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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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10581
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Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Is R&D Good for Employment? Microeconometric Evidence from the EU
Using a unique firm-level database comprising the top European R&D investors over the period 2002-2013 and running LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labour-friendly impact of R&D ...
(published as 'Is Innovation Destroying Jobs? Firm-Level Evidence from the EU' in: Sustainability, 2018, 10(4), 1279)
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O33
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10579
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Romina
Giuliano
Stephan
Kampelmann
Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
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Short Notice, Big Difference? The Effect of Temporary Employment on Firm Competitiveness across Sectors
This paper is one of the first to examine how the use of fixed-term employment contracts (FTCs) affects firm competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (2), 421-449)
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D24, J24, J31, M12
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10577
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Deniz
Gevrek
Marilyn
Spencer
David
Hudgins
Valrie
Chambers
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I Can't Get No Satisfaction: The Power of Perceived Differences in Employee Retention and Turnover
This study explores the role of salary raises and the perception of employees of these salary raises on employees' intended retention and turnover. By using a unique survey data set from an American ...
(published in: Personnel Review, 2017, 46(5), 1019-1043.)
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I23, J22, J28, M52
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10576
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Philip
Mellizo
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
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Ceding Control: An Experimental Analysis of Participatory Management
We use an experiment to evaluate the effects of participatory management on firm performance. Participants are randomly assigned roles as managers or workers in firms that generate output via real ...
(published in: Journal of the Economic Science Association, 2017, 3, 62 - 74)
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C92, J33, J53, J54, M50
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10575
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Trust: Evidence from Cross-Country Data
This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 159, 109-133.)
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J51, J52, J53, J83
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10573
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Charlotte
Bartels
Maria
Metzing
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An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis
Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Administrative data ...
(published as 'An integrated approach for a top-corrected income distribution' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (2), 125-143)
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C46, C81, D31, H2
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10572
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Arindrajit
Dube
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Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes
Using the March Current Population Survey data from 1984 to 2013, I provide a comprehensive evaluation of how minimum wage policies influence the distribution of family incomes. I find robust ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (4), 268–304)
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J38, J88, D31
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10571
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Barry
Hirsch
David
A.
Macpherson
Anne
E.
Preston
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Nonprofit Wages: Theory and Evidence
The nonprofit sector's share of wage and salary employment in the U.S. has increased over time, from about 5½ percent in the mid-1990s to 7 percent in 2015. This paper surveys the literature and ...
(published in: Bruce Seaman and Dennis Young (eds.), Handbook of Research on Nonprofit Economics and Management, 2nd ed., Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2018, pp. 146-179)
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J21, J31, L33
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10570
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Alessia
Matano
Paolo
Naticchioni
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The Extent of Rent Sharing along the Wage Distribution
The relation between rent sharing and wages has generally been evaluated on average wages. This paper uses a unique employer-employee panel database to investigate the extent of rent sharing along ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relation, 2017, 55 (4), 751-777)
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C33, J31, J41, L25
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10568
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Itay
Attar
Danny
Cohen-Zada
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The Effect of School Entrance Age on Educational Outcomes: Evidence Using Multiple Cutoff Dates and Exact Date of Birth
Using Israeli data, we estimate the effect of school entrance age (SEA) on student outcomes. Unlike much of the recent literature, our identification strategy strictly satisfies the monotonicity ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 153, 38-57)
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I21, J24
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10567
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Daniel
Barth
Nicholas
W.
Papageorge
Kevin
Thom
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Genetic Ability, Wealth, and Financial Decision-Making
Recent advances in behavioral genetics have enabled the discovery of genetic scores linked to a variety of economic outcomes, including education. We build on this progress to demonstrate that the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128 (4),1474-1522)
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D14, D31, G11, H55, I24, J24
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10566
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Paul
Glewwe
Qiuqiong
Huang
Albert
Park
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 134, 141-164)
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I25, J16, J24, O53
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10563
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Cécile
A. J.
Magnée
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Does Birth Spacing Affect Personality?
