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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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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
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Bartlomiej
Rokicki
Kęnia
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
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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
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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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8451
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Tilman
Brück
Neil
T.N.
Ferguson
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Money Can't Buy Love But Can It Buy Peace? Evidence from the EU Programme for Peace and Reconciliation
In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement concluded a period of violence in Northern Ireland yet the scars of the conflict remained prevalent in the political landscape. Rival communities remained divided, ...
(published as 'Money Can't Buy Love but Can It Buy Peace? Evidence from PEACE II' in: Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2020, 37 (5), 536-558)
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D74, F35, H56, I38, O18
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8450
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Antoine
Bozio
Monica
Costa Dias
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Policy Discontinuity and Duration Outcomes
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2020, 11 (3), 871- 916)
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J64, C14, C25
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8449
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Mark
Curtis
Barry
Hirsch
Mary
C.
Schroeder
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Evaluating Workplace Mandates with Flows versus Stocks: An Application to California Paid Family Leave
Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages ...
(revised version published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (2), 501-526)
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J32, J38
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8448
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Erzo
F.P.
Luttmer
Monica
Singhal
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Tax Morale
Standard economic models of tax compliance have focused on enforcement-driven compliance. Notably, tax administrators also tend to place a great deal of emphasis on the importance of improving "tax ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28 (4), 149–168)
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H26
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8447
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Stijn
Baert
Ann-Sophie
De Pauw
Nick
Deschacht
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Do Employer Preferences Contribute to Sticky Floors?
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (3), 714 - 736. )
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J16, J71, M51, J41, C93
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8446
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Ritwik
Banerjee
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
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Awareness Programs and Change in Taste-based Caste Prejudice
Becker's theory of taste-based discrimination predicts that relative employment of the discriminated social group will improve if there is a decrease in the level of prejudice for the marginally ...
(published in: PLOS One, 2015, 10 (4), e0118546)
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C91, O1, J15
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8444
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David
Gill
Rebecca
Stone
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Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams
Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings. We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 123, 42-54)
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D63, J33
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8443
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Gerd
Muehlheusser
Andreas
Roider
Niklas
Wallmeier
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Gender Differences in Honesty: Groups Versus Individuals
Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 128, 25-29)
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C91, C92, J16
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8441
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Hugh
Cronin
Seamus
McGuinness
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Examining the Relationship between Employee Resistance to Changes in Job Conditions and Wider Organisational Change: Evidence from Ireland
This paper uses a linked employer-employee dataset, the National Employment Survey, to examine the determinants of organisational change and employee resistance to change and, specifically, to ...
(published in: Evidence Based HRM, 2015, 4 (1), 30 - 48)
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J31, J51, J53
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8440
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Seamus
McGuinness
Delma
Byrne
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Examining the Relationships between Labour Market Mismatches, Earnings and Job Satisfaction among Immigrant Graduates in Europe
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (17))
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J31, J61
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8439
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John
M.
Abowd
Francis
Kramarz
Sébastien
Pérez-Duarte
Ian
M.
Schmutte
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Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 129, 1-32)
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J30
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8438
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Steffen
Otterbach
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Job Insecurity, Employability, and Health: An Analysis for Germany across Generations
In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (14), 1303-1316)
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J21, J22
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8437
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Erling
Barth
Alex
Bryson
James
C.
Davis
Richard
B.
Freeman
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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S.
This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2106, 34 (S2), S67- S97 )
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J3, J31, D3
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8435
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Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
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Happiness and Work
The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. ...
(published in: James D. Wright (ed.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, Vol. 10, Elsevier, Oxord, 515-520)
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I31, J28, J60, J64
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8432
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Richard
B.
Freeman
Wei
Huang
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Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US
This study examines the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, a period in which the frequency of English and European names ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), S1 / Part 2, S289-S318.)
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D8, F22, J24
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8431
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Charles
L.
Baum
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Changing Benefits of Early Work Experience
We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (2), 343 -363)
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J13, J24, J31
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8430
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Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Bart
Hobijn
Powen
She
Ludo
Visschers
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The Extent and Cyclicality of Career Changes: Evidence for the U.K.
Using quarterly data for the U.K. from 1993 through 2012, we document that in economic downturns a smaller fraction of unemployed workers change their career when starting a new job. Moreover, the ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 18 - 41)
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J63, J64, G10
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8429
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Eszter
Czibor
Sander
Onderstal
Randolph
Sloof
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Does Relative Grading Help Male Students? Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Classroom
The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately. Our paper contributes to this discussion by investigating the effectiveness of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101953)
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I21, I23, A22, D03, C93
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8427
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Oded
Galor
Ömer
Özak
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (10), 3064-3103)
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O1, O4, Z1
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8425
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Joyce
P.
Jacobsen
Melanie
Khamis
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment
The changes in women and men's work lives have been considerable in recent decades. Yet much of the recent research on gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 1-33)
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J3, J16, J24, N3
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8424
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James
J.
Heckman
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Introduction to A Theory of the Allocation of Time by Gary Becker
Gary Becker's classic study, A Theory of the Allocation of Time, laid the analytical foundations for the study of household production and the allocation of time within the household. The analytical ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015,125 (583), 403–409 )
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B31, D13, J24
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8423
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Long Workweeks and Strange Hours
American workweeks are long compared to other rich countries'. Much less well-known is that Americans are more likely to work at night and on weekends. We examine the relationship between these two ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (5), 1007-1018 )
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J22, J08
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8422
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Stéphane
Auray
Samuel
Danthine
Markus
Poschke
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Mandated versus Negotiated Severance Pay
While most of the literature on employment protection has focused on government-mandated severance pay, it has recently been documented that a substantial share of severance payments derives from ...
(published as 'Understanding the Determination of Severance Pay: Mandates, Bargaining, and Unions' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122 (3), 1073 - 1111)
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E24, J32, J33, J64, J65
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8420
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John
T.
Addison
McKinley
L.
Blackburn
Chad
Cotti
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On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations
Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been sharply criticized for its neglect of spatial heterogeneity so, too, have the latest ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4, 1-16. )
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J23, J38
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8419
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Andrea
Garnero
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Minimum Wage Systems and Earnings Inequalities: Does Institutional Diversity Matter?
This paper explores how the diversity of minimum wage systems affects earnings inequalities within European countries. It relies on the combination of (a) harmonized micro-data from household ...
(published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 21 (2), 115-130)
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J31, J33, J51
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8417
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Boris
Hirsch
Thomas
Zwick
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How Selective Are Real Wage Cuts? A Micro-Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Using linked employer-employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage reductions in a selective manner. In line with insider-outsider and several strands of ...
(published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (4), 327-347)
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J30, J31
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8416
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Emin
Dinlersoz
Jeremy
Greenwood
Henry
R.
Hyatt
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70(3): 733-766)
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J5, J50, J51, L11, L23, L25, L6, D24, D21
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8415
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Joaquin
Marandino
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income: Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay
This paper examines the effect of the One Laptop Per Child program in Uruguay [Plan Ceibal] on household labor income. Since 2007, the Uruguayan government has delivered one laptop to every child and ...
(published in: Economies, 2017, 5 (3), 35)
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H41, H52, J31, O33
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8414
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Mirco
Tonin
Jackline
Wahba
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The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment
In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (1), 72-94 )
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I21, I23, I28, J24
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