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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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10004
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Huzeyfe
Torun
Semih
Tumen
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The Effects of Compulsory Military Service Exemption on Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Based on a law enacted in November 1999, males born on or before December 31st 1972 are given the option to benefit from a paid exemption from compulsory military service in Turkey. Exploiting this ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 16-35)
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C21, I21, I26, J21, J31
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10003
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Kaisa
Kotakorpi
Panu
Poutvaara
Marko
Terviö
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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics
We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2017, 33 (3), 413–442)
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D72, J45
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10002
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Pieter
Serneels
Kathleen
Beegle
Andrew
Dillon
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Do Returns to Education Depend on How and Who You Ask?
Returns to education remain an important parameter of interest in economic analysis. A large literature estimates returns to education in the labor market, often carefully addressing issues such as ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 60, 5-17)
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J24, J31, C83
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10001
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Ludger
Woessmann
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The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement
Students in some countries do far better on international achievement tests than students in other countries. Is this all due to differences in what students bring with them to school – ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (3), 3-31)
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I21, H52, L38, J24, D02
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10000
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Rasmus
Landersø
James
J.
Heckman
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The Scandinavian Fantasy: The Sources of Intergenerational Mobility in Denmark and the U.S.
This paper examines the sources of differences in social mobility between the U.S. and Denmark. Measured by income mobility, Denmark is a more mobile society, but not when measured by educational ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (1), 178 - 230)
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I32, I28, I24, P51
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9999
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Corrado
Giulietti
Enrico
Rettore
Sara
Tonini
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The Chips Are Down: The Influence of Family on Children's Trust Formation
Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 36, 211 - 233)
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J62, P16, Z1
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9998
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Wojtek
Przepiorka
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Choosing a Partner for Social Exchange: Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness
People benefit from being perceived as trustworthy. Examples include sellers trying to attract buyers, or candidates in elections trying to attract voters. In a laboratory experiment using exchange ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 157-171)
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C92, H41
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9997
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Michal
Bauer
Christopher
J.
Blattman
Julie
Chytilová
Joseph
Henrich
Edward
Miguel
Tamar
Mitts
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Can War Foster Cooperation?
In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30(3), 249-74)
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C80, D74, H56, O10, O12, O40
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9995
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Miriam
Bruhn
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Can Wage Subsidies Boost Employment in the Wake of an Economic Crisis? Evidence from Mexico
The rise in unemployment during an economic crisis poses a significant concern to policy makers. This paper measures the effect of a program in Mexico that granted firms in certain industries wage ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (8), 1558 - 1577)
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J23, H32, L60
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9992
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ali
M.
Kutan
Sudipa
Majumdar
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How Successful Are Banking Sector Reforms in Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Impact of Monetary Policy on Levels and Structures of Firm Debt in India
Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. ...
(published in: European Journal of Finance, 2018, 24 (12), 1047 - 1062)
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E52, G21, G28, G32, O16
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9991
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Samuele
Poy
Simone
Schüller
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Internet and Voting in the Web 2.0 Era: Evidence from a Local Broadband Policy
This article analyzes the impact of a local broadband expansion policy on electoral turnout and party vote share. We exploit a unique policy intervention involving staged broadband infrastructure ...
(revised version published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (1), 103861 )
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D72, L82, L86
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9990
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Michal
Kolesár
Christoph
Rothe
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Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Discrete Running Variable
We consider inference in regression discontinuity designs when the running variable only takes a moderate number of distinct values. In particular, we study the common practice of using confidence ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (8), 2277 - 2304)
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C13, C14, C21, C25
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9988
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Nikos
Askitas
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Big Data Is a Big Deal But How Much Data Do We Need?
The more conservative among us believe that "Big Data is a fad that will soon fade out" and they may in fact be partially right. By contrast, others – especially those who dispassionately note that ...
(published in: AStA Wirtschafts - und Sozialstatistisches Archiv, 2016, 10, 113 - 125)
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C55
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9986
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Abel
Brodeur
Kerry
Nield
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Has Uber Made It Easier to Get a Ride in the Rain?
