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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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11390
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Alexander
Muravyev
Oleksandr
Talavera
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Unsafe Sex in the City: Risk Pricing in the London Area
This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market. The analysis is based upon matched sex worker-client panel data, which were ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 65(5), 528-549)
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J46, J48, K42
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11388
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Yusi
Ouyang
Abebe
Shimeles
Erik
Thorbecke
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Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 117 (C), 13 - 28)
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O10, O55
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11387
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Bohdan
Kukharskyy
Michael
P.
Pflüger
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Time Is on My Side: Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (3), 709 - 732)
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D23, L14, L22, L23, O10
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11386
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Eliav
Danziger
Leif
Danziger
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The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare
This paper analyzes the effects of introducing a graduated minimum wage in a model with optimal income taxation in which a government seeks to maximize social welfare. It shows that the optimal ...
(published in: Transitions through the Labor Market (Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 46), Emerald Publishing, 2018, 55-72.)
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D60, H21, J30
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11385
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Ragui
Assaad
Rana
Hendy
Moundir
Lassassi
Shaimaa
Yassin
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Explaining the MENA Paradox: Rising Educational Attainment, Yet Stagnant Female Labor Force Participation
Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing if not reversal of the gender gap in education, female labor force participation rates in the MENA region remain low and stagnant, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2018, 8 (17))
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J16, J21, J22, J82
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11382
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Marianne
Bertrand
Patricia
Cortes
Claudia
Olivetti
Jessica
Pan
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Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women
In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (4), 1936 - 1978)
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J12, J16
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11381
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Sarah
Bana
Kelly
Bedard
Maya
Rossin-Slater
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The Impacts of Paid Family Leave Benefits: Regression Kink Evidence from California Administrative Data
Although the United States provides unpaid maternity and family leave to qualifying workers, it is the only OECD country without a national paid leave policy, making wage replacement a pivotal issue ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, 2020, 39 (4), 888-929)
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I18, J13, J16, J18
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11379
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José
Azar
Ioana
E.
Marinescu
Marshall
Steinbaum
Bledi
Taska
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Concentration in US Labor Markets: Evidence from Online Vacancy Data
Using data on the near-universe of online US job vacancies collected by Burning Glass Technologies in 2016, we calculate labor market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index (HHI) for each ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101886)
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J21, J23, J42, K21, L11
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11378
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Philipp
Grunau
Lutz
Bellmann
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Worker Representation and Temporary Employment in Germany: The Deployment and Extent of Fixed-Term Contracts and Temporary Agency Work
This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership, 2019, 2 (1), 24-46.)
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J21, J23, J41, J48, J51, J63, K31
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11374
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Samuel
Lüthi
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Are Apprenticeships Business Cycle Proof?
Although there is evidence that apprenticeship training can ease the transition of youth into the labour market and thereby reduce youth unemployment, many policy makers fear that firms will cut ...
(published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 156, Article number: 3 (2020))
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E24, E32, I21, J18, J44
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11373
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Alex
Bryson
Francis
Green
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Do Private Schools Manage Better?
There is a perception among some commentators and policy analysts that leadership and managerial practices in private schools are superior to those in state schools. Analysing a survey of workplaces ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R17-R26)
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I21
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11372
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David
Wilkinson
Alex
Bryson
Lucy
Stokes
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Assessing the Variance in Pupil Attainment: How Important Is the School Attended?
We explore the variation in pupil attainment at the end of secondary schooling in England. The paper links data on all schools and all pupils within these schools to analyse the role of the school in ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2018, 243, R4-R16)
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I21
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11371
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
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Minority Groups and Success in Election Primaries
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in primary elections. Using a unique dataset of candidates in Israeli primaries, we ...
(published as 'Minorities and Political Success' in: Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38 (1), 657-671)
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J15, D72
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11370
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants
This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world's ...
(revised version published as 'Occupational Licensing and the Skills Mismatch of Highly Educated Migrants' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (3), 730 - 756 )
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J8, J24, J61
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11369
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Martin
Guzi
Stepan
Mikula
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Reforms That Keep You at Home: The Effects of Economic Transition on Migration
Theory asserts that individuals' migration decisions depend more on their expectations about future income levels than on their current income levels. We find that the implementation of ...
