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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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9051
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Wencke
Gwozdz
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
Lucia
A.
Reisch
Karin
Bammann
Gabriele
Eiben
Yiannis
Kourides
Eva
Kovács
Fabio
Lauria
Kenn
Konstabel
Alba
M.
Santaliestra-Pasias
Krishna
Vyncke
Iris
Pigeot
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Peer Effects on Obesity in a Sample of European Children
This study analyzes peer effects on childhood obesity using data from the first two waves of the IDEFICS study, which applies several anthropometric and other measures of fatness to approximately ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 18, 139–152)
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I12, J13, J22
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9050
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Giovanni
S. F.
Bruno
Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Orietta
Dessy
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Obesity and Economic Performance of Young Workers in Italy
In this paper we explore recent ISFOL-PLUS 2006-2008-2010 data available for Italy about height and weight of young workers with the purpose of analysing the relationship between measures of obesity ...
(published as 'Obesity and the economic performance of young people in Italy' in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, Chapter 8)
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J28, J81, I14
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9049
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Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Francesco
Pastore
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Overeducation: A Disease of the School-to-Work Transition System
This paper aims to survey the theoretical and empirical literature on cross-country differences in overeducation. While technological change and globalization have entailed a skill-bias in the ...
(published in: G. Coppola and N. O'Higgins (eds): Youth and the Crisis: Unemployment, Education and Health in Europe, Routledge, 2016, 36-56)
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C25, C26, C33, I2, J13, J24
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9048
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Esther
Hauk
Javier
Ortega
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Schooling, Nation Building, and Industrialization: A Gellnerian Approach
We model a two-region country where value is created through bilateral production between masses and elites (bourgeois and landowners). Industrialization requires the elites to finance schools and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2021, 33 (1), 140-166)
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D02, I2, N00, O14
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9047
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Anders
Stenberg
Olle
Westerlund
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Flexibility at a Cost: Should Governments Stimulate Tertiary Education for Adults?
Most OECD countries experience high unemployment rates and declining growth in higher educational attainment. An often suggested government policy is therefore to allocate resources towards formal ...
(published in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2016, 7, 69–86)
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H30, H52, I20, J24, O30
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9046
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Michael
Hoy
Joniada
Milla
Thanasis
Stengos
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Nature or Nurture in Higher Education? Inter-generational Implications of the Vietnam-Era Lottery
It is evident that a strong positive correlation persists between the educational attainment of parents and that of their children in many, if not most, populations. This relationship may form an ...
(published as 'Vietnam Era Fathers: The Intergenerational Transmission of Tertiary Education' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2022, 68 (3), 593-616)
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I0
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9045
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Marianne
Simonsen
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Academic Performance and Type of Early Childhood Care
This is one of the few studies that estimates the effects of type of childhood care on academic achievement at higher grade levels by linking day care registers and educational registers. We use ...
(published in Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 217-229 )
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J13
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9044
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Enric
Meix-Llop
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Do Schools Discriminate Against Homosexual Parents? Evidence from an Internet Field Experiment
The recognition of homosexual rights is a controversial issue in many countries. Spain was the third country in the world (after Netherlands and Belgium) to introduce a law recognizing homosexual ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 53, 133-142.)
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H41, I20, K36
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9043
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François
Rycx
Yves
Saks
Ilan
Tojerow
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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry
The labour market situation of low-educated people is particularly critical in most advanced economies, especially among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either ...
(published as 'Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally ? The Moderating Role of Age and Gender' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 7 (1), 1-37)
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C33, I21, J24, J31
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9042
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Timo
Hener
Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement
Some sociologists argue that non-intact family structures during childhood have a negative effect on adult children's civic engagement, since they undermine, and in some cases prevent, the processes ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2016, 179 (3), 633–656)
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J12, C23
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9041
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Simon
Gächter
Lingbo
Huang
Martin
Sefton
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Combining 'Real Effort' with Induced Effort Costs: The Ball-Catching Task
We introduce the "ball-catching task", a novel computerized real effort task, which combines “real” efforts with induced material cost of effort. The central feature of the ball-catching task is that ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2016, 19, 687–712)
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C91, C92, J41
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9040
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Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
Simon
Jäger
Florian
Zimmermann
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Learning about Job Search: A Field Experiment with Job Seekers in Germany
We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 164, 33-49)
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C93, D04, D83, J64, J68
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9039
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Silvia
Angerer
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Philipp
Lergetporer
Matthias
Sutter
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Cooperation and Discrimination Within and Across Language Borders: Evidence from Children in a Bilingual City
We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in a prisoner's dilemma game affects behavior and leads to discrimination. Running ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 254-264)
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C91, C93, D03
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9038
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Paul
Bisschop
Stephen
Kastoryano
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Street Prostitution Zones and Crime
This paper studies the effects of introducing legal street prostitution zones on both registered and perceived crime. We exploit a unique setting in the Netherlands where legal street prostitution ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (4), 28-63)
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J16, J47, K14, K23, K42
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9036
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Tymon
Sloczynski
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Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions
In this paper I develop a new version of the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition whose unexplained component recovers a parameter which I refer to as the average wage gap. Under a particular conditional ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 12041)
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C21, J31, J71
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9035
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Christoph
Wunder
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State Dependence in Welfare Receipt: Transitions Before and After a Reform
We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (4), 1303-1329)
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I38, J61
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9034
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Arash
Nekoei
Andrea
Weber
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(2), 527-561.)
