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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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11108
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Benoit
Dostie
Mohsen
Javdani
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Not for the Profit, but for the Training? Gender Differences in Training in the For-Profit and Non-Profit Sectors
We use Canadian linked employer-employee data to examine gender differences in probability, duration, and intensity of firm-sponsored training. We find that women in the for-profit sector are less ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (3), 644-689.)
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J24, L22, M53, O32
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11107
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Judith
M.
Delaney
Paul
J.
Devereux
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More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility over the Life Cycle
Much evidence suggests that having more education leads to higher earnings in the labor market. However, there is little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 101-137)
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I26, J01
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11106
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Rita
Ginja
Jenny
Jans
Arizo
Karimi
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Parental Investments in Early Life and Child Outcomes: Evidence from Swedish Parental Leave Rules
How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by exploiting the so-called speed premium (SP) in the Swedish parental leave (PL) ...
(published as 'Parental Leave Benefits, Household Labor Supply, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (1), 261-320.)
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J13, J22, J18
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11105
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Dan
Lerner
Ingrid
Verheul
Roy
Thurik
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Entrepreneurship & Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Large-Scale Study Involving the Clinical Condition of ADHD
A growing conversation has emerged linking ostensibly dark or pathological individual-level characteristics to entrepreneurship. Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) emerged as a ...
(published in: Small Business Economcis, 2019, 53, 381- 392)
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L26, I12
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11104
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Guoqian
Xi
Jörn
Block
Frank
Lasch
Frank
Robert
Roy
Thurik
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Mode of Entry into Hybrid Entrepreneurship: New Venture Start-Up versus Business Takeover
Many entrepreneurs start their ventures while retaining jobs in wage employment; this phenomenon is called hybrid entrepreneurship. Little is known about the entry modes (new venture start-up vs. ...
(published in: International Review of Entrepreneurship, 2018, 16 (2), 217 - 240)
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L26
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11103
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Jolanda
Hessels
Wim
Naudé
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The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View
Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we argue that this is because the positive impact of entrepreneurship is overestimated ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019, 33 (2), 389 - 403)
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F23, L26, L25, O38, O57
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11102
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Reto
Odermatt
Alois
Stutzer
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Subjective Well-Being and Public Policy
Measures of subjective well-being have gained substantial attention in economics as quantitative approximations of individual welfare. They allow researchers to study relevant determinants of welfare ...
(published in: Ed Diener, Shigehiro Oishi and Louis Tay (eds.), Handbook of Well-Being. Noba Scholar Handbook Series: Subjective Well-being. Salt Lake City, UT: DEF Publishers, 2018. )
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D61, D91, H4, I31
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11101
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Neha
Agarwal
Hans-Peter
Kohler
Subha
Mani
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Dynamics in Physical Functioning Limitations
The extent to which physical functioning limitations result in permanent job loss, lowered lifetime income and assets, in part, depends upon the extent to which onset of these limitations becomes ...
(published as 'Path Dependence in Disability' in: Journal of African Economies, 2022, 31 (4), 329 - 354)
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J14, I15, I10
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11098
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Reto
Odermatt
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Alois
Stutzer
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Overoptimistic Entrepreneurs: Predicting Wellbeing Consequences of Self-Employment
The formation of expectations is a fundamental part of the process when people decide about engaging in an entrepreneurial venture. We evaluate the accuracy of newly self-employed people's ...
(revised version published as 'Are Newly Self-Employed Overly Optimistic About Their Future Well-Being?' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 95, 101779)
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D83, D91, J20, I31
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11097
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Jonathan
F.
Schulz
Petra
Thiemann
Christian
Thöni
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Nudging Generosity: Choice Architecture and Cognitive Factors in Charitable Giving
In an experimental setup we investigate the effect of two different choice architectures on donation decisions. In the treatment group, subjects can either specify a charity of their choice, or ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2018, 74, 139-145)
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C93, D64, H41, L3
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11096
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Tobias
Thomas
Moritz
Heß
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats
As from a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms, we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of ...
(published in: Review of Economics (Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften), 2017, 68 (3), 167-179)
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D71, D78, H11, H70, P16, Z13
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11095
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Robert
Dur
Max
van Lent
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Serving the Public Interest in Several Ways: Theory and Empirics
We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 13-24)
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D64, H11, J45, M50
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11094
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Riccardo
Magnani
Luca
Piccoli
Martine
Carré
Amedeo
Spadaro
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Would a Euro's Depreciation Improve the French Economy?
