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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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11174
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?
Using data from the large scale consumption expenditure surveys collected by Indian National Sample Survey Organization, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Accounting for growing urban-rural welfare gaps in India' in: World Development, 2019, 122, 410-432)
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I32
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11173
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Frédéric
Docquier
Aysit
Tansel
Riccardo
Turati
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Do Emigrants Self-Select along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (2), 388-422.)
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F22, O15, J61, Z10
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11172
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Simone
Bertoli
Elie
Murard
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Migration and Co-Residence Choices: Evidence from Mexico
Household composition is traditionally regarded as exogenous in economic analyses. The migration literature typically assumes that the migration of a household member is not associated with further ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, Article 102330)
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F22, J12
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11171
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Julia
Bredtmann
Klaus
Nowotny
Sebastian
Otten
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Linguistic Distance, Networks and Migrants' Regional Location Choice
This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants to the EU at the regional level. We test the hypothesis that networks and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, Article 101863)
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F22, J61, R23
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11170
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Matteo
Bobba
Luca
Flabbi
Santiago
Levy Algazi
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Labor Market Search, Informality and Schooling Investments
We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers are allowed to form matches (jobs) that can be formal or informal. Workers optimally choose the level of schooling acquired before ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2022, 63 (1), 211-226.)
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J24, J3, J64, O17
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11169
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Robert
Mahlstedt
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Mobility Assistance Programmes for Unemployed Workers, Job Search Behaviour and Labour Market Outcomes
The appealing idea of geographically relocating unemployed job seekers from depressed to prosperous regions and hence reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 15011)
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J61, J68, D04, C21
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11166
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Jeffrey
A.
Groen
Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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Snooze or Lose: High School Start Times and Academic Achievement
Many U.S. high schools start classes before 8:00 A.M., yet research on circadian rhythms suggests that students' biological clocks shift to later in the day as they enter adolescence. Some school ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019, 72, 204–218)
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I12, I20, J22
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11165
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Jacek
Liwiński
Francesco
Pastore
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Are School-Provided Skills Useful at Work? Results of the Wiles Test
We test for the signalling hypothesis versus human capital theory using the Wiles test (1974) in a country which has experienced a dramatic increase in the supply of skills. For this purpose, we ...
(published in: Research in Higher Education, 2021, 62 (1), 72-97)
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I26, J24, J31
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11164
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Hakki
Yazici
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Intergenerational Education Mobility and the Level of Development: Evidence from Turkey
This paper provides two contributions to the study of intergenerational mobility. First, we render a thorough characterization of education mobility in Turkey at the national level, including a ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 116, 160-185)
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J6, I2, R0
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11162
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Marco
Bertoni
Stephen
Gibbons
Olmo
Silva
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School Choice during a Period of Radical School Reform: Evidence from the Academy Programme
Education policy worldwide has sought to incentivize school improvement and facilitate pupil-school matching by introducing reforms that promote autonomy and choice. Understanding the way in which ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2020, 35 (104), 739- 795)
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I21, H75
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11161
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Erich
Battistin
Lorenzo
Neri
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School Performance, Score Inflation and Economic Geography
We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects ...
(published as 'School Performance, Score Inflation, and Neighborhood Development' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (3), 753–792)
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C26, C31, I2
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11160
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ira
N.
Gang
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Poverty's Deconstruction: Beyond the Visible
In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty are often thought of as indirect consequences of the main themes of his work. ...
(published in: R. Lensink, S. Sjogren, C. Wihlborg (eds): Paths for Sustainable Economic Development, Gothenburg, 2017, 81 - 96)
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C20, I30
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11159
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Paul
De Grauwe
Yuemei
Ji
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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality: An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
This chapter provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the ...
(published in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, 1-44.)
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E65, O11, O43
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11158
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Thomas
Deckers
Armin
Falk
Fabian
Kosse
Pia
Pinger
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Socio-Economic Status and Inequalities in Children's IQ and Economic Preferences
This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (9), 2504 -2545)
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C90, D64, D90, D81, J13, J24, J62
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11157
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Xavier
Ramos
Dirk
Van de gaer
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Is Inequality of Opportunity Robust to the Measurement Approach?