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H5, J3, J6
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9032
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Alain
Jousten
Mathieu
Lefèbvre
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Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium
We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality ...
(published in: D. A. Wise (ed.); Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017, 5-58)
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J14, J21, J26
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9031
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Annemarie
Künn-Nelen
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Does Commuting Affect Health?
This paper analyzes the relation between commuting time and health in the United Kingdom. I focus on four different types of health outcomes: subjective health measures, objective health measures, ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25(8), 984-1004 )
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I12, R41
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9030
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Antonio
Filippin
Paolo
Crosetto
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Click'n'Roll: No Evidence of Illusion of Control
Evidence of Illusion of Control – the fact that people believe to have control over pure chance events – is a recurrent finding in experimental psychology. Results in economics find instead little to ...
(published in: De Economist, 2016, 164(3), 281-295. )
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B49, C91, D81
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9029
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Paolo
Crosetto
Antonio
Filippin
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The Sound of Others: Surprising Evidence of Conformist Behavior
It has been shown that subjects tend to follow others' behavior even when the external signals are uninformative. In this paper we go one step further, showing that conformism occurs even when the ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2017, 83 (4), 1038–1051)
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C81, C91, D81
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9028
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Cameron
K.
Murray
Paul
Frijters
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Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland
We use a unique regulatory event that occurred in Queensland, Australia, from 2007- 2012, to examine the predictive power of landowner relationship networks and lobbying behaviour on successfully ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 93(C), 99-114)
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D72, D73, R52, R58
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9027
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Niall
Hughes
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How Transparency Kills Information Aggregation: Theory and Experiment
We investigate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision-making. We present a model in which career concerned committee members receive private information of different ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2018, 10, 181-209)
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C92, D71, D83
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9025
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Nils
G.
May
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
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The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment
Globally installed wind power capacity has grown tremendously since 2000. This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment. A theoretical model shows that wind power ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2019, 75 (1), 56-92.)
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Q42, R11, C23
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9024
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Yiu Por
(Vincent)
Chen
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Fiscal Decentralization, Rural Industrialization, and Undocumented Labor Mobility in Rural China (1982-87)
This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and fiscal authority to local governments, and the emergence of rural-rural ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2016, 50 (9), 1469-1482 )
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H30, J61, J68, D72
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9023
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S
Anukriti
Abhishek
Chakravarty
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Political Aspirations in India: Evidence from Fertility Limits on Local Leaders
Despite theoretical advances, measurement issues have impeded empirical research on aspirations. We quantify political aspirations in a developing country by estimating individuals' willingness to ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 79-121)
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J13, J16, H75, O11
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9021
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Oliver
Krebs
Michael
P.
Pflüger
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How Deep Is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership
This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2018, 26, 171-222)
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F10, F11, F12, F16
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9020
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Kurt
Schmidheiny
Jens
Suedekum
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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 133, 10-13)
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R11, R12
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9019
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Chiara
Rapallini
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Immigrant Student Performance in Math: Does It Matter Where You Come From?
The performance gap in math of immigrant students is investigated using PISA 2012. The gap with respect to non-immigrant schoolmates is first measured. The hypotheses that first (second) generation ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 291-304)
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I25, J15, O15
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9018
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Xiuna
Yang
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Are China's Ethnic Minorities Less Likely to Move?
This study uses China's Inter-Census Survey 2005 to analyse the extent migration behaviour among 14 large ethnic minority groups and the Han majority. Results show that the probability to migrate to ...
(published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 44-69)
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J15, J61, J7, P23
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9017
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Artjoms
Ivlevs
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Happy Moves? Assessing the Link Between Life Satisfaction and Emigration Intentions
It has been shown that higher levels of subjective well-being lead to greater work productivity, better physical health and enhanced social skills. Because of these positive externalities, ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2015, 68(3), 335-356.)
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F22, O15, P2
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9016
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Claudia
Cigagna
Giovanni
Sulis
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On the Potential Interaction Between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies
Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36(4), 441 - 468)
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J61, J50, F22
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9015
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Boris
Hirsch
Daniel S. J.
Lechmann
Claus
Schnabel
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Coming to Work While Sick: An Economic Theory of Presenteeism with an Application to German Data
Presenteeism, i.e. attending work while sick, is widespread and associated with significant costs. Still, economic analyses of this phenomenon are rare. In a theoretical model, we show that ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2017, 69 (4), 1010-1031)
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I19, J22
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9014
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Ewa
Ga?ecka-Burdziak
Marek
Góra
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Impacts of the Availability of Old-Age Benefits on Exits from the Labour Market
Given human longevity, fertility, health and social developments, workers become inactive relatively early throughout Europe. This partially stems from older workers being pushed out of the labour ...
