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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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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
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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
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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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9715
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Carl
Lin
Myeong-Su
Yun
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China
The minimum wage has been regarded as an important element of public policy for reducing poverty and inequality. Increasing the minimum wage is supposed to raise earnings for millions of low-wage ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics (Income Inequality Around the World), 2016, 44, 179-212)
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J31, J38, O15, R23
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9714
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Juan
David
Robalino
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Smoking Peer Effects among Adolescents: Are Popular Teens More Influential?
In this paper I analyze adolescent peer effects on cigarette consumption while considering the 'popularity' of peers. The analysis is based on AddHealth data, a four wave panel survey representative ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2018, 13 (7), e0189360.)
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I1
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9713
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Almas
Heshmati
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The Economics of Healthy Ageing in China
Healthy ageing is a challenge for many countries with significant shares of elderly people. Literature refers to China's ageing population as a ticking time bomb which paradoxically is both a ...
(published as 'The Social and Economics of Healthy Ageing in China' in: World Health Design, 2016, 64-70)
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H75, I15, I18, I38, P36
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9709
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Philip
Susser
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Profiling the US Sick Leave Landscape
This paper profiles the sick leave landscape in the US – the only industrialized country without universal access to paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. We exploit the 2011 Leave Supplement ...
(short version published in: Health Services Research, 2016, 51 (6), 2305-2317)
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I12, I13, I18, J22, J28, J32
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9708
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Ayako
Kondo
Masahiro
Shoji
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Peer Effects in Employment Status: Evidence from Housing Lotteries for Forced Evacuees in Fukushima
Does a high peer employment rate increase individual employment probability? We exploit the random assignment of temporary housing to evacuees from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 113, 103195)
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J20, J64
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9707
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Nicholas
Bardsley
Milena
Buechs
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Something from Nothing: Estimating Consumption Rates Using Propensity Scores, with Application to Emissions Reduction Policies
Consumption surveys often record zero purchases of a good because of a short observation window. Only mean consumption rates can then be inferred. We show that propensity scores can be used to ...
(revised version published in: PLOS ONE, 2017, 12(10), e0185538.)
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C13, D04, D12, H23
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9706
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Hugo
Bodory
Lorenzo
Camponovo
Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
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The Finite Sample Performance of Inference Methods for Propensity Score Matching and Weighting Estimators
This paper investigates the finite sample properties of a range of inference methods for propensity score-based matching and weighting estimators frequently applied to evaluate the average treatment ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2020, 38 (1), 183-200 )
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C21
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9705
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Dennis
J.
Snower
Steven
J.
Bosworth
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Identity-driven Cooperation versus Competition
This paper seeks to extend the domain of identity economics by exploring motivational foundations of in-group cooperation and out-group competition. On this basis, we explore the reflexive ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 420–424)
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A13, D03, D62, D71, I31, O10
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9704
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Dietmar
Fehr
Matthias
Sutter
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Gossip and the Efficiency of Interactions
Human communication in organizations often involves a large amount of gossiping about others. Here we study in an experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior 2019, 113, 448-460.)
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C72, C92
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9703
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Steven
J.
Bosworth
Tania
Singer
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Cooperation, Motivation and Social Balance
This paper examines the reflexive interplay between individual decisions and social forces to analyze the evolution of cooperation in the presence of "multi-directedness," whereby people's ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 72-94)
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A13, C72, D01, D03, D62, D64
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9702
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Zhixin
Dai
Fabio
Galeotti
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Cheating in the Lab Predicts Fraud in the Field: An Experiment in Public Transportations
We conduct an artefactual field experiment using a diversified sample of passengers of public transportations to study attitudes towards dishonesty. We find that the diversity of behavior in terms of ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (3), 1081-1100.)
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B41, C91, C93, K42
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9701
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George
A.
Akerlof
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Bread and Bullets
Standard economics omits the role of narratives (the stories that people tell themselves and others) when they make all kinds of decisions. Narratives play a role in understanding the environment; ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126 (Part B), 58-71)
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A12, A13, A14, D03, D04, D20, D23, D30, D62, D71, D72, D74, E02, E03
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9700
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Jason
M.
Lindo
Peter
Siminski
Isaac
D.
Swensen
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College Party Culture and Sexual Assault
This paper considers the degree to which events that intensify partying increase sexual assault. Estimates are based on panel data from campus and local law-enforcement agencies and an identification ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (1), 236–265)
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I23, K42
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9699
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Martin
Biewen
Madalina
Tapalaga
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Life-Cycle Educational Choices: Evidence for Two German Cohorts
We study life-cycle educational transitions in an education system characterized by early tracking and institutionalized branches of academic and vocational training but with the possibility to ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 56, 80-94)
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I2, C5
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9698
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Seamus
McGuinness
Konstantinos
Pouliakas
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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach
This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. ...