(published in: published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30 (2), 289-310)
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F22, J61, O15
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11367
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Ioana
E.
Marinescu
Nadav
Klein
Andrew
Chamberlain
Morgan
Smart
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Incentives Can Reduce Bias in Online Reviews
Online reviews are a powerful means of propagating the reputations of products, services, and even employers. However, existing research suggests that online reviews often suffer from selection bias ...
(published in: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2021, 27 (2), 393–407. )
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J2, J28, L14, L86
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11366
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Alessandra
Casarico
Mirco
Tonin
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Pay-What-You-Want to Support Independent Information: A Field Experiment on Motivation
Pay-what-you-want schemes can be a useful tool to finance high quality and independent news media without restricting readership, therefore guaranteeing maximum diffusion. We conduct a field ...
(substantially revised version published as 'A field experiment on fundraising to support independent information' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 186, 227-250)
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C93, D64, H41
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11365
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Lukas
Kiessling
Jonas
Radbruch
Sebastian
Schaube
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The Impact of Self-Selection on Performance
In many natural environments, carefully chosen peers influence individual behavior. In this paper, we examine how self-selected peers affect performance in contrast to randomly assigned ones. We ...
(substantially revised version published as ' Self-Selection of Peers and Performance' in Management Science, 2022, 68 (11), 7793 - 8514)
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C93, D01, I20, J24, L23
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11364
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Tjaša
Bjedov
Simon
Lapointe
Thierry
Madies
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Does Decentralization of Decisions Increase the Stability of Large Groups?
Using a laboratory experiment with nested local and global public goods, we analyze the stability of global groups when individuals have the option to separate, according to the degree of ...
(revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 51 (4), 681-716)
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C91, D72, H77
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11362
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Niaz
Asadullah
Maliki
Maliki
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Madrasah for Girls and Private School for Boys? The Determinants of School Type Choice in Rural and Urban Indonesia
Using a nationally representative data set of Indonesian households and villages, we study the determinants of enrolment in Islamic schools (i.e., madrasahs) and private non-religious vis-Ã -vis ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2018, 62, 96–111 )
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D04, I21, O15
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11361
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Marco
Francesconi
Matthias
Parey
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Early Gender Gaps among University Graduates
We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and labor market performance twelve to eighteen months after graduation. Men and women ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 63-82)
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J16, J31, J71
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11359
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Charlotte
Bartels
Cortnie
Shupe
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Drivers of Participation Elasticities across Europe: Gender or Earner Role within the Household?
We compute participation tax rates across the EU and find that work disincentives inherent in tax-benefit systems largely depend on household composition and the individual's earner role within the ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2023, 30, 167–214)
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H24, H31, J22, J65
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11357
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Marco
Di Maggio
Amir
Kermani
Kaveh
Majlesi
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Stock Market Returns and Consumption
This paper employs Swedish data on households' stock holdings to investigate how consumption responds to changes in stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital gains and dividend payments ...
(published in: Journal of Finance, 2020, 75 (6), 3175 - 3219)
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E21, D15, G12
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11356
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Damon
Jones
Ioana
E.
Marinescu
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The Labor Market Impacts of Universal and Permanent Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund
What are the effects of universal and permanent cash transfers on the labor market? Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have been entitled to a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14 (2), 315–340)
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H24, I38, J21, J22
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11354
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
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City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies
This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics 2021, 126, 103391)
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H73, R12, Q50
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11353
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Katharina
Janke
David
W.
Johnston
Carol
Propper
Michael A.
Shields
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The Causal Effect of Education on Chronic Health Conditions
Studies using education policy reforms to isolate causal effects of education on health produce mixed evidence. We analyse an unusually large sample and study chronic health conditions. For ...
(published as 'The causal effect of education on chronic health conditions in the UK' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 70, 102252)
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I14, I24, I26
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11351
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Nadine
Ketel
Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Do Dutch Dentists Extract Monopoly Rents?
