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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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9195
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Thomas
Hills
Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
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Historical Analysis of National Subjective Wellbeing Using Millions of Digitized Books
We present the first attempt to construct a long-run historical measure of subjective wellbeing using language corpora derived from millions of digitized books. While existing measures of subjective ...
(extended version published in: Nature Human Behavior, 2019, 3 (12), 1271–1275)
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N3, N4, O1, D6
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9194
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Deborah
Goldschmidt
Johannes
F.
Schmieder
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The Rise of Domestic Outsourcing and the Evolution of the German Wage Structure
The nature of the relationship between employers and employees has been changing over the last decades, with firms increasingly relying on contractors, temp agencies and franchises rather than hiring ...
(pubished in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2017, 132 (3), 1165 -1217)
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J31, D22
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9193
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Andrea
Salvatori
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The Anatomy of Job Polarisation in the UK
This paper presents new evidence on the evolution of job polarisation over time and across skill groups in the UK between 1979 and 2012. The UK has experienced job polarisation in each of the last ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2018, 52, 8 (2018))
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J21, J23, J24, O33
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9192
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Wolfgang
Frimmel
Thomas
Horvath
Mario
Schnalzenberger
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Seniority Wages and the Role of Firms in Retirement
In general, retirement is seen as a pure labor supply phenomenon, but firms can have strong incentives to send expensive older workers into retirement. Based on the seniority wage model developed by ...
(publshed in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 19 - 32)
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J14, J26, J31, H55
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9191
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Means Testing versus Basic Income: The (Lack of) Political Support for a Universal Allowance
This paper studies the political economy of a basic income (BI) versus a means tested welfare scheme. We show in a very simple setting that if society votes on the type of system, its generosity as ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 136, 81-84)
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D3, D7, H2, H5
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9190
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Markus
Jäntti
Eva
Sierminska
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth
This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2015, 23, 301-327)
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C1, D31, J10
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9189
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
Katsunori
Yamada
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When Experienced and Decision Utility Concur: The Case of Income Comparisons
While there is now something of a consensus in the literature on the economics of happiness that income comparisons to others help determine subjective wellbeing, debate continues over the relative ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 70, 1-9)
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D31, D63, I3, J31
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9188
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Philippe
Askenazy
Christine
Erhel
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The French Productivity Puzzle
Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the ...
(published in: Ph. Askenazy et al. (eds), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2016.)
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O40, J20, D20, E24
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9187
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Andrea
Bassanini
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A Bitter Medicine? Short-term Employment Impact of Deregulation in Network Industries
There is evidence that pro-competitive reforms in an industry with large incumbents induce the latter to re-organise and reduce prices in an attempt to deter entry of new competitors. Using data for ...
(Updated and replaced by "Before It Gets Better: The Short-Term Employment Costs of Regulatory Reforms", IZA Discussion Paper 11011, joint with F. Cingano)
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J23, L11
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9186
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Mary
C.
Daly
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Protecting Working-Age People with Disabilities: Experiences of Four Industrialized Nations
Although industrialized nations have long provided public protection to working-age individuals with disabilities, the form has changed over time. The impetus for change has been multi-faceted: rapid ...
(published in: Journal of Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 367-386)
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I10, I13, J14, J18
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9185
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Jonas
Kolsrud
Camille
Landais
Peter
Nilsson
Johannes
Spinnewijn
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The Optimal Timing of Unemployment Benefits: Theory and Evidence from Sweden
This paper provides a simple, yet general framework to analyze the optimal time profile of benefits during the unemployment spell. We derive simple sufficient-statistics formulae capturing the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (4-5),985- 1033)
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H20, J64
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9184
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Johan Moritz
Kuhn
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Worker-level and Firm-level Effects of a Wage Subsidy Program for Highly Educated Labor: Evidence from Denmark
We study the effects of a Danish wage subsidy program for highly educated workers on the labor market outcomes of the persons participating in the program and on the performance of the firms that ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (9), 1939-1943)
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D04, O31, O38
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9183
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Robert
Mahlstedt
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The Return to Labor Market Mobility: An Evaluation of Relocation Assistance for the Unemployed
In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 148, 136-151)
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J61, J64, J68, D04, C26
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9182
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John
H.