In this paper, we use a Micro-Macro model to evaluate the effects of a euro's depreciation on the French economy, both at the macro and micro level. Our Micro-Macro model consists of a ...
(published as 'A Micro-Macro Simulation Model Applied to the French Economy: The Case of a Euro's Real Depreciation' in: In: Perali F., Scandizzo P. (eds) The New Generation of Computable General Equilibrium Models. Springer, 2018)
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F40, C63, C68
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11093
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Sabyasachi
Das
Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
Rajas
Saroy
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Efficiency Consequences of Affirmative Action in Politics: Evidence from India
We examine how overall delivery of public goods (i.e., efficiency) is affected by affirmative action in elections, i.e., restricting candidate entry in elections to one population group. We argue ...
(published as 'Does Affirmative Action in Politics hinder Performance? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 214, 370-405)
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D72, D78, H41, O12
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11092
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Ugo
Trivellato
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Microdata for Social Sciences and Policy Evaluation as a Public Good
The balance between the right to privacy and the right to freedom of information is altered when scientific research comes into play, because of its inherent needs and societal function. This paper ...
(published in: Crato N. and P. Paruolo (eds,), Data-driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2019, 27- 45)
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C81, D04, H41, I38, J08, L5
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11091
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Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Heterogeneity and the Public Sector Wage Policy
A model with search and matching frictions and heterogeneous workers was established to evaluate a reform of the public sector wage policy in steady-state. The model was calibrated to the UK economy ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59 (3), 1469 -1489)
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E24, E62, J45
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11090
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Emile
Cammeraat
Egbert
L. W.
Jongen
Pierre
Koning
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Preventing NEETs during the Great Recession: The Effects of a Mandatory Activation Program for Young Welfare Recipients
We study the impact of a mandatory activation program for young welfare recipients in the Netherlands. Introduced at the end of 2009, the goal of the program was to prevent so-called NEETs ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, 749-777)
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C21, H31, J21
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11089
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Felix
Bransch
Michael
Kvasnicka
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Male Gatekeepers Gender Bias in the Publishing Process?
Using data on articles published in the top-five economic journals in the period 1991 to 2010, we explore whether the gender composition of editorial boards is related to the publishing success of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 202, 714-732)
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A14, J16, J71
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11087
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Julia
Bredtmann
Sebastian
Otten
Christian
Rulff
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Husband's Unemployment and Wife's Labor Supply: The Added Worker Effect across Europe
This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added worker effect. We contribute to the literature by taking an explicit ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (5), 1201-1231 )
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J22, J64, J82
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11086
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Sudipa
Sarkar
Soham
Sahoo
Stephan
Klasen
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Employment Transitions of Women in India: A Panel Analysis
This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and ...
(published in: World Development, 2019, 115, 291-309)
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J21, J16, O15
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11084
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Nicolas
Frémeaux
Arnaud
Lefranc
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Assortative Mating and Earnings Inequality in France
This paper analyzes economic assortative mating and its contribution to inequality in France. We first provide descriptive evidence on the statistical association in several socio-economic attributes ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (4), 757 - 783)
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J12, J22, D31
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11082
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
Francesco
Lancia
Alessia
Russo
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Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness and Education Expenditure: Evidence from the U.S.
This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12, 2020, 1-32)
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D72, H52, P16
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11081
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Luca
Moretti
Martin
Mayerl
Samuel
Mühlemann
Peter
Schlögl
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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So Similar and Yet So Different: A Comparative Analysis of a Firm's Cost and Benefits of Apprenticeship Training in Austria and Switzerland
The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of ...
(published as 'So similar and yet so different: A firm's net costs and post-training benefits from apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland' in: Evidence Based HRM, 2019, 7 (2), 229-246.)
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J24, J31, J44
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11080
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Martin
Biewen
Madalina
Tapalaga
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Early Tracking, Academic vs. Vocational Training and the Value of 'Second Chance' Options
This paper employs the dynamic treatment effects methodology proposed by Heckman et al. (2016, 2017) to examine educational transitions and expected returns in the German education system which is ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101900)
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C3, I21, I26, J31
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11078
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Amy
Hsin
Francesc
Ortega
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The Effects of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals on the Educational Outcomes of Undocumented Students
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) is the first large-scale immigration reform to affect undocumented immigrants in the United States in decades and offers eligible undocumented youth ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1487-1506.)