In New York City (NYC), it has been a common complaint that it is difficult to find a taxi in the rain. Using all Uber rides in NYC from April to September 2014 and January to June 2015, we show that ...
(published as 'An Empirical Analysis of Taxi, Lyft and Uber Rides: Evidence from Weather Shocks in NYC' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 152, 1-16)
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D01, D03, L92, J22
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9984
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Gendered Entrepreneurship Networks
In virtually all industrialized countries, women are underrepresented in entrepreneurship, and the gender gap exhibits a remarkable persistence. We examine one particular source of persistence, ...
(revised version published as 'The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship - The Role of Peer Effects' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 134, 356-373)
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L26, M13, J16
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9983
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Giacomo
De Giorgi
Anders
Frederiksen
Luigi
Pistaferri
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Consumption Network Effects
In this paper we study the relevance and mechanics of consumption network effects. We use long panel data on the entire Danish population to construct a measure of consumption based on administrative ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (1), 130-163)
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E21, D12, D85
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9982
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Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
Kirsten
Thommes
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Group (Re-)formation in Public Good Games: The Tale of the Bad Apple
We analyze how different previous roles as partners or strangers in public good games affect an individual's subsequent cooperation in a partner setting. We systematically vary a group's composition ...
(published in: Journal of Ecconomic Behavior & Organization 145 (2018), 306-319.)
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C9, M5
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9981
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Eric
Cardella
Briggs
Depew
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Testing for the Ratchet Effect: Evidence from a Real-Effort Work Task
The "ratchet effect" refers to a phenomenon where workers whose compensation is based on productivity strategically restrict their output, relative to their capability, because they rationally ...
(published as 'Output restriction and the ratchet effect: Evidence from a real-effort work task' in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2018, 107, 182 - 202)
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J30, J40, D70, D01, C92
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9980
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Stijn
Baert
Simon
Amez
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No Better Moment to Score a Goal than Just Before Half Time? A Soccer Myth Statistically Tested
We test the soccer myth suggesting that a particularly good moment to score a goal is just before half time. To this end, rich data on 1,179 games played in the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa ...
(revised version published in: Plos One, 2018, 13 (3), e0194255)
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L83, J44, Z00
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9979
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Tommaso
Frattini
Francesco
Scervini
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Grandparental Availability for Child Care and Maternal Employment: Pension Reform Evidence from Italy
In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of grandparental child care availability in the employment of women who have ...
(revised version published as "Grandparental availability for child care and maternal labor force participation: Pension reform evidence from Italy" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(4), 1239–1277)
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J13, J22
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9978
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Seth
Gershenson
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Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?
Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside of teachers' control. Teachers often feel ...
(published in: Teachers College Record, 2016, ID No. 21629.)
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I2
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9977
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Marco
Francesconi
James
J.
Heckman
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Symposium on Child Development and Parental Investment: Introduction
This paper introduces the EJ Symposium on Child Development by reviewing the literature and placing the contributions of the papers in the Symposium in the context of a vibrant literature.
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(596), F1-F27)
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H43, I21, I24, J13, J24
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9976
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Can
Tang
Liqiu
Zhao
Zhong
Zhao
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Child Labor in China
We present the first systematic study on child labor in China. Child labor is not a negligible social phenomenon in China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 51, 149-166)
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J43, J81, O15
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9975
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Christopher
Taber
Rune
Majlund
Vejlin
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Estimation of a Roy/Search/Compensating Differential Model of the Labor Market
In this paper we develop a model capturing key features of the Roy model, a search model, compensating differentials, and human capital accumulation on-the-job. We establish which features of the ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2020, 88 (3), 1031 - 1069)
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J31, J32, J24
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9974
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Shantanu
Khanna
Deepti
Goel
René
Morissette
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Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India: 2004-2012
We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2016, 5 (18))
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J30, J31, O53
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9973
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Devashish
Mitra
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Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy
The various channels through which a reduction in the cost of offshoring can improve wages in a developed country are by now well understood. But does a similar reduction in the offshoring cost also ...
