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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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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
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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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8880
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Beatrice
d'Hombres
Luca
Nunziata
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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants
We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in ...
(revised version publishd in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 201 - 224)
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I20, J61, J15
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8879
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Ulrich
Matter
Alois
Stutzer
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The Role of Lawyer-Legislators in Shaping the Law: Evidence from Voting Behavior on Tort Reforms
Attorneys elected to the US Congress and to US state legislatures are systematically less likely to vote in favor of tort reforms that restrict tort litigation, but more likely to support bills that ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (2), 357-384)
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D72, K13
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8878
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Alessandro
Cigno
Giorgia
Giovannetti
Laura
Sabani
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The Role of Trade and Offshoring in the Determination of Child Labour
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce child labour in developing countries where the initial share of skilled workers ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2018, 27, 267 - 292.)
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D13, D33, F16, J13, J24
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8877
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Lanse
Minkler
Nishith
Prakash
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The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 563-581)
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I24, I32, I38, O1, O38
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8876
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Francesca
Marchetta
David
E.
Sahn
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The Role of Education and Family Background in Marriage, Childbearing and Labor Market Participation in Senegal
This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young Senegalese women. We use a multiple-equation framework ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (2). 369-403)
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O12, I25, J12, J13
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8875
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David
L.
Sjoquist
John
V.
Winters
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The Effect of Georgia's HOPE Scholarship on College Major: A Focus on STEM
There is growing concern in the U.S. that the nation is producing too few college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and there is a desire to understand how ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:15)
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I23, J24
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8873
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Stefanie
Schurer
Sonja
C.
de New
Felix
Leung
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Do Universities Shape Their Students' Personality?
We investigate whether universities select by, or also shape, their students' personality, as implied by the human capital investment model. Using a nationally representative sample of Australian ...
(published as 'University education and non-cognitive skill development' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2018, 70(2), 538–562 )
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I12, J24
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8871
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Douglas
A.
Webber
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Risk-Sharing and Student Loan Policy: Consequences for Students and Institutions
This paper examines the potential costs and benefits associated with a risk-sharing policy imposed on all higher education institutions. Under such a program, institutions would be required to pay ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 1-9)
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I22
|
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8870
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Yoichi
Arai
Hidehiko
Ichimura
Daiji
Kawaguchi
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The Educational Upgrading of Japanese Youth, 1982-2007: Are All Japanese Youth Ready for Structural Reforms?
Are all Japanese youth ready for the structural reforms proposed as a supply-side policy of Abenomics? To answer this question, we assess how well Japanese youth have coped with the labor market's ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2015, 37, 100-126)
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I23, J21
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8869
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Xiaoxuan
Jia
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Subject Specific League Tables and Students' Application Decisions
Do applicants to higher education rely on expert judgement about the quality of the course when applying? Using application data across UK universities over a period of 8 years, we investigate how ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2016, 84, 600-620)
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I23
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8868
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Anis
Omri
Saida
Daly
Christophe
Rault
Anissa
Chaibi
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Financial Development, Environmental Quality, Trade and Economic Growth: What Causes What in MENA Countries
This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 MENA countries over the ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2015, 48, 242 - 252)
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E44, E58, F36, P26
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