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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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9622
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Wenhua
Di
Daniel
L.
Millimet
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Targeted Business Incentives and the Debt Behavior of Households
The empirical effects of place-based tax incentive schemes designed to aid low income communities are unclear. While a growing number of studies find beneficial effects on employment, there is little ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 52 (3), 1115-1142)
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C21, G02, H25, H31
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9621
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Lingguo
Cheng
Hong
Liu
Ye
Zhang
Zhong
Zhao
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The Health Implications of Social Pensions: Evidence from China's New Rural Pension Scheme
This paper estimates the causal effect of income on health outcomes of the elderly and investigates underlying mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46, 53-77 )
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H55, I12, I38, J14
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9620
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Emiko
Usui
Satoshi
Shimizutani
Takashi
Oshio
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Are Japanese Men of Pensionable Age Underemployed or Overemployed?
We investigate how Japanese men aged 60-74 adjust their workforce attachment after beginning to receive a public pension. Men who were employees at age 54 gradually move to part-time work or retire ...
(published in: Japanese Economic Review, 2016, 67 (2), 150 - 168)
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J26, I10, H55
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9619
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Andrea
Albanese
Bart
Cockx
Yannick
Thuy
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Working Time Reductions at the End of the Career: Do They Prolong the Time Spent in Employment?
In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 99–141 )
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J14, C22, J18, J22
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9618
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Mathias
Dolls
Karina
Doorley
Alari
Paulus
Hilmar
Schneider
Sebastian
Siegloch
Eric
Sommer
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Fiscal Sustainability and Demographic Change: A Micro Approach for 27 EU Countries
The effect of demographic change on the labor force and on fiscal revenues is topical in light of potential pension shortfalls. This paper evaluates the effect of demographic changes between 2010 and ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24 (4), 575-615 )
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H68, J11, J21
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9616
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Swee
Hoon
Chuah
Simon
Gächter
Robert
Hoffmann
Jonathan
H. W.
Tan
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Religion, Discrimination and Trust
We propose that religion impacts trust and trustworthiness in ways that depend on how individuals are socially identified and connected. Religiosity and religious affiliation may serve as markers for ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 280-301)
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C72, C91, J16, Z12
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9615
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Simon
Gächter
Leonie
Gerhards
Daniele
Nosenzo
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The Importance of Peers for Compliance with Norms of Fair Sharing
A burgeoning literature in economics has started examining the role of social norms in explaining economic behavior. Surprisingly, the vast majority of this literature has studied social norms in ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 97, 72-86)
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A13, C92, D03
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9613
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Holger
Gerhardt
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
Jana
Willrodt
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Does Self-Control Depletion Affect Risk Attitudes?
A core prediction of recent "dual-self" models is that a person's risk attitudes depend on her current level of self-control. While these models have received a lot of attention, empirical studies ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 463-487.)
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D03, D81, C91
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9610
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Aaron
Sojourner
Jooyoung
Yang
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Effects of Unionization on Workplace-Safety Enforcement: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence
We study how union certification affects the enforcement of workplace-safety laws. To generate credible causal estimates, a regression discontinuity design compares outcomes in establishments where ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2022, 75 (2), 373-401.)
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J51, J28, I18
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9609
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Kostas
Mavromaras
Peter J.
Sloane
Zhang
Wei
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The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Work and Subjective Wellbeing in Australia
Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2013) we examine the relationship between the dynamics of work-limiting disability and ...
(published in Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70 (3), 635–657)
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I10, J2, J31, J71
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9608
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Susan
L.
Averett
Erin
K.
Fletcher
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The Relationship between Maternal Pre-Pregnancy BMI and Preschool Obesity
The increasing prevalence of obesity during pregnancy raises concerns over the intergenerational transmission of obesity and its potential to exacerbate the current obesity epidemic. The fetal ...
(published in: Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century (pp. 201-219). 2017. Springer International Publishing.)
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I12, J13
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9606
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Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages?
This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (2), 393 - 418)
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H2, H7, J3
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9604
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Francois
Gerard
Miikka
Rokkanen
Christoph
Rothe
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Identification and Inference in Regression Discontinuity Designs with a Manipulated Running Variable
A key assumption in regression discontinuity analysis is that units cannot manipulate the value of their running variable in a way that guarantees or avoids assignment to the treatment. Standard ...