(published in: S.W. Polachek et al. (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) , 2017, 81 - 127)
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J24, J31, J70, I26
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9697
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Anika
Jansen
Andries
de Grip
Ben
Kriechel
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The Effect of Choice Options in Training Curricula on the Supply of and Demand for Apprenticeships
Building on Lazear's skill weights approach, we study the effect of having more or less heterogeneity in the training curriculum on supply of and demand for apprenticeship training. Modernizations of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 52-65)
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J24, I21
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9696
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Alfredo
R.
Paloyo
Sally
Rogan
Peter
Siminski
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The Effect of Supplemental Instruction on Academic Performance: An Encouragement Design Experiment
While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the "gold standard" for impact evaluation, they face numerous practical barriers to implementation. In some circumstances, a randomized-encouragement ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 57-69)
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C93, I21, I23, I24
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9695
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Vikesh
Amin
Carlos
A.
Flores
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Daniel
J.
Parisian
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The Effect of Degree Attainment on Arrests: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
We examine the effect of educational attainment on criminal behavior using random assignment into Job Corps (JC) – the United States' largest education and vocational training program for ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54: 259-273)
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I2, K42
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9694
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Cain
Polidano
Domenico
Tabasso
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Fully Integrating Upper-Secondary Vocational and Academic Courses: A Flexible New Way?
The tracking of students in upper-secondary school is often criticised for narrowing the career prospects of student in the vocational education and training (VET) track, which in many countries ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 55, 117-131.)
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I20, I23, J24
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9693
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Emin
Dinlersoz
Henry
R.
Hyatt
Hubert
P.
Janicki
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Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets
Young and small firms are typically matched with younger and nonemployed individuals, and they provide these workers with lower earnings compared to other firms. To explore the mechanisms behind ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2019, 34, 244-266)
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L26, J21, J22, J23, J24, J30, E21, E23, E24
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9692
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Stijn
Baert
Bas
van der Klaauw
Gijsbert
van Lomwel
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The Effectiveness of Medical and Vocational Interventions for Reducing Sick Leave of Self-Employed Workers
We investigate whether interventions by (i) medical doctors and (ii) occupational specialists are effective in reducing sick leave durations among self-employed workers. To this end, we exploit ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e139 - e152)
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C41, I13, J22, R31
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9691
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Roland
Iwan
Luttens
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Gradual Collective Wage Bargaining
This paper presents an alternative implementation of firm-level collective wage bargaining, where bargaining proceeds as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 40, 37-42)
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J30, J41, J51
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9690
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Michael
White
Alex
Bryson
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When Does HRM 'Work' in Small British Enterprises?
Using nationally representative workplace data we find substantial use of high-performance work systems (HPWS) in Britain's small enterprises. We find empirical support for the proposition that HPWS ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (3), 749-773 )
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J28, M50, M54
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9689
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Something in the Air? Pollution, Allergens and Children's Cognitive Functioning
Poor air quality has been shown to harm the health and development of children. Research on these relationships has focused almost exclusively on the effects of human-made pollutants, and has not ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, Vol. 56, 141-151)
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I1, I2, Q53
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9686
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nicolás
Salamanca
Anna
Zhu
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Parenting Style as an Investment in Human Development
We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1315 - 1352)
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D13, I31, J13
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9684
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Julia
Tanndal
Daniel
Waldenström
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Does Financial Deregulation Boost Top Incomes? Evidence from the Big Bang
This study estimates the impact of financial deregulation on top income shares. Using the novel econometric method of constructing synthetic control groups, we show that the "Big Bang"-deregulations ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 85 (338), 232-265)
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D31, G18, H24, J30, N20
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9683
|
Philipp
Doerrenberg
Denvil
Duncan
Max
Löffler
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Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
The standard labor-supply literature typically assumes that the labor supply response to wage increases is the same as that for equivalent wage decreases. However, evidence from the ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 81,102305)
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J22, J31, D03
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9682
|
Jeffrey
Grogger
|
Soda Taxes and the Prices of Sodas and Other Drinks: Evidence from Mexico
To combat a growing obesity problem, Mexico imposed a nationwide tax on drinks with added sugar, popularly referred to as a "soda tax," effective January 2014. Since the tax took effect nationwide, ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2017, 99 (2), 481-498)
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H22, I10
|
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9681
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Luiz
de Mello
Simone
Schotte
Erwin
R.
Tiongson
Hernan
Winkler
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Greying the Budget: Ageing and Preferences over Public Policies
This paper looks at how individual preferences for the allocation of government spending change along the life cycle. Using the Life in Transition Survey II for 34 countries of Europe and Central ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2017, 70 (1), 70-96)
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H3, H5, J14
|
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9680
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Mark
Borgschulte
Paco
Martorell
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Paying to Avoid Recession: Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment
This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment labor market by examining the behavior of military servicemembers deciding ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (3), 101-127)
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J30, J60, J65
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