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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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9786
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Jonneke
Bolhaar
Nadine
Ketel
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Job-Search Periods for Welfare Applicants: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11(1), 92-125)
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C21, C93, I38, J64, J08
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9785
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Manudeep
Bhuller
Christian
Brinch
Sebastian
Königs
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Time Aggregation and State Dependence in Welfare Receipt
Dynamic discrete-choice models are an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. A common assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1833-1873.)
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I38, J60, J64, C23, C41
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9784
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María
Laura
Alzúa
Guillermo
Cruces
Carolina
Lopez
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Long Run Effects of Youth Training Programs: Experimental Evidence from Argentina
We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills and vocational training, as well as internships with private sector ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (4), 1839 - 1859)
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J08, J24, J68, O15
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9783
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Matija
Vodopivec
Suzana
Laporsek
Milan
Vodopivec
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Levelling the Playing Field: The Effects of Slovenia's 2013 Labour Market Reform
We examine the effects of a 2013 labour market reform in Slovenia which made permanent contracts less restrictive and fixed-term contracts more restrictive. Using matched employer-employee database ...
(published in: Economic and Business Review, 2019, 21(1).)
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J62, J63, J68
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9782
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Petyo
Bonev
Enno
Mammen
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Nonparametric Instrumental Variable Methods for Dynamic Treatment Evaluation
We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard rates and conditional survival probabilities, without model structure. We derive ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (2), 355–367.)
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C14, C41, J64, J65
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9780
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Dhaval
M.
Dave
Hope
Corman
Nancy
E.
Reichman
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Effects of Welfare Reform on Women's Voting Participation
Voting is an important form of civic participation in democratic societies but a fundamental right that many citizens do not exercise. This study investigates the effects of welfare reform in the ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55 (3), 1430-1451)
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H0, I2, J2, J3
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9779
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Ingvild
Almås
Alex
Armand
Orazio
Attanasio
Pedro
Carneiro
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Measuring and Changing Control: Women's Empowerment and Targeted Transfers
This paper studies how targeted cash transfers to women affect their empowerment. We use a novel identification strategy to measure women's willingness to pay to receive cash transfers instead of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (612), F609 - F639)
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D13, O12, J16
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9776
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Henry
R.
Hyatt
James
R.
Spletzer
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The Shifting Job Tenure Distribution
There has been a shift in the U.S. job tenure distribution toward longer-duration jobs since 2000. This change is apparent both in the tenure supplements to the Current Population Survey and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41 (1), 363-377)
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J10, J21, J31
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9775
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Daniel
Borowczyk-Martins
Etienne
Lalé
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How Bad Is Involuntary Part-time Work?
We use a set of empirical and analytical tools to conduct parallel analyses of involuntary part-time work and unemployment in the U.S. labor market. In the empirical analysis, we document that the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (1), 183-205.)
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E21, E32, J21
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9774
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Osea
Giuntella
Wei
Han
Fabrizio
Mazzonna
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Circadian Rhythms, Sleep and Cognitive Skills: Evidence from an Unsleeping Giant
This paper analyzes the effects of sleep duration on cognitive skills and depression symptoms of older workers in China. Cognitive skills and mental health have been associated with sleep duration ...
(published in: Demography, 2017 54 (5), 1715–1742)
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I12
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9773
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Osea
Giuntella
Fabrizio
Mazzonna
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If You Don't Snooze You Lose: Evidence on Health and Weight
Most economic models consider sleeping as a pre-determined and homogeneous constraint on individuals' time allocation neglecting its potential effects on health and human capital. Several medical ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics,2019, 65: 210-226)
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I12, J22, C31
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9772
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Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Cost-Sharing and Use of Health Services in Italy: Evidence from a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design
We use a Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) to evaluate the impact of cost-sharing on the use of health services. In the Italian health system, individuals reaching age 65 and earning low incomes ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2021, 103, 105599.)
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I10, I13, I11, I18, C26
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9770
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Alex
Bryson
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Health and Safety Risks in Britain's Workplaces: Where are They and Who Controls Them?
This is the first paper to identify the correlates of workplace managers' perceptions of the health and safety risks faced by workers and the degree to which workers have control over those risks. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2016, 47 (5-6), 547-566)
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J81
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9766
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Nicolas
Houy
Jean-Philippe
Nicolaï
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Doing Your Best When Stakes Are High? Theory and Experimental Evidence
Achieving an ambitious goal frequently requires succeeding in a sequence of intermediary tasks, some being critical for the final outcome, and others not. Individuals are not always able to provide a ...
(revised version published as 'Always doing your best? Effort and performance in dynamic settings' in: Theory and Decision, 2020, 89 (3), 249-286)
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C72, C92, D81
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9765
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Utteeyo
Dasgupta
Subha
Mani
Smriti
Sharma
Saurabh
Singhal
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Eliciting Risk Preferences: Firefighting in the Field
Field constraints often necessitate choosing an elicitation task that is intuitive, easy to explain, and simple to implement. Given that subject behavior often differs dramatically across tasks when ...
