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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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9433
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Ingo
E.
Isphording
Marc
Piopiunik
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Speaking in Numbers: The Effect of Reading Performance on Math Performance among Immigrants
This paper is the first to estimate a causal effect of immigrant students' reading performance on their math performance. To overcome endogeneity issues due to unobserved ability, we apply an IV ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 139, 52-56)
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I21, I24, Z13
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9431
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Antonio
Di Paolo
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Bilingual Schooling and Earnings: Evidence from a Language-in-Education Reform
We exploit the 1983 language-in-education reform that introduced Catalan alongside Spanish as medium of instruction in Catalan schools to estimate the labour market value of bilingual education. ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 90–101)
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J24, J31, I28
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9430
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Ahmed
Elsayed
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Raymond
Montizaan
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Gradual Retirement, Financial Incentives, and Labour Supply of Older Workers: Evidence from a Stated Preference Analysis
Using data from a stated preferences experiment in the Netherlands, we find that replacing full-time pension schemes with schemes that offer gradual retirement opportunities induce workers to retire ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 150, 277-294)
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J14, J26
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9429
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Giulia
Canzian
Samuele
Poy
Simone
Schüller
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Broadband Diffusion and Firm Performance in Rural Areas: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across ...
(revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 87–103. )
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O33, J24, L24, L26
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9428
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Hans
Fricke
Markus
Frölich
Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
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Endogeneity and Non-Response Bias in Treatment Evaluation: Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects by Instruments
This paper proposes a nonparametric method for evaluating treatment effects in the presence of both treatment endogeneity and attrition/non-response bias, using two instrumental variables. Making use ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2020, 35 (5), 481-504)
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C14, C21, C23, C24, C26
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9427
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Nikos
Askitas
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Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market
I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or ...
(published in: Cityscape - A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2016, 18 (3), 185-198)
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C81, E65, G21, R31
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9426
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Nick
Drydakis
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Brain Types and Wages
We examine the association between brain types and wages using the UK Behavioural Study dataset for the period 2011 to 2013 (four waves). By applying Empathising-Systemising Theory (E-S), the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2017, 85 (2), 183 - 211)
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J24, J31
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9425
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Jorge
Velilla
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Excess Commuting in the US: Differences between the Self-Employed and Employees
In this paper, we propose a new spatial framework to model excess commuting of workers and we show empirical differences between the self-employed and employees in the US. In a theoretical framework ...
(published as "The commuting behavior of workers in the United States: differences between the employed and the self-employed" in: Journal of Transport Geography, 2018, 66, 19-29)
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R20, R41, J64
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9424
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Michčle
Belot
Jonathan
James
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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Incentives and Children's Dietary Choices: A Field Experiment in Primary Schools
We conduct a field experiment in 31 primary schools in England to test the effectiveness of different temporary incentive schemes, an individual based incentive scheme and a competitive scheme, on ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 213-229)
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J13, I18, I28, H51, H52
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9423
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy
This paper provides some elements to explain the observed takeover in some urban areas of a new kind of elite associated with new economy jobs, also known as "bourgeois bohčme" (bobos). This takeover ...
(published in: Economics, 2018, 12 (1), 20180056)
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H7, R3, R4, R5
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9422
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Claudio
Fassio
Sona
Kalantaryan
Alessandra
Venturini
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Human Resources and Innovation: Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries ...
(published as 'Foreign Human Capital and Total Factor Productivity: A Sectoral Approach' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (3), 613 - 646)
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F22, F66, O31, O32
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9421
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Daniele
Vignoli
Alessandra
Venturini
Elena
Pirani
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Female Migration and Native Marital Stability: Insights from Italy
In this paper, we argue that the size and the composition of the female migrant population in a given area can affect the marital stability of natives. We take Italy as a case-study and we offer ...
(published in :Journal of Family and Economic, 2017, 38 (5), 118-128)
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F22, F66, J61, J12, O31, O32
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9420
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Sarah
Bohn
Magnus
Lofstrom
Steven
Raphael
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Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?