(published as 'Bounds on treatment effects in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable' in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 839-870)
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C14, C21, C26, C51
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9603
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Sako
Musterd
Szymon
Marci?czak
Maarten
van Ham
Tiit
Tammaru
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Socio-Economic Segregation in European Capital Cities: Increasing Separation between Poor and Rich
Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively ...
(published in: Urban Geography, 2017, 38 (7), 1062-1083 )
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N94, O18, P25, R21, R23
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9602
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Kadi
Mägi
Kadri
Leetmaa
Tiit
Tammaru
Maarten
van Ham
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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia
Most studies of the ethnic composition of destination neighbourhoods after residential moves do not take into account the types of moves people have made. However, from an individual perspective, ...
(published as: 'Types of spatial mobility and change in people's ethnic residential contexts' in: Demographic Research, 2016, 34, 1161-1192)
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J15, J61, R20, R23
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9600
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Marco
Caliendo
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Juliane
Hennecke
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Job Search, Locus of Control, and Internal Migration
Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Locus of Control and Internal Migration' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 79, 1-19.)
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J61
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9599
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Jinyoung
Kim
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 518 - 563)
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F22, F43, O15, O4
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9598
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Jane
Arnold
Lincove
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Can Admissions Percent Plans Lead to Better Collegiate Fit for Minority Students?
Why do so many students mismatch when choosing a college? A plausible hypothesis is a lack of information about the likelihood of admission. This study contributes to the literature on mismatch by ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 348-354)
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I21, I23, J15
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9597
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Local Signals and the Returns to Foreign Education
This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor schooling quality in the country of education or employers' discrimination in ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 61, 174-190.)
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J24, J61, J70
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9594
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Manuel
Bagues
Mauro
Sylos-Labini
Natalia
Zinovyeva
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Connections in Scientific Committees and Applicants' Self-Selection: Evidence from a Natural Randomized Experiment
We examine how the presence of connections in scientific committees affects researchers' decision to apply and their chances of success. We exploit evidence from Italian academia, where in order to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 58, 81-97)
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I23, M51, J45
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9593
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Citations in Economics: Measurement, Uses and Impacts
I describe and compare sources of data on citations in economics and the statistics that can be constructed from them. Constructing data sets of the post-publication citation histories of articles ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2018, 56, 111 - 156)
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A11, J01, B31
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9592
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Pablo
Lavado
Gustavo
Yamada
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Fear of Labor Rigidities: The Role of Expectations on Employment Growth in Peru
Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However, almost all of them has focused on an ex-post impact; leaving aside a second but ...
(published in: Latin American Research Review, 2023, 58 (4), 875-891.)
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J21, J23, J24, J46, J32
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9589
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Alexander
Muravyev
Aleksey
Oshchepkov
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The Effect of Doubling the Minimum Wage on Employment: Evidence from Russia
We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:6)
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J38, J23
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9588
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Tiziano
Razzolini
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment during the Great Recession: Evidence from a Large Shock
This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a country that has experienced one of the most severe recessions in Europe and a ...
(thoroughly revised version published as 'The Great Recession and Labor Market Adjustment: Evidence from Latvia' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2020, 62 (1), 149 - 181.)
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J6, J21, P20, P23
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9587
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John
T.
Addison
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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility: The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5: 19)
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D02, E02, E24, E25, E61, J48, J50, J51, J52, J53, J58, P51
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9586
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Nezih
Guner
Andrii
Parkhomenko
Gustavo
Ventura
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Managers and Productivity Differences
We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 29, 256-282.)
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E23, E24, J24, M11, O43, O47
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9585
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Peter
Fredriksson
Lena
Hensvik
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility
We examine the direct impact of idiosyncratic match quality on entry wages and job mobility using unique data on worker talents matched to job-indicators and individual wages. Tenured workers are ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (11), 3303-3338.)
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J64, J24, J31, J62
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9584
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Stijn
Baert
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Do They Find You on Facebook? Facebook Profile Picture and Hiring Chances
We investigate whether the publicly available information on Facebook about job applicants affects employers' hiring decisions. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in which fictitious job ...