We exploit admission lotteries to estimate the payoffs to the dentistry study in the Netherlands. Using data from up to 22 years after the lottery, we find that in most years after graduation ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 63, 145-158)
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J44, I18, I23, C36
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11350
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Michael
Coelli
Gigi
Foster
Andrew
Leigh
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Do School Principals Respond to Increased Public Scrutiny? New Survey Evidence from Australia
We explore responses of Australian school principals to the introduction of test score reporting via the My School website in 2010. Our analysis is motivated by the implicit assumption that ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2018, 94 (S1), 73-101)
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D83, I21, I28
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11349
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Chantal
Oggenfuss
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Are They Coming Back? The Mobility of University Students in Switzerland after Graduation
We analyze the internal mobility of university graduates in Switzerland. An empirically interesting question because not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have ...
(published in: Review of Regional Research, 2019, 39(2), 189-208)
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H52, H75, I23, J61
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11348
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Alex
Bryson
Lucy
Stokes
David
Wilkinson
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Can HRM Improve Schools' Performance?
Evidence on schools' performance is confined to comparisons across schools, usually based on value-added measures. We adopt an alternative approach comparing schools to observationally equivalent ...
(published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (4), 427 - 440 )
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I21
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11347
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W. Stanley
Siebert
Xiangdong
Wei
Ho
Lun
Wong
Xiang
Zhou
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Student Feedback, Parent-Teacher Communication, and Academic Performance: Experimental Evidence from Rural China
This study reports a randomized controlled trial to improve teacher-student-parent feedback, conducted in a rural county in China with many left-behind children. Data are collected from over 4,000 ...
(updated paper forthcoming in: Education Economics, 2025)
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C93, I21, J24
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11346
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Kaveh
Majlesi
Gaia
Narciso
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International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico
We analyze the effects of the increase in China's import competition on Mexican domestic and international migration. We exploit the variation in exposure to competition from China, following its ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 132, 75-87)
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F14, F16, F22, O15, R23
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11345
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Anna Maria
Mayda
Francesc
Ortega
Giovanni
Peri
Kevin
Y.
Shih
Chad
Sparber
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The Effect of the H-1B Quota on the Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor
The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 108, 105-128)
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J61, F22 , O33, R10
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11344
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Andrew
Clarke
Ana
Ferrer
Mikal
Skuterud
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter?
We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (S2), S443–S490)
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J24, J15, J08
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11343
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Olivier
Dagnelie
Anna Maria
Mayda
Jean
Francois
Maystadt
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The Labor Market Integration of Refugees to the United States: Do Entrepreneurs in the Network Help?
We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees' labor-market integration by hiring them in their businesses. We analyze the universe ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 257-272)
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F22, J61
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11342
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Michal
Myck
Monika
Oczkowska
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Shocked by Therapy? Unemployment in the First Years of the Socio-Economic Transition in Poland and its Long-Term Consequences
We examine long-term implications of unemployment for material conditions and well-being using the Polish sample from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Retrospective data ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2018, 26 (4), 695-724)
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J21, J63, P30
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11341
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Agnieszka
Chłoń-Domińczak
Marek
Góra
Irena
E.
Kotowska
Iga
Magda
Anna
Ruzik-Sierdzińska
Pawel
Strzelecki
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The Impact of Life-Course Developments on Pensions in the NDC Systems in Poland, Italy and Sweden and Point System in Germany
Old-age pensions in the NDC systems reflect the accumulated lifetime labour income. Interrupted careers and differences in the employment rates, particularly between men and women will have a ...
(published as 'The Impact of Lifetime Events on Pensions: Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Schemes in Poland, Italy, and Sweden, and the Point Scheme in Germany' in: Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Volume 2. Addressing Gender, Administration, and Communication, World Bank, 2019, 55 -85 )
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D15, H55, J16, J26, J31
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11340
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Øystein
Hernaes
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Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform for Young Adults: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
The paper evaluates the distributional effects on earnings and income of requiring young welfare recipients to fulfill conditions related to work and activation. It exploits within-social insurance ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101818 )
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C21, D31, H55, I38, J18, J22
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11339
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Maurizio
Conti
Giovanni
Sulis
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Employment Protection, Temporary Contracts and Firm-Provided Training: Evidence from Italy
In this study, we leverage on Italy's size-contingent firing restrictions to identify the causal effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on firm-provided training using a regression ...