Recent literature has suggested many ways of measuring equality of opportunity. We analyze in a systematic manner the various approaches put forth in the literature to show whether and to what extent ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2021, 67 (1), 18 - 36)
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D3, D63
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11156
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Jacques
Mairesse
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Comparing Micro-Evidence on Rent Sharing from Two Different Econometric Models
Researchers contributing to the empirical rent-sharing literature have typically resorted to estimating the responsiveness of workers' wages on firms' ability to pay in order to assess the extent to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 18-26)
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C23, D21, J31, J51
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11155
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Guoqian
Xi
Jörn
Block
Frank
Lasch
Frank
Robert
Roy
Thurik
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How Does Firm Survival Differ between Business Takeovers and New Venture Start-ups?
Focusing on entrepreneurship entry modes, we investigate two research questions regarding firm survival: how does the survival probability differ between business takeovers and new venture start-ups? ...
(published as 'The survival of business takeovers and new venture start-ups' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (3), 797 - 826)
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L26, M13
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11154
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Uwe
Jirjahn
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Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On ...
(revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, 42 (4), 1052-1079)
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F23, F66, J51, J52
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11152
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Anat
Alexandron-Lavon
Gil
S.
Epstein
Renana
Lindner Pomerantz
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The Effect of Ideological Positions on Job Market Interaction
Reporters and editors may not have the same ideology. When an editor wants to employ a new reporter with a different ideology, they have to negotiate the price of moving from their own to the other's ...
(published as 'The effect of ideological positions on job market interaction: A spatial analysis' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 145, 261 - 274)
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J32, J44
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11149
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Inequality, Good Governance and Endemic Corruption
Can a society suffering contests between rich and poor achieve good governance in the face of endemic corruption? We examine a stylized poor state with weak institutions in which a "culture of ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2019, 26, 999 - 1017)
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O12, O15, O16, D82, G38
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11148
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Taxation, Social Protection, and Governance Decentralization
Governments do not have perfect information regarding constituent priorities and needs. This lack of knowledge opens the door for groups to lobby in order to affect the government's taxation levels. ...
(published as 'Taxation and social protection under governance decentralisation' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 60, 101743)
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H77, D72, H73
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11147
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Nizamul
Islam
Ugo
Colombino
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The Case for NIT+FT in Europe: An Empirical Optimal Taxation Exercise
We present an exercise in empirical optimal taxation for European countries from three areas: Southern, Central and Northern Europe. For each country, we estimate a microeconometric model of labour ...
(revised version published in: Economic Modelling, 2018, 75, 38-69.)
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H21, C18
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11146
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Raul
Ramos
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Migration Aspirations among NEETs in Selected MENA Countries
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region shows high levels of unemployment rates among youth and the rate of youth not in education, employment or training (NEET) is also among the highest in ...
(published in: Journal of Geographical Systems, 2019, 21 (4), 487-507)
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F22, J61, J65, R23
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11145
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Esther
Arenas-Arroyo
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The Changing Family Structure of American Children with Unauthorized Parents
Tougher immigration enforcement has been responsible for 1.8 million deportations between 2009 and 2013 alone, most of them involving fathers and heads of household. We exploit the geographic and ...
(published as 'Immigration Enforcement and Children's Living Arrangements' in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (1), 11-40 )
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J13, J15, K37
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11144
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Hanna
Mac Innes
Torun
Österberg
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Older People in Sweden Without Means: On the Importance of Age at Immigration for Being 'Twice Poor'
This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The ...
(published in: Aging and Society, 2019, 39 (6), 1172-1199)
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I32, J14, J15
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11143
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Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Albert
Saiz
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Immigrant Locations and Native Residential Preferences: Emerging Ghettos or New Communities?
While the impact of immigrants on labor markets may be small, strong political movements voicing opposition to the growth of resident foreign-born populations are on the upswing. We study whether ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 112, 133-151)
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F22, J61, D33
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11141
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Juanna
Schrřter
Joensen
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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Spillovers in Education Choice
This paper examines how skills are shaped by social interactions in families. We show that older siblings causally affect younger sibling's education choices and early career earnings. We focus on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 157, 158-183)
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I21, I24, J24
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11140
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Casey
Boyd-Swan
Chris
M.
