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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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8519
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Sarah
Brown
Karl
Taylor
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The Reservation Wage Curve: Evidence from the UK
We investigate the relationship between an individuals' reservation wage, i.e. the lowest wage acceptable in order to enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 126, 22-24)
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J64, J31, R23
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8518
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Matthew
Groh
David
McKenzie
Nour
Shammout
Tara
Vishwanath
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Testing the Importance of Search Frictions, Matching, and Reservation Prestige Through Randomized Experiments in Jordan
Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:7)
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O12, O15, J64, J08
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8517
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Luc
Behaghel
Bruno
Crépon
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
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Unintended Effects of Anonymous Resumes
We evaluate an experimental program in which the French public employment service anonymized resumes for firms that were hiring. Firms were free to participate or not; participating firms were then ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (3), 1 - 27)
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J71, J78
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8516
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Stijn
Baert
Eddy
Omey
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Hiring Discrimination against Pro-Union Applicants: The Role of Union Density and Firm Size
We study the causal impact of revealing pro-unionism during the recruitment stage on hiring chances. To this end, we conduct a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market. When matched ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2015, 163, 263 - 280)
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J53, J71, C93
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8515
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Britta
Kohlbrecher
Christian
Merkl
Daniela
Nordmeier
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Revisiting the Matching Function
This paper shows analytically and numerically that there are two ways of generating an observationally equivalent comovement between matches, unemployment, and vacancies in dynamic labor market ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2016, 69, 350–374.)
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E24, E32, J63, J64
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8514
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
Jae
Song
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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1799-1860)
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F16, H55, J23, J31, J63
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8513
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Miriam
Mäder
Steffen
Müller
Regina
T.
Riphahn
Caroline
Schwientek
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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment: Evidence for German Sons
This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik), 2016, 235 (4-5), 355–375)
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J62, C21, C26
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8512
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Alexandre
Mas
Xiaotong
Niu
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The Evolution of Rotation Group Bias: Will the Real Unemployment Rate Please Stand Up?
This paper documents that rotation group bias – the tendency for labor force statistics to vary systematically by month in sample in labor force surveys – in the Current Population Survey (CPS) has ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (2), 258 - 264)
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J01, J64
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8511
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Vincenzo
Caponi
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Public Employment Policies and Regional Unemployment Differences
This paper contributes to the existing literature on public employment showing that the wage setting policy of the public sector can be an important determinant of private employment and ...
(revised version published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2017, 63, 1-12)
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E24, J60
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8510
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John
S.
Earle
Scott
Gehlbach
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The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution
We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2015, 59(3), 708-723)
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H32, D72, P26
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8509
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Sourafel
Girma
Yundan
Gong
Holger
Görg
Sandra
Lancheros
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Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms
We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2015, 95 (1), 157-169)
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F23
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8508
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Laurent
Gobillon
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The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies
We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration effects. We start by presenting the theoretical mechanisms that ground individual and ...
(published in: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, volume 5A, Gilles Duranton, Vernon Henderson and Will Strange (eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 247-348)
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R12, R23, J31
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8506
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Benoit
Dostie
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Innovation, Productivity, and Training
The firm's stock of human capital is an important determinant of its ability to innovate. As such, any increase in this stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test ...
(published as 'The Impact of Training on Innovation' in: ILR Review, 2018, 71(1): 64-87.)
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J24, L22, M53, O32
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8505
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Simon
Burgess
Matt
Dickson
Lindsey
Macmillan
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Selective Schooling Systems Increase Inequality
We investigate the impact on earnings inequality of a selective education system in which school assignment is based on initial test scores. We use a large, representative household panel survey to ...
(revised version published as 'Do selective schooling systems increase inequality? ' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2020, 72 (1), 1 - 24 )
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I24, J31
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8504
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Simon
Gächter
Friederike
Mengel
Elias
Tsakas
Alexander
Vostroknutov
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Growth and Inequality in Public Good Games
In a novel experimental design we study public good games with dynamic interdependencies. Each agent's income at the end of a period serves as her endowment in the following period. In this setting ...
(revised version published in Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 150, 1-13)
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C92, H41, D63
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8503
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Francesco
Andreoli
Tarjei
Havnes
Arnaud
Lefranc
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Equalization of Opportunity: Definitions, Implementable Conditions and Application to Early-Childhood Policy Evaluation
This paper develops a criterion to assess equalization of opportunity that is consistent with theoretical views of equality of opportunity. We characterize inequality of opportunity as a situation ...
(published as 'Robust Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons: Theory and Application to Early Childhood Policy Evaluation' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101, (2), 355 - 369)
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D63, J62, C14, I24
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8502
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Climent
Quintana-Domeque
Johannes
Wohlfart
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Relative Concerns for Consumption at the Top: An Intertemporal Analysis for the UK
This paper investigates whether the consumption of rich households provides a reference point in the consumption choices of non-rich households from an intertemporal perspective. Using UK household ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 129, 172-194.)
