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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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9515
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Barbara
Dietz
Kseniia
Gatskova
Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Emigration, Remittances and the Education of Children Staying Behind: Evidence from Tajikistan
We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique three-wave ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (3), 96-118)
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I26, J61, O15
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9514
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Mariana
Saenz
Joshua
J.
Lewer
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Colombian Emigration by Administrative Regions
This article contributes to immigration literature by applying a Random Utility Maximization model to derive a migration gravity model that explains factors affecting migration outflows per ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Insight, 2017, 43 (2), 17-48.)
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F22, C25, H11
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9513
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
Michail
Veliziotis
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Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales
The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2018, 50 (1), 175-193)
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F22, J15, I31
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9512
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John
V.
Winters
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Do Earnings by College Major Affect Graduate Migration?
College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive ...
(published in: Annals of Regional Science, 2017, 59 (3), 629-649)
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J24, J61, R23
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9511
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Xuan
Chen
Carlos
A.
Flores
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
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Going Beyond LATE: Bounding Average Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training
We derive nonparametric sharp bounds on average treatment effects with an instrumental variable (IV) and use them to evaluate the effectiveness of the Job Corps (JC) training program for ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 63 (4), 1050-1099)
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J30, C13, C21
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9510
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David
C.
Maré
Dean
R.
Hyslop
Richard
Fabling
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Firm Productivity Growth and Skill
This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of labour in New Zealand, over the period 2001-12, using longitudinal data from ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2017, 51 (3), 302-326)
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D24, J24
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9509
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Michael
Coelli
Domenico
Tabasso
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Where Are the Returns to Lifelong Learning?
We investigate the labour market determinants and outcomes of adult participation in formal education (lifelong learning) in Australia, a country with high levels of adult education. Employing ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57 (1), 205-237)
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J24, J28, I23, I28
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9508
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Peter
B.
Berg
Mary
K.
Hamman
Matthew
Piszczek
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Relationship Between Establishment Training and the Retention of Older Workers: Evidence from Germany
In the coming years, a substantial portion of Germany's workforce will retire, making it difficult for businesses to meet human capital needs. Training older workers may be a successful strategy for ...
(published as 'The relationship between employer-provided training and the retention of older workers: Evidence from Germany' in: International Labour Review, 2017, 156 (3-4), 495-523)
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J20, J24, J26
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9507
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Tobias
Meyer
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Heidrun
Schneider
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New Evidence on the Effects of the Shortened School Duration in the German States: An Evaluation of Post-Secondary Education Decisions
Most German states have reformed university preparatory schooling during the last decade by reducing its duration from 13 to 12 years without changing the graduation requirements. In this paper, we ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e201-e253. )
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I21, J18, C21
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9506
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Robert
Feicht
Veronika
Grimm
Holger
A.
Rau
Gesine
Stephan
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On the Impact of Quotas and Decision Rules in Ultimatum Collective Bargaining
We conduct multi-person one-shot ultimatum games that reflect important aspects of collective bargaining. In all treatments a proposer has to divide a pie among herself and two groups of three ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 175-192. )
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C92, C72, C78, J31, J52
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9505
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Semih
Tumen
Tugba
Zeydanli
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Social Interactions in Job Satisfaction
The literature documents that job satisfaction is positively correlated with worker performance and productivity. We examine whether aggregate job satisfaction in a certain labor market environment ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37(3), 426-455)
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C31, D62, J28
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9504
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Armin
Falk
Anke
Becker
Thomas
Dohmen
Benjamin
Enke
David
B.
Huffman
Uwe
Sunde
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The Nature and Predictive Power of Preferences: Global Evidence
This paper presents the Global Preference Survey, a globally representative dataset on risk and time preferences, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust. We collected these preference ...
(revised version published as 'Global Evidence on Economic Preferences' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2018, 133 (4), 1645-1692)
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D01, D03, F00
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9503
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Nikos
Askitas
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Predicting Road Conditions with Internet Search
Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2016, 11 (8), e0162080 )
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R41
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9501
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Alan
Benson
Aaron
Sojourner
Akhmed
Umyarov
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Can Reputation Discipline the Gig Economy? Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market
In two experiments, we examine the effects of employer reputation in an online labor market (Amazon Mechanical Turk) in which employers may decline to pay workers while keeping their work product. ...
(published in: Management Science, 2020, 66 (5), 1802-1825 )
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L14, M55, J41, J2, L86, D82, K12, K42
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9500
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Nicholas
Larsen
Barry
R.
Chiswick
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The Impact of Missionary Type on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants
This paper analyzes the impact of missionary activity on English language proficiency and labor market earnings of all immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American ...
(published as 'The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 574 - 590)
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F22, J61, J31, J24, Z12
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9499
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Alicia
Adsera
Ana
Ferrer
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The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada
This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted ...