This paper studies the causal effect of birth spacing (i.e., the age difference between siblings) on personality traits. We use longitudinal data from a large British cohort which has been followed ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 92-108 )
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J12, J13, J24
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10562
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Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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Challenges in Research on Preferences and Personality Traits: Measurement, Stability, and Inference
This paper reviews several traditions in economic research on preferences as well as research on personality traits in personality psychology and lists challenges in both fields. We discuss ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 1-6.)
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A12, D03
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10561
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Silke
Anger
Georg
Camehl
Frauke
Peter
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Involuntary Job Loss and Changes in Personality Traits
Economists consider personality traits to be stable, particularly throughout adulthood. However, evidence from psychological studies suggests that the stability assumption may not always be valid, as ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 60, 71-91, )
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I12, I18, K32, C33
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10560
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Sandra
E.
Black
Erik
Grönqvist
Björn
Öckert
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Born to Lead? The Effect of Birth Order on Non-Cognitive Abilities
We study the effect of birth order on personality traits among men using population data on enlistment records and occupations for Sweden. We find that earlier born men are more emotionally stable, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (2), 274 - 286)
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J12, J24
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10558
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Christian
Neumeier
Todd
A.
Sorensen
Douglas
A.
Webber
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The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data
The explicit costs of raising a child have grown over the past several decades. Less well understood are the implicit costs of having a child, and how they have changed over time. In this paper we ...
(published as 'The Implicit Costs of Motherhood over the Lifecycle: Cross-Cohort Evidence from Administrative Longitudinal Data' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2018, 84 (3), 716-733 )
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J11, J13, J16, J17
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10557
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Helmuth
Cremer
Jean-Marie
Lozachmeur
Kerstin
Roeder
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Household Bargaining, Spouses' Consumption Patterns and the Design of Commodity Taxes
We study the role and structure of commodity taxes when consumption and labor supplies are determined through a bargaining procedure between spouses, and where an optimal income tax is also ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73, 2021, 225--247.)
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H21, H31, D10
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10556
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S
Anukriti
Shatanjaya
Dasgupta
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Marriage Markets in Developing Countries
This chapter reviews the literature on marriage in developing countries. We describe how marital matching occurs; the trends in age at marriage; assortative mating patterns; marriage payments; and ...
(published in: S.L. Averett, L.M. Argys, S.D. Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, Oxford University Press, 2018)
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J1, J12
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10555
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Nidhaleddine
Ben Cheikh
Christophe
Rault
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Investigating First-Stage Exchange Rate Pass-Through: Sectoral and Macro Evidence from Euro Area Countries
In this paper, we evaluate the first-stage pass-through, namely the responsiveness of import prices to the exchange rate changes, for a sample of euro area (EA) countries. Our study aims to shed ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (12), 2611 - 2638)
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E31, F31, F40
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10553
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Bobae
Noh
Almas
Heshmati
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Does Official Development Assistance Affect Donor's Export? Case of Korea
This paper aims to estimate the impact of bilateral Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by Korea on its bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data ...
(published in: SN Business & Economics, 2021, 1, article 141 (2021))
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F14, F21, F35
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10552
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Krisztina
Kis-Katos
Janneke
Pieters
Robert
Sparrow
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Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work ...
(published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66 (4), 763-793)
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F13, F16, J12, J16, J21
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10551
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Nicola
Fontana
Tommaso
Nannicini
Guido
Tabellini
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Historical Roots of Political Extremism: The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51, 723-743)
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D72, C21
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10549
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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Do Migrants Lower Workplace Wages?
Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower ...
(published in: Work, Employment and Society, 2019, 33 (5), 759-776)
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J31, J61, J71
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10548
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Michael
A.
Clemens
Hannah
M.
Postel
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Temporary Work Visas as US-Haiti Development Cooperation: A Preliminary Impact Evaluation
We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2017, 6:4)
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F22, O15, O22, R23
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10547
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Naureen
Karachiwalla
Albert
Park
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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools
We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 109-128)
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J31, J33, J45, M51
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10546
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Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Sebastian
Kube
Jonas
Radbruch
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The Effectiveness of Incentive Schemes in the Presence of Implicit Effort Costs
Agents' decisions to exert effort depends on the provided incentives as well as the potential costs for doing so. So far most of the attention has been on the incentive side. However, our lab ...
