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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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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
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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
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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
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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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8276
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Etienne
Lehmann
Claudio
Lucifora
Simone
Moriconi
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Beyond the Labour Income Tax Wedge: The Unemployment-Reducing Effect of Tax Progressivity
In this paper we argue that, for a given overall level of labour income taxation, a more progressive tax schedule increases employment. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 1-36.)
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E24, H22, J68
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8275
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Yuri
Andrienko
Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of ...
(published as "Optimal Taxation and Top Incomes" in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23, 918-1003)
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H21, H24, D31, D63
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8274
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Carol
Corrado
Jonathan
Haskel
Cecilia
Jona-Lasinio
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79 (4), 592 - 618)
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O47, E22, E01
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8270
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Sarmistha
Pal
Bibhas
Saha
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In 'Trusts' We Trust: Socially Motivated Private Schools in Nepal
We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique database from Nepal. There are two novel features of our analysis: firstly we ...
(published as 'Enhancing Excellence: Socially Motivated Private Schools of Nepal' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (5), 765-785)
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H44, I22
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8269
|
Silvia
Mendolia
Ian
Walker
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The Effect of Personality Traits on Subject Choice and Performance in High School: Evidence from an English Cohort
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits in adolescence and performance in high school using a large and recent cohort study. In particular, we investigate the impact of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 43 , 47-65)
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I10, I21
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8268
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Pedro
Maia
Gomes
Zoë
Kuehn
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Human Capital and the Size Distribution of Firms
Countries that have relatively fewer workers with a secondary education have smaller firms. The shortage of skilled workers limits the growth of more productive firms. Two factors influence the ...
(Published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 26 , pp. 164-179. )
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J24, J45, E24, H30, O11
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8266
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Marianne
Bertrand
Sandra
E.
Black
Sissel
Jensen
Adriana
Lleras-Muney
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway
In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 191-239)
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J1, J3
|
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8265
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Andreas
Ravndal
Kostøl
Magne
Mogstad
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Family Welfare Cultures
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1711-1752)
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I38, J62, H53
|
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8264
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Transfers within a Three Generations Family: When the Rotten Kids Turn into Altruistic Parents
We study exchanges between three overlapping generations with non-dynastic altruism. The middleaged choose informal care provided to their parents and education expenditures for their children. The ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124, 392-395)
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Dl, D7, D9
|
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8263
|
Thomas
Dohmen
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Behavioural Labour Economics: Advances and Future Directions
In the past decades, behavioural economics has become an influential and important field of economics. Interest in behavioural economics derives from unease with standard economic models that are ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 71-85)
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J00, J01, D03
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