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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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9679
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Abhishek
Chakravarty
Selim
Gulesci
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The Price of Gold: Dowry and Death in India
Dowry is often adduced as an explanation of son preference in India, but there is little evidence that dowry motivates son-preferring behaviours. On the premise that gold is an integral part of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102413)
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I14, J16, O12
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9677
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Jan-Emmanuel
De Neve
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Top Incomes and Human Well-being Around the World
The share of income held by the top 1 percent in many countries around the world has been rising persistently over the last 30 years. But we continue to know little about how the rising top income ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 62, 246-257)
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D63, I3
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9675
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Rik
Dillingh
Peter
Kooreman
Jan
Potters
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Tattoos, Life Style and the Labor Market
Placing a tattoo is a choice with potentially significant and long-lasting social and economic consequences. In this study we look at the factors determining the decision to place a tattoo and ...
(published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (2), 191-214)
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J10, J20
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9674
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Armin
Falk
Anke
Becker
Thomas
Dohmen
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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The Preference Survey Module: A Validated Instrument for Measuring Risk, Time, and Social Preferences
This paper presents an experimentally validated survey module to measure six key economic preferences – risk aversion, discounting, trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity – in a reliable, ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2023, 69 (4), 1935–195)
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C81, C83, C90
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9673
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David
L.
Dickinson
Todd
McElroy
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Sleep Restriction and Time?of?Day Impacts on Simple Social Interaction
Simple bargaining games are the foundation of more complex social interactions necessary for healthy relationships and well-functioning societies. Neuroscience research has shown that high-level ...
(revised version published as 'Sleep restriction and circadian effects on social decisions' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 57 - 71)
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C7, C9
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9672
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data
Ever since Goldin (1995) proposed the idea that there is a U-shaped female labor force participation rate function in economic development, empirical research is stunned by the question why the ...
(published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453 )
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A13, C43, F66, J15, J16, J21, J42, N30, Z12
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9671
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Murat
Iyigun
Jeanne
Lafortune
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Why Wait? A Century of Education, Marriage Timing and Gender Roles
We document that, over the 20th century, age at first marriage followed a U-shaped pattern, while the gender education gap tracked an inverted-U path in the United States. To explain this, we propose ...
(published as 'Putting the Husband Through: Role of Credit Constraints in Timing of Marriage and Spousal Education' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (1), 245–289)
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J12, J11, N32
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9670
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Eve
Caroli
Lexane
Weber-Baghdiguian
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Self-Reported Health and Gender: The Role of Social Norms
We investigate the role of social norms in accounting for differences in self-reported health as reported by men and women. Using the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS, 2010), we first ...
(published in Social Science & Medicine, 153, 220-229, 2016)
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I12, I19, J16
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9669
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Michael
Jetter
Jay
K.
Walker
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Gender in Jeopardy!: The Role of Opponent Gender in High-Stakes Competition
Using 4,279 episodes of the popular US game show Jeopardy!, we analyze whether the opponents' gender is able to explain the gender gap in competitive behavior. Our findings indicate that gender ...
(published as 'The gender of opponents: Explaining gender differences in performance and risk-taking' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 109, 238 - 256)
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D03, J10, J16
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9668
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Peter
Norlander
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP
We address the impact of declining migration on the measurement of labor market health. We first document an historically significant decline in the growth rate of the U.S. foreign born population ...
(published as '21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States' in: Migration Letters, 2018, 15 (3), 410 - 422)
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J21, J61
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9667
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Ali
Fakih
May
Ibrahim
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The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Labor Market in Neighboring Countries: Empirical Evidence from Jordan
This paper analyzes time-sensitive data on a humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. It aims to assess the impact of the steep influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan on the country's labor market ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2016, 27 (1), 64-86)
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J61, H56, N45
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9666
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Alessandra
Casarico
Giovanni
Facchini
Tommaso
Frattini
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What Drives the Legalization of Immigrants? Evidence from IRCA
We develop a model to understand the trade-offs faced by an elected representative in supporting an amnesty when a restrictive immigration policy is in place. We show that an amnesty is more ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 70, 258-27)
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F22, O51
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9665
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Markus
Hahn
Matthew
Hall
Nicole
Watson
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Australia Farewell: Predictors of Emigration in the 2000s
The factors leading individuals to immigrate to developed nations are widely studied, but comparatively less is known about those who emigrate from them. In this paper, we use data from a nationally ...
