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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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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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11023
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Brecht
Neyt
Eddy
Omey
Dieter
Verhaest
Stijn
Baert
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Does Student Work Really Affect Educational Outcomes? A Review of the Literature
We review the theories put forward, methodological approaches used, and empirical conclusions found in the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019, 33 (3), 896 - 921)
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I21, J22, J24
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11022
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Ernest
Boffy-Ramirez
Soojae
Moon
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The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential
Together with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there has been a growing divide in the earnings of urban and rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, ...
(published in: China Economic Journal, 2018, 11 (2), 108-125)
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J30, J80, O15, R23
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11021
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Gregory
Clark
Andrew
Leigh
Mike
Pottenger
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Immobile Australia: Surnames Show Strong Status Persistence, 1870 - 2017
The paper estimates long run social mobility in Australia 1870 - 2017 tracking the status of rare surnames. The status information includes occupations from electoral rolls 1903-1980, and records of ...
(published as 'Frontiers of mobility: Was Australia 1870 - 2017 a more socially mobile society than England?' in: Explorations in Economic History, 2020, 76 (C), 101327 )
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J62
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11020
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Chelsea
Murray
Robert
Clark
Silvia
Mendolia
Peter
Siminski
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Direct Measures of Intergenerational Income Mobility for Australia
We present the first Australian estimates of intergenerational mobility that draw on direct observations of income from two generations. Using panel data for three birth cohorts of young adults from ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2018, 94 (307), 445-68)
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J62
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11019
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Laurence
Jacquet
Etienne
Lehmann
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Optimal Income Taxation with Composition Effects
We study the optimal nonlinear income tax problem with multidimensional individual characteristics on which taxes cannot be conditioned. We obtain an optimal tax formula that generalizes the standard ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 1299-1341)
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H21
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11016
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Ana Margarida
Fernandes
Mariana
Viollaz
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Does the Adoption of Complex Software Impact Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations? Evidence from Chilean Firms
A major concern with the rapid spread of technology is that it replaces some jobs, displacing workers. However, technology may raise firm productivity, generating more jobs. The paper contributes to ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (1), 169-185)
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J23, J24, J31, O33
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11014
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Shaimaa
Yassin
François
Langot
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Informality, Public Employment and Employment Protection in Developing Countries
This paper proposes an equilibrium matching model for developing countries' labor markets where the interaction between public, formal private and informal private sectors are taken into account. ...
(publisehd in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (1), 326-348)
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E24, E26, J60, J64, O17
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11011
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Andrea
Bassanini
Federico
Cingano
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Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms
We exploit long time series of industry-level data in a group of OECD countries to analyze the short-term labor market effects of reforms lowering barriers to entry and dismissal costs. Our estimates ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 127-157)
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J23, L51, L11
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11009
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Gianni
Betti
Lucia
Mangiavacchi
Luca
Piccoli
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Individual Poverty Measurement Using a Fuzzy Intrahousehold Approach
This work studies the impact of accounting for intrahousehold inequality in the distribution of resources for the measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of ...
(published as 'Women and poverty: insights from individual consumption in Albania' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 69 - 91)
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I32, J16, D13
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11007
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Jeroen
Horemans
Ive
Marx
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Poverty and Material Deprivation among the Self-Employed in Europe: An Exploration of a Relatively Uncharted Landscape
In work-poverty has become a pressing social issue in Europe. The self-employed remain relatively uncharted terrain in this context. With about 15 percent of European workers in self-employment this ...
(published in: W. Conen and E. Reuter (eds.), Research Handbook on Self-Employment and Public Policy, 2024, 80–98 )
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I32, I38, J21, J22, L26
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11006
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Eirini
Andriopoulou
Alexandros
Karakitsios
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Inequality and Poverty in Greece: Changes in Times of Crisis
The Greek crisis was the deepest and longest ever recorded in an OECD country in the postwar period. Output declined by over a quarter and disposable income by more than 40%, while the unemployment ...
(published in: D. Katsikas, D. A. Sotiropoulos, M. Zafiropoulou (eds.), Socioeconomic Fragmentation and Exclusion in Greece under the Crisis, 2018 )
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D31, I31, I32
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11005
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Miles
Corak
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'Inequality Is the Root of Social Evil,' or Maybe Not? Two Stories about Inequality and Public Policy
Income inequality is on the rise, and everyone, from President Obama and Pope Francis to Prince Charles and Standard & Poor's, is talking about it. But these conversations about what are arguably the ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2016, 42 (4), 367-414)
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D31, I32, J62, J65
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11004
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Robert
M.
Sauer
Christopher
Taber
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Indirect Inference with Importance Sampling: An Application to Women's Wage Growth
This paper has two main parts. In the first, we describe a method that smooths the objective function in a general class of indirect inference models. Our smoothing procedure makes use of importance ...
(published as 'Understanding women's wage growth using indirect inference with importance sampling' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (4), 453 - 473)
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C51, J16
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11003
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
Peter
Brummund
Jason
B.
Cook
Miriam
Larson-Koester
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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child ...
(published: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 709-750)
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J1, J11, J12, J13, J15, J16
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11002
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Robert
Duval Hernández
Lei
Fang
L. Rachel
Ngai
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Taxes and Market Hours: The Role of Gender and Skill
Cross-country differences of market hours in 17 OECD countries are mainly due to the hours of women, especially low-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill ...
(published as 'Taxes, subsidies and gender gaps in hours and wages' in: Economica, 2023, 90 (358), 373-408. )
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E24, E62, J22
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11000
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Friederike
Mengel
Jan
Sauermann
Ulf
Zölitz
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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (2), 535-566)
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J16, J71, I23, J45
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10997
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Peter
Bergman
Jeffrey
T.
Denning
Dayanand
Manoli
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Broken Tax Breaks? Evidence from a Tax Credit Information Experiment with 1,000,000 Students
There is increasing evidence that tax credits for college do not affect college enrollment. This may be because prospective students do not know about tax benefits for credits or because the design ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (3), 706-731)
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I22, I23, H2
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10996
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Shimeng
Liu
Weizeng
Sun
John
V.
Winters
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Up in STEM, Down in Business: Changing College Major Decisions with the Great Recession
We use the American Community Survey (ACS) to investigate the extent to which college major decisions were affected during and after the Great Recession with special attention to business and STEM ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2019, 37(3), 476-491)
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I20, J24
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10995
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Sarah
Cattan
Daniel
A.
Kamhöfer
Martin
Karlsson
Therese
Nilsson
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The Short- and Long-Term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden
Instructional time is seen as an important determinant of school performance, but little is known about the effects of student absence. Combining historical records and administrative data for ...
(updated version published as 'The Long-term Effects of Student Absence: Evidence from Sweden' in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 888-903)
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C23, I14, I21, I26
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10994
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Hendrik
Jürges
Luca
Stella
Sameh
Hallaq
Alexandra
Schwarz
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Cohort at Risk: Long-Term Consequences of Conflict for Child School Achievement
We investigate the long-term effects of households' exposure to violent conflict on children's educational attainment in primary school, studying cognitive and non-cognitive skills as possible causal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1-43)
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D10, I20, F51, O12
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