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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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8378
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Sarit
Cohen Goldner
Gil
S.
Epstein
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Age at Immigration and High School Dropouts
We focus on high school dropout rate among male and female immigrant children. We consider the relationship between the dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:19)
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I21, J24, J61
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8377
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Elif
Öznur
Acar
Aysit
Tansel
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Defining and Measuring Informality in the Turkish Labor Market
This paper investigates how informality can be defined and measured in the Turkish labor market. Two alternative definitions of informality are used to explore their relevance and implications for ...
(published in: Sosyoekonomi, 2016, 24 (28), 147-174.)
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J20, J21, J24, O17
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8376
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Susan
Murphy
Patrick
Paul
Walsh
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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion
Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2014, 45 (2), 261 - 284)
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O35, O43, J65, J68
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8375
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Almas
Heshmati
Shahrouz
Abolhosseini
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Market Design for Trading Commoditized Renewable Energy
Information and communication technology plays an important role in achieving a higher level of energy efficiency. In particular, energy efficiency can be achieved by integrating information ...
(published in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 107-118)
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D40, H44, L11, L49, Q13, Q27, Q42
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8373
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Philipp
Breidenbach
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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'Phantom of the Opera' or 'Sex and the City' ? Historical Amenities as Sources of Exogenous Variation
Using the location of baroque opera houses as a natural experiment, Falck et al. (2011) claim to document a positive causal effect of the supply of cultural goods on today's regional distribution of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 37, 2015, 93-98)
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R11, H42, J24
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8372
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Employment Industry and Occupational Continuity in Germany: From the Nazi Regime to the Post-War Economic Miracle
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2015, 22(8), 603-612)
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N34, J01
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8371
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Ulf
Zölitz
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Parental Preferences for Primary School Characteristics
Free school choice has often been argued to be a tide that lifts school quality through increased competition. This paper analyzes the underlying assumption that school quality is an important choice ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), 2015, 15(1), 85–117)
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I2, I24, J24
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8370
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Hani
Mansour
Terra
McKinnish
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Same-Occupation Spouses: Preferences and Search Costs
Married individuals match with spouses who share their occupation more frequently than predicted by chance, suggesting either a preference for same-occupation matches or lower search costs within ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (4), 1005-1033)
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J12, J24
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8369
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Peter
Hans
Matthews
Benjamin
Tabb
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Progressive Taxation in a Tournament Economy
Not enough is known about the responsiveness of individuals, in particular those who tend to work under different incentives, to changes in marginal tax rates. We ask whether changes in marginal tax ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 143, 65 - 72)
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H20, H41, J22, J33, C91
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8367
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Dean
Karlan
Jonathan
Zinman
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Behind the GATE Experiment: Evidence on Effects of and Rationales for Subsidized Entrepreneurship Training
Theories of market failures and targeting motivate the promotion of entrepreneurship training programs and generate testable predictions regarding heterogeneous treatment effects from such programs. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (2), 125 - 161)
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L26, J24
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8365
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
Maitreyi
Bordia
Das
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Changing Norms about Gender Inequality in Education: Evidence from Bangladesh
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to ...
(published in: Demographic Research, 2015, 32, 183-218.)
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D19, I29, J12, J16, J24
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8364
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Filipa
Sa
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The Effect of Tuition Fees on University Applications and Attendance: Evidence from the UK
This article uses variation in university tuition fees over time and across countries in the UK to examine the effect of fees on university applications and attendance. It focuses on two policy ...
(published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (343), 607 - 634)
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I21, J24
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8363
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Arnaud
Chevalier
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Does Higher Education Quality Matter in the UK?
This paper estimates the financial returns to higher education quality in the UK. To account for the selectivity of students to institution, we rely on a selection on observable assumptions. We use ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 257-292)
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I22, J31
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8361
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
Alex
Bryson
Michael
White
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Spillover Effects of Unionisation on Non-members' Well-being
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 108-122)
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J5, J51, J28, J82
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8360
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Alex
Bryson
John
Forth
Lucy
Stokes
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The Performance Pay Premium: How Big Is It and Does It Affect Wage Dispersion?
Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data we find one-quarter of employees in Britain are paid for performance. The log hourly wage gap between performance pay and fixed pay ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (2), 139 - 154)
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J33
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8357
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Benjamin
R.
Lester
Ludo
Visschers
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Meeting Technologies and Optimal Trading Mechanisms in Competitive Search Markets
In a market in which sellers compete by posting mechanisms, we study how the properties of the meeting technology affect the mechanism that sellers select. In general, sellers have incentive to use ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2015, 155, 1-15)
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C78, D44, D83
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8356
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Jens
Bonke
Marie Louise
Schultz-Nielsen
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Do Preferences Impact Behavior and Wellbeing? A Panel Study of Preferred and Actual Working Time 2001-2008/09
Various European studies show that the majority of those employed wish to work fewer hours than they actually do. The question addressed here is whether imbalanced working hours – working hour ...
