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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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9275
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Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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The Labour Market Effects of Academic and Vocational Education over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Two British Cohorts
Several commentators have argued that vocational education provides a smoother school to work transition than academic education. In the long - run, however, the skills it provides depreciate faster ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2017, 11 (1), 106-166)
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J31
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9274
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country: Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and substantial variation in schooling across birth-cohorts brought about by the 1997 reform ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (6), 1046-1086.)
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J18, J31, I21, I28
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9273
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Thierry
Kangoye
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Gender and Constraints to Entrepreneurship in Africa: New Evidence from Swaziland
This paper contributes to closing a knowledge gap on gender, entrepreneurship and development by linking the entrepreneurial productivity to start-up capital and skills. The empirical analysis of a ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing Insights, 2016, 5, 1- 8)
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L53, O12
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9267
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
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Finance and Growth at the Firm Level: Evidence from SBA Loans
We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our ...
(publlished in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (3), 1039 - 1080)
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D04, G21, G28, H32, H81, J23, L53
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9265
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Xiaodong
Gong
Jiti
Gao
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Nonparametric Kernel Estimation of the Impact of Tax Policy on the Demand for Private Health Insurance in Australia
This paper is motivated by our attempt to answer an empirical question: how is private health insurance take-up in Australia affected by the income threshold at which the Medicare Levy Surcharge ...
(published in: Australia & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 2018, 60 (3), 374- 393)
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C13, C14, C29, I13
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9263
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Derya
Findik
Aysit
Tansel
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Resources on the Stage: A Firm Level Analysis of the ICT Adoption in Turkey
This study examines the impact of firm resources on ICT adoption by the Turkish business enterprises using firm level data. ICT adoption is measured at three levels: The first level is technology ...
(published in: B. Christiansen and M. Erdogdu (eds.), Comparative Economics and Regional Development in Turkey, 2015, 106 - 126. )
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D22, D24, O30, O47
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9262
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Derya
Findik
Aysit
Tansel
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Intangible Investment and Technical Efficiency: The Case of Software-Intensive Manufacturing Firms in Turkey
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component. Stochastic production frontier approach is used to simultaneously estimate the ...
(published in: P.E. Thomas, M. Srihari and S. Kaur (eds.): Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 2015, Ch. 8)
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L21, L22, L23, L25
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9261
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Solomiya
Shpak
Volodymyr
Vakhitov
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Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013
This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large ...
(published as 'Is Privatization Working in Ukraine?' in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2019, 61 (1), 1 - 35)
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D24, G34, L33, P31
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9260
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Chris
Rohlfs
Ryan
Sullivan
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Reducing Risks in Wartime Through Capital-Labor Substitution: Evidence from World War II
Our research uses data from multiple archival sources to examine substitution among armored (tank-intensive), infantry (troop-intensive), and airborne (also troop-intensive) military units, as well ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2016, 52 (2), 163-190.)
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H56, J17, N42, D24, J24, L11
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9257
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Raul
Ramos
Esteban
Sanromá
Hipólito
Simón
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An Analysis of Wage Differentials between Full- and Part-Time Workers in Spain
This research examines wage differences between part-time and full-time workers using microdata from the Spanish Structure of Earnings Survey. The main contribution of the paper is related to the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (3), 449-469)
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J31, J22, J41, R23
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9256
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Kai
Liu
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Wage Risk and the Value of Job Mobility in Early Employment Careers
This paper shows that job mobility is a valuable channel which employed workers use to mitigate bad labor market shocks. I construct and estimate a model of wage dynamics jointly with a dynamic model ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (1), 139 - 185)
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D91, J31, J62
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9255
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Kai
Liu
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Explaining the Gender Wage Gap: Estimates from a Dynamic Model of Job Changes and Hours Changes
I address the causes of the gender wage gap with a new dynamic model of wage, hours, and job changes that permits me to decompose the gap into a portion due to gender differences in preferences for ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 411- 447)
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D91, J31, J16, J63
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9254
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Marco
Leonardi
Michele
Pellizzari
Domenico
Tabasso
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Wage Compression within the Firm
We study the distributional effect of a wage indexation mechanism - the Scala Mobile (SM) - that heavily compressed the distribution of Italian wages during the 1970s and 1980s. The SM imposed large ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 3256-3291.)
