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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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8708
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Maria
De Paola
Francesca
Gioia
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Who Performs Better under Time Pressure? Results from a Field Experiment
We investigate whether and how time pressure affects performance. We conducted a field experiment in which students from an Italian University are proposed to choose between two exam schemes: a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2016, 53, 37-53)
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C93, D03, I23, J71
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8707
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Anastasia
Danilov
Christine
Harbring
Bernd
Irlenbusch
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Helping in Teams
We study, how help can be fostered under relative rewards by means of team bonus and corporate value statements. A simple model analysis suggests that team members help less as relative rewards ...
(revised version published as 'Helping Under a Combination of Team and Tournament Incentives' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 162, 120-135.)
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M52, J33, J41, L23, C72, C91
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8706
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Ruth
Ben-Yashar
Leif
Danziger
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When Is Voting Optimal?
We consider a framework where the optimal decision rule determining the collective choice depends in a simple way on the decision makers' posterior probabilities of a particular state of nature. ...
(published in: Economic Theory Bulletin, 2015, 3 (2), 341–356)
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D70, D71
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8705
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Aaron
K.
Chatterji
Michael
Findley
Nathan
M.
Jensen
Stephan
Meier
Daniel
Nielson
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Field Experiments in Strategy Research
Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research ...
(published in: Strategic Management Journal, 2016, 37 (1), 116–132, )
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C93, D03, L10
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8701
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Corrado
Andini
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Fixed Exchange-Rate Policy and Real Wage Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has ...
(revised version published in: International Economics, 2023, 175 (C), 158-170)
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J31, C23
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8698
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Naci
Mocan
Luiza
Pogorelova
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 142, 509-539)
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I21, Z1
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8697
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Deniz
Gevrek
Z. Eylem
Gevrek
Cahit
Guven
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Benefits of Education at the Intensive Margin: Childhood Academic Performance and Adult Outcomes among American Immigrants
Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2015, 41 (3), 298 – 328. (ABDC ranking: B))
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I2, J15, J24
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8696
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Tim
Kautz
James
J.
Heckman
Ron
Diris
Bas
ter Weel
Lex
Borghans
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Improving Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills to Promote Lifetime Success
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and non-cognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills: ...
(also available as: OECD Education Working Papers, 2014, No. 110 )
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D01, I20, J24
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8695
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Olga
Nottmeyer
Simone
Schüller
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Beyond the Average: Peer Heterogeneity and Intergenerational Transmission of Education
Estimating the effect of 'ethnic capital' on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 163, 551–569. )
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R23, J15, I21
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8694
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Julio
Cáceres-Delpiano
Eugenio
Giolito
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The Impact of Age of Entry on Academic Progression
Using an RD-design and public educational administrative data for Chile, we study the impact of age of entry on children outcomes. Different from previous studies, we are able to track this impact on ...
(revised version published in: Nuno Crato and Paolo Paruolo (eds.), Data-Driven Policy Impact Evaluation: How Microdata is Transforming Policy Design, Springer, 2018)
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A21, I24, I25, I28
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8692
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Rolf
Aaberge
Kai
Liu
Yu
Zhu
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Political Uncertainty and Household Savings
Despite macroeconomic evidence pointing to a negative aggregate consumption response due to political uncertainty, few papers have used microeconomic panel data to analyze how households adjust their ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 45 (2017): 154-170 )
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D91, J3, E21
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8691
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Štepán
Jurajda
Daniel
Münich
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Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case
We measure the importance of candidate characteristics listed on ballots for a candidate's position on a slate, for preferential votes received by a candidate, and, ultimately, for getting elected. ...
(published in: PostSoviet Affairs, 2015, 31 (5), 448-469)
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D72, D83
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8690
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Daniela
Andrén
Monica
Roman
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants during Transition and Enlargements
The change in Romanian political regime in 1989 has lifted the barriers for population circulation and mobility that were further more amplified in 2002 by the liberalization of Romanians' ...
(published in: Kahanec, M., and Zimmermann, K.F. (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer, 2016, 247-269)
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F22, F24, J15
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8689
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Mehtap
Akgüç
Xingfei
Liu
Massimiliano
Tani
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Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2020, 60, 101391 )
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D19, H13, J18, O12, O43, R20
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8688
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Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
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Polarization or Upgrading? Evolution of Employment in Transitionary Russia
This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment over 2000-2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or ...