(published as 'Internal and external validity: Comparing two simple risk elicitation tasks' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 81, 39 - 46)
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C91, C81, D81
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9764
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Guilherme
Hirata
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination
According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 146, Article 102519)
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J31, J71, J78, F66
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9763
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Stijn
Baert
Suncica
Vujic
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Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?
Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market integration. In the present study, we investigate whether this prosocial engagement ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 146, 95 - 98)
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J15, J71, D64
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9762
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
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The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora
In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those immigrants and the locals in different countries. We present the model by considering ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1136-1153)
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D85, D74, J61, L14
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9756
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Margherita
Fort
Andrea
Ichino
Giulio
Zanella
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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Costs of Daycare 0–2 for Girls
Exploiting admission thresholds in a Regression Discontinuity Design, we study the causal effects of daycare at age 0–2 on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes at age 8–14. One additional month in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128(1), 158-205)
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J13, I20, I28, H75
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9755
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
Zoë
Kuehn
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Education Policies and Migration across European Countries
This paper tests whether and how two education policies: (i) increasing the length of compulsory education and (ii) introducing foreign languages into compulsory school curricula, affect subsequent ...
(published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (6), 2181-2200)
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J61, I20, F22
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9754
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Julien
Champagne
Andre
Kurmann
Jay
Stewart
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Reconciling the Divergence in Aggregate U.S. Wage Series
According to data from the Labor Productivity and Costs (LPC) program, average hourly real compensation in the United States has grown consistently over time and become markedly more volatile since ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 27-41)
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E01, E24, E30, J30
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9753
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Andrea
Garnero
Alexander
Hijzen
Sébastien
Martin
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More Unequal, But More Mobile? Earnings Inequality and Mobility in OECD Countries
This paper provides comprehensive cross-country evidence on the relationship between earnings inequality and intra-generational mobility by simulating individual earnings and employment trajectories ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 56, 26-35)
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E24, J30, J62, O57
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9752
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Matti
Sarvimäki
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The Evolution of Social Mobility: Norway over the 20th Century
This paper documents trends in social mobility in Norway starting from fathers born at the turn of the 20th century and ending with sons born in the 1970s. We measure social mobility with ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(1): 5–33)
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I24, J08
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9749
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Niaz
Asadullah
Jinnat
Ara
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Evaluating the Long-Run Impact of an Innovative Anti-Poverty Program: Evidence Using Household Panel Data
Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction – Targeting the Ultra Poor (CFPR – TUP) programme of BRAC, we investigate whether a ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 58 (2), 107-120)
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O12, I30, D50
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9748
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
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The China Shock: Learning from Labor Market Adjustment to Large Changes in Trade
China's emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has challenged much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2016, 8, 205-240)
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F16, H55, J23, J31, J63
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9747
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Xin
Meng
Dandan
Zhang
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China's Sex Ratio and Crime: Behavioral Change or Financial Necessity?
This paper uses survey and experimental data from prison inmates and comparable non-inmates to examine the drivers of rising criminality in China. Consistent with socio-biological research on other ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (618), 790–820,)
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O12, J12
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9746
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Fei
Wang
Liqiu
Zhao
Zhong
Zhao
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China's Family Planning Policies and Their Labor Market Consequences
China initiated its family planning policy in 1962 and one-child policy in 1980 and allows all couples to have two children as of 1st January, 2016. This paper systematically examines the labor ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 31-68 )
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J13, J11, J21, J61
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9745
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Shihe
Fu
Yu
Liao
Junfu
Zhang
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The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China
This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on homeowners' labor force participation. Using the average housing capital gains of ...
(published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 59-69)
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J21, J22, R20, R30
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9744
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Thomas
Gries
Stefan
Jungblut
Wim
Naudé
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The Entrepreneurship Beveridge Curve
We propose that the rate of creation and failure of start-up firms can be modelled as a search and matching process, following labor market matching models. Setting out an endogenous growth model ...
(published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12 (2), 151-165)
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L26, M13, O10, O14
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9743
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Nora
Stel
Wim
Naudé
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Business in Genocide: Understanding and Avoiding Complicity
Genocides and mass atrocities do not arise spontaneously, but tend to be meticulously sourced and managed. As such the concern in this paper is with the role of businesses in these processes, with a ...
(published in: Charles H. Anderton and Jurgen Brauer (eds.), Economic Aspects of Genocides, Other Mass Atrocities, and Their Preventions, Oxford University Press, 2016, 591–612 )
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D74, O19, L26, N40, M14
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9742
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Nynke
De Groot
Pierre
Koning
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Assessing the Effects of Disability Insurance Experience Rating: The Case of the Netherlands
Experience rated Disability Insurance (DI) premiums are often advocated as a means to stimulate firms to reduce DI inflow and increase DI outflow. To assess the size of these intended effects of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 304-317)
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H22, I12, C23
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9741
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David
Hummels
Jakob
R.