(published as 'Linguistic Proximity and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrant Men in Canada' in: Labour, 2021, 35 (1), 1 - 23)
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F22, J24, J31, J5
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9497
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Michaela
Slotwinski
Alois
Stutzer
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The Deterrent Effect of Voting Against Minarets: Identity Utility and Foreigners' Location Choice
This paper uses the vote on the Swiss minaret initiative as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (3), 1043–1095)
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D83, J61, R23, Z13
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9495
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Neeraj
Kaushal
Yao
Lu
Nicole
Denier
Julia
Shu-Huah
Wang
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U.S. using nationally representative longitudinal datasets covering 1996-2008. Models ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (4), 1249-1277.)
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J15, J3, J18
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9494
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Teresa
Molina Millán
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Regional Migration, Insurance and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Nicaragua
To test whether transfers sent and received by regional migrants serve an insurance role, this paper estimates the causal impact of income shocks at a migrant's origin and destination location on the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (11), 2000-2029 )
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O12, O15, F24, R23
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9493
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Eleni
Kalfa
Matloob
Piracha
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Social Networks and the Labour Market Mismatch
This paper assesses the extent to which social contacts and ethnic concentration affect the education-occupation mismatch of natives and immigrants. Using Australian panel data and employing a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31(3), 877-914)
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F22, J61, Z13
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9492
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
Halahingano
Rohorua
Steven
Stillman
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The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery
We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 127-47)
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F22, O15
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9491
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Tymon
Sloczynski
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New Evidence on Linear Regression and Treatment Effect Heterogeneity
It is standard practice in applied work to rely on linear least squares regression to estimate the effect of a binary variable ("treatment") on some outcome of interest. In this paper I study the ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 11866)
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C21, C52, D72, F14, O17
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9490
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Michael
Lechner
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
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Difference?in?Difference Estimation by FE and OLS when there is Panel Non?Response
We show that the OLS and fixed-effects (FE) estimators of the popular difference-in-differences model may deviate when there is time varying panel non-response. If such non-response does not affect ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Statistics, 2016, 43 (11), 2044-2052)
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C21, C31
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9489
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Yana
Morgulis
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Job Creation, Small vs. Large vs. Young, and the SBA
Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression ...
(published in: John Haltiwanger, Erik Hurst, Javier Miranda, and Antoinette Schoar (eds.), Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges, University of Chicago Press, 2017, 371 - 410.)
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H81
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9488
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Marco
Caliendo
Ricarda
Schmidl
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Youth Unemployment and Active Labor Market Policies in Europe
Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on average. The majority of European countries spends significant resources each year on ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2016, 5 (1), 1-30 )
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J13, J68, J64
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9487
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David
McKenzie
Nabila
Assaf
Ana
Paula
Cusolito
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The Demand for, and Impact of, Youth Internships: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Yemen
This paper evaluates a youth internship program in the Republic of Yemen that provided firms with a 50 percent subsidy to hire recent graduates of universities and vocational schools. The first round ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 5:1, 2016)
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O12, O15, J08, J16
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9486
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Manisha
Shah
Bryce
Millett Steinberg
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Workfare and Human Capital Investment: Evidence from India
We examine the effect of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS), one of the largest workfare programs in the world, on human capital investment. Since NREGS increases labor ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2) 380-405; )
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O12, I2, I38, J1
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9485
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Ashwini
Deshpande
Deepti
Goel
Shantanu
Khanna
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Bad Karma or Discrimination? Male-Female Wage Gaps among Salaried Workers in India
We use nationally representative data from the Employment-Unemployment Surveys in 1999-2000 and 2009-10 to explore gender wage gaps among Regular Wage/Salaried (RWS) workers in India, both at the ...
(published in: World Development, 2018, 102, 331-344)
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J31, J71, O53
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9484
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Milena
Nikolova
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Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition
Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 45 (Suppl.), 129 - 148)
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D02, E02, I31, P20
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9483
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Hans
Bloemen
Stefan
Hochguertel
Jochem
Zweerink
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Job Loss, Firm?Level Heterogeneity and Mortality: Evidence from Administrative Data
This paper estimates the effect of job loss on mortality for older male workers with strong labor force attachment. Using Dutch administrative data, we find that job loss due to sudden firm closure ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 59, 78-90)
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C21, I10, J63
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9482
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Xi
Chen
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Old-Age Pension and Intergenerational Living Arrangements
China launched a pension program for rural residents in 2009, now covering more than 300 million Chinese. This program offers a unique setting for studying the ageing population, given the rapidity ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (2), 455-476)
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H55, I38, J14, J22
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9480
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Alan
I.
Barreca
Olivier
Deschenes
Melanie
Guldi
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Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates
Dynamic adjustments could be a useful strategy for mitigating the costs of acute environmental shocks when timing is not a strictly binding constraint. To investigate whether such adjustments could ...
(published as 'Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates ' in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1269-1293. )
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I12, J13, Q54
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9479
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Pedro
Carneiro
Italo
Lopez Garcia
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Emma
Tominey
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Intergenerational Mobility and the Timing of Parental Income
We extend the standard intergenerational mobility literature by modelling individual outcomes as a function of the whole history of parental income, using data from Norway. We find that, conditional ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (3), 757 - 788)
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J24, E24
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9478
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Benjamin
Elsner
Ingo
E.