(published in: Danish Journal of Economics, 2014, 152 (1), 1-25.)
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J22
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8355
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Didier
Fouarge
Ben
Kriechel
Thomas
Dohmen
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Occupational Sorting of School Graduates: The Role of Economic Preferences
We relate risk attitudes and patience of young graduates from high-school, college and university, measured around the time that they start their labor market career in a large representative survey, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 335-351)
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J24, J31, D01
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8354
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Olga
Skriabikova
Thomas
Dohmen
Ben
Kriechel
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New Evidence on the Relationship between Risk Attitudes and Self-Employment
This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become self-employed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 176-184)
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J24, D81, P3
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8353
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Michael
French
Gulcin
Gumus
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Fast Times During Spring Breaks: Are Traffic Fatalities Another Consequence?
Every year in the United States, millions of college students travel for spring break, spending billions of dollars. We examine a potential adverse consequence of spring break that has received ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53 (1), 745 - 757)
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I12, I18, H73
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8351
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Jack
W.
Hou
Kailing
Shen
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Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the ...
(published as 'Aging and Migration: Micro and Macro Evidence from China' in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2016, 11 (4), 548-580)
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J61, J11
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8350
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data ...
(published: Social Science and Medicine, 2017, 175, 135 - 142)
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D1, I1, I3, J14, J26
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8349
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Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
Laure
Pasquier-Doumer
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Transitions in a West African Labour Market: The Role of Family Networks
This paper sheds light on the role of family networks in the dynamics of a West African labour market, i.e. in the transitions from unemployment to employment, from wage employment to ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54, 74-85)
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D13, J24, L14
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8347
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Monica
Bozzano
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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces
We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: ...
(revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, Special Issue on the Determinants of Gender Gaps, 2015, 61, 263-300)
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E02, H75, I25, J16, N33, O15
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8345
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Daniele
Checchi
Gianni
De Fraja
Stefano
Verzillo
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Publish or Perish? Incentives and Careers in Italian Academia
We derive a theoretical model of effort in the presence of career concern based on the multi-unit all-pay auction, and closely inspired by the Italian academic market. In this model, the number of ...
(published in Review of Economics and Statistics 2021, 103 (4), 786-802)
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D44, I23, I21, M51
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8344
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Daniele
Checchi
Gianni
De Fraja
Stefano
Verzillo
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And the Winners Are... An Axiomatic Approach to Selection from a Set
We study here the problem of evaluating whether the selection from a set is close to the ranking determined by a measurable criterion. We propose a number of natural axioms and show that an index ...
(published as 'Selections from ordered sets' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2018, 50 (4), 677-703)
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I23, I30
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8343
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Giray
Berberoglu
Aysit
Tansel
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Does Private Tutoring Increase Students' Academic Performance? Evidence from Turkey
This paper investigates the effectiveness of private tutoring in Turkey. The authors introduce their study by providing some background information on the two major national examinations and three ...
( Published in: International Review of Education, 2015, 60 (5), 683-701. )
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120, 121, 122
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8342
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Ryuichi
Tanaka
Lídia
Farré
Francesc
Ortega
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Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education
This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and ...
(published as 'Immigration, assimilation, and the future of public education' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 52 (C), 141-165)
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D7, F22, H52, H75, J61, I22, I24
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8339
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Lena
Janys
Enno
Mammen
Jens
P.
Nielsen
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A General Semiparametric Approach to Inference with Marker-Dependent Hazard Rate Models
We examine a new general class of hazard rate models for survival data, containing a parametric and a nonparametric component. Both can be a mix of a time effect and (possibly time-dependent) marker ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2021, 221, 43-67)
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C41, C14, I12, J13
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8338
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Gabriella
Conti
Sylvia
Frühwirth-Schnatter
James
J.
Heckman
Rémi
Piatek
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Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis
This paper develops and applies a Bayesian approach to Exploratory Factor Analysis that improves on ad hoc classical approaches. Our framework relies on dedicated factor models and simultaneously ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 183(1), 31–57)
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C11, C38, C63
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8337
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Marco
Caliendo
Robert
Mahlstedt
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
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Unobservable, but Unimportant? The Influence of Personality Traits (and Other Usually Unobserved Variables) for the Evaluation of Labor Market Policies
Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 46, 14-25.)
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C21, D04, J68
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8336
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Nynke
De Groot
Bas
van der Klaauw
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The Effects of Reducing the Entitlement Period to Unemployment Insurance Benefits
This paper exploits a substantial reform of the Dutch UI law to study the effect of the entitlement period on job finding and subsequent labor market outcomes. Using detailed administrative data ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57, 195-208)
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J64, J65, C21, C41
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8335
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Nezih
Guner
Martin
Lopez-Daneri
Gustavo
Ventura
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Heterogeneity and Government Revenues: Higher Taxes at the Top?
We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life-cycle economy with heterogeneity and endogenous labor supply. Households face a ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2016, 80, 69-85.)