We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81 (4), 960–979)
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J8, J15, J18, J21, J31, J61
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9418
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Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Hillel
Rapoport
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European Agenda on Migration
The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:23)
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F22, F5, H87, I3, K33, O19
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9417
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Ghazala
Azmat
Rosa
Ferrer
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Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers
This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike other high-skilled professions, the legal profession assesses performance using ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (5), 1306-1355)
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M52, J16, K40, J44
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9416
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John
V.
Winters
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Is Economics a Good Major for Future Lawyers? Evidence from Earnings Data
The current study examines earnings differences for practicing lawyers by undergraduate major with a focus on economics majors. Some majors do much better than others. Economics majors tend to do ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2016, 47 (2), 187-191)
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I20, I26, J24, J31
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9415
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Volker
Grossmann
Aderonke
Osikominu
Marius
Osterfeld
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Are Sociocultural Factors Important for Studying a Science University Major?
This paper examines the role of the sociocultural background of students for choosing STEM fields in university. We combine rich survey data on university graduates in Switzerland with municipality ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (2), 374-369)
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I20, C81
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9414
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Tommaso
Colussi
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Social Ties in Academia: A Friend is a Treasure
This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (1), 45-50 )
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A1, I23, J24
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9411
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Cristian
Bartolucci
Francesco
Devicienti
Ignacio
Monzón
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Identifying Sorting in Practice
We propose a novel methodology to uncover the sorting pattern in the labor market. Our methodology exploits the additional information contained in profits, which complements the information from ...
(published in. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 408 - 438)
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J6, J31, L2
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9410
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Francesco
Devicienti
Paolo
Naticchioni
Andrea
Ricci
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Temporary Employment, Demand Volatility and Unions: Firm-Level Evidence
This paper investigates the effect of workplace unionization and product market volatility on firms' propensity to use temporary employment. Using Italian firm level data, we show that unionization ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relation Review, 2018, 71 (1), 174-207 )
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J51, J23, J24
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9409
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Thomas
Hintermaier
Winfried
Koeniger
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Household Debt and Crises of Confidence
We show that the size of collateralized household debt determines an economy's vulnerability to crises of confidence. The house price feeds back on itself by contributing to a liquidity effect, which ...
(revised version published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9, 1489-1542.)
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E21, E32, D91
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9407
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Marc
Fleurbaey
Vito
Peragine
Xavier
Ramos
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Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons
In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2017, 49, 577–603)
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D3, D63, D71
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9406
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Andreas
Kuhn
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The Subversive Nature of Inequality: Subjective Inequality Perceptions and Attitudes to Social Inequality
This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into meritocratic (non-meritocratic) principles as being important in determining ...
(revised and shortened version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 59, 331-344)
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D31, D63, J31
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9405
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G.
Andrew
Karolyi
David
T.
Ng
Eswar
Prasad
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The Coming Wave: Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?
We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors ...
(published in: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020, 55 (4), 1369 - 1414)
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G11, G15, F21
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9404
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Ali
Fakih
Pascal
L.
Ghazalian
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What Factors Influence Firm Perceptions of Labour Market Constraints to Growth in the MENA Region?
Labour market constraints constitute prominent obstacles to firm development and economic growth of countries located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This paper aims at examining ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (8), 1181-1206)
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J20, K20, K31, O53
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9403
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Pablo
A.
Acosta
Noel
Muller
Miguel
Sarzosa
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Beyond Qualifications: Returns to Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Skills in Colombia
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' skills and labor market outcomes for the working-age population of Colombia's urban areas. Using a 2012 unique household survey, the paper ...
(published as 'Adults' Cognitive and Socioemotional Skills and Their Labor Market Outcomes in Colombia' in: Revista de Economia del Rosario, 2020, 23 (1), 109-148.)
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J24, J31, I24
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9402
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Tony
Castleman
James
Foster
Stephen
C.
Smith
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Person Equivalent Headcount Measures of Poverty
Headcount measures of poverty are by far the most common tools for evaluating poverty and gauging progress in global development goals. The headcount ratio, or the prevalence of poverty, and the ...