Pencavel
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Whose Preferences Are Revealed in Hours of Work?
It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 9–24 )
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J22, J23, C13
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9181
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Wolter
Hassink
Pierre
Koning
Wim
Zwinkels
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Employers Opting Out of Public Disability Insurance: Selection or Incentive Effects?
This paper analyzes selection and incentive effects of opting out from public to private insurance on employer Disability Insurance (DI) inflow rates. We use administrative information on DI benefit ...
(published as 'Do Firms with Low Disability Risks Opt Out from Public to Private Insurance?' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2018, 18 (1), 20170022)
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C23, I13
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9180
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
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Susceptibility to Default Training Options Across the Population
This paper analyzes the tendency of people to choose default options when offered courses to acquire job related skills. We ask a random sample of Dutch people aged 6-80 which three skills are most ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 117, 369-379)
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J24, J31, I2
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9179
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Jan
Sauermann
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Worker Reciprocity and the Returns to Training: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Workers' reciprocal behavior is one argument used to explain why firms invest in employee human capital. We explore the relation between firm-sponsored training and reciprocity by providing evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2023, 32 (3), 543-557)
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J24, M53, D01
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9178
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Petter
Lundborg
Kaveh
Majlesi
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On the Origins of Risk-Taking
Risk-taking behavior 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 ...
(published as 'On the Origins of Risk-Taking in Financial Markets' in: Journal of Finance, 2017, 72 (5), 2229 - 2278)
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G11, J01
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9177
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Nidhiya
Menon
Kathleen
McQueeney
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Christianity and Infant Health in India
This paper studies child health in India focusing on differences in anthropometric outcomes between the three main religions – Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The results indicate that Christian ...
(published as 'Christianity and girl child health in India' in: World Development, 2020, 136, 105109)
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O12, I15, Z12
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9176
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Alexander
Ahammer
Thomas
Horvath
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Effect of Income on Mortality: New Evidence for the Absence of a Causal Link
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential endogeneity concerns arising in this context, we estimate time-invariant ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 2017, 180 (3), 793 - 816)
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J14, J31, I10
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9175
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Prashant
Bharadwaj
Petter
Lundborg
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Birth Weight in the Long-Run
We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2018, 53(1), 189-231)
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I10, I18
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9174
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Prashant
Bharadwaj
Petter
Lundborg
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Health and Unemployment during Macroeconomic Crises
This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early ...
(published as "Birth weight and vulnerability to a macroeconomic crisis": Journal of Health Economics, 2019, 66, 136-144. )
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I10, I18, J65, E32
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9173
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Susan
L.
Averett
Yang
Wang
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The Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Non-Cognitive Skills
In 1993, the benefit levels of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) were changed significantly based on the number of children in the household. Employing a difference-in-differences plus mother ...
(published as 'Effects of Higher EITC Payments on Children's Health, Quality of Home Environment, and Noncognitive Skills ' in: Public Finance Review, 2018, 46 (4), 519-557 )
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I12, I38, J13
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9172
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Healthy(?), Wealthy, and Wise: Birth Order and Adult Health
While recent research finds strong evidence that birth order affects children's outcomes such as education, IQ scores, and earnings, the evidence for effects on health is more limited. This paper ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 27 - 45)
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I1, J1
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9170
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Stijn
Baert
Olivier
Rotsaert
Dieter
Verhaest
Eddy
Omey
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A Signal of Diligence? Student Work Experience and Later Employment Chances
We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work ...
(revised version published as 'Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success: No Evidence for Higher Employment Chances' in: Kyklos, 2016, 69 (3), 401 - 425)
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J24, I21, D83, C93
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9169
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Sandra
E.
Black
Kalena
E.
