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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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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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9945
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Guillaume
Daudin
Raphaël
Franck
Hillel
Rapoport
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The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition: Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France
France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information ...
(published as 'Can internal migration foster convergence in regional fertility rates? Evidence from 19th Century France' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620), 1618-1692)
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J13, N33, O15
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9944
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Vibeke
Jakobsen
Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Poverty Risk among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State
Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries outside the OECD, with main emphasis on immigrants coming as guest workers before ...
(published in: European Journal of Social Security, 2017, 19 (3), 242 - 262)
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F22, H55, I32, J14
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9942
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Deepti
Goel
Kevin
Lang
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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
In this paper we highlight a specific mechanism through which social networks help in job search. We characterize the strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 72 (2), 355-381)
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J3
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9941
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Froilan
T.
Malit Jr.
George
S
Naufal
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Asymmetric Information under the Kafala Sponsorship System: Impacts on Foreign Domestic Workers' Income and Employment Status in the GCC Countries
This paper examines the legal and policy implications of information asymmetry on foreign domestic workers employed under the Kafala sponsorship system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) ...
(published in: International Migration, 2016, 54(5), 76-90)
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D82, F22, G14, N35, N45
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9938
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
Miguel
Lafuente
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Resampling and Bootstrap to Assess the Relevance of Variables: A New Algorithmic Approach with Applications to Entrepreneurship Data
In this paper, we propose an algorithmic approach based on resampling and bootstrap techniques to measuring the importance of a variable, or a set of variables, in econometric models. This ...
(published as 'Resampling and bootstrap algorithms to asses the relevance of variables: applications to cross-section entrepreneurship data' in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 233-267)
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C21, C52
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9937
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Davide
Castellani
Mariacristina
Piva
Torben
Schubert
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Productivity Impact of R&D Investment: A Comparison between the EU and the US
Using data on the US and EU top R&D spenders from 2004 until 2012, this paper investigates the sources of the US/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to ...
(published as 'R&D and Productivity in the US and the EU: Sectoral Specificities and Differences in the Crisis', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2019, 138, 279-291.)
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O33, O51, O52
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9936
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Peter
Dolton
Chiara
Rosazza Bondibene
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Who Wins? Evaluating the Impact of UK Public Sector Pension Scheme Reforms
Radical changes have been implemented to pension schemes across the UK public sector from April 2015. This paper simulates how these changes will affect the lifetime pension and how the negotiated ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2016, 237, 38-46)
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J32, H55, J45
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9935
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Kusum
Mundra
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Single and Investing: Homeownership Trends among the Never Married
In recent years, singles have begun to take on a more prominent role in reshaping America. As a group, singles are increasingly becoming influential in politics and in the determination of many macro ...
(published in: Housing Studies, 2019, 34 (1), 162-187)
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J10, J11, D10
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9931
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Daniela
Piazzalunga
Maria
Laura
Di Tommaso
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The Increase of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 Economic Crisis
The paper examines the gender wage gap in Italy during the 2008-2012 economic crisis, using cross-sectional EU-SILC data. The gender wage gap increased from 4% in 2008 to 8% in 2012, when for most ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (2), 171–193)
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J31, J71, J16, J45
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9930
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Abhishek
Chakravarty
Dilip
Mookherjee
Francisco
J.
Pino
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Property Rights and Gender Bias: Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal
While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (2), 295-237)
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I14, I24, J71, O15
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9929
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Miles
Corak
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Inequality from Generation to Generation: The United States in Comparison
To understand the degree of intergenerational mobility in the United States, and the differences between Americans and others, it is important to appreciate the workings and interaction of three ...
(published in: Robert Rycroft (editor). The Economics of Inequality, Poverty, and Discrimination in the 21st Century. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2013 )
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J62, J68
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9928
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Wolfgang
Frimmel
Martin
Halla
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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How Does Parental Divorce Affect Children's Long-term Outcomes?
Numerous papers report a negative association between parental divorce and child outcomes. To provide evidence whether this correlation is driven by a causal effect, we exploit idiosyncratic ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105201)
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J12, D13, J13, J24
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