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J01, J31, J50
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9253
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Rong
Zhu
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Crime Victimisation and Subjective Well-Being: Panel Evidence from Australia
This paper estimates the effect of physical violence and property crimes on subjective well-being in Australia. Our methodology improves on previous contributions by (i) controlling for the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25, 1448–1463)
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C21, I31
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9252
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Reto
Odermatt
Alois
Stutzer
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(Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events
The correct prediction of how alternative states of the world affect our lives is a cornerstone of economics. We study how accurate people are in predicting their future well-being when facing major ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (1), 245–283)
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D03, D12, D60, I31
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9251
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Gabriel
Burdin
Simon
Halliday
Fabio
Landini
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Third-Party vs. Second-Party Control: Disentangling the Role of Autonomy and Reciprocity
This paper studies the role of autonomy and reciprocity in explaining control averse responses in principal-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of ...
(revised version published as 'The hidden benefits of abstaining from control' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 147, 1-12.)
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C72, C91, D23, M54
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9250
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Anna
Zhu
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Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt
This paper analyzes the long-term consequences of children experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (3), 893-924)
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J1, J2, I2
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9249
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Gianluigi
Coppola
Niall
O'Higgins
Claudio
Pinto
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Smoking, Drinking, Never Thinking of Tomorrow: Income and Risky Choices amongst Young Adults in the UK
In this paper we look at the relationship between health and income as mediated by “lifestyle” choices; that is, a set of behaviours which are thought to influence health and are generally considered ...
(published in: O’Higgins, N. and G. Coppola (eds), Youth unemployment and the crisis: Unemployment, education and health in Europe, Routledge , Abdingdon, 2016)
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D11, D12, I12, J13
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9247
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Gabriella
Conti
James
J.
Heckman
Rodrigo
Pinto
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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors
This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with ...
(Published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (596), F28-F65.)
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C12, C93, I12, I13, J13, J24
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9246
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
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Culture and Institutions
A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2015, 53 (4). 898-944)
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P16, Z1
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9245
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Andreas
Lichter
Max
Löffler
Sebastian
Siegloch
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The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Based on official records from the former East German Ministry for State Security, we quantify the long-term costs of state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (2), 741 - 789)
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H11, N34, N44, P26
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9243
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Sara
Martinez-de-Morentin
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Performance Measurement and Incentive Intensity
This study addresses the factors that determine the intensity of pay for performance schemes. The results indicate that the use of individual and group incentives boost intensity, whereas plant or ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2017, 38, 496–546)
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J30, M52, M12
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9242
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Christopher
Dawson
David
Emmanuel
de Meza
Andrew
Henley
Reza
Arabsheibani
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The Power of (Non) Positive Thinking: Self-Employed Pessimists Earn More than Optimists
Developing further the accumulating evidence that self-employment attracts optimists, this paper investigates the relationship between earnings and prior optimism. It finds that self-employed ...
(published as 'Curb your enthusiasm: Optimistic entrepreneurs earn less' in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 53 - 69)
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D84, M13
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9241
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Robin
Cubitt
Simon
Gächter
Simone
Quercia
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Conditional Cooperation and Betrayal Aversion
We investigate whether there is a link between conditional cooperation and betrayal aversion. We use a public goods game to classify subjects by type of contribution preference and by belief about ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 111, 53 - 69 )
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H41, C91, C72, D03
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9240
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Bernd
Irlenbusch
David
Saxler
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Social Responsibility in Market Interaction
A recent debate raises the question whether market interaction erodes social responsibility. In an experiment, we disentangle three major characteristics of market interaction, diffusion of ...
