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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Boris
Hirsch
Michael
Oberfichtner
Claus
Schnabel
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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
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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
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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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8313
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Brian
Clark
Clement
Joubert
Arnaud
Maurel
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The Career Prospects of Overeducated Americans
In this paper we analyze career dynamics for the large share of U.S. workers who have more schooling than their peers in the same occupation. We use data from the NLSY79 combined with the CPS to ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 6:3)
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J24, I21
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8312
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Stijn
Baert
Dieter
Verhaest
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Unemployment or Overeducation: Which is a Worse Signal to Employers?
This study aims at estimating the stigma effect of unemployment and overeducation within one framework. To this end, we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We send out trios of ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2019, 167, 1 - 21)
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J24, J60, C93
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8311
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Christiane
Bradler
Robert
Dur
Susanne
Neckermann
Arjan
Non
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Employee Recognition and Performance: A Field Experiment
This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of unannounced, public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62(11), 3085-3099)
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C93, M52
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8308
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Maria
Cubel
Ana
Nuevo-Chiquero
Santiago
Sanchez-Pages
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab
While survey data supports a strong relationship between personality and labor market outcomes, the exact mechanisms behind this association remain unexplored. In this paper, we take advantage of a ...
(published in: Economic Journal , 2016, 126 (592). 654–681 )
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C91, D03, J3, M5
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8307
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Anne-Kathrin
Bronsert
Amihai
Glazer
Kai
A.
Konrad
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Old Money, the Nouveaux Riches and Brunhilde's Marriage Strategy
A woman assessing the wealth of a potential husband may observe some, but not all, of his wealth. She may screen, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30 (1), 163-188)
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J12, D82
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8306
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Karina
Doorley
Eva
Sierminska
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Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European ...
(published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2014, 22, 43-85)
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G11, G21, J10
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8305
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Marco
Caliendo
Wang-Sheng
Lee
Robert
Mahlstedt
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The Gender Wage Gap: Does a Gender Gap in Reservation Wages Play a Part?
This paper focuses on re-examining the gender wage gap and the potential role that reservation wages play. Based on two waves of rich data from the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey we examine the ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 136, 161-173.)
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J16, J31
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8304
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Mark
L.
Bryan
Almudena
Sevilla
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Flexible Working and Couples' Coordination of Time Schedules
Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time ...
(published as 'Flexible working in the UK and its impact on couples’ time coordination' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15, 1415–1437)
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J12, J22, J32
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8303
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Nezih
Guner
Remzi
Kaygusuz
Gustavo
Ventura
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Childcare Subsidies and Household Labor Supply
What would be the aggregate effects of adopting a more generous and universal childcare subsidy program in the U.S.? We answer this question in a life-cycle equilibrium model with joint labor-supply ...
(published as 'Child-Related Transfers, Household Labor Supply and Welfare' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2020, 87 (5), 2290–2321)
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E62, H24, H31
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8302
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Francesco
Mariotti
Karen
A.
Mumford
Yolanda
Pena-Boquete
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Household Asset Holding Diversification in Australia
We explore asset holding diversification by Australian households, in particular, the household asset diversification participation decision (whether or not to diversify at all) is jointly estimated ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2015, 48(1), 43-64)
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J3, J7
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8301
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Sarah
Brown
Pulak
Ghosh
Karl
Taylor
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Household Finances and Social Interaction: Bayesian Analysis of Household Panel Data
We investigate the relationship between social interaction and household finances using data from the British Household Panel Survey. We contribute to the existing literature by exploring the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2016, 62 (3), 467-488)
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D12, D14, C11
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8300
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Eugenio
Proto
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration
This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 2127-2152)
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I30, I31
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8299
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Eve
Caroli
Mathilde
Godard
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Does Job Insecurity Deteriorate Health? A Causal Approach for Europe
This paper estimates the causal effect of perceived job insecurity – i.e. the fear of involuntary job loss – on health in a sample of men from 22 European countries. We rely on an original ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 25(2), 131-147, 2016.)
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I19, J63
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8298
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Hannes
Schwandt
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Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations
Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (4), 349-77)
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G10, I10, J14
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8297
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Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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Workplace Health Promotion and Labour Market Performance of Employees
This paper investigates the average effects of (firm-provided) workplace health promotion measures in form of the analysis of sickness absenteeism and health circles/courses on labour market ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015,43, 170-189)
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I10, I19, J32
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8295
|
Nkechi
S.
