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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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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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8413
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Nigel
C.
O'Leary
Peter J.
Sloane
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Too Many Graduates? An Application of the Gottschalk-Hansen Model to Young British Graduates between 2001-2010
There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate mark-ups show high returns, suggesting that ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (4), 945-967.)
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I2, J0, J3
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8412
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Nina
Jalava
Juanna
Schrøter
Joensen
Elin
Pellas
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Grades and Rank: Impacts of Non-Financial Incentives on Test Performance
How does effort respond to being graded and ranked? This paper examines the effects of non-financial incentives on test performance. We conduct a randomized field experiment on more than a thousand ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 161-196)
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I20, I21, D03, C93
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8411
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Sylke
V.
Schnepf
Gabriele
B.
Durrant
John
Micklewright
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Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample
Using logistic and multilevel logistic modelling we examine non-response at the school and pupil level to the important educational achievement survey Programme for International Student Assessment ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2018, 181 (4), 1057 - 1074)
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I21, C83
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8410
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Ken
Clark
Stephen
Drinkwater
Catherine
Robinson
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Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK
We examine changes in migration to the UK in the period leading up to the Great Recession and in its immediate aftermath. In so doing, we pay particular attention to the changing countries of origin ...
(revised version published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement and the Great Recession, Berlin: Springer, 2016)
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F22, J61
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8409
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Beatrice
Brunner
Andreas
Kuhn
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Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results
We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71(1), 28-58)
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D72, F22, J15, J61, R23
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8408
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Christer
Gerdes
Eskil
Wadensjö
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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common labour market of EES/EU in 1994, no transitional rules introduced at the ...
(published in: Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Berlin: Springer, 2016)
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F22, J15, J31, J61
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8407
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Alicia
Adsera
Ana
Ferrer
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Labour Market Progression of Canadian Immigrant Women
We use the confidential files of the 1991-2006 Canadian Census, combined with information from O*NET on the skill requirements of jobs, to explore whether Canadian immigrant women behave as secondary ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 88 - 98)
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J01, J61, F22
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8406
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Harriet
Duleep
Mark
Regets
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Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Immigration Policy?
An ongoing debate is whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admission system, which favors visas for family members of U.S. citizens and residents, or adopt a more skills-based system, ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823 - 845)
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J24, J15
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8405
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Erich
Battistin
Michele
De Nadai
Daniela
Vuri
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Counting Rotten Apples: Student Achievement and Score Manipulation in Italian Elementary Schools
We derive bounds for the average of math and language scores of elementary school students in Italy correcting for pervasive score manipulation. Information on the fraction of manipulated data is ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2017, 200 (2), 344-362)
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C14, C31, C81, I21, J24
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8402
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Richard
Wright
Erdal
Tekin
Volkan
Topalli
Chandler
McClellan
Timothy
Dickinson
Richard
Rosenfeld
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Less Cash, Less Crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program
It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2017, 60 (2), 361 - 383)
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H53, I38, J22, K42
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8401
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Adele
Bergin
Elish
Kelly
Seamus
McGuinness
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Changes in Labour Market Transitions in Ireland over the Great Recession
This paper assesses the impact that the 2009 Great Recession had on individual's transitions to and from unemployment in Ireland. The rate of transition from unemployment to employment declined ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4 (9))
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J64, J88
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8400
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Pramod
N. (Raja)
Junankar
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The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Youth Labour Markets
This paper investigates the impact of the GFC on youth unemployment and long term unemployment. In particular, we study whether the GFC had a bigger impact on youths than adults, and whether youth ...
(published in: Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2016, 26 (2), 1-27)
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J64, J21
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8398
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Mthuli
Ncube
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The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Zimbabwe: Does the Currency Regime Matter?
Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment, declining share in the world exports, high current account deficits, and external ...
(published as 'The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Emerging Markets: The Case of Zimbabwe' in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 564 - 576)
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F36, F41, C22, O11
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8397
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Guglielmo
Maria
Caporale
Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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Financial Development and Economic Growth: Evidence from Ten New EU Members
This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries ...
(published in: International Journal of Finance and Economics, 2015, 20 (1), 48–60)
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E44, E58, F36, P26
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8396
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Sylvia
Frühwirth-Schnatter
Christoph
Pamminger
Andrea
Weber
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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When Is the Best Time to Give Birth?