(revided version published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2016, 35(2), 197-215.)
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J1, J6
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9664
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Osea
Giuntella
Luca
Stella
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The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation
It is well-known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the US. However, we know less about the heterogeneity of these trajectories ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (4), 511-518)
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J15, I10
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9663
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Maarten
van Ham
Tiit
Tammaru
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New Perspectives on Ethnic Segregation over Time and Space: A Domains Approach
The term segregation has a strong connotation with residential neighbourhoods, and most studies investigating ethnic segregation focus on the urban mosaic of ethnic concentrations in residential ...
(published in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (7), 953-962)
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I32, J15, R23
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9662
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Tsunao
Okumura
Emiko
Usui
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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites
This paper investigates, theoretically and empirically, differences between blacks and whites in the U.S. concerning the intergenerational transmission of occupational skills and the effects on sons' ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, Special Issue on Inequality: Causes and Consequences, 2016, 43)
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J62, J24, J15
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9661
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Timothy
M.
Diette
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?
There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6:2)
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I20, I21, J15, J24
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9659
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Claudia
Olivetti
Barbara
Petrongolo
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The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries
Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2016, 8, 405-434.)
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E24, J16, J31
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9658
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Maria
De Paola
Michela
Ponzo
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Are Men Given Priority for Top Jobs? Investigating the Glass Ceiling in the Italian Academia
We aim to investigate if men receive preferential treatment in promotions using the Italian system for the access to associate and full professor positions that is organized in two stages: first, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, Vol. 12, No. 3: 475-503.)
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J71, M51, J45, J16, D72, D78
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9656
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations
Using PSID microdata over the 1980-2010, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably over this period. By 2010, conventional ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55(3), 789-865)
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J16, J24, J31, J71
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9654
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Dieter
Verhaest
Elene
Bogaert
Jeroen
Dereymaeker
Laura
Mestdagh
Stijn
Baert
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Crowding Out in the Labour Market: Do Employers Lend a Hand?
We test the basic assumption underlying the job competition and crowding out hypothesis: that employers always prefer higher educated to lower educated individuals. To this end, we conduct a ...
(revised version published as 'Do Employers Prefer Overqualified Graduates? A Field Experiment' in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2018, 57 (3), 351 - 388)
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I21, J24, M51
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9653
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Uttara
Balakrishnan
Johannes
Haushofer
Pamela
Jakiela
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How Soon Is Now? Evidence of Present Bias from Convex Time Budget Experiments
Empirically observed intertemporal choices about money have long been thought to exhibit present bias, i.e. higher short-term compared to long-term discount rates. Recently, this view has been called ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2020, 23, 294–321)
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C91, D90, O12
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9652
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Jane
Cooley
Fruehwirth
Sriya
Iyer
Anwen
Zhang
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Religion and Depression in Adolescence
The probability of being depressed increases dramatically during adolescence and is linked to a range of adverse outcomes. Many studies show a correlation between religiosity and mental health, yet ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (3), 1178–1209)
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I10, Z12
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9651
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Social Insurance with Competitive Insurance Markets and Risk Misperception
This paper considers an economy where individuals differ in productivity and in risk. Rochet (1991) has shown that when private insurance markets offer full coverage at fair rates, social insurance ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 138-147.)
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H21, H51, D82
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9649
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Stijn
Baert
Suncica
Vujic
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Does It Pay to Care? Prosocial Engagement and Employment Opportunities
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are ...
(revised version published as 'Does it Pay to Care? Volunteering and Employment Opportunities' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31, 819 - 836.)