Cortes
Jane
Arnold
Lincove
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Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15 (2), 209-240)
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I21, I23, I24, J15, J18
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9167
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Erica
Blom
Brian
C.
Cadena
Benjamin
J.
Keys
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Investment over the Business Cycle: Insights from College Major Choice
This paper examines the relationship between individuals' personal exposure to economic conditions and their investment choices in the context of human capital. Focusing on bachelor's degree ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (4), 1043–1082)
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E32, I23, J22, J24
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9166
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Pierre
M.
Picard
Yves
Zenou
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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties: European versus American Cities
We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some ...
(published as 'Urban spatial structure, employment and social ties' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 104, 77-93.)
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A14, J15, R14, Z13
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9165
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Xin
Meng
Chikako
Yamauchi
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Children of Migrants: The Impact of Parental Migration on Their Children's Education and Health Outcomes
In the past 15 years around 160 million Chinese rural workers migrated to cities to work. Because of restrictions on migrant access to local health and education system a large cohort of migrant ...
(published as 'Children of Migrants: The Cumulative Impact of Parental Migration on Children's Education and Health Outcomes in China' in: Demography, 2017, 54 (5), 1677-1714)
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J38, I28
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9164
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Matthias
Parey
Jens
Ruhose
Fabian
Waldinger
Nicolai
Netz
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The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants
We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(5), 776-792)
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F22, J24, J31, J61
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9163
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Alpaslan
Akay
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Corrado
Giulietti
Juan
David
Robalino
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 191-207)
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C90, D63
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9162
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Ali
T.
Akarca
Aysit
Tansel
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Voter Reaction to Government Incompetence and Corruption Related to the 1999 Earthquakes in Turkey
Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2016, 43 (2), 309 - 335.)
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D72, D73, H84, Q54
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9159
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Dripto
Bakshi
Indraneel
Dasgupta
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A Model of Dynamic Conflict in Ethnocracies
We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ...
(published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2018, 29 (2), 147-170)
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D72, D74, O10, O20
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9156
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Eric
Bonsang
Arthur
van Soest
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Home Production and Retirement in Couples: A Panel Data Analysis
We analyse the effects of retirement of one partner on home production by both partners in a couple. Using longitudinal data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects ...
(published as 'Time devoted to home production and retirement in couples: A panel data analysis' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101810)
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J22, J29, J14
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9155
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Boris
F.
Blumberg
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Roads Leading to Self-Employment: Comparing Transgenerational Entrepreneurs and Self-Made Start-Ups
This paper studies the event history of business foundation. Three theoretical concepts of human, financial and social capital are linked to investigate variations over time of people's decision ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2016, 40 (2), 335-357)
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D92, M14, M21
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9154
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Spencer
Bastani
Tomer
Blumkin
Luca
Micheletto
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Optimal Wage Redistribution in the Presence of Adverse Selection in the Labor Market
In this paper we allude to a novel role played by the non-linear income tax system in the presence of adverse selection in the labor market due to asymmetric information between workers and firms. We ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 131, 41-57)
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D82, H21, J31
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9153
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Marilyn
Spencer
Deniz
Gevrek
Valrie
Chambers
Randall
Bowden
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Labor Supply and Productivity Responses to Non-Salary Benefits: Do They Work? If So, at What Level Do They Work Best?
This study explores the impact of a particular low marginal-cost employee benefit on employees' intended retention and performance. By utilizing a unique data set constructed by surveying full-time ...
(published in: Personnel Review, 2016, 45 (5), 1047-1068)
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J22, J32, J45, M52
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9151
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Charlotte
Bartels
Nico
Pestel
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The Impact of Short- and Long-Term Participation Tax Rates on Labor Supply
Generous income support programs as provided by European welfare states have often been blamed to hamper employment. This paper investigates the importance of incentives inherent in the tax-benefit ...