Owoo
Wim
Naudé
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Non-Farm Enterprise Productivity and Spatial Autocorrelation in Rural Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance ...
(published as 'Spatial proximity and firm performance: evidence from non-farm rural enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria' in: Regional Studies, 2016, 51 (5), 688–700)
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L26, C21, M13, O55
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8293
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Nishith
Prakash
Krishna
Chaitanya
Vadlamannati
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Girls for Sale? Child Sex Ratio and Girls Trafficking in India
Illegal trafficking of women is a result of their disadvantageous position in the society that is often reflected in increasing preference for son and neglect for daughters. Multiple reports point to ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2019, 25 (4), 267 - 308)
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J10, O12, R23, Z12
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8292
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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Immigrants, Labor Market Performance, and Social Insurance
Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long-term labor market and social insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from high-income ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F644-F683)
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F22, H55, J22
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8291
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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Labour Migrant Adjustments in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
Based on individual longitudinal data, we examine the evolution of employment and earnings of post-EU accession Eastern European labour immigrants to Norway for a period of up to eight years after ...
(published in: Tarmo Valkonen and Vesa Vihriälä (eds.): The Nordic model – challenged but capable of reform, TemaNord 2014:531)
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F22, H55, J22
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8290
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Lutz
Bellmann
Olaf
Hübler
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Skill Shortages in German Establishments
This paper investigates the development of skill shortage during the period 2007-2012. Using the IAB establishment panel, we find differences for the years before, during and after the Great ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 234 (6), 800-826)
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D21, D22, E32, J63
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8289
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Kailing
Shen
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Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System
We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board serving private sector employers. ...
(published as 'Do Employers Prefer Migrant Workers? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4(2), 2015,)
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O15, R23
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8287
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Gonne
Beekman
Stephen
L.
Cheung
Ian
Levely
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The Effect of Conflict History on Cooperation Within and Between Groups: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
We study cooperation within and between groups in the laboratory, comparing treatments in which two groups have previously been (i) in conflict with one another, (ii) in conflict with a different ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 63, 168-183)
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C92, D64, D74, H41
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8286
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Bradley
Ruffle
Yossef
Tobol
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Screening for Honesty
We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service. Each soldier rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 9860)
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C93, M51
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8285
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Manzur
Quader
Karl
Taylor
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Corporate Efficiency, Credit Status and Investment
Using a panel of 1122 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange over the period of 1981 to 2009, endogenous switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index ...
(published in: European Journal of Finance, 2018, 24 (6), 439-457)
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C34, D92, G14, L21
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8284
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Sarah
Brown
Daniel
Gray
Jolian
McHardy
Karl
Taylor
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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 361-378)
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J20, J50
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8282
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Peter
Ganong
Simon
Jäger
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A Permutation Test and Estimation Alternatives for the Regression Kink Design
The Regression Kink (RK) design is an increasingly popular empirical method, with more than 20 studies circulated using RK in the last 5 years since the initial circulation of Card, Lee, Pei and ...
(revised version published as 'A Permutation Test for the Regression Kink Design' in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2018, 113 (522), 494-504)
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C12, C13, C14, C31
|
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8281
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Max
Löffler
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity
There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in micro and macro estimates are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show ...
(revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 11425)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
|
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8280
|
Markus
Frölich
Martin
Huber
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Direct and Indirect Treatment Effects: Causal Chains and Mediation Analysis with Instrumental Variables
This paper discusses the nonparametric identification of causal direct and indirect effects of a binary treatment based on instrumental variables. We identify the indirect effect, which operates ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 79 (5), 1645 - 1666)
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C14, C21
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8279
|
Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
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Between Light and Shadow: Informality in the Russian Labour Market
Economic growth in Russia in the first decade of this century almost doubled the country's GDP but was accompanied by substantial reallocation of labor to the unregulated sector while formal ...
(published in: S.Oxenstierna (ed.), The Challenges for Russia's Politicized Economic System: Routledge, 2015 )
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J31, J40, P2
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8277
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
Marc
Sangnier
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Trust and the Welfare State: The Twin Peaks Curve
We show the existence of a twin peaks relation between trust and the size of the welfare state that stems from two opposing forces. Uncivic people support large welfare states because they expect to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 861-883)
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H1, Z1
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