(completely revised and extended version published as 'The Role of Social Information, Market Framing, and Diffusion of Responsibility as Determinants of Socially Responsible Behavior' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2019, 80, 141-161)
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C92, D47, D62, M14
|
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9238
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Julio
Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio
Giolito
Sebastián
Castillo
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Early Impacts of College Aid
We analyze the impact of an expansion in government-guaranteed credit for higher education in Chile on a sample of elementary and high school students. Using students who had an alternative source of ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 63, 154-166)
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I28, J13
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9237
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Asako
Ohinata
Matteo
Picchio
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The Financial Support for Long-Term Elderly Care and Household Savings Behaviour
We analyse how the financial support for long-term elderly care affects the level of household savings. Using a difference-in-differences estimator, we investigate the 2002 Scottish reform, which ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 247-268 )
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C21, D14, I18, J14
|
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9236
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David
Card
Jochen
Kluve
Andrea
Weber
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What Works? A Meta Analysis of Recent Active Labor Market Program Evaluations
We present a meta-analysis of impact estimates from over 200 recent econometric evaluations of active labor market programs from around the world. We classify estimates by program type and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (3), 894 - 931)
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J00, J68
|
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9235
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Lídia
Farré
Francesco
Fasani
Hannes
Mueller
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Feeling Useless: The Effect of Unemployment on Mental Health in the Great Recession
This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health Survey. We exploit the collapse of the construction sector to identify the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics (2018) 7(1), 1-34)
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I10, J60, C26
|
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9234
|
Lídia
Farré
Francesc
Ortega
Ryuichi
Tanaka
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Immigration and School Choices in the Midst of the Great Recession
This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large ...
(published as 'Immigration and the public-private school choice' in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 184 - 201)
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D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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9233
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Ronald
Bachmann
Peggy
Bechara
Anica
Kramer
Sylvi
Rzepka
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Labour Market Dynamics and Worker Heterogeneity during the Great Recession: Evidence from Europe
Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the effects of the early phase (2008-10) of the recent economic crisis on transitions between labour market states in Europe. Our analysis focuses ...
(IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2017, 4:19)
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J6, E24
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9232
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Andrew
Henley
|
The Post Crisis Growth in the Self-Employed: Volunteers or Reluctant Recruits?
In the UK by late 2014 there were almost 0.75m more self-employed than at the start of the financial crisis in early 2008. This represents over 75% of jobs growth in the UK over the same period. This ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2017, 51, 1312 - 1323)
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J21, M13, R23
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9231
|
Niels-Hugo
Blunch
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Bound To Lose, Bound To Win? The Financial Crisis and the Informal-Formal Sector Earnings Gap in Serbia
While the informal sector has received widespread attention in academic and policy arenas in recent decades, knowledge gaps and controversies remain. First, while the evidence is starting to emerge, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, 4:13)
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I24, J31, J42, J46
|
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9229
|
Martin
Salm
Ansgar
Wübker
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Do Hospitals Respond to Increasing Prices by Supplying Fewer Services?
Medical providers often have a significant influence on treatment decisions which they can use in their own financial interest. Classical models of supplier-induced demand predict that medical ...
(revised version published as "Do hospitals react to lower prices by supplying more services?" in: Health Economics, 2020, 29, 209-220)
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I11, L10, L21
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9228
|
Tom
Krebs
Moritz
Kuhn
Mark
L. J.
Wright
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Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy
We use data from the Survey of Consumer Finance and Survey of Income Program Participation to show that young households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (11), 3223-3272)
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E21, E24, D52, J24
|
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9227
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Petter
Lundborg
Kaveh
Majlesi
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Poor Little Rich Kids? The Determinants of the Intergenerational Transmission of Wealth
Wealth is highly correlated between parents and their children; however, little is known about the extent to which these relationships are genetic or determined by environmental factors. We use ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (4), 1683–1725.)
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G11, J01, J13, J62
|
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9226
|
Xiaoyan
Lei
Yan
Shen
James
P.
Smith
Guangsu
Zhou
|
Do Social Networks Improve Chinese Adults' Subjective Well-being?
This paper studies relationships between social networks, health and subjective well-being (SWB) using nationally representative data of the Chinese Population – the Chinese Family Panel Studies ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2015, 6, 57 - 67)
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O10, O53
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9224
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Sarah
Flèche
Richard
Layard
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Do More of Those in Misery Suffer from Poverty, Unemployment or Mental Illness?