(published in: Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy, edited by Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz, Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, Ch. 3, pp 101-127)
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I32, O15, D63
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9401
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Gus
O'Donnell
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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National Well-being Policy and a Weighted Approach to Human Feelings
Governments are becoming interested in the concept of human well-being and how truly to assess it. As an alternative to traditional economic measures, some nations have begun to collect information ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2015,120, 59 - 70)
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I31, I38, Z18
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9399
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Karen
Clay
Joshua
Lewis
Edson
Severnini
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Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Mortality: Evidence from the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic as a natural experiment to examine whether air pollution affects susceptibility to infectious disease. The empirical analysis combines the sharp timing of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (4), 1179-1209)
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N32, N52, I15, I18, Q53, Q56, Q58
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9398
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
John
Lynham
Aureo
de Paula
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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates
The high correlation of industrial pollutant emissions complicates the estimation of the impact of industrial pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from K?lauea volcano, ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (620),1782–1816,)
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H51, I12, Q51, Q53
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9397
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
Zhong
Zhao
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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2017, 132 (1), 117-136 )
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I10, I30
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9396
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Younghwan
Song
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A Cross-State Comparison of Measures of Subjective Well-Being
Using data drawn from the 2010 American Time Use Survey Well-Being Module, this study examines the relationship between three measures of subjective well-being based on time-use data and an objective ...
(published in: International Journal of Wellbeing, 2017, 7 (1), 65-83)
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I31, J22
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9395
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Direct Evidence for Income Comparisons and Subjective Well-Being across Reference Groups
This note provides evidence for the relationship between income comparisons and subjective well-being (SWB), using novel German data on self-reported comparison intensity and perceived relative ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 95-101)
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D31, D62, I31
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9394
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Silvia
Mendolia
Peter
Siminski
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New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in Australia
We present new estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticity for Australia. We closely follow the methodology used by Leigh (2007), but use considerably more data (twelve waves of HILDA and four ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (298), 361-373.)
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J62, J24
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9393
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Mona
Larsen
Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Labor Force Activity after 60: Recent Trends in the Scandinavian Countries with Germany as a Benchmark
In most OECD member countries labor force attachment has increased in recent years in the 60+ group. Focus in the paper is on the development in this area in Denmark, Norway and Sweden since the ...
(updated version published as 'Labour force activity after 65: what explain recent trends in Denmark, Germany and Sweden?' in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2017, 50, 5–27 )
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I15, I25, J14, J26
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9391
|
Alexander
Hijzen
Ryo
Kambayashi
Hiroshi
Teruyama
Yuji
Genda
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The Japanese Labour Market during the Global Financial Crisis and the Role of Non-Standard Work: A Micro Perspective
This paper analyses aggregate labour dynamics during the global financial crisis in Japan and the role of nonstandard work using micro data. The analysis proceeds in two steps. First, using ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2015, 38, 260-281)
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D22, E24, J23, J41
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9390
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Sarah
Marchal
Ive
Marx
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Stemming the Tide: What Have EU Countries Done to Support Low-Wage Workers in an Era of Downward Wage Pressures?
Governments across the EU have been striving to get more people into work while at the same time acknowledging that more needs to be done to 'make work pay'. Yet this drive comes at a time when ...
(published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2018, 28 (1), 18 - 33)
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I38
|
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9388
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Eberhard
Feess
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
Markus
Schramm
Ansgar
Wohlschlegel
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The Impact of Fine Size and Uncertainty on Punishment and Deterrence: Theory and Evidence from the Laboratory
We develop a theoretical model to identify and compare partial and equilibrium effects of uncertainty and the magnitude of fines on punishment and deterrence. Partial effects are effects on potential ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 149, 58-73)
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K14, K42, C91, D64
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9387
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Constantinos
Antoniou
Glenn
Harrison
Morten
Lau
Daniel
Read
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Information Characteristics and Errors in Expectations: Experimental Evidence
We design an experiment to test the hypothesis that, in violation of Bayes Rule, some people respond more forcefully to the strength of information than to its weight. We provide incentives to ...