(published in: Russian Journal of Economics, 2016, 2 (2), 192-218 )
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J31, J62
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8687
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Hartmut
Lehmann
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Informal Employment in Transition Countries: Empirical Evidence and Research Challenges
Even though informal employment is wide-spread in transition economies the literature on this phenomenon in the region is rather scarce. For policy makers it is important to know the incidence and ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2015, 57 (1), 1-30)
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D03, J43, P23
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8683
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Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Hillel
Rapoport
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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy
The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (3-4), 638-672)
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F22, F5, H87, I3, K33, O19
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8682
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Ana
Ferrer
Garnett
Picot
W. Craig
Riddell
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New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 846-867)
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J11, J24, J61, J68
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8681
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Ekrame
Boubtane
Jean-Christophe
Dumont
Christophe
Rault
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Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006
This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, 2016, 68 (2), 340 - 360)
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C23, F22, J24, J61, O41, O47
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8680
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Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
Paul
Heidhues
Rajshri
Jayaraman
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Defaults and Donations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We study how website defaults affect consumer behavior in the domain of charitable giving. In a field experiment that was conducted on a large platform for making charitable donations over the web, ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (5), 808-826)
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C93, D03, D64
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8679
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Michael
Malcolm
George
S
Naufal
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Are Pornography and Marriage Substitutes for Young Men?
Substitutes for marital sexual gratification may impact the decision to marry. Proliferation of the Internet has made pornography an increasingly low-cost substitute. We investigate the effect of ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2016, 42 (3), 317-334)
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J12, O33
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8678
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Locus of Control and the Labor Market
This paper reviews the role of locus of control in the labor market. I begin with a discussion of the conceptual origins of locus of control, including its relationship to related concepts such as ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:3,)
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J01, J08
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8677
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Martin
Salm
Ben
Vollaard
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Individual Perceptions of Local Crime Risk
We provide evidence that perceptions of crime risk are severely biased for many years after a move to a new neighborhood. Based on four successive waves of a large crime survey, matched with ...
(revised version published as 'The dynamics of crime risk perceptions' in: American Law and Economics Review, 2021, 23 (2), 520 - 561)
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D81, K42, K14
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8676
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Yuri
Andrienko
Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Gender Bias in Tax Systems Based on Household Income
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117/118, 141-155)
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H24, H31, J13, J16, J22, D13
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8675
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Karin
Halldén
Anders
Stenberg
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The Relationship between Hours of Domestic Services and Female Earnings: Panel Register Data Evidence from a Reform
In 2007, a tax discount reform in Sweden reduced prices of outsourced domestic services (ODS) by 50 percent. Unlike most previous studies, population register data enable us to directly link a proxy ...
(published as 'The relationship between hours of outsourced domestic services and female earnings: Evidence from a Swedish tax reform'in: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 2018, 55, 120 - 133)
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H2, J13, J22
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8674
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
Yu
Zhu
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Intergenerational Mobility of Housework Time in the United Kingdom
This paper analyzes the relationship between parents' time devoted to housework and the time devoted to housework by their children. Using data from the Multinational Time Use Study for the UK, we ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (4), 911-937)
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J16, J22
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8673
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Marie Louise
Schultz-Nielsen
Erdal
Tekin
Jane
Greve
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
This paper examines whether nutritional disruptions experienced during the stage of fetal development impair an individual's labor market productivity later in life. We consider intrauterine exposure ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 21, 196–209)
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I1, I12, J1, J13, J22, J24, J3
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8672
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Bhashkar
Mazumder
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An Analysis of Sibling Correlations in Health Using Latent Variable Models
We investigate sibling correlations in health status using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and Bayesian methods that allow us to estimate the covariance structure of a system of latent variable ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e108-e12)
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I0, I12, J0, D3, J62
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8671
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Climent
Quintana-Domeque
Pedro
Ródenas-Serrano
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Terrorism and Human Capital at Birth: Bomb Casualties and Birth Outcomes in Spain
We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining information on the number of bomb casualties from The Victims of ETA Dataset with the ...
(revised version published as 'The Hidden Costs of Terrorism: The Effects on Health at Birth' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2017, 56, 47-60.)
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I12, J13
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8670
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Yin-Fang
Yen
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Welfare Reform and Children's Health
This study investigates the effect of the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program on children's health outcomes using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) over the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 26 (3), 277 - 291)
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I1, I3
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8669
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Aysit
Tansel
Basak
Dalgic
Aytekin
Güven
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Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey
This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2019, 142 (1), 107-129.)
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D31, D63, J31, J60
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8668
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Anders
Stenberg
Olle
Westerlund
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The Long-term Earnings Consequences of General vs. Specific Training of the Unemployed
Training programs for the unemployed typically involve teaching specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general training at the upper secondary ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2015, 4:22.)
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I21, J62, J68
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8666
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Winfried
Koeniger
Julien
Prat
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Human Capital and Optimal Redistribution
We characterize optimal redistribution in a dynastic family model with human capital. We show how a government can improve the trade-off between equality and incentives by changing the amount of ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2018, 27, 1-26.)
