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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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8941
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Francisco
Alvarez-Cuadrado
Ngo Van
Long
Markus
Poschke
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and the Labor Income Share
Recent work has documented declines in the labor income share in the United States and beyond. This paper documents that these trends differ between manufacturing and services in the U.S. and in a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018, 87, 206-231)
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O40, O41, O30
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8940
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Francisco
Alvarez-Cuadrado
Ngo Van
Long
Markus
Poschke
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Capital-Labor Substitution, Structural Change and Growth
There is a growing interest in multi-sector models that combine aggregate balanced growth, consistent with the well-known Kaldor facts, with systematic changes in the sectoral allocation of ...
(published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (3), 1229-1266)
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O40, O41, O30
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8939
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Oliver
Falck
Constantin
Mang
Ludger
Woessmann
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Virtually No Effect? Different Uses of Classroom Computers and their Effect on Student Achievement
Most studies find little to no effect of classroom computers on student achievement. We suggest that this null effect may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (1), 1-38)
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I21, I28
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8938
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Georg
Graetz
Guy
Michaels
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Robots at Work
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (5), 753–768.)
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E23, J23, O30
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8937
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Sinem
H.
Ayhan
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Evidence of Added Worker Effect from the 2008 Economic Crisis
This paper contributes to the research on interdependencies in spousal labor supply by analyzing labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses ("added worker effect"). It ...
(revised version published as 'Married women's added worker effect during the 2008 economic crisis - The case of Turkey' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 767 - 790 )
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C26, D10, J16, J22
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8935
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Joseph
J.
Sabia
Mark
Wooden
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Sexual Identity, Earnings, and Labour Market Dynamics: New Evidence from Longitudinal Data in Australia
Using newly collected data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, this study presents new estimates of the earnings effects of sexual orientation in Australia and ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (4), 903-931.)
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J31, J71
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8934
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Michael
Jetter
Jay
K.
Walker
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Game, Set, and Match: Do Women and Men Perform Differently in Competitive Situations?
This paper analyzes potential gender differences in competitive environments using a sample of over 100,000 professional tennis matches. We focus on two phenomena of the labor and sports economics ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 119, 96-108)
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J24, L83, D84
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8933
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Juan
Carlos
Campaña
José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms
We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use ...
(published as 'Gender norms and the gendered distribution of total work in Latin American households' in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (1), 35-62)
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D13, J22, J13, J16
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8932
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Tiit
Tammaru
Magnus
Strömgren
Maarten
van Ham
Alexander
M.
Danzer
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Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation among Newly Arrived Immigrants
Contemporary cities are becoming more and more diverse in population as a result of immigration. Research also shows that within cities residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse, ...
(published as 'Relations between residential and workplace segregation among newly arrived immigrant men and women' in: Cities, 2016, 59, 131-138)
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J15, J61, R23
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8931
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Chunbing
Xing
Jianwei
Xu
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Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China
This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of China's minimum wage policy, and then describe the regional variation of the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:8)
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J3, E2
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8930
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John
T.
Giles
Albert
Park
Meiyan
Wang
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 68(1), 131-164 )
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I20, J24, J30, O15, O53
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8929
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Paola
Andrea
Barrientos Quiroga
Niels-Hugo
Blunch
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
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Income Convergence and the Flow out of Poverty in India, 1994-2005
This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy consists of convergence analysis to test whether poor households are catching-up ...
(published in: Indian Economic Journal, 2018, 66 (1-2), 1-24)
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O12, O47, O53
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8927
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Lucia
Ferrone
Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
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Household Migration and Child Educational Attainment: The Case of Uganda
In many Sub-Saharan African countries, a large number of people migrate internally or abroad because of demographic, economic and political factors. This pronounced mobility is likely to have ...