(revised version published as 'Short- and Long-term Participation Tax Rates and Their Impact on Labor Supply' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23(6), 1126-1159)
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H24, H31, J22, J65
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9149
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Arindrajit
Dube
Laura
Giuliano
Jonathan
Leonard
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Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
We analyze how quits responded to arbitrary differences in own and peer wages using an unusual feature of a pay raise at a large U.S. retailer. The firm's use of discrete pay steps created ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2019, 109 (2), 620 - 663)
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J00, J31, J42, J63
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9147
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Vincent
Van Roy
Daniel
Vertesy
Marco
Vivarelli
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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms: Empirical Evidence from Europe
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main ...
(published as 'Technology and Employment: Mass Unemployment or Job Creation? Empirical Evidence from European Patenting Firms' in: Research Policy, 2018, 47 (9), 1762 - 1776)
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O31, O33
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9146
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David
Neumark
Diego
Grijalva
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The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits
State and federal policymakers grappling with the aftermath of the Great Recession sought ways to spur job creation, in many cases adopting hiring credits to encourage employers to create new jobs. ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (5), 1111-1145 )
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J23
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9144
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Benjamin
Hansen
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking: Updated Estimates Using YRBS Data
Using data from the state and national Youth Risk Behavior Surveys for the period 1991-2005, Carpenter and Cook (2008) found a strong, negative relationship between cigarette taxes and youth smoking. ...
(published as 'Have Cigarette Taxes Lost their Bite? New Estimates of the Relationship between Cigarette Taxes and Youth Smoking' in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 3 (1), 60-75)
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I18, H71
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9142
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Jasmin
Kantarevic
Boris
Kralj
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Physician Payment Contracts in the Presence of Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection: The Theory and its Application to Ontario
We develop a stylized principal-agent model with moral hazard and adverse selection to provide a unified framework for understanding some of the most salient features of the recent physician payment ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (10), 1326-40. )
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I10, I12, I18
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9141
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John
Cawley
Anna
Choi
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Health Disparities Across Education: The Role of Differential Reporting Error
One of the most robust findings in health economics is that higher-educated individuals tend to be in better health. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e1-e29.)
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I1, I12, I14, I20, I24, I3
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9138
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Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
Anthony
Strittmatter
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Direct and Indirect Effects of Training Vouchers for the Unemployed
This paper evaluates the effect of a voucher award system for assignment into vocational training on the employment outcomes of unemployed voucher recipients in Germany, along with the causal ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), 2018, 181 (3), 441-463 ()
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J64, J68, C21, C31
|
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9137
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Dieter
Verhaest
Stijn
Baert
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The Early Labour Market Effects of Generally and Vocationally Oriented Higher Education: Is There a Trade-off?
This study investigates whether the choice for a vocationally versus a generally oriented higher education program entails a trade-off between higher employment chances and better matches at the ...
(revised version published as 'The effects of workplace learning in higher education on employment and match quality: Is there an early-career trade-off?' in: Empirical Economics, 2018, 44, 1229 - 1270)
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I21, J24, J64, C21, C41
|
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9136
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Pablo
Ibarrarán
Jochen
Kluve
Laura
Ripani
David
Rosas Shady
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Experimental Evidence on the Long-Term Impacts of a Youth Training Program
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program. The empirical analysis estimates labor market impacts six years after the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2019, 72 (1), 85-222 )
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J24, J64, O15, O17
|
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9134
|
Alexander
Spermann
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How to Fight Long-Term Unemployment: Lessons from Germany
The number of long-term unemployed in Germany has stagnated at around one million for several years. Despite excellent labour market conditions, the long-term unemployment rate is well above the OECD ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:15)
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J31, J38
|
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9133
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Wen
Fan
Yuanyuan
Ma
Liming
Wang
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Estimating the External Returns to Education: Evidence from China
Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with the share of college graduates in a given province. The individual fixed effect ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2015, 14 (3), 88-104)
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J0, J24, O15
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9132
|
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Leopold
Sarr
Smriti
Sharma
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Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. ...
(published as 'Skills, Personality Traits and Gender Wage Gaps: Evidence from Bangladesh' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2019, 71(3), 687-708)
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J16, J24, J31, J71, C21, O12
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