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C93, D64, J24, J71
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9648
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Pia
Pinger
Isabel
Ruhmer-Krell
Heiner
Schumacher
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The Compromise Effect in Action: Lessons from a Restaurant's Menu
The compromise effect refers to individuals' tendency to choose intermediate options. Its existence has been demonstrated in a large number of hypothetical choice experiments. This paper uses field ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 128, 14-34)
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D03, M31
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9647
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Dan
S.
Rickman
Hongbo
Wang
John
V.
Winters
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Is Shale Development Drilling Holes in the Human Capital Pipeline?
Using the Synthetic Control Method (SCM) and a novel method for measuring changes in educational attainment we examine the link between educational attainment and shale oil and gas extraction for the ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2017, 62, 283-290)
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Q4, R1, R2
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9646
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Mirjam
Strupler Leiser
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Empirical Evidence on the Effectiveness of Social Public Procurement Policy: The Case of the Swiss Apprenticeship Training System
In this paper we assess the effectiveness of a social public procurement policy in Switzerland that gives firms that train apprentices a preferential treatment. We estimate the effectiveness of this ...
(published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (2), 204-222)
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H32, I28, J08
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9645
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Øystein
Hernaes
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Television, Cognitive Ability, and High School Completion
We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (2), 371-400)
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J13, J16, J24, L82
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9644
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Øystein
Hernaes
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Can Welfare Conditionality Combat High School Dropout?
Based on administrative data, we analyze empirically the effects of stricter conditionality for social assistance receipt on welfare dependency and high school completion rates among Norwegian ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 144-156.)
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H55, I29, I38, J18
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9643
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Dongshu
Ou
Zhong
Zhao
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Higher Education Expansion and Labor Market Outcomes for Young College Graduates
We examine the causal impact of China's higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China's 2005 1% Population Sample Survey. Exploiting variation in the ...
(revised version published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (2), 117-141)
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I23, I28, J31, O15
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9642
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Binnur
Balkan
Semih
Tumen
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Immigration and Prices: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
We exploit the regional variation in the unexpected (or forced) inflow of Syrian refugees as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of immigration on consumer prices in Turkey. Using a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 657-686)
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C21, E31, J46, J61
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9641
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Nancy
H.
Chau
Yu
Qin
Weiwen
Zhang
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Leader Networks and Transaction Costs: A Chinese Experiment in Interjurisdictional Contracting
Do leader networks promote efficient intergovernmental contracts? We examine a groundbreaking policy in China where subprovincial governments freely traded land conversion quotas, and investigate the ...
(published as 'Leader Networks and Interjurisdictional Contracting in Land Conversion Quotas' in: Land Economics, 2024, 100 (3), 568-587)
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H11, H77, P35, R52, D23
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9640
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Sylvie
Démurger
Xiaoqian
Wang
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Remittances and Expenditure Patterns of the Left Behinds in Rural China
This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 177-190)
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O15, J22, R23, D13, O53
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9639
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Joyce
J
Chen
Katrina
Kosec
Valerie
Mueller
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Temporary and Permanent Migrant Selection: Theory and Evidence of Ability-Search Cost Dynamics
The migrant selection literature concentrates primarily on spatial patterns. This paper illustrates the implications of migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23 (4), 1477-1519)
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J61, O15
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9638
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Rafael
Dix-Carneiro
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
Gabriel
Ulyssea
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Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization
This paper estimates the effect of local labor market conditions on crime in a developing country with high crime rates. Contrary to the previous literature, which has focused exclusively on ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 158-195)
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F16, J23, J24, K42
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9637
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Niaz
Asadullah
Saizi
Xiao
Emile
Kok-Kheng
Yeoh
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Subjective Well-being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location
We use data from two rounds of the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) to study the determinants of subjective well-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2018, 48, 83–101)
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O12, I30, I31
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9636
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Milena
Nikolova
Boris
Nikolaev
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Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
We examine the effect of joining the European Union on individual life satisfaction in Bulgaria and Romania in the context of the 2007 EU enlargement. Although EU membership is among the most ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18, 1593 - 1623)
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I31, I39, P20
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9635
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Boris
Hirsch
Elke
J.