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J15, J24
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11077
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Sebastian
Till
Braun
Anica
Kramer
Michael
Kvasnicka
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Local Labor Markets and the Persistence of Population Shocks
This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (2), 231–260)
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J61, R12, R23, N34
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11076
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Maria
Vaalavuo
Maarten
van Ham
Timo
M.
Kauppinen
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Income Increase and Moving to a Better Neighbourhood: An Enquiry into Ethnic Differences in Finland
Concentration to disadvantaged neighbourhoods may hinder immigrants' opportunities for social integration, so equal chances of translating available economic resources into mobility to less ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (4), 538 - 551)
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O15, O18, P25, R23
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11074
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Liang
Zheng
Zhong
Zhao
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What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data
Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 46, 228-248 )
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L26, L60, L80, R10, R12
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11073
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Simonetta
Longhi
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Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities: The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials
Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities ...
(published as 'Does Geographical Location Matter for Ethnic Wage Gaps?' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60 (3), 538-557)
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J31, J71, R10, R23
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11072
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Martin
Biewen
Bernd
Fitzenberger
Jakob
de Lazzer
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Rising Wage Inequality in Germany: Increasing Heterogeneity and Changing Selection into Full-Time Work
This study revisits the increase in wage inequality in Germany. Accounting for changes in various sets of observables, composition changes explain a large part of the increase in wage inequality ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7:10)
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J31, J20, J60
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11071
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
Kevin
Reynolds
Hector
Gutierrez
Rufrancos
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What Really Happened to British Inequality in the Early 20th Century? Evidence from National Household Expenditure Surveys 1890–1961
We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to 1961, some of which we recovered and digitised. After adjusting for differences in ...
(forthcoming in: Economic History Review)
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D31, J31, N14
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11070
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sarah C.
Dahmann
Nicolás
Salamanca
Anna
Zhu
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Intergenerational Disadvantage: Learning about Equal Opportunity from Social Assistance Receipt
We use variation in the extent of generational persistence across social assistance payments to shed light on the factors leading to intergenerational disadvantage. Our administrative data come from ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102276)
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H53, I38, J62
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11069
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Sarah
Kuypers
Ive
Marx
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The Truly Vulnerable: Integrating Wealth into the Measurement of Poverty and Social Policy Effectiveness
There is a burgeoning literature on the significance and distribution of wealth in the rich world. It mainly focuses on the top. Wealth remains remarkably absent from the analysis of poverty and the ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2019, 142 (1), 131 - 147)
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D31, G11
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11066
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Uwe
Jirjahn
Stephen
C.
Smith
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Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils
Theories of how nonunion employee representation impacts firm performance, affects market equilibria, and generates externalities on labor and society are synthesized. Mandated works councils in ...
(published in: Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 2018, 89 (1), 201-234)
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J50, M50
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11065
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Irina
Frei
Christian
Grund
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Antecedents of Overtime Work: The Case of Junior Academics
Despite the ongoing public debate about precarious working conditions in academia, there is only little evidence on working hours and overtime work for the group of (non-tenured) junior academics. By ...
(published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2020, 34, 371-397)
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I23, J22, M51
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11064
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Michael
Oberfichtner
Claus
Schnabel
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The German Model of Industrial Relations: (Where) Does It Still Exist?
Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel, this paper charts changes in the two main pillars of the German IR model over the last 20 years. It shows that collective bargaining ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2019, 239 (1), 5-37)
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J50, J52, J53
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11063
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Rüdiger
Bachmann
Christian
Bayer
Christian
Merkl
Stefan
Seth
Heiko
Stüber
Felix
Wellschmied
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Worker Churn and Employment Growth at the Establishment Level
We study the relationship between employment growth and worker flows in excess of job flows (churn) at the establishment level using the new German AWFP dataset spanning from 1975–2014. Churn is ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2021, 117, 781-797)
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E20, E24, E32, J23, J63
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11062
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Giorgio
Brunello
Elisabetta
Lodigiani
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Does Low Skilled Immigration Cause Human Capital Polarization? Evidence from Italian Provinces
While there is a vast literature considering the labour market effects of immigration, less has been done to investigate how immigration affects the educational choices of young natives. Using ...
