massimiliano
Tani
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Does It Pay to Graduate from an 'Elite' University in Australia?
In Australia, the so-called Group of Eight (Go8) universities have lower student-to-staff ratios, better qualified staff, superior research outcomes, and generally better placement in university ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95(310), 343-357)
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A23, J24
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11476
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Stephen
Machin
Sandra
McNally
Jenifer
Ruiz-Valenzuela
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Entry Through the Narrow Door: The Costs of Just Failing High Stakes Exams
In many countries, important thresholds in examinations act as a gateway to higher levels of education and/or good employment prospects. This paper examines the consequences of just failing a key ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 190, 104224)
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I20, I21, I24
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11472
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Britta
Gehrke
Brigitte
Hochmuth
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Counteracting Unemployment in Crises: Non-Linear Effects of Short-Time Work Policy
Short-time work is a labor market policy that subsidizes working time reductions among firms in financial difficulty to prevent layoffs. Many OECD countries have used this policy in the Great ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021, 123(1), 144-183)
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C32, E24, E32, E62
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11471
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Lieke
Kools
Pierre
Koning
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Graded Return-To-Work as a Stepping Stone to Full Work Resumption
There is increasing evidence that graded return-to-work is an effective tool for the rehabilitation of sick-listed workers. Still, little is known on the optimal timing and level of grading in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 65, 189-209)
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I18, C26
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11470
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Rania
Gihleb
Osea
Giuntella
Ning
Zhang
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The Effects of Mandatory Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Foster Care Admissions
The opioid epidemic is a national public health emergency. As the number of fa- tal overdoses and drug abuse skyrockets, children of opioid-dependent parents are at increased risk of being neglected, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (1), 217-240)
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I12, I18, J13
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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