Jahn
Michael
Oberfichtner
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The Urban Wage Premium in Imperfect Labour Markets
Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers ...
(substantially revised version coauthored with Alan Manning published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57, S111-S136)
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R23, J42, J31
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9633
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Lixin
Cai
Kostas
Mavromaras
Peter J.
Sloane
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Low Paid Employment in Britain: Estimating State-Dependence and Stepping Stone Effects
Using 18 waves of the British Household Panel Study, this paper examines state dependence and stepping stone effects of low pay. A distinguishing feature is that five types of transition- not in the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (2), 283 - 326)
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J24, J31, I21
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9632
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Petri
Böckerman
Per
Skedinger
Roope
Uusitalo
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Seniority Rules, Worker Mobility and Wages: Evidence from Multi-Country Linked Employer-Employee Data
We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 48-62)
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K31, J63, J32, J08, L51
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9631
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Barry
Hirsch
Muhammad
M.
Husain
John
V.
Winters
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The Puzzling Fixity of Multiple Job Holding across Regions and Labor Markets
Multiple job holding rates differ substantially across U.S. regions, states, and metropolitan areas. Rates decrease markedly with respect to labor market size. These patterns have been largely ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 84 (1), 26-51)
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J21, R23
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9630
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Barry
Hirsch
Muhammad
M.
Husain
John
V.
Winters
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Multiple Job Holding, Local Labor Markets, and the Business Cycle
About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the business cycle. Theory is ambiguous and prior literature is not fully conclusive. We ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5:4)
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J21
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9629
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Christina
Patterson
Aysegül
Sahin
Giorgio
Topa
Giovanni L.
Violante
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Working Hard in the Wrong Place: A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle
The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 42-56)
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E24, E32, J24
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9628
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Martin
Weißenberger
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Personality Traits and the Evaluation of Start-Up Subsidies
Many countries support business start-ups to spur economic growth and reduce unemployment with different programmes. Evaluation studies of such programmes commonly rely on the conditional ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 86, 87-108)
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C14, L26, H43, J68
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9627
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Bert
van Landeghem
Frank
Cörvers
Andries
de Grip
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Is There a Rationale to Contact the Unemployed Right from the Start? Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
Active Labour Market Policies often exclusively target towards the long-term unemployed. Although it might be more efficient to intervene earlier in order to prevent long-term unemployment rather ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 45, 158-168 )
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D04, D61, J64, J68
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9626
|
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Barbara
Hofmann
Arne
Uhlendorff
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The Role of Sickness in the Evaluation of Job Search Assistance and Sanctions
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during ...
(revised version published as 'Evaluating Vacancy Referrals and the Roles of Sanctions and Sickness Absenc' in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3292-3322)
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J64, J65, C41, C21
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9625
|
Reinout
Kleinhans
Maarten
van Ham
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The Support Paradox in Community Enterprise Experiments in The Netherlands
In many European countries, community entrepreneurship is increasingly considered as a means to initiate small-scale urban regeneration. However, residents in deprived communities are often viewed to ...
(published in: International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2017, 31 (4), 570-589)
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D71, L26, L31, O35, R23
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9624
|
Pierre
Koning
Jan-Maarten
van Sonsbeek
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Making Disability Work? The Effects of Financial Incentives on Partially Disabled Workers
This study provides insight in the responsiveness of disabled workers to financial incentives, using administrative individual data from the Netherlands from 2006 to 2013. We focus on workers ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 202-215)
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C52, H53
|
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9623
|
Frederico
S.
Finan
Maurizio
Mazzocco
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Electoral Incentives and the Allocation of Public Funds
It is widely believed that politicians allocate public resources in ways to maximize political gains. But what is less clear is whether this comes at a cost to welfare; and if so, whether alternative ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (5), 2467–2512)
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H40
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