(published as 'Internal migration, children’s schooling and gender gaps in education' in. Applied Economics, 2023, 55 (16), 1807-1829 )
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I25, J13, J61, O15
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8926
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
Caterina
Ruggeri Laderchi
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The Winner Takes It All: Internal Migration, Education and Wages in Ethiopia
Previous studies of migration have mainly examined international dynamics. Yet, internal migration is an important issue, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Using the 2001 Ethiopia Child Labor Survey, ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2015, 3(3), 417-437)
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J24, J31, O15
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8924
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Joan
Monras
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Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis
How does the US labor market absorb low-skilled immigration? I address this question using the 1995 Mexican Peso Crisis, an exogenous push factor that raised Mexican migration to the US. In the short ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 3017–3089)
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F22, J20, J30
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8923
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Sylvie
Démurger
Shi
Li
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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 76, 152-167)
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O18, J61, R23, J31, O53
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8922
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Oliver
Falck
Alfred
Lameli
Jens
Ruhose
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Cultural Biases in Migration: Estimating Non-Monetary Migration Costs
Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic costs of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2018, 97 (2), 411-438)
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D51, J61, R23
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8921
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Francesco
Pastore
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The European Youth Guarantee: Labor Market Context, Conditions and Opportunities in Italy
This essay aims to discuss the conditions for a successful implementation of the European Youth Guarantee in Italy. In principle, the program should be able to affect the frictional and mismatch ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:11 )
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E12, E62, H52, J13, J24
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8920
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Thomas
Beissinger
Nathalie
Chusseau
Joël
Hellier
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Offshoring and Labour Market Reforms: Modelling the German Experience
A usual interpretation of the high performance of the German economy since 2005 is that the Hartz labour market reforms have boosted German competitiveness, resulting in higher exports, higher ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 53, 314-333)
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H55, J31, J65
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8919
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Claus
Schnabel
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United, Yet Apart? A Note on Persistent Labour Market Differences between Western and Eastern Germany
Comparing aggregate statistics and surveying selected empirical studies, this paper shows that the characteristics and results of labour markets in eastern and western Germany have become quite ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 236 (2), 157-180)
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J01, J20, J30, J50, P27
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8917
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Jean-Yves
Duclos
Mathieu
Pellerin
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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010
We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent National Household Survey over the last three decades. We find that the ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 2016, 42 (3), 250-273)
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J11, J31
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8916
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Jiaxiu
He
Haoming
Liu
Alberto
Salvo
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Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China
We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output at two manufacturing sites located in different industrial towns in China. Ambient air pollution in both towns, as proxied alternatively by ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019, 11 (1), 173–201)
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J24, Q51, Q52, Q53, O44, R11
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8915
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Alan
I.
Barreca
Karen
Clay
Olivier
Deschenes
Michael
Greenstone
Joseph
S.
Shapiro
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Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship over the 20th Century
A critical part of adapting to the higher temperatures that climate change brings will be the deployment of existing technologies to new sectors and regions. This paper examines the evolution of the ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (1), 105–159)
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I18, J10, Q54
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8914
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Jan-Emmanuel
De Neve
George
W.
Ward
Femke
De Keulenaer
Bert
van Landeghem
Georgios
Kavetsos
Michael
I.
Norton
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The Asymmetric Experience of Positive and Negative Economic Growth: Global Evidence Using Subjective Well-Being Data
Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in terms of economic growth? Using subjective well-being data, we observe an asymmetry in the way positive and negative economic growth are ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100 (2), 362–375)
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D03, O11, D69, I39
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8912
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Maite
Blázquez Cuesta
Santiago
Budría
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The Effects of Over-Indebtedness on Individual Health
This paper uses data from the 2002-2005-2008 waves of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF) to investigate whether debts burdens hamper people's health. Several measures of debt strain are ...
(published in: Hacienda Pública Española, 2018, 227, 103-131.)
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G01, I13, I22
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8911
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Peng
Nie
Steffen
Otterbach
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Long Work Hours and Health in China
Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 33, 212-229)
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I10, I12, J22, J81
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8910
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Andrea
Bassanini
Giorgio
Brunello
Eve
Caroli
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Not in My Community: Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals
We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 429-483)
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J23, J63, M51, R12
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8909
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Wolter
Hassink
Roberto
M.
Fernandez
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Worker Morale and Effort: Is the Relationship Causal?
We investigate a unique setting which enables us to distinguish between two theories of work performance. A standard labor supply framework implies a negative effect of the non-pecuniary cost of work ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (6), 816-839)
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J24, J31, M52
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8908
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Terence
Chai
Cheng
Joan
Costa-Font
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Do You Have to Win It to Fix It? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners and Their Health Care Demand
We exploit lottery wins to investigate the effects of exogenous changes to individuals' income on health care demand in the United Kingdom. This strategy allows us to estimate lottery income ...
(published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2018, 4 (1), 26-50)
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H42, I11, D1
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8907
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Kyle
Rozema
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Behavioral Responses to Taxation: Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamp Take-Up
This paper investigates a previously unexplored behavioral response to taxation: whether smokers compensate for higher cigarette taxes by enrolling in food stamps. First, we show theoretically that ...
(published as 'Taxing Consumption and the Take-Up of Public Assistance: The Case of Cigarette Taxes and Food Stamps' in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, 60 (1), 1-27.)
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L66, H21, H23, H26, H71, I18
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8905
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Petter
Lundborg
Kaveh
Majlesi
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Learning to Take Risks? The Effect of Education on Risk-Taking in Financial Markets
We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial markets and whether the effects spill over to spouses and children. There is ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2018, 22 (3), 951-975)
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I26, G11
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8904
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Nina
Drange
Tarjei
Havnes
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Child Care Before Age Two and the Development of Language and Numeracy: Evidence from a Lottery
Young children are thought to be vulnerable to separation from the primary caregiver/s. This raises concern about whether early child care enrollment may harm children's development. We use child ...