(substantially revised version published in: Management Science, 2019, 65 (9), 3949-4450.)
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C91, D01, D03, D24, J22, J24, J33, L23, M52
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10545
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
Lachlan
Johnstone
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True Overconfidence, Revealed through Actions: An Experiment
We report an experiment that infers true overconfidence in relative ability through actions, as opposed to reported beliefs. Subjects choose how to invest earnings from a skill task when the returns ...
(revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2025.)
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C91, D03, D81, D83
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10544
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David
J.
Bjerk
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Mandatory Minimums and the Sentencing of Federal Drug Crimes
The United States federal mandatory minimums have been controversial not only because of the length of the mandatory sentences for even first-time offenders, but also because the eligibility ...
(published in: the Journal of Legal Studies, 2017, 46 (1), 93-128)
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J15, K14, K40
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10543
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Stefan
Boes
Steven
Stillman
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You Drink, You Drive, You Die? The Dynamics of Youth Risk Taking in Response to a Change in the Legal Drinking Age
This paper exploits the reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 to study the dynamics of youth risk taking. Using administrative data on the universe of road accidents over a ...
(published as 'Drink and drive? Understanding the dynamics of youth risk-taking' in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (10), 2381-2398)
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I18, K42, C25
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10542
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Nick
Zubanov
Bram
Cadsby
Fei
Song
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The
An investor's choice between safe and risky assets has long been seen as a behavior toward risk: more risk-averse investors buy more of the safe asset. Applying this intuition to incentive pay ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (4), 1997 - 2016)
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M52
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10541
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Elish
Kelly
Alan
Barrett
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Recent Developments in the Irish Labour Market: Is It All Good News?
Across many countries, the rise of atypical work has been noted whereby employees are increasingly in less secure contractual situations. While this might lead to more flexible labour markets, there ...
(published as "Atypical Work and Ireland's Labour Market Collapse and Recovery" in: Economic and Social Review, 2017, 48 (4) 463-488)
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J41, J48
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10540
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Gabriele
Pellegrino
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?
In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample of Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 2002-2013. Our GMM-SYS estimates ...
(published as 'Beyond R&D: The role of Embodied Technological Change in Affecting Employment' in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2019, 29, 1151-1171.)
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O33
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10539
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Lawrence
Katz
Christina
Patterson
John
Van Reenen
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Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share
The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly ...
(published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2017, 107(5), 180-185)
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E24, J31, L11
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10538
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
Stefanie
Schurer
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Origins of Adulthood Personality: The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences
We test whether adverse childhood experiences – exposure to parental maltreatment and its indirect effect on health – are associated with age 30 personality traits. We use rich longitudinal data from ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2017, 17(2), 20150212)
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J24, J13, I0
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10537
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Emily
A.
Beam
Joshua
Hyman
Caroline
Theoharides
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The Relative Returns to Education, Experience, and Attractiveness for Young Workers
Understanding employer preferences for characteristics of young workers is crucial to designing effective policies to reduce youth unemployment in developing countries. We conduct a randomized resume ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2020, 68 (2), 391–428)
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J23, J24, J70, C93
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10536
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Ian
Walker
Yu
Zhu
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University Selectivity and the Graduate Wage Premium: Evidence from the UK
We study the relative labour market wage outcomes of university graduates in the UK using the Labour Force Survey (LFS), matched to mean standardised admission scores at the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 230-249)
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I23, I26
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10535
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Joshua
Angrist
Jörn-Steffen
Pischke
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Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly
The past half-century has seen economic research become increasingly empirical, while the nature of empirical economic research has also changed. In the 1960s and 1970s, an empirical economist's ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2017, 31 (2), 125–144)
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A22
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10534
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Tirthatanmoy
Das
Solomon
Polachek
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Estimating Labor Force Joiners and Leavers Using a Heterogeneity Augmented Two-Tier Stochastic Frontier
We derive a non-standard unit root serial correlation formulation for intertemporal adjustments in the labor force participation rate. This leads to a tractable three-error component model, which in ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 199, 156-172.)