(revised version published as 'Employment Protection and Firm-provided Training in Dual Labour Market' in: Labour Economics, 2021, 69, 101972)
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J42, J63, J65, M53
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11338
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Alexander
Paul
Steffen
Reinhold
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Economic Conditions, Parental Employment and Health of Newborns
We examine whether economic downturns are beneficial to health outcomes of newborn infants in developed countries. For this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and ...
(published as Economic conditions and the health of newborns: Evidence from comprehensive register data' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101795)
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I1, J1
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11336
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Pietro
Biroli
Teodora
Boneva
Akash
Raja
Christopher
Rauh
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Parental Beliefs about Returns to Child Health Investments
Childhood obesity has adverse health and productivity consequences and poses negative externalities to health services. Its increase in recent decades can be traced back to unhealthy habits acquired ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2022, 231 (1), 33 - 57)
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D19, I10, I12, I14
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11335
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David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
Lina
Hedman
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Experienced and Inherited Disadvantage: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adulthood Neighbourhood Careers of Siblings
Longer term exposure to high poverty neighbourhoods can affect individual socio-economic outcomes later in life. Previous research has shown strong path dependence in individual neighbourhood ...
(published as 'Inherited and Spatial Disadvantages: A Longitudinal Study of Early Adult Neighborhood Careers of Siblings' in: Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020, 110 (6), 1670-1689 )
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I30, J60, R23
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11334
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Anne
C.
Gielen
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Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance
Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation, future labor market attachment, and human capital investments? While ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (2), 116-150)
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I38, H53, J62
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11333
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Francesco
Fasani
Tommaso
Frattini
Luigi
Minale
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(The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market: Evidence from Europe
In this paper, we use repeated cross-sectional survey data to study the labour market performance of refugees across several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 351–393)
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F22, J61, J15
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11331
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Alexia
Lochmann
Hillel
Rapoport
Biagio
Speciale
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The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration: Empirical Evidence from France
We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this training, offered by the French Ministry of the Interior, depends mainly on a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 265-296.)
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J15, J61, J68
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11330
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Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
Miaomiao
Zou
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Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances
As more and more developed countries adopt policies that favor highly educated immigrants, the impact of such policies on developing countries remains unclear. Some researchers have argued that ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (3), 489-508)
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O15, F22, F24, J61
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11329
|
Arnaud
Dupuy
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Migration in China: To Work or to Wed?
This paper develops a model encompassing both Becker's matching model, and Tinbergen-Rosen's hedonic model. We study its properties and provide identification and estimation strategies. Using data on ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021,36(4), 393-415)
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D3, J21, J23, J31
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11328
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Julia
Jauer
Thomas
Liebig
John
P.
Martin
Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006-2016
We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1-22)
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F15, F22, J61
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11327
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Mira
Fischer
Dirk
Sliwka
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Confidence in Knowledge or Confidence in the Ability to Learn: An Experiment on the Causal Effects of Beliefs on Motivation
Previous research has shown that feedback about past performance has ambiguous effects on subsequent performance. We argue that feedback affects beliefs in different dimensions – namely beliefs ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 111, 122-142.)
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C91, D83, I21, J24
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11325
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Giuseppe Lucio
Gaeta
Giuseppe
Lubrano Lavadera
Francesco
Pastore
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Overeducation Wage Penalty among Ph.D. Holders: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Analysis on Italian Data
The wage effect of job-education vertical mismatch (i.e. overeducation) has only recently been investigated in the case of Ph.D. holders. The existing contributions rely on OLS estimates that allow ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2023, 44 (6), 1096-1117)
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C26, I23, I26, J13, J24, J28
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