(published as 'Early child care and cognitive development: Evidence from an assignment lottery' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (2), 581 - 620)
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I21, J13
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8903
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Jens
Ruhose
Guido
Schwerdt
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Does Early Educational Tracking Increase Migrant-Native Achievement Gaps? Differences-In-Differences Evidence Across Countries
We study whether early tracking of students based on ability increases migrant-native achievement gaps. To eliminate confounding impacts of unobserved country traits, we employ a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 134-154)
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I21, J15, I28
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8901
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Michael
Zibrowius
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Apprenticeship, Vocational Training and Early Labor Market Outcomes in East and West Germany
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2016, 24 (1), 33 - 57)
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J40, J24, I29
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8900
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Olivier
Marie
Ulf
Zölitz
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'High' Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance
This paper investigates how legal cannabis access affects student performance. Identification comes from an exceptional policy introduced in the city of Maastricht which discriminated legal access ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2017, 84 (3), 1210 - 1237)
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I18, I20, K42
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8899
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Nikos
Askitas
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Internet as a Data Source for Advancement in Social Sciences
This paper advocates the use of Internet data for social sciences with a special focus on human resources issues. It discusses the potentials and challenges of Internet data for social sciences and ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 2 - 12. )
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J00, C80, C81, C83
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8896
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Vincent
Boucher
Bernard
Fortin
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Some Challenges in the Empirics of the Effects of Networks
We study some recent developments and challenges in the empirics of the effects of social networks. We focus in particular on researchers' ability to make policy recommendations based on a standard ...
(published in: Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Networks, 2016, 277 - 302)
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A14, C33, C36, D85, Z13
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8895
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Marta
Lachowska
Michal
Myck
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The Effect of Public Pension Wealth on Saving and Expenditure
In order to study whether public pension systems displace private saving, we use the quasi-experimental variation in pension wealth created by Poland's 1999 pension reform. Using the 1997–2003 Polish ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal - Economic Policy, 2018, 10 (3), 284-308)
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E21, H55, I38, P35
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8894
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Juan
Carluccio
Denis
Fougère
Erwan
Gautier
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Trade, Wages, and Collective Bargaining: Evidence from France
We estimate the impact of international trade on wages using data for French manufacturing firms. We instrument firm-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (584), 803-837)
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F16, J51, E24
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8893
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Andreas
Ravndal
Kostøl
Magne
Mogstad
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Earnings, Disposable Income, and Consumption of Allowed and Rejected Disability Insurance Applicants
Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (5), 137–141)
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I38, J62, H53
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8892
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Muhammad
Asali
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Compulsory Military Service and Future Earnings: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment
Using Israeli census data, this study provides new evidence on the long-term effects of military service on the earnings of veterans. Among Druze men aged 25-34, we find an economically and ...
(revised version published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2019, 30 (4), 402-420.)
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J24, J31, J45
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8891
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Laura
Hospido
Eva
Moreno-Galbis
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The Spanish Productivity Puzzle in the Great Recession
While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the ...
(published in: P. Askenazy, L. Bellmann, A. Bryson, and E. Moreno Galbis (eds.), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford University Press, 2016)
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J24, J21, J52
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8890
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Almut
Balleer
Britta
Gehrke
Christian
Merkl
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Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle
Working time accounts (WTAs) allow firms to smooth hours worked over time. This paper analyzes whether this increase in flexibility has also affected how firms adjust employment in Germany. Using a ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 940-953)
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E20, E24, J20, J30
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8889
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Bart
Cockx
Corinna
Ghirelli
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Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 41, 162-176 )
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C12, C41, E32, I21, J22, J23, J31, J6
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8888
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Austan
D.
Goolsbee
Alan
B.
Krueger
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A Retrospective Look at Rescuing and Restructuring General Motors and Chrysler
This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2015, 29 (2), 3–24)
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H0, L50, L62, G01, G33
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8887
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Anirban
Mukherjee
Sarani
Saha
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Court-ship, Kinship and Business: A Study on the Interaction between the Formal and the Informal Institutions and Its Effect on Entrepreneurship
In this paper we theoretically and empirically examine how the interaction between the formal court system and the informal loan network affects a household's decision to start a business. We find ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2015, 4, 7 (2015))
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K12, L26, O17
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8886
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Manuela
Deidda
Adriana
Di Liberto
Marta
Foddi
Giovanni
Sulis
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Employment Subsidies, Informal Economy and Women's Transition into Work in a Depressed Area: Evidence from a Matching Approach
We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:7)
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C14, C83, J64, J16
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8885
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Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
Guillaume
Vermeylen
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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?
The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked ...
(published in: De Economist, 2015, 163 (2), 233-262)
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J21, J24
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8884
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Benedikt
Herz
Thijs
van Rens
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Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment
We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the US over the past three decades. We propose an accounting framework that allows us to estimate the overall amount of mismatch unemployment as well as ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2020, 18 (4), 1619 - 1654)
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E24, J61, J62
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8883
|
Isabelle
Sin
Steven
Stillman
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Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups: Evidence from M?ori in New Zealand
Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of M?ori compares to that of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5, 4 (2016) )
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J61, J15, R23
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