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C23, C51, J21
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10533
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Frank
Mueller-Langer
Benedikt
Fecher
Dietmar
Harhoff
Gert
G.
Wagner
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The Economics of Replication
Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2019, 48 (1), 62-83)
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A1, B4, C12, C13
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10532
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Michael
Lechner
Anthony
Strittmatter
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Practical Procedures to Deal with Common Support Problems in Matching Estimation
This paper assesses the performance of common estimators adjusting for differences in covariates, such as matching and regression, when faced with so-called common support problems. It also shows how ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2019, 38 (2), 193-207 )
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C21, J68
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10531
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Paul
Muller
Bas
van der Klaauw
Arjan
Heyma
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Comparing Econometric Methods to Empirically Evaluate Job-Search Assistance
We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job-search assistance programs. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 526-547)
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J64, C14, C31
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10530
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Chung
Choe
Seeun
Jung
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Identification and Decompositions in Probit and Logit Models
Probit and logit models typically require a normalization on the error variance for model identification. This paper shows that in the context of sample mean probability decompositions, error ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 1479–1492 .)
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C35, J16, D81, J71
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10529
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Wolfgang
Frimmel
Martin
Halla
Jörg
Paetzold
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The Intergenerational Causal Effect of Tax Evasion: Evidence from the Commuter Tax Allowance in Austria
Does tax evasion run in the family? To answer this question, we study the case of the commuter tax allowance in Austria. This allowance is designed as a step function of the distance between the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (6), 1843-1880, )
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H26, A13, H24, J62, D14
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10528
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Wenchao
Li
Changcheng
Song
Shu
Xu
Junjian
Yi
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Household Portfolio Choice, Reference Dependence, and the Marriage Market
This paper bridges the financial market and the marriage market using a reference-dependent mechanism. Male-biased sex ratios induce families with sons to hold more risky assets, since competitive ...
(published as 'High Sex Ratios and Household Portfolio Choice in China' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (2), 465-490)
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D03, G02, G11
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10526
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Elise
de Vuijst
Maarten
van Ham
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Parents and Peers: Parental Neighbourhood- and School-Level Variation in Individual Neighbourhood Outcomes over Time
There is a link between the socio-economic outcomes of parents and their children over the life course. Intergenerational transmissions were repeatedly shown for socioeconomic characteristics and ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2019, 35 (1), 15–28)
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I30, J60, P46, R23
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10524
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Inés
Berniell
Jan
Bietenbeck
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The Effect of Working Hours on Health
Does working time causally affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the standard workweek from 39 to 35 hours, at constant earnings. Our ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2020, 39, 100901)
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I10, I12, J22
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10523
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Anna
D’Ambrosio
Roberto
Leombruni
Tiziano
Razzolini
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Native-Migrant Differences in Trading Off Wages and Workplace Safety
Applying propensity score reweighting to Italian administrative data covering the period 1994-2012, we study the conditional distributions of injuries by wage of native and foreign workers and ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Trading off wage for workplace safety? Gaps between immigrants and natives in Italy' in Economia Politica, 2022, 39, 903–960)
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J28, J70
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10522
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Davide
Dragone
Giovanni
Prarolo
Paolo
Vanin
Giulio
Zanella
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Crime and the Legalization of Recreational Marijuana
We provide first-pass evidence that the legalization of the cannabis market across US states may be inducing a crime drop. Exploiting the recent staggered legalization enacted by the adjacent states ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 159, 488-501)
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K23, K42
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10519
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Soo
Hong
Chew
Junjian
Yi
Junsen
Zhang
Songfa
Zhong
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Risk Aversion and Son Preference: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Twin Parents
We study the role of risk aversion underlying son preference in patriarchal societies, where sons serve as better insurance for old-age support than daughters. The implications of an insurance motive ...
(published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (8), 3496 - 3970)
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C93, D01, D80, J13
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