Munch
Chong
Xiang
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Offshoring and Labor Markets
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, 981-1028)
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F1, J2, J3, L2
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9740
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Anna
Bottasso
Maurizio
Conti
Giovanni
Sulis
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Firm Dynamics and Employment Protection: Evidence from Sectoral Data
In this paper we analyse the impact of employment protection legislation (EPL) on firms' entry and exit rates for a large sample of industries of thirteen countries selected from the most recent ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 78, 35-53)
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J65, L11, L26
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9739
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Guido
Friebel
Matthias
Heinz
Nick
Zubanov
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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close ...
(published in: S.W. Polachek, K. Tatsiramos, G. Russo, and G. van Houten (Eds.) Workplace Productivity and Management Practices, Research in Labor Economics, 49, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2021, 79-205.)
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M12, M54
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9738
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Robert
G.
Valletta
Leila
Bengali
Catherine
van der List
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Cyclical and Market Determinants of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
We examine the determinants of involuntary part-time employment, focusing on variation associated with the business cycle and variation attributable to more persistent structural features of the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2020, 38 (1), 67–93)
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J22, J23
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9735
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Michael
C.
Knaus
Steffen
Otterbach
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Work Hour Mismatch and Job Mobility: Adjustment Channels and Resolution Rates
This paper analyses the role of job changes in overcoming work hour constraints and the work hour mismatches resulting from these constraints (i.e., differences between actual and desired work ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57(1), 227-242)
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J21, J22
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9734
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Julian
Baumann
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Are Micro Firms Different?
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (6), 1263–1274)
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L25, L60, O31, O33
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9733
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Alessandra
Colombelli
Jackie
Krafft
Marco
Vivarelli
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To Be Born Is Not Enough: The Key Role of Innovative Startups
This paper investigates the reasons why entry per se is not necessarily good and the evidence showing that innovative startups survive longer than their non-innovative counterparts. In this ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2016, 47, 277-291)
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L26, O33
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9732
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Mizuki
Komura
Hikaru
Ogawa
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The Prodigal Son: Does the Younger Brother Always Care for His Parents in Old Age?
Studies have shown that the older sibling often chooses to live away from his elderly parents intending to free ride on the care provided by the younger child. In the presented model, we incorporate ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49(22), 2153-2165.)
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H41, J17
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9731
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Dripto
Bakshi
Indraneel
Dasgupta
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Identity Conflict with Cross-Border Spillovers
We model simultaneous inter and within identity-group conflict in two territories connected by cross-territorial spill-overs. Within each territory, two groups contest the division of a ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2020, 31 (7), 786-809)
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D72, D74, O10, O20
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9730
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Michael
A.
Clemens
Lant
Pritchett
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The New Economic Case for Migration Restrictions: An Assessment
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 138, 153-164.)
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F22, J61, O11
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9729
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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Job Loss and Immigrant Labor Market Performance
While integration policies typically focus on labor market entry, we present evidence showing that immigrants from low-income countries tend to have more precarious jobs, and face more severe ...
(published in: Economica ,2018, 85, 124–151)
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F22, H55, J24, J65
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9728
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Adriana
Kugler
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Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate?
It is well known that a substantial part of income and education is passed on from parents to children, generating substantial persistence in socio-economic status across generations. In this paper, ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Remain in the U.S. for More Generations?' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 136-148.)
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J61, J62, I12, I14
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9726
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Alpaslan
Akay
Amelie
F.
Constant
Corrado
Giulietti
Martin
Guzi
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Ethnic Diversity and Well-Being
This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 265-306 )
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C90, D63, J61
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9722
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Farzana
Afridi
Taryn
Dinkelman
Kanika
Mahajan
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Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? A Decomposition Analysis over Two Decades
Unlike the global trend, India has witnessed a secular decline in women's employment rates over the past few decades. We use parametric and semi-parametric decomposition techniques to show that ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (3), 783-818)
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J21, J22
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9720
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Spatial Distribution of US Employment in an Urban Wage-Efficiency Setting
In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of US employment and earnings against an urban wage-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2018, 58, 141-158)
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J21, J22, J31, R12, R41
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9719
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Kory
Kroft
Kavan
Kucko
Etienne
Lehmann
Johannes
F.
Schmieder
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Optimal Income Taxation with Unemployment and Wage Responses: A Sufficient Statistics Approach
We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous wages, to study the shape of the tax and transfer system at the bottom of the ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal, Economic Policy, 2020, 12 (1), 254-292.)
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H21, J22, J23
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9718
|
Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Nicolas
Herault
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Roger
Wilkins
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What Has Been Happening to UK Income Inequality since the Mid-1990s? Answers from Reconciled and Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household survey data (used for official statistics) or tax return data (used in the top ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (2), 301 - 326)
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D31, C81
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9717
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Felix
Koenig
Alan
Manning
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical ...
(forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024)
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E24, J31, J64
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9716
|
Christian
Dreger
Reinhold
Kosfeld
Yanqun
Zhang
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Determining Minimum Wages in China: Do Economic Factors Dominate?
Minimum wages may be an important instrument to reduce income inequality in a society and to promote socially inclusive economic growth. While higher minimum wages can support the Chinese ...
(published in: Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, 2019, 31 (1-2), 44 - 59)
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J30, R23, C23
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