(revised version published as 'Facebook profile picture appearance affects recruiterd first hiring decisions' in: New Media & Society, 2018, 20 (3), 1220 - 1239)
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C93, D83, J24, J79, L86
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9583
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Lutz
Bellmann
Olaf
Hübler
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Are Working Time Accounts Beneficial for German Establishments?
This contribution investigates whether working time accounts are beneficial for the performance of German establishments. Based on the representative German Establishment Panel of the Institute for ...
(published as 'Working time accounts and firm performance in Germany' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:24)
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C22, D21, J21, J22
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9582
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Dirk
Van de gaer
Xavier
Ramos
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Measurement of Inequality of Opportunity Based on Counterfactuals
The theoretical literature on inequality of opportunity formulates basic properties that measures of inequality of opportunity should have. Standard methods for the measurement of inequality of ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2020, 55, 595–627)
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D3, D63, C1
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9581
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Erik
Bengtsson
Daniel
Waldenström
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Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run
This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality over the long run. Using a new historical cross-country database on capital shares ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (3), 712-74)
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D30, N30
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9580
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Niamh
Holton
Donal
O'Neill
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The Changing Nature of Irish Wage Inequality from Boom to Bust
The dramatic change in economic conditions in Ireland over the last 10 years provides an opportunity to examine the impact of large macroeconomic shocks on inequality. We analyse wage inequality in ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2017, 48 (1):1-26)
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J31
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9579
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Andreas
Kuhn
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The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality: A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence
This paper presents a simple conceptual framework specifically tailored to measure individual perceptions of wage inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the ...
(revised version published as `The Individual (Mis-)Perception of Wage Inequality: Measurement, Correlates and Implications' in: Empirical Economics, 2020, 59, 2039-2069)
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D31, D63, J31
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9578
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Joop
Hartog
Pedro
Raposo
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Are Starting Wages Reduced by an Insurance Premium for Preventing Wage Decline? Testing the Prediction of Harris and Holmstrom (1982)
In the model of Harris and Holmstrom (1982) workers pay an insurance premium to prevent a wage decline. As employers are unable to assess the ability of a labour market entrant, they would offer a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48, 105-119)
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J310, D860
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9576
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John
Bennett
Ioana
Chioveanu
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The Optimal Minimum Wage with Regulatory Uncertainty
For two different regulatory standards, we examine the optimal minimum wage in a competitive labour market when the government is uncertain about supply and demand. Solutions are related to ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2017, 19 (6), 1099-1116)
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J38, J31
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9573
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Semih
Tumen
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Informal versus Formal Search: Which Yields a Better Pay?
Estimates on the effect of job contact method – i.e., informal versus formal search – on wage offers vary considerably across studies, with some of them finding a positive correlation between getting ...
(published in: International Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 12(3), 257-277)
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D85, J31, J64
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9572
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Philip
Du Caju
François
Rycx
Ilan
Tojerow
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Unemployment Risk and Over-Indebtedness: A Micro-Econometric Perspective
We study how unemployment effects the over-indebtedness of households using the new European Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS). First, we assess the role of different labor market ...
(also available as: European Central Bank Working Papers, 2016, No. 1908)
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D14, D91, J12
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9568
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Eakamon
Oumtrakool
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The Caregiving Responsibilities of Retirees: What Are They and How Do They Affect Retirees' Well-being?
Using data from the 2010 and 2012 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) and the associated Well-being Modules, this paper examines how caregiving affects the well-being of retirees who are caregivers. ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (13), 1298-1310)
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D10, D13
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9567
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Thomas
J.
Kniesner
Galib
Rustamov
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Differential and Distributional Effects of Energy Efficiency Surveys: Evidence from Electricity Consumption
Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of ...
(published in: Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, 2018, 9(3), 375-406)
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C31, D03, D12, L94, Q41
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9565
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Bram
Cadsby
Jim
Engle-Warnick
Tony
Fang
Fei
Song
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Psychological Incentives, Financial Incentives, and Risk Attitudes in Tournaments: An Artefactual Field Experiment
Tournaments are widely used to assign bonuses and determine promotions because of the link between relative performance and rewards. However, performing relatively well (poorly) may also yield ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2019, 72, 64-79)
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J30, J24, J33, C93, C91
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