(published as 'The impact of easy and early access to old-age benefits on exits from the labour market: a macro-micro analysis' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2016, 5, 18 (2016))
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J14, J22
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9012
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
Virgilio
Galdo
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Integrating Mobile Phone Technologies into Labor-Market Intermediation: A Multi-Treatment Experimental Design
This study investigates the causal impacts of integrating mobile phone technologies into traditional public labor-market intermediation services on employment outcomes. By providing faster, cheaper ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, 4 (11), 1-26)
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I3, J2
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9011
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Marion
Collewet
Andries
de Grip
Jaap
de Koning
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Conspicuous Work: Peer Working Time, Labour Supply and Happiness for Male Workers
This paper uncovers 'conspicuous work' as a new form of status seeking that can explain social interactions in labour supply. We analyse how peer working time relates to both labour supply and ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 68, 79–90)
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J22, I31, D62
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9009
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Nicolao
Bonini
Stefania
Pighin
Enrico
Rettore
Lucia
Savadori
Federico
Schena
Sara
Tonini
Paolo
Tosi
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Overconfident People Are More Exposed to "Black Swan" Events: A Case Study of Avalanche Risk
Overconfidence is a well-established bias in which someone's subjective confidence in their own judgments is systematically greater than their objective accuracy. There is abundant anecdotal evidence ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 57 (4), 1443 - 1467)
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D83, D84, C2
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9007
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Wen
Ci
Jose
C.
Galdo
Marcel
Voia
Christopher
Worswick
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Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada
Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment for men and women. Availability of confidential data, along with a relatively ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy. 2015, 4:9)
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C14, I20, J24, J31, M53
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9004
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Olivier
Marie
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and Children's Educational Outcomes
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, East Germany experienced an unprecedented temporary drop in fertility driven by economic uncertainty. Using various educational measures, we show that the children ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 393-430)
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J13, I20
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9003
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Hans
Fricke
Jeffrey
Grogger
Andreas
Steinmayr
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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This study investigates how being exposed to a field of study influences students' major choices. We exploit a natural experiment at a Swiss university where all first-year students face largely the ...
(published as 'Exposure to Academic Fields and College Major Choice' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 199-213)
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A20, I20, I23
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9002
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Anyck
Dauphin
Bernard
Fortin
Guy
Lacroix
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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Collective rationality is seldom if ever rejected in the literature, raising doubt about its falsifiability. We show that the standard approach to test the collective model with distribution factors ...
(published as ' Is Consumption Efficiency within Househols Falsifiable?' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 737 - 766 )
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D1, D7, J12
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9001
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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A Simple Identification Strategy for Gary Becker's Time Allocation Model
The implementation of Gary Becker's (1965) time allocation model is hampered by the fact that values of the different time uses are usually not observed. In practice, one often assumes that the value ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 137, 187-190)
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D11, D12, D13
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9000
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Michael
A.
Clemens
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The Meaning of Failed Replications: A Review and Proposal
The welcome rise of replication tests in economics has not been accompanied by a single, clear definition of replication. A discrepant replication, in current usage of the term, can signal anything ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2017, 31 (1), 326-342)
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B40, C18, C80
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8999
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Frank
Gyimah
Sackey
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Is Rationing in the Microfinance Sector Determined by the Microfinance Type? Evidence from Ghana
This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium ...
(published as "Microfinance and credit rationing: does the microfinance type matter?" Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment, 8(2), 114–131.)
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G21
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8997
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Sourafel
Girma
Yundan
Gong
Holger
Görg
Sandra
Lancheros
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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 254-269)
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F23
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8995
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Mark
L.
Bryan
Alex
Bryson
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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 149-161 )
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J31, J33
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8994
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Vito
Peragine
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Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Evidence
Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, ...
(published in: Matthew Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford: OUP, 2016)
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D63, I32
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8991
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Torben
M.
Andersen
Mark
Strom
Kristoffersen
Michael
Svarer
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Benefit Reentitlement Conditions in Unemployment Insurance Schemes
Unemployment insurance schemes include conditions on past employment history as part of the eligibility conditions. This aspect is often neglected in the literature which primarily focuses on benefit ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 52, 27-39)
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E32, H3, J65
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8990
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Katja
Görlitz
Marcus
Tamm
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The Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Returns to Voucher-Financed Training
This paper analyzes the returns to training that was co-financed by the German voucher program Bildungsprämie. The estimation strategy compares outcomes of participants in voucher training with ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The returns to voucher-financed training on wages, employment and job tasks' in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 51 - 62 )
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I22, I26, J24, M53
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8989
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Benjamin
W.
Chute
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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Is There a Link Between Employer-Provided Health Insurance and Job Mobility? Evidence from Recent Micro Data
This study investigates the prevalence and severity of job immobility induced by the provision of employer-sponsored health insurance – a phenomenon known as 'job-lock'. Using data from the ...
(published in: Open Journal of Human Resource Management, 2018, 1 (1), 38 - 52)
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I13, J16, J32, J51
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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