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D12, D91
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8501
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 629 - 671)
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C81, C82, D31
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8500
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Andrew
Hussey
Michael
Jetter
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Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States
This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49(12): 1147-1163)
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D31, D63, J31
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8499
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Eugenio
Proto
Aldo
Rustichini
Andis
Sofianos
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Higher Intelligence Groups Have Higher Cooperation Rates in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma
Intelligence affects social outcomes of groups. A systematic study of the link is provided in an experiment where two groups of subjects with different levels of intelligence, but otherwise similar, ...
(Extended version published as 'Intelligence Personality and Gains from Cooperation in Repeated Interactions' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2019, 127 (3), 1351-1390)
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C73, C92
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8498
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Federica
Liberini
Michela
Redoano
Eugenio
Proto
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Happy Voters
Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 41-57)
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H11, H2, H77, H87, D7, N12
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8497
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Michael
Jetter
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Terrorism and the Media
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions ...
(updated version published as 'Journal of Policy Analysis and Management' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 153, 32-48)
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F52, L82, N40, Z12
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8496
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Guido
Heineck
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Love Thy Neighbor: Religion and Prosocial Behavior
There is a long tradition in psychology, the social sciences and, more recently though, economics to hypothesize that religion enhances prosocial behavior. Evidence from both survey and experimental ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44(7), 869 - 883)
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D64, Z12, Z13
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8495
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nicolas
Herault
Rosanna
Scutella
Yi-Ping
Tseng
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A Journey Home: What Drives How Long People Are Homeless?
This paper uses survival analysis to model exits over time from two alternative notions of homelessness. We are unique in being able to account for time-invariant, unobserved heterogeneity. We find ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 91, 57-72.)
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I3, R2, C4
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8494
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Xi
Chen
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Fetus, Fasting, and Festival: The Persistent Effects of in Utero Social Shocks
The fetal origins hypothesis (hereafter FOH), put forward in the epidemiological literature and later flourished in the economics literature, suggests that the time in utero is a critical period for ...
(published in: International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014, 3, 165-169)
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I14, I18, Z12
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8493
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Valentina
Corradi
Daniel
Gutknecht
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Modelling Heaped Duration Data: An Application to Neonatal Mortality
In 2005, the Indian Government launched a conditional cash-incentive program to encourage institutional delivery. This paper studies the effects of the program on neonatal mortality using ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200, (2), 363-377.)
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C12, C21, C24, C41
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8491
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Ashley
C
Craig
Ellen
Garbarino
Stephanie
A.
Heger
Robert
Slonim
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Waiting To Give
We estimate the effect of an increase in time cost on the return behavior of blood donors. Using data from the Australia Red Cross Blood Service, we ask what happens when pro-social behavior becomes ...
(published as 'Wating to Give: Stated and Revealed Preferences' in: Management Science, 2017, 63 (11), 3672 - 3690)
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D04, D12, D61, D64, I18
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8488
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Marina
Gindelsky
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Determinants of Bilingualism among Children
This paper analyzes the determinants of bilingualism (i.e., speaks a language other than English at home) among children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of ...
(published as 'Determinants of bilingualism among children: an econometric analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (3), 489 - 506)
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J15, J24, I21, Z13
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8487
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Warn
N.
Lekfuangfu
Francesca
Cornaglia
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Nele
Warrinnier
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Locus of Control and Its Intergenerational Implications for Early Childhood Skill Formation
We propose a model in which parents have a subjective belief about the impact of their investment on the early skill formation of their children. This subjective belief is determined in part by locus ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128(608), 298-329)
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J01, I31
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8486
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
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Female Self-Employment and Children: The Case of Sweden
Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been ...
(revised version published as 'Are mothers of young children more likely to be self-employed? The case of Sweden' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15, 307 - 333)
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J22, L26, J13
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8485
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Chris
M.
Herbst
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Are Parental Welfare Work Requirements Good for Disadvantaged Children? Evidence from Age-of-Youngest-Child Exemptions
This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive development. The identification strategy exploits an important feature of the U.S.'s ...
(published in:Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 2017, 36 (2), 327 - 357)
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I38, J2
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8483
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Rachel
Heath
Ahmed Mushfiq
Mobarak
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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women
We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 115, 1-15)
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O12, F16, I25, J23
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8482
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Nico
Pestel
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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing ...