Using Bayesian Markov chain clustering analysis we investigate career paths of Austrian women after their first birth. This data-driven method allows characterizing long-term career paths of mothers ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 179(3), 707-725, 2016.)
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J13
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8395
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Joachim
De Weerdt
Garance
Genicot
Alice
Mesnard
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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of ...
(published in: JHR Journal of Human Resources, 2019, 54 (1), 225 - 254)
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O12, O15, D12
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8394
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Wei
Huang
Xiaoyan
Lei
Yaohui
Zhao
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One-Child Policy and the Rise of Man-Made Twins
This paper investigates how people respond to the distorted incentives of One-Child Policy by examining its impact on twin births in China. The analysis using population census data shows that the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 93 (3), 467 -476)
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J08, J11, J13
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8393
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Daniela
Del Boca
Christopher
Flinn
Matthew
Wiswall
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Transfers to Households with Children and Child Development
In this paper we utilize a model of household investments in the development of children to explore the impact of various transfer policies on the distribution of child outcomes. We develop a cost ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 526, F138-F183)
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J13, D1
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8392
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John
Jerrim
John
Micklewright
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Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?
The international surveys of pupil achievement – PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS – have been widely used to compare socioeconomic gradients in children's cognitive abilities across countries. Socioeconomic ...
(revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, 30 (6), 766 - 781)
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C21, C81, I24
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8391
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Silvia
Mendolia
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Maternal Working Hours and the Well-Being of Adolescent Children
This study investigates how maternal working hours are related to various outcomes in children aged 11 to 15 using a sample of mothers and adolescents in the British Household Panel Survey. Research ...
(published in Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2016, 37, 566 - 580)
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I10, J13, J22
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8390
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Charles
L.
Baum
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes
Using data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-97), we examine the effects of California's paid family leave program (CA-PFL) on mothers' and fathers' use of leave ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35 (2), 333 - 356)
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J1, J2, J3, J13, J18
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8389
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Elvira
Andersson
Petter
Lundborg
Johan
Vikström
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Income Receipt and Mortality: Evidence from Swedish Public Sector Employees
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By exploiting variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 131, 21 - 32)
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D91, H31, H55, I10, I12, I38
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8388
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Barry
Hirsch
Julia
Manzella
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Who Cares – and Does It Matter? Measuring Wage Penalties for Caring Work
Economists and sociologists have proposed arguments for why there can exist wage penalties for work involving helping and caring for others, penalties borne disproportionately by women. Evidence on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 40, 213-275)
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J16, J31
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8387
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Elizabeth
Kaletski
Nishith
Prakash
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Can Elected Minority Representatives Affect Health Worker Visits? Evidence from India
This paper examines the relationship between elected minority representatives, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2017, 21 (1), 67 - 102)
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I18, I38, J15
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8386
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Pilar
Garcia-Gomez
Anne
C.
Gielen
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Health Effects of Containing Moral Hazard: Evidence from Disability Insurance Reform
We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter eligibility criteria and reduced generosity. Our results show substantial adverse ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), 606-621.)
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I14, H53, I38
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8384
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Willie
Belton
Yameen
Huq
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2018, 9 (2), Article 1)
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D71, Z10, J10, J19
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8383
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Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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How Far Away Is a Single European Labor Market?
A Single European Labor Market, particularly involving the free movement of workers within Europe, has been a goal of the European community since the 1950s. Whereas it may entail opportunities and ...
(revised version published as 'European Labor Market Integration: What the Experts Think' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2017, 38 (7), 954-974)
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J40, J61, J68
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8381
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Stephen
Gibbons
Olmo
Silva
Felix
Weinhardt
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Neighbourhood Turnover and Teenage Attainment
Theories about neighbours' influence on children based on social capital, cohesion and disorganisation stress the importance of neighbourhood stability. However, amongst the vast number of studies on ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (4), 746-783)
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C21, I20, R23
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8380
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Oscar
Marcenaro Gutierrez
John
Micklewright
Anna
Vignoles
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Social Mobility and the Importance of Networks: Evidence for Britain
Greater levels of social mobility are widely seen as desirable on grounds of both equity and efficiency. Debate on social mobility in Britain and elsewhere has recently focused on specific factors ...
(published in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, 2015, 6 (2), 190-211)
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J62
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8379
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Natalia
Nollenberger
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Almudena
Sevilla
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The Math Gender Gap: The Role of Culture
This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate ...
(substantially revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 257-61 )
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I21, I24, J16, Z13
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