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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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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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11048
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Dunli
Li
Zhiqiang
Liu
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The Role of Entrepreneurial Human Capital as a Driver of Endogenous Economic Growth
We model investment in entrepreneurial human capital (EHC) – the representative enterprise's share of production capacity allocated to investment in innovative industrial and commercial knowledge – ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (3), 310–351)
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L26, O31, O43
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11047
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James
J.
Heckman
John
Eric
Humphries
Gregory
Veramendi
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The Non-Market Benefits of Education and Ability
This paper analyzes the non-market benefits of education and ability. Using a dynamic model of educational choice we estimate returns to education that account for selection bias and sorting on ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12 (2), 282 - 304)
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I24, I26, I28, I14, D1
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11046
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Jan
Kabátek
David
C.
Ribar
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Teenage Daughters as a Cause of Divorce
Evidence from the U.S. that couples with daughters are more likely to divorce than couples with sons has not been found for other Western countries. Using 1995–2015 Dutch marriage registry data, we ...
(published as 'Daughters and Divorce' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (637), 2144 - 2170)
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J12, J13, J16
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11045
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Daniela
Piazzalunga
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The Gender Wage Gap among College Graduates in Italy
The paper investigates the gender wage gap among recently graduated people, controlling for job and academic variables and for the field of study, as women lag in highly remunerative majors. The raw ...
(published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2018, 4 (1), 33-90)
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J16, J31, J71
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11043
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Shuai
Chen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Subjective Well-Being and Partnership Dynamics: Are Same-Sex Relationships Different?
Partnered individuals are happier than singles. This can be because partnership leads to more satisfactory subjective well-being or because happier people are more likely to find a partner. We ...
(published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (6), 2299-2320.)
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J12
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11041
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Manuel
Bagues
Mauro
Sylos-Labini
Natalia
Zinovyeva
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A Walk on the Wild Side: 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations
In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2019, 48 (2), 462-477)
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I23
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11040
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Amelie
Schiprowski
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The Role of Caseworkers in Unemployment Insurance: Evidence from Unplanned Absences
Caseworkers are the main human resource used to provide social services. This paper asks if, and how much, caseworkers matter for the outcomes of unemployed individuals. Using large-scale ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (4), 1189 - 1225)
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J64, J65, M50
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11039
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Veronica
Escudero
Jochen
Kluve
Elva
López
Mourelo
Clemente
Pignatti
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Active Labour Market Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from a Meta Analysis
We present a systematic collection and assessment of impact evaluations of active labour market programmes (ALMP) in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The paper delineates the strategy to ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (12), 2644 - 2661)
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J08, J24, J46, O54
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11037
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Ian
Gazeley
Rose
Holmes
Andrew
T.
Newell
Kevin
Reynolds
Hector
Gutierrez Rufrancos
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Escaping from Hunger before WW1: Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century
We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) ...
(published online in: Cliometrica, 25 November 2022)
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J11, J61, N30
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11035
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Martín
Caruso Bloeck
Sebastian
Galiani
Pablo
Ibarrarán
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Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations
This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 20 (1), 1 - 32)
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J14, N36
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11034
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Juliana
Mesén Vargas
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Is There Always a Trade-off between Insurance and Incentives? The Case of Unemployment with Subsistence Constraints
This article analyzes the behavioral effects of unemployment benefits (UB) and it characterizes their optimal level when jobless people only survive if they have access to a minimum or subsistence ...
(published as 'Why cash transfer programsan both stimulate and slow down job finding' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 8 (1))
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D91, H21, J64, J65
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11033
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Florian
Buhlmann
Benjamin
Elsner
Andreas
Peichl
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Tax Refunds and Income Manipulation Evidence from the EITC
Welfare programs are important for reducing poverty but create incentives for recipients to maximize their income by either reducing labor supply or manipulating taxable income. In this paper, we ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25(6), 1490-1518)
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H20, H24
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11032
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Henri
Fraisse
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Households Debt Restructuring: The Re-default Effect of a Debt Suspension
When facing financial distress, French households can file a case to a "households' over-indebtedness commission" (HDC). The HDC can order an immediate repayment or grant a debt suspension. ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2017, 33 (4), 686 - 717)
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D, G2, K35
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11031
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Sascha
Behnk
Li
Hao
Ernesto
Reuben
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Partners in Crime: Diffusion of Responsibility in Antisocial Behaviors
Using a series of sender-receiver games, we find that two senders acting together are willing to behave more antisocially towards the receiver than single senders. This result is robust in two ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104116)
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D70, D91, C92, D63
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11030
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Daniel
Alonso-Soto
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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How Do Latin American Migrants in the U.S. Stand on Schooling Premium? What Does It Reveal about Education Quality in Their Home Countries?
Indicators for quality of schooling are not only relatively new in the world but also unavailable for a sizable share of the world's population. In their absence, some proxy measures have been ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39(6), 855-879. )
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I26, J31, J61
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11029
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Yaqin
Su
Petros
Tesfazion
Zhong
Zhao
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Where Are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China come from, paying close attention to intra-provincial vs. inter-provincial ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 47, 142-155 )
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J62, O15
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11027
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Tommaso
Frattini
Elena
Meschi
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The Effect of Immigrant Peers in Vocational Schools
This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 1-22 )
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I20, J15
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11026
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Stefano
Verzillo
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The 'Gravity' of Quality: Research Quality and Universities' Attractiveness in Italy
This paper investigates whether or not research quality is significantly associated with a university's ability to attract students from other provinces in Italy. First university enrolments of ...
(revised version published as 'The 'gravity' of quality: research quality and the attractiveness of universities in Italy' in: Regional Studies, 2019, 53(10), 1385-139)
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I23
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11025
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Joniada
Milla
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The Context-Bound University Selectivity Premium
In this paper I present a selective survey of the empirical literature on wage premium to university selectivity focusing mainly on the context of the country under analysis and the identification ...
(published in: Review of Economic Analysis, 2018, 10, 313 - 349 [open access])
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C21, I23, J30
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11024
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Petra
Thiemann
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The Persistent Effects of Short-Term Peer Groups in Higher Education
This paper demonstrates that short-term peer exposure can generate achievement effects which persist for several months and years. I study a mandatory freshmen week for first-year undergraduates and ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2022, 68( 2), 1131-1148)
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I21, I23, J24
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