(published as 'Marital Sorting, Inequality and the Role of Female Labour Supply: Evidence from East and West Germany' in: Economica , 2017, 84 (333), 104-127 )
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D31, D63, J12, J22
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8480
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Shoshana
Grossbard
Victoria
Vernon
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Common Law Marriage and Couple Formation
The Current Population Survey is used to investigate effects of Common Law Marriage (CLM) on whether young US-born adults live in couples in the U.S. CLM effects are identified through cross-state ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:16 )
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J10, J12, J16
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8479
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Mizuki
Komura
Hikaru
Ogawa
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Pension and the Family
The effects of pension policies on fertility have been examined in the overlapping generations (OLG) model of unitary household in which no heterogeneity exists between the wife and the husband. This ...
(published as 'Pay-as-you-go pension, bargaining power, and fertility' in: FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2018, 74 (2), 235 - 259)
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H55, J12, J13
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8478
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Astrid
Kunze
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The Family Gap in Career Progression
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, Volume 41, 115-142.)
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J1, J6, M5
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8477
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Carlos
Felipe
Balcázar
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Broken Gears: The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers' Academic Achievement
A growing literature establishes that good teachers are essential for high quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers' skills formation during their college years. In this ...
(published in: Higher Education, 2016, 72 (3), 341–361)
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I2, I21, J24
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8475
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Adriana
Di Liberto
Fabiano
Schivardi
Giovanni
Sulis
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2015, 30 (84), 683-728)
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L2, I2, M1, O32
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8470
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
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Behavioral Economics of Education
During the last decade knowledge about human behavior from psychology and sociology has enhanced the field of economics of education. By now research recognizes cognitive skills (as measured by ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 3-17.)
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D03, I20
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8469
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Ali
Fakih
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Vacation Leave, Work Hours and Wages: New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of vacation leave and its relationship to hours worked and hourly wages by examining the case of Canada. Previous studies from the US, using ...
(published in: Labour, 2014, 28 (4), 376-398)
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J22, M52
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8468
|
Badi
H.
Baltagi
Bartlomiej
Rokicki
Kênia
Barreiro de Souza
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The Brazilian Wage Curve: New Evidence from the National Household Survey
This paper reconsiders the Brazilian wage curve using individual data from the National Household Survey at 27 Federative Units over the period 2002 - 2009. We find evidence in favor of the Brazilian ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 53 (1), 267–286.)
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C26, J30, J60
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8464
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Ira
N.
Gang
Achim
Schmillen
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Sometimes, Winners Lose: Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan
Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies – ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45(3), 605 621 )
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I32, O12, J15
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8462
|
Max
Nathan
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Top Team Diversity and Business Performance: Latent Class Analysis for Firms and Cities
A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' ...
(Published in Environment and Planning A, 2016, 48 (12) 2462–2483)
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J15, L21, R23
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8461
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Sanne
Boschman
Reinout
Kleinhans
Maarten
van Ham
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Ethnic Differences in Realising Desires to Leave the Neighbourhood
Selective mobility into and out of neighbourhoods is one of the driving forces of segregation. Empirical research has revealed who wants to leave certain types of neighbourhoods or who leaves certain ...
(published in: Housing and the Built Environment, 2017, 32, 495 - 512.)
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J15, R23
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8459
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Alan
Barrett
Adele
Bergin
Elish
Kelly
Seamus
McGuinness
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Ireland's Recession and the Immigrant/Native Earnings Gap
The economic collapse was more severe in Ireland relative to elsewhere. Many questions have arisen concerning the impacts of the collapse, including the impacts on immigrants and their subsequent ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer 2016)
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J61
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8458
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan
Pozo
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On the Intended and Unintended Consequences of Enhanced Border and Interior Immigration Enforcement: Evidence from Deportees
Over the past decade, a number of federal and state policies intended to stem the flow of illegal immigration have been implemented. In this paper, we focus on two initiatives: (a) Operation ...
(Demography , 2014, 51, 2255 - 2279)
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F22, K42
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8457
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Giovanni
Facchini
Cecilia
Testa
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The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration
This paper studies why illegal immigration is widespread. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2021, 129 103415)
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F22, J61
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8456
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Martin
Kahanec
Mariola
Pytlikova
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment
The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2016, 1-34)
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F22, J61, J68
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8453
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Timo
Baas
Ansgar
H.
Belke
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Labor Market Reforms and Current Account Imbalances: Beggar-Thy-Neighbor Policies in a Currency Union?
Member countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) initiated wide-ranging labor market reforms in the last decade. This process is ongoing as countries that are faced with serious labor market ...
(also available as: CEPS Working Document No. 399, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, September)
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E24, E32, J64, F32
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8452
|
Nishith
Prakash
Marc
Rockmore
Yogesh
Uppal
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Do Criminal Representatives Hinder or Improve Constituency Outcomes? Evidence from India
The recent increase in the number of criminally accused politicians elected to state assemblies has caused much furor in India. Despite the potentially important consequences and the widely divergent ...
(published as 'Do criminally accused politicians affect economic outcomes? Evidence from India' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2019, 141, 102370)
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D72, D73, O40, O12
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