Herbst
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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in the Labor Market for Child Care Teachers
This paper examines racial and ethnic discrimination in the labor market for center-based child care teachers. We assemble a novel dataset that combines a resume audit study of child care centers in ...
(published in: Educational Researcher, 2019, 48 (7), 394 - 406)
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J71
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11139
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Do Boys Benefit from Male Teachers in Elementary School? Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
With girls having overtaken boys in many education indicators, the "feminization" of elementary school teaching is causing debates about disadvantages for male students. Using administrative panel ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 340-354)
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I21, J45, J71, J78
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11136
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Radim
Bohacek
Michal
Myck
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Economic Consequences of Political Persecution
We analyze the effects of persecution and labor market discrimination during the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia using a representative life history sample from the Survey of Health, ...
(updated version available as DP 18282)
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N34, J70, J31, C21
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11135
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Tom
Lee
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Early-Life Correlates of Later-Life Well-Being: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
We here use data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS) to provide one of the first analyses of the distal (early-life) and proximal (later-life) correlates of older-life subjective well-being. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 181, 360-368)
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I31, I38
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11133
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Adverse Welfare Shocks and Pro-Environmental Behaviour: Evidence from the Global Economic Crisis
This paper examines the effects of the 2008–09 global economic crisis on people's pro-environmental behaviour and willingness to pay for climate change mitigation. We hypothesise that the crisis ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 293-311)
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G01, P28, Q53, Q54
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11132
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Peng
Zhang
Olivier
Deschenes
Kyle
C.
Meng
Junjie
Zhang
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Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants
This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate the effects of temperature on firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), factor ...
(published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 88, 1 - 17)
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Q54, Q56, L60, O14, O44
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11130
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Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
Mahnaz
Nazneen
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The Effect of Positive Mood on Cooperation in Repeated Interaction
Existing research supports two opposing mechanisms through which positive mood might affect cooperation. Some studies have suggested that positive mood produces more altruistic, open and helpful ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 209-228)
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C72, C91, D91
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11129
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Steffen
Altmann
Christian
Traxler
Philipp
Weinschenk
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Deadlines and Cognitive Limitations
This paper studies the interplay between deadlines and cognitive limitations. We analyze an agent's decision to complete a one-off task under a deadline. Postponing the task can be beneficial for the ...
(substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68 (9), 6733-6750)
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C93, D03, D91
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11128
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Matthias
Heinz
Sabrina
Jeworrek
Vanessa
Mertins
Heiner
Schumacher
Matthias
Sutter
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Measuring Indirect Effects of Unfair Employer Behavior on Worker Productivity: A Field Experiment
We present a field experiment in which we set up a call-center to study how the productivity of workers is affected if managers treat their co-workers in an unfair way. This question cannot be ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130(632), 2546-2568)
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C93, J50, J63
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11127
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Stijn
Baert
Brecht
Neyt
Eddy
Omey
Dieter
Verhaest
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Student Work, Educational Achievement, and Later Employment: A Dynamic Approach
This study examines the direct and indirect impact (via educational achievement) of student work during secondary education on later employment outcomes. To this end, we jointly model student work ...
(revised version published as 'Student work during secondary education, educational achievement, and later employment: a dynamic approach' in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 63, 1605 - 1635)
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I21, J24, C35
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11126
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Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
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Age and Education in the Russian Labour Market Equation
This paper deals with age and educational dimensions of the labour supply in Russia and explores two time periods: from 2000 to 2015 (retrospective), and the next 15 years (prospective). For our ...
(published as 'Age and education in the Russian labour market' in: T. Becker, S. Oxenstierna (eds.),The Russian Economy under Putin (Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series), Routledge, 2018)
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J11, J21, J24
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11123
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Jaap
Nieuwenhuis
Tiit
Tammaru
Maarten
van Ham
Lina
Hedman
David
Manley
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Does Segregation Reduce Socio-Spatial Mobility? Evidence from Four European Countries with Different Inequality and Segregation Contexts
The neighbourhoods in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhoods gives insight in the openness of spatial class ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2020, 57 (1), 176 - 197)
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I32, J61, J62, R23
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11122
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Inés
P.