(published as 'Does low skilled immigration increase the education of natives? Evidence from Italian provinces' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101794)
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J26, H55, J21, J14, J11
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11061
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf
Despite the large individual benefits of guest work by the poor in rich countries, agencies charged with global poverty reduction do little to facilitate guest work. This may be because guest work is ...
(published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2018, 47 (S1), S5 - S44)
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F22, J6, O12, O16, O19
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11060
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Claudio
Deiana
Enkelejda
Havari
Gianluca
Mazzarella
Elena Claudia
Meroni
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What Are You Voting For? Proximity to Refugee Reception Centres and Voting in the 2016 Italian Constitutional Referendum
In December 2016, the Italian electorate voted for a referendum on crucial constitutional reform promoted by the governing party. The official aims of the reform were both to improve the country’s ...
(revised version published as 'Geographical proximity to refugee reception centres and voting' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2020, 120, 103290)
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P16, R23, D72
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11059
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Federica
Liberini
Andrew
J.
Oswald
Eugenio
Proto
Michela
Redoano
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Was Brexit Caused by the Unhappy and the Old?
On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (so-called 'Brexit'). This paper uses newly released information, from the Understanding Society data set, to examine the ...
(published as 'Was Brexit triggered by the old and unhappy? Or by financial feelings?' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 161, 287-302)
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D72
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11058
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Yuanyuan
Chen
Le
Wang
Min
Zhang
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Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages among Rural Migrants in Urban China
The use of informal job search method is prevalent in many countries. There is, however, no consensus in the literature on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 837-876)
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J31, J64, P2, P5
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11057
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Viktor
Bozhinov
Christopher
Koch
Thorsten
Schank
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Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?
In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a ...
(published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2019, 71(3), 385-411)
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G34, G38, J16, J30
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11056
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Muhammad
Asali
Norberto
Pignatti
Sophiko
Skhirtladze
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Employment Discrimination in a Former Soviet Union Republic: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We provide the first experimental evidence about ethnic discrimination in the labor market in Georgia. We randomly assign Georgian and non-Georgian, male and female, names to similar resumes and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1294-1309.)
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J15, J71, C93, P23
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11055
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Lutz
Bellmann
Marco
Caliendo
Stefan
Tübbicke
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The Post-Reform Effectiveness of the New German Start-Up Subsidy for the Unemployed
Start-up subsidies for the unemployed have long been an important active labor market policy strategy in Germany. The current subsidy program underwent a major reform in 2011 that changed its key ...
(published in: LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2018, 32(3), 293-319)
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J68, H43, C14, L26
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11054
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John
S.
Heywood
Uwe
Jirjahn
Annika
Pfister
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Product Market Competition and Employer Provided Training in Germany
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2020, 29 (2), 533-556)
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J24, L00, M53
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11053
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Luis
A.
Gil-Alana
Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
Aysit
Tansel
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Long Memory in Turkish Unemployment Rates
In this paper we have examined the unemployment rate series in Turkey by using long memory models and in particular employing fractionally integrated techniques. Our results suggest that unemployment ...
(published in: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2018, 55 (1), 201-217. )
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C22, E24
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11052
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Ragui
Assaad
Caroline
Krafft
Shaimaa
Yassin
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Comparing Retrospective and Panel Data Collection Methods to Assess Labor Market Dynamics
There is potential for measurement problems in both retrospective and panel microdata. In this paper we compare results on basic indicators related to labor markets and their dynamics from ...
(published in: Journal of Youth Studies, 2020, 24 (2),186-212)
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C83, C81, J01, J62, J64
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11051
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Christian
Merkl
Heiko
Stüber
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Wage Cyclicalities and Labor Market Dynamics at the Establishment Level: Theory and Evidence
Using the new AWFP dataset that covers all German establishments, we document a substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity of establishments' average real wages over the business cycle. While the ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 161, 104636)
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E32, E24, J64
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11050
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Francesco
C.
Billari
Osea
Giuntella
Luca
Stella
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Broadband Internet, Digital Temptations, and Sleep
There is a growing concern that the widespread use of computers, mobile phones and other digital devices before bedtime disrupts our sleep with detrimental effects on our health and cognitive ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 163, 58-76)
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I1, J22
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