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E24, H21, I22, J24
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8665
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Bruce
Headey
Ruud
Muffels
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Two-way Causation in Life Satisfaction Research: Structural Equation Models with Granger-Causation
Two-way causation issues are the bete noire of life satisfaction research. As acknowledged in several landmark reviews, many variables routinely reported as causes or determinants of life ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2016, 129, 937 - 960)
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J01, I12, I31
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8662
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Max
Nathan
Anna
Rosso
Francois
Bouet
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Mapping 'Information Economy' Businesses with Big Data: Findings for the UK
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2015, 44 (9), 1714 - 1733)
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C55, C81, L63, L86, O38
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8661
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Georges
Bresson
Anoop
Chaturvedi
Guy
Lacroix
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Robust Linear Static Panel Data Models Using ?-Contamination
The paper develops a general Bayesian framework for robust linear static panel data models using ?-contamination. A two-step approach is employed to derive the conditional type-II maximum likelihood ...
(Published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 202(1), 108-123)
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C11, C23, C26
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8659
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Dayanand
Manoli
Kathleen
Mullen
Mathis
Wagner
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Policy Variation, Labor Supply Elasticities, and a Structural Model of Retirement
This paper exploits a combination of policy variation from multiple pension reforms in Austria and administrative data from the Austrian Social Security Database. Using the policy changes for ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (4), 1702-1717)
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J26, H55
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8658
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Luc
Bissonnette
Michael
D.
Hurd
Pierre-Carl
Michaud
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Individual Survival Curves Comparing Subjective and Observed Mortality Risks
In this paper, we compare individual survival curves constructed from objective (actual mortality) and elicited subjective information (probability of survival to a given target age). We develop a ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e285-e303)
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C81, D84, I10
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8656
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Conchita
D'Ambrosio
Simone
Ghislandi
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Adaptation to Poverty in Long-Run Panel Data
We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to poverty. We use panel data on almost 54,000 individuals living in Germany from 1985 ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98 (3), 591–600)
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I31, D60
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8654
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Menelaos
G.
Karanasos
Bin
Tan
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From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina since the 1890s
Argentina is the only country in the world that was "developed" in 1900 and "developing" in 2000. The various competing explanations highlight, mainly, the roles of trade openness, political ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 206 - 223)
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C14, O40, E23, D72
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8653
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Making Aid Work: Governance and Decentralization
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort ...
(published in: in Mak Arvin (ed.): Handbook on the Economics of Foreign Aid, Edward Elgar, 2015, 488 - 502)
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O10, O19, F35
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8651
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Alina
Sorgner
Michael
Fritsch
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Do Entrepreneurs Really Earn Less?
Based on representative micro data for Germany, we compare the incomes of self-employed with those of wage workers. Our results show that the median self-employed entrepreneur with employees earns ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 49 (2), 251–272)
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L26, D22
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8649
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Antonio
Cabrales
Juan
J.
Dolado
Ricardo
Mora
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Dual Labour Markets and (Lack of) On-the-Job Training: PIAAC Evidence from Spain and Other EU Countries
Using the Spanish micro data from the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), we first document how the excessive gap in employment protection between indefinite and ...
(published in SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2017), 8, 345-371.)
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C14, C52, D24, J24
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8648
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Werner
Eichhorst
Michael
Jan
Kendzia
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Workforce Segmentation in Germany: From the Founding Era to the Present Time
Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, we argue that since industrialization, Germany has continually experienced a dual labor market. One segment contains the primary segment ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49 (4), 297–315)
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N34, J42
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8647
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
M. Daniele
Paserman
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The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
In this paper we use a large linked employer-employee data set on German establishments between 1993 and 2012 to investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 41, 341-372)
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D22, J16, J70, M50
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8645
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Alex
Bryson
Rafael
Gomez
Tingting
Zhang
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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have ...
(published in: Frick, B. (ed.) Breaking the Ice: The Economics of Hockey, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer, 2017)
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J1, J24, J31
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8644
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János
Köllő
Bence
Czafit
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Labor Market Careers Before and After Incarceration
We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers ...
(published as 'Employment and wages before and after incarceration - evidence from Hungary' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies. 2015, 4:21)
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K42, J64, J39
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8643
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Grégory
Jolivet
Hélčne
Turon
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Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet
We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (3), 1258-1300.)
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C13, D12, D81, D83, L13
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8642
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Xi
Chen
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Gift-giving and Network Structure in Rural China: Utilizing Long-term Spontaneous Gift Records
The tradition of keeping written records of gift received during household ceremonies in many countries offers researchers an underutilized means of data collection for social network analysis. This ...
(PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (8): e102104)
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C8, D1, R2, Z1
|
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8640
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Stephan
Heblich
Alfred
Lameli
Gerhard
Riener
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The Effect of Perceived Regional Accents on Individual Economic Behavior: A Lab Experiment on Linguistic Performance, Cognitive Ratings and Economic Decisions
Does it matter if you speak with a regional accent? Speaking immediately reveals something of one's own social and cultural identity, be it consciously or unconsciously. Perceiving accents involves ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10 (2), e0124732.)
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C90, J70, Z10
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