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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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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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11469
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Osea
Giuntella
Jakub
Lonsky
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The Effects of DACA on Health Insurance, Access to Care, and Health Outcomes
This paper studies the effects of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative on health insurance coverage, access to care, health care use, and health outcomes. We exploit a ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102320)
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I10, J15, J61
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11468
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Charles
Courtemanche
James
Marton
Benjamin
Ukert
Aaron
Yelowitz
Daniela
Zapata
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Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Behaviors after Three Years
This paper examines the impacts of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – which substantially increased insurance coverage through regulations, mandates, subsidies, and Medicaid expansions – on behaviors ...
(published in: INQUIRY: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2018, 55 )
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I12, I13, I18
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11466
|
Pavel
Jelnov
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A New Estimator of Search Duration and Its Application to the Marriage Market
It is well known that female age at first marriage positively correlates with male income inequality. The common interpretation of this fact is that marital search takes longer when the pool of ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6) , 1089-1116)
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J12, D83
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11465
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
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When Work Disappears: Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men
We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Insights, 2019, 1 (2), 161-178)
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F16, J12, J13, J21, J23
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11464
|
S
Anukriti
Sungoh
Kwon
Nishith
Prakash
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Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India
This paper examines how traditional marriage market institutions affect households' financial decisions. We study how bride-to-groom marriage payments, i.e., dowries, influence saving behavior in ...
(published as 'Saving for dowry: Evidence from rural India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 154, 102750)
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J1, D14, O15
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11463
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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Traditional Agricultural Practices and the Sex Ratio Today
We study the historical origins of cross-country differences in the male-to-female sex ratio. Our analysis focuses on the use of the plough in traditional agriculture. In societies that did not use ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2018, 13 (1), e0190510)
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J1, N00, Z1
|
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11461
|
Charles
Bellemare
Marion
Goussé
Guy
Lacroix
Steeve
Marchand
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Physical Disability and Labor Market Discrimination: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We investigate the determinants and extent of labor market discrimination toward people with physical disabilities using a large scale field experiment. Applications were randomly sent to 1477 ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2023, 15 (4), 452–476)
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J71, J68
|
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11458
|
Carmine
Ornaghi
Mirco
Tonin
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Water Tariffs and Consumers' Inaction
We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering programme. We document ...
(published as 'Inattention Matters: An Analysis of Consumers’ Inaction in Choosing a Water Tariff' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (4), 1686–1719,)
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D12, L95, Q25
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11456
|
Alex
Bryson
Lucy
Stokes
David
Wilkinson
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Are Schools Different? Wellbeing and Commitment among Staff in Schools and Elsewhere
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for Britain in 2004 and 2011 we find school staff are more satisfied and more contented with their jobs than "like" employees in other ...
(published as 'Who is better off? Wellbeing and commitment among staff in schools and elsewhere' in: Education Economics , 2019, 27 (5), 488 - 506 )
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I21
|
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11455
|
Stijn
Baert
Suncica
Vujic
Simon
Amez
Matteo
Claeskens
Thomas
Daman
Arno
Maeckelberghe
Eddy
Omey
Lieven
De Marez
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Smartphone Use and Academic Performance: Correlation or Causal Relationship?
After a decade of correlational research, this study is the first to measure the causal impact of (general) smartphone use on educational performance. To this end, we merge survey data on general ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2020, 73 (1), 22 - 46.)
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I21, I23, L86
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