(published in: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2017, 52 (2), 737-750 )
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D81, D84, G11
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9386
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Carlo
dal Maso
Enrico
Rettore
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Procedures vs. Incentives: The Case of the University Promotion System in Italy
A common observation is that individuals strive to neutralize the effect of procedural rules designed to drive choices away from their private optimum. An example of this phenomenon is offered by the ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2018, 26 (3), 213 - 232)
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D71, M51, I2
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9385
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Christian
Grund
Kirsten
Thommes
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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation
The intention of "doing good for society" is regarded to be a crucial motivator for employees in the public sector in order for them to perform well. Recent research in the public sector literature ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Contract Types for Employees' Public Service Motivation' in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2017, 18, 377-398)
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M55, J45, H83
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9384
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Lata
Gangadharan
Nikos
Nikiforakis
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Equality Concerns and the Limits of Self-Governance in Heterogeneous Populations
Mechanisms to overcome social dilemmas provide incentives to maximize efficiency. However, often – such as when agents are heterogeneous – there is a trade-off between efficiency and equality. ...
(revised version published as 'Equality concerns and the limits of self-governance in heterogeneous populations' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 100, 143-156)
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C92, H41, D74
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9383
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Matthias
Sutter
Silvia
Angerer
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp
Lergetporer
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The Effect of Language on Economic Behavior: Experimental Evidence from Children's Intertemporal Choices
According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than ...
(published as 'Language group differences in time preferences: Evidence from primary school children in a bilingual city' in: European Economic Review, 2018, 106, 21-34.)
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C91, D03, D90
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9382
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Thomas
Buser
Lydia
Geijtenbeek
Erik
Plug
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Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?
It is an established fact that gay men earn less than other men and lesbian women earn more than other women. In this paper we study whether differences in competitive preferences, which have emerged ...
(published as 'Sexual Orientation, Competitiveness and Income' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 191 - 198)
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C90, J15, J16, J24, J31
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9381
|
Myeong-Su
Yun
Eric
S.
Lin
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An Alternative Estimator for Industrial Gender Wage Gaps: A Normalized Regression Approach
Using normalized regression equations, we propose an alternative estimator of industrial gender wage gaps which is identified in the sense that it is invariant to the choice of an unobserved ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(4), 569-587)
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C12, J31, J71
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9380
|
Mohsen
Javdani
Andrew
McGee
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Moving Up or Falling Behind? Gender, Promotions, and Wages in Canada
We estimate gender differences in internal promotion experiences for a representative sample of Canadian workers using linked employer-employee data. We find that women in Canada are 3 percentage ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2019, 58 (2), 189-228.)
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J16, J31, J62, J71
|
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9378
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Matteo
Picchio
Giacomo
Valletta
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Welfare Evaluation of the 1986 Tax Reform for Married Couples in the United States
This paper evaluates the welfare effects of the 1986 Tax Reform Act (TRA86). In thirty years since its introduction, several studies have analysed the effects of TRA86. However, preference ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25 (3), 757–807)
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C25, D63, H22, H31, J22
|
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9377
|
Marc
K.
Chan
Kai
Liu
|
Life-Cycle and Intergenerational Effects of Child Care Reforms
We investigate the importance of various mechanisms by which child care policies can affect life-cycle patterns of employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2018, 9 (2), 659 - 706)
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D91, J13, J22
|
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9376
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Jay
Stewart
Mary
Dorinda
Allard
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Secondary Childcare in the ATUS: What Does It Measure?
Unlike most of the earlier U.S. time-use surveys, the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) does not collect information on secondary activities. It does, however, include a set of questions asking ...
(published in: C. Kalenkoski and G. Foster (eds.): The Economics of Multitasking, New York, 2015, 145-171)
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C83, J13, J22
|
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9375
|
Jennifer
Roberts
Karl
Taylor
|
Intra-Household Commuting Choices and Local Labour Markets
While the job search literature has increasingly recognised the importance of the spatial distribution of employment opportunities, local labour market conditions have been a notable omission from ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (3), 734-757)
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D19, J24, R40
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