Isphording
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Rank, Sex, Drugs, and Crime
In this paper we show that a student's ordinal rank in a high school cohort is an important determinant of engaging in risky behaviors. Using longitudinal data from representative US high schools, ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(2), 356-381)
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I12, I14, I21, I24
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9477
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Mathias
Kuepie
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
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Where Does Education Pay Off in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Two Cities of the Republic of Congo
Using first-hand data from the 2009 Employment and Informal Sector Survey (EESIC) in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville and Pointe-Noire, we analyse the impact of education ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2016, 44 (1), 1-27)
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J24, J31, O12
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9476
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Sneha
Elango
Jorge
Luis
García
James
J.
Heckman
Andrés
Hojman
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Early Childhood Education
This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond meta-analysis and reanalyze primary data sources in a common framework. We consider ...
(published in: Robert A. Moffitt (ed.), Economics of Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States, Volume II, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016, 235-298. )
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J13, I28, C93
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9475
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Jian
Z.
Yeo
Sholeh
A.
Maani
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Educational Mismatches and Earnings in the New Zealand Labor Market
Mismatch of educational skills in the labor market is an emerging topic in the field of labor economics, partly due to its link to labor productivity. This is the first application of this question ...
(published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2017, 51 (1), 28-48 )
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J24, J31
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9474
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David
N.
Figlio
Krzysztof
Karbownik
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Education Research and Administrative Data
Thanks to extraordinary and exponential improvements in data storage and computing capacities, it is now possible to collect, manage, and analyze data in magnitudes and in manners that would have ...
(published in: Handbook of the Economics of Education, Volume 5, 2016, 75–138)
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I20
|
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9473
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Semih
Tumen
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A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design
I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to understand the interlinkages between intra-firm group formation and the extent of wage ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2016, 45(1), 89-102)
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J31, L22, L23, M51, M52
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9472
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Matteo
Picchio
Sigrid
Suetens
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Labor Supply Effects of Winning a Lottery
This paper investigates how winning a substantial lottery prize affects labor supply. Analyzing data from Dutch State Lottery winners, we find that earnings are affected but not employment. Lottery ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (611), 1700-1729)
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J22, J29
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9470
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Matteo
Picchio
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training
Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 125, 192-211)
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C33, C35, J24, M51, M53
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9469
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Gregory
Verdugo
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Real Wage Cyclicality in the Eurozone Before and During the Great Recession: Evidence from Micro Data
We study the response of real wages to the business cycle in eight major Eurozone countries before and during the Great Recession. Average real wages are found to be acyclical, but this reflects, in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 82, 46-69)
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J30, E32
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9468
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Nora
Lustig
Daniel
Teles
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction
In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, a number of cross-national inequality databases are now available. These databases differ considerably in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 497-526.)
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D31, I32
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9467
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Nidhaleddine
Ben Cheikh
Christophe
Rault
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The Pass-Through of Exchange Rate in the Context of the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
This paper investigates whether exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) into import prices is a nonlinear phenomenon for five heavily indebted Euro area countries, namely the so-called GIIPS group (Greece, ...
(published in: International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2016, 21 (2), 154–166)
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C22, E31, F31
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9466
|
Artjoms
Ivlevs
Michail
Veliziotis
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What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Over the last two decades, trade union membership in Central and Eastern Europe has been in continuous decline and there is a common perception that trade unions in the region are weak. However, ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 23 (1), 81-96)
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J51, P2, P3
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9465
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Henry
S
Farber
Dan
Silverman
Till
von
Wachter
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Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study
We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level "interim" job affect the likelihood that experienced college- educated females applying for an ...
(published in: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017, 3 (3), 168-201 )
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J64
|
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9464
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Hans
Bloemen
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Collective Labour Supply, Taxes, and Intrahousehold Allocation: An Empirical Approach
Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2019, 37 (3), 471-481)
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J22, D1, D13, H24, C51
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9463
|
Francesco
Devicienti
Elena
Grinza
Davide
Vannoni
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The Impact of Part-Time Work on Firm Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Italy
In this paper, we explore the impact of part-time work on firm productivity. Using a large panel data set of Italian corporations' balance sheets for the period 2000-2010, we first estimate the total ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2018, 27 (2), 321 - 347)
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L23, L25, J23
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9462
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Niels
Vermeer
Mauro
Mastrogiacomo
Arthur
van Soest
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Demanding Occupations and the Retirement Age
In several countries where pensions are reformed and the retirement age is increased, the issue came up to make an exception for workers with demanding occupations, since health considerations may ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 159-170)
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J26, J81, H55
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9460
|
Joan
Monras
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Minimum Wages and Spatial Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Often, minimum wage laws are decided at the state or regional level, and even when not, federal level increases are only binding in certain states. This has been used in previous literature to ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (3), 853–904)
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J38
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