Murillo Huertas
Raul
Ramos
Hipólito
Simón
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Revisiting Interregional Wage Differentials: New Evidence from Spain with Matched Employer-Employee Data
This study examines wage differences across Spain's regions along the entire wage distribution based on matched employer-employee microdata from 2006 to 2014. Unlike previous studies, we control for ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60 (2), 296-347)
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J31, J52
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11121
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Peter
Haan
Daniel
Kemptner
Holger
Lüthen
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The Rising Longevity Gap by Lifetime Earnings: Distributional Implications for the Pension System
This study uses German social security records to provide novel evidence about the heterogeneity in life expectancy by lifetime earnings and, additionally, documents the distributional implications ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2020, 17, 100199)
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H55, I14, J11
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11119
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Francesca
Barigozzi
Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Until Taxes Do Us Part: Tax Penalties or Bonuses and the Marriage Decision
The tax regimes applied to couples in many countries including the US, France, and Germany imply either a marriage penalty or a marriage bonus. We study how they affect the decision to get married by ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 118, 37–50)
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J12, D82, H31
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11118
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Archana
Dang
Pushkar
Maitra
Nidhiya
Menon
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Labor Market Engagement and the Health of Working Adults: Evidence from India
Driven by rapid income growth, labor market transitions in the nature of jobs, and lifestyle factors, there has been a widespread increase in rates of overweight and obesity in many countries. This ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2019, 33, 58 - 77)
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I12, I15, O12
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11116
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Matthias
Giesecke
Laura
Janisch
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Forced Migration and Mortality
We examine the long-run effects of forced migration from Eastern Europe into post-war Germany. Existing evidence suggests that displaced individuals are worse off economically, facing a considerably ...
(published as 'The Impact of Forced Migration on Mortality: Evidence from German Pension Insurance Records' in: Demography, 2019, 56(1), 25-47)
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I12, J61, O15, R23
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11115
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Oladele
Akogun
Andrew
Dillon
Jed
Friedman
Ashesh
Prasann
Pieter
Serneels
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Productivity and Health: Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity
This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an accelerometer. First, the paper compares ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2021, 35 (3), 652 - 680)
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I12, J22, J24, O12
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11114
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John
T.
Addison
Liwen
Chen
Orgul
Demet
Ozturk
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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts
Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73(3), 730-767.)
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J3, J16, J22, J24, J31, J33, N3
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11113
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Alexander
Hijzen
Pedro
S.
Martins
Jante
Parlevliet
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Collective Bargaining through the Magnifying Glass: A Comparison between the Netherlands and Portugal
This paper contributes to a deeper understanding of sector-level bargaining systems and their role for labour market performance. We compare two countries with seemingly similar collective bargaining ...
(published as 'Frontal assault versus incremental change: A comparison of collective bargaining in Portugal and the Netherlands' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019/0008)
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J5, P52
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11112
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Alex
Bryson
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Mutual Gains? Is There a Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace?
I examine the history of employee engagement and how it has been characterised by thinkers in sociology, psychology, management and economics. I suggest that, while employers may choose to invest in ...
(published in: Bosio, G., Minola, T., Origio, F., and Tomelleri, S. (eds), Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital, Springer, 2018)
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J24, J28, L22, L23, M12, M54
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11111
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Erling
Barth
Alex
Bryson
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Union Density, Productivity and Wages
We exploit tax-induced exogenous variance in the price of union membership to identify the effects of changes in firm union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130 (631), 1898 - 1936)
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J01, J08, J50, J51
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11110
|
Michael
R.
Ransom
Tyler
Ransom
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Do High School Sports Build or Reveal Character?
We examine the extent to which participation in high school athletics has beneficial effects on future education, labor market, and health outcomes. Due to the absence of plausible instruments in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64 (1), 75-89)
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I20, J24
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