(revised version published as 'Consequences of Offshoring to Developing Nations: Labor-Market Outcomes, Welfare and Corrective Interventions' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 209 -224)
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F11, F13, F16, F66, O19, O24
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9972
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Gary
S.
Fields
Ravi
Kanbur
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Job Creation in a Multi-Sector Labor Market Model for Developing Economies
This paper proposes an overlapping generations multi-sector model of the labor market for developing countries with three heterogeneities – heterogeneity within self-employment, heterogeneity in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71 (1), 119 - 144)
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O17, I32
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9971
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Robert
Grundke
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Coerced Labor in the Cotton Sector: How Global Commodity Prices (Don't) Transmit to the Poor
This paper investigates the economic fortunes of coerced vs. free workers in a global supply chain. To identify the differential treatment of otherwise similar workers we resort to a unique exogenous ...
(published as 'Export price shocks and rural labor markets: The role of labor market distortions' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 145, 102464)
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J47, J43, F16, O13, Q12
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9970
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Faly
Rakotomanana
François
Roubaud
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Informal versus Formal: A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar
Little is known about the informal sector's income structure vis-à-vis the formal sector, despite its predominant economic weight in developing countries. While most of the papers on this topic are ...
(published in: World Development, 2016, 86, 1–17)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
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9969
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Giam Pietro
Cipriani
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Aging, Retirement and Pay-As-You-Go Pensions
In this paper we consider the effects of population aging on a pay-as-you-go financed defined contributions pension scheme. We show that when retirement decisions are endogenous, aging increases the ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2018, 22, 1173-1183)
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J13, H55
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9968
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Philipp
Lergetporer
Guido
Schwerdt
Katharina
Werner
Ludger
Woessmann
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Information and Preferences for Public Spending: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
The electorates' lack of information about the extent of public spending may cause misalignments between voters' preferences and the size of government. We devise a series of representative survey ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 167, 138-157)
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H11, D83, D72, H52, I22, P16
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9967
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Tomer
Blumkin
Leif
Danziger
Eran
Yashiv
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Optimal Unemployment Benefit Policy and the Firm Productivity Distribution
This paper provides a novel justification for a declining time profile of unemployment benefits that does not rely on moral hazard or consumption-smoothing considerations. We consider a simple search ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance 2017, 24, 36-59)
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J64, J65
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9966
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Werner
Eichhorst
Regina
Konle-Seidl
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Evaluating Labour Market Policy
Labour market institutions are deemed to have a great influence on the level and structure of employment. This holds for regulation on employment protection, minimum wages or tax/benefit systems as ...
(published in: Bent Greve (ed.), Handbook of Social Policy Evaluation, 2017, Chapter 18)
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J08, J65, J68
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9965
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Claire
A.
Boeing-Reicher
Vincenzo
Caponi
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Public Wages, Public Employment, and Business Cycle Volatility: Evidence from U.S. Metro Areas
Based on data from a cross section of U.S. metro areas, we show that public employment correlates negatively with business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2024, 54, 101232)
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E32, E63, J21
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9963
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John
Forth
Alex
Bryson
Anitha
George
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Explaining Cross-National Variation in Workplace Employee Representation
Across Europe, there are many differing opinions on whether workplace employee representation should be encouraged or discouraged. Yet there is very little evidence on the variations in workplace ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (4), 415-433 )
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J51, J53, J83
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9962
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Ronald
Bachmann
Hanna
Frings
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Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages: An Empirical Analysis
This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (51), 5268-5286 )
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J42, J31, J38
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9961
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Permanent Jobs, Employment Protection and Job Content
Using Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for 21 countries, I study the impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2018, 57 (3), 569-638)
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J31, J42
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9960
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Pedro
Carneiro
Jishnu
Das
Hugo
Reis
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The Value of Private Schools: Evidence from Pakistan
Using unique data from Pakistan we estimate a model of demand for differentiated products in 112 rural education markets with significant choice among public and private schools. Our model accounts ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106 (5), 1301 - 1318)
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I20, I21
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9959
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Anica
Kramer
Marcus
Tamm
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Does Learning Beget Learning Throughout Adulthood? Evidence from Employees' Training Participation
Individuals with more years of education generally acquire more training later on in life. Such a relationship may be due to skills learned in early periods increasing returns to educational ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Does learning trigger learning throughout adulthood? Evidence from training participation of the employed population' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 82-90)
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I21, I24, I26, J24
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9958
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Rania
Gihleb
Osnat
Lifshitz
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Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply
In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2022, 46, 302-327)
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J22, J12, J24, J31
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9957
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James
J.