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E6, H2
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8334
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Horst
Entorf
Philip
Sieger
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Does the Link between Unemployment and Crime Depend on the Crime Level? A Quantile Regression Approach
Two alternative hypotheses – referred to as opportunity- and stigma-based behavior – suggest that the relationship between unemployment and crime also depends on preexisting local crime levels. In ...
(published in: International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2014, 8(2), 262-283)
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C21, E24, C33
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8333
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Nadia
Campaniello
Theodoros
Diasakos
Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
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Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2017, 15 (2), 388 - 428)
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I1, D1, K4
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8332
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Brian
Bell
Anna
Bindler
Stephen
Machin
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Crime Scars: Recessions and the Making of Career Criminals
Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower levels of happiness and decreasing income levels. There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labour market during economic downturns ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100, 392-404)
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J64, K42
|
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8331
|
Giorgio
Brunello
Monica
Langella
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Local Agglomeration, Entrepreneurship and the Great Recession: Evidence from Italian Industrial Districts
We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of being an entrepreneur before and after the Great 2008 Recession in local labour ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics; 2016, 58, 104 - 114)
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J21, J24
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8329
|
Andrew
Mountford
Hillel
Rapoport
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Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century will be due to population growth in Africa. Given this, any policy that influences ...
(published in: World Economy, 2016, 39 (4), 543-556)
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O40, F11, F43
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8328
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Daniela
Del Boca
Alessandra
Venturini
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Migration in Italy is Backing the Old Age Welfare
Our research analyzes the effect of changes in migration policies and the accession to the European Union of former countries of emigration, considering the crucial role played by migrants in an ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016)
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J6, J15, F66
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8327
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Madeline
Zavodny
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Do Immigrants Work in Worse Jobs than U.S. Natives? Evidence from California
In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not want. Using data from the 2000 Census merged with O*NET data on occupation ...
(published in: Industrial Relations 2015, 54, 276-293)
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J81, J15
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8326
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Daehoon
Nahm
Massimiliano
Tani
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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve ...
(published in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2015, 20, 594–612 )
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D24, F2, F66, J6, J24
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8325
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Michael
Kidd
Nigel
C.
O'Leary
Peter J.
Sloane
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? An Investigation of Graduate Regional Mobility in the UK and its Impact upon Early Career Earnings
This paper uses HESA data from the Destination of Leavers from Higher Education survey 2003/04 to examine whether more mobile students in terms of choice of institution and location of employment ...
(published as 'The impact of mobility on early career earnings: A quantile regression approach for UK graduates' in: Economic Modelling, 2017, 62, 92 - 102)
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J24, J31
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8324
|
Ragnhild
Balsvik
Sissel
Jensen
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Made in China, Sold in Norway: Local Labor Market Effects of an Import Shock
We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by expo- sure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 137-144)
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F16, H53, J23, J31
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8321
|
Polona
Domadenik
Janez
Prašnikar
Jan
Svejnar
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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance
In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our ...
(published as 'Political Connectedness, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance' in: Journal of Business Ethnics, 2016, 139 (2), 411 - 428)
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D2, D21, D73, G34, L32
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8320
|
Stijn
Baert
Sarah
De Visschere
Koen
Schoors
Eddy
Omey
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First Depressed, Then Discriminated Against?
This study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. We send out pairs of job applications from fictitious unemployed candidates to real vacancies in Belgium. Within each pair, ...
(revised version published in: Social Science & Medicine , 2016, 170, 247 - 254 )
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I14, J71, C93
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8319
|
Stijn
Baert
Ann-Sophie
De Pauw
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Is Ethnic Discrimination Due to Distaste or Statistics?
Employing a lab experiment, we directly test the empirical importance of key attitudes underlying the models of taste-based and statistical discrimination in explaining ethnic hiring discrimination. ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 125 (2), 170 - 273)
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J24, J60, C92
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8318
|
Stijn
Baert
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Wage Subsidies and Hiring Chances for the Disabled: Some Causal Evidence
We evaluate the effectiveness of wage subsidies as a policy instrument to integrate disabled individuals into the labour market. To identify causal effects, we conduct a large-scale field experiment ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Health Economics , 2016, 17, 71 - 86)
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I38, J14, J78
|
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8317
|
Boris
Hirsch
Michael
Oberfichtner
Claus
Schnabel
|
The Levelling Effect of Product Market Competition on Gender Wage Discrimination
Using linked employer-employee panel data for West Germany that include direct information on the competition faced by plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:19)
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J16, J31, J71
|
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8316
|
Manudeep
Bhuller
Magne
Mogstad
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return
What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How does the internal rate of return compare with opportunity cost of funds? To ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 993-1030.)
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J24, J31
|
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8315
|
Laura
Hospido
Enrique
Moral-Benito
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The Public Sector Wage Premium in Spain: Evidence from Longitudinal Administrative Data
This paper studies the public sector wage gap in Spain, by gender, skill level and type of contract, using recent administrative data from tax records. We estimate wage distributions in the presence ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 101–122)
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C21, C23, J31, J45
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