Studies of deprivation usually ignore mental illness. This paper uses household panel data from the USA, Australia, Britain and Germany to broaden the analysis. We ask first how many of those in the ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2017, 70 (1), 27 - 41)
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I1, I31, I32
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9223
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Andrew
Pendleton
Alex
Bryson
Howard
Gospel
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Ownership and Pay in Britain
Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55 (4), 688-715)
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G3, G32, G31
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9222
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David
Atkin
Azam
Chaudhry
Shamyla
Chaudry
Amit
K.
Khandelwal
Eric
Verhoogen
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Organizational Barriers to Technology Adoption: Evidence from Soccer-Ball Producers in Pakistan
This paper studies technology adoption in a cluster of soccer-ball producers in Sialkot, Pakistan. We invented a new cutting technology that reduces waste of the primary raw material and gave the ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (3), 1101–1164, )
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O1, O3, D2, L2
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9221
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John
T.
Addison
Pedro
Portugal
Hugo
Vilares
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Sources of the Union Wage Gap: Results from High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Models
This paper provides estimates of the union wage gap in Portugal, a nation until recently lacking independent data on union density at firm level. Having estimated nonlinear and linear estimates of ...
(revised version published as 'Union Membership Density and Wages: The Role of Worker, Firm, and Job-Title Heterogeneity' in: Journal of Econometrics. 2023, 233 (2), 612-632.)
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J31, J33, J41, J51, J52
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9220
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Pedro
Raposo
Pedro
Portugal
Anabela
Carneiro
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Decomposing the Wage Losses of Displaced Workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms and Job Titles
Using an unusually rich matched employer-employee-job title data set for Portugal, this paper evaluates the sources of wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of ...
(published as 'The Sources of the Wage Losses of Displaced workers: The Role of the Reallocation of Workers into Firms, Matches, and Job Titles' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (3), 786 - 820)
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J31, J63, J65, E24
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9219
|
Rahul
Anand
Eswar
Prasad
Boyang
Zhang
|
What Measure of Inflation Should a Developing Country Central Bank Target?
In closed or open economy models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We analyze this result in ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2015, 74, 102-116)
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E31, E52, E61
|
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9218
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development
This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1227-1248.)
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F22, J24, O15
|
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9217
|
Jeanne
Lafortune
José
Tessada
Ethan
Gatewood
Lewis
|
People and Machines: A Look at the Evolving Relationship Between Capital and Skill in Manufacturing 1860-1930 Using Immigration Shocks
This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (1), 30–43.)
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J24, N61, O33
|
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9216
|
Michele
Tuccio
Jackline
Wahba
|
Can I Have Permission to Leave the House? Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms
Does international return migration transfer gender norms? Focusing on Jordan, an Arab country where discrimination against women and emigration rates are high, this paper exploits unique data in ...
(published as 'Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms: Evidence from the Middle East' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1006 - 1029)
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F22, J16, O15, O53
|
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9213
|
Rachel
Connelly
Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
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Left Behind, At Risk, and Vulnerable Elders in Rural China: What the RUMIC Data Reveal about the Extent, Causes, and Consequences of Being Left Behind
Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy continues to privilege the migration of working-age individuals who often leave children ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 140 - 153)
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J12, J14, J21, J26, O53
|
|
9211
|
Martin
Foureaux
Koppensteiner
Marco
Manacorda
|
Violence and Birth Outcomes: Evidence from Homicides in Brazil
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence – measured by homicide rates - ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 16-33.)
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I12, I15, I39, J13, K42
|
|
9209
|
Umut
Oguzoglu
Ashantha
Ranasinghe
|
Crime and Establishment Size: Evidence from South America
Establishment exposure to crime is a frequent occurrence and a major obstacle to business operation in developing economies. We present a simple theory for the frequency and severity of crime across ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2017, 17 (4))
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O1, O4, D2
|
|
9208
|
Christine
Valente
|
Primary Education Expansion and Quality of Schooling: Evidence from Tanzania
The rapid increase in primary enrollment seen in many developing countries might worsen schooling quality. I estimate the effect of enrollment growth following the removal of primary school fees in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2019.)
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I21, I28, O15
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