Heckman
John
Eric
Humphries
Gregory
Veramendi
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Returns to Education: The Causal Effects of Education on Earnings, Health and Smoking
This paper estimates returns to education using a dynamic model of educational choice that synthesizes approaches in the structural dynamic discrete choice literature with approaches used in the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126, (S1), S197–S246)
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C32, C38, I12, I14, I21
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9956
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Jimmy
R.
Ellis
Seth
Gershenson
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LATE for the Meeting: Gender, Peer Advising, and College Success
Many male and first-generation college goers struggle in their first year of postsecondary education. Mentoring programs have been touted as a potential solution to help such students acclimate to ...
(published as 'Gender, peer advising, and college success' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101775)
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I21, I23, I28
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9955
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Stephen
Machin
Sandra
McNally
Martina
Viarengo
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"Teaching to Teach" Literacy
Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2018, 10, 217-41 )
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I21, I28
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9954
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Rodrigo
Fernandez
Herwig
Immervoll
Daniele
Pacifico
Céline
Thévenot
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Faces of Joblessness: Characterising Employment Barriers to Inform Policy
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent individuals from participating fully in the labour market. The approach is intended to ...
(also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Paper)
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C38, J08, H31, J21, J22, J68, J82
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9953
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Etienne
Lalé
Nawid
Siassi
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From Dual to Unified Employment Protection: Transition and Steady State
This paper analyses the optimal design of a single open-ended contract (SOEC) and studies the political economy of moving towards such a SOEC in a labour market where employment protection is highly ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2021, 12 (2), 547-585.)
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H29, J33, J65
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9952
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Atanu
Ghoshray
Javier
Ordóñez
Hector
Sala
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Euro, Crisis and Unemployment: Youth Patterns, Youth Policies?
This paper examines the occurrence of structural breaks in European unemployment associated with major events experienced by the European economies at an institutional level: the creation of the ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 58, 442-453.)
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J64, O52, J08, F66
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9951
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Daniel
Haanwinckel
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality
We develop a search model of informal labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, intra-firm bargaining with imperfect substitutability across types of workers, and a comprehensive set of labor ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2021, 88 (6), 2970-3010)
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J24, J31, J46, J64, O17
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9950
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Xiaoming
Cai
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Search Frictions, Competing Mechanisms and Optimal Market Segmentation
In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2017, 169, 453-473)
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C78, D44, D83
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9949
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Guoqian
Xi
Jörn
Block
Frank
Lasch
Frank
Robert
Roy
Thurik
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Work Experience from Paid Employment and the Path to Entrepreneurship: Business Takeover versus New Venture Start-Up
Our paper investigates how the type of work experience gained from prior paid employment influences the path to entrepreneurship. We distinguish between two distinct entrepreneurship entry modes: ...
(published as 'Work experience from paid employment and entry mode to entrepreneurship: business takeover versus new venture start-up' in: Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat, 2018, 17 (2), 91-112)
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L26
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9947
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S. Nageeb
Ali
Roland
Benabou
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Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy
We analyze the costs and benefits of using social image to foster virtuous behavior. A Principal seeks to motivate reputation-conscious agents to supply a public good. Each agent chooses how much to ...
(published as 'Image versus Information: Changing Societal Norms and Optimal Privacy' in: American Economic Review, 2020, 13 (3), 116 - 164)
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D62, D64, D82, H41, K42, Z13
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