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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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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
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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
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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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8262
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Aysit
Tansel
Deniz
Karao?lan
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Health Behaviors and Education in Turkey
This is the first study which provides empirical analysis of the variation in health behaviors for adult men and women in Turkey which is a developing country. The health behaviors considered are ...
(revised version is published as 'Determinants of Health Behaviors and Obesity in Turkey' in: Sosyoekonomi, 2020, 27 (41), 11–40.)
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I10, I12, I19
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8261
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Jacob
LaRiviere
Hendrik
Wolff
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The Power of the Little Blue Pill: Innovations and Implications of Life Style Drugs in an Aging Population
The launch of Viagra in April 1998 led to a historically unprecedented high usage of erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs. We test whether Viagra's introduction significantly influenced outcomes for its ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53(1), 540-556)
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I1, J1, O33, J31
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8260
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Daniel
Hallberg
Per
Johansson
Malin
Josephson
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Early Retirement and Post Retirement Health
This paper studies empirically the consequences of retirement on health. We make use of a targeted retirement offer to army employees 55 years of age or older. Before the offer was implemented in the ...
(published as 'Is an early retirement offer good for your health? Quasi-experimental evidence from the army' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 44, 274–285)
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J22, J26, I18
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8259
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Arindrajit
Dube
Ethan
Kaplan
Owen
Thompson
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Nurse Unions and Patient Outcomes
We estimate the impact of nurse unions on health care quality using patient discharge data and the universe of hospital unionizations in California between 1996 and 2005. We find that hospitals with ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2016, 69 (4), 803 - 833)
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I12, J51
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8258
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Javier
Ordóñez
Hector
Sala
José
I.
Silva
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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries: Drivers and Clusters
We examine the trajectories of the real unit labour costs (RULCs) in a selection of Eurozone economies. Strong asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:15, 1-19)
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F43, F62, O47, O52
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8257
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Jens
Stephani
Lutz
Bellmann
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Union Decline and the Coverage Wage Gap in Germany
Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an interval of continuing decline in unionism. Unobserved firm and worker ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2015, 36 (3), 301-317.)
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J31, J51, J53
|
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8256
|
Xavier
D'Haultfoeuille
Arnaud
Maurel
Yichong
Zhang
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Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap
We consider the estimation of a semiparametric location-scale model subject to endogenous selection, in the absence of an instrument or a large support regressor. Identification relies on the ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2018, 203 (1), 129-142)
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C21, C24, J31
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8253
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T. H.
Gindling
Nadwa
Mossaad
Juan Diego
Trejos
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The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica
In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, ...
(slightly revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 666-707)
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J3, J33, J38, O17, O53
|
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8252
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Alessio
J. G.
Brown
Christian
Merkl
Dennis
J.
Snower
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 124 (3), 389–391.)
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J3, J6, J2
|
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8251
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Daniel
Arribas-Bel
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model
Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2016, 48(10), 2046-2066)
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C63, J15, R23, Z13
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8250
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
Zoë
Kuehn
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Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union?
Speaking the language of the host country eases migrants' integration and tends to boost their economic success in the country of destination. However, the decision to acquire language skills may in ...
(published in: B.-A. Wickstroem and M. Gazzola (eds.), The Economics of Language Policy, MIT Press, 2016)
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J61, I20, F22
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8249
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Martin
Kahanec
Lucia
Mýtna
Kureková
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Did Post-Enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia
This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU accession in 2004 and through the Great Recession. Combining information from ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2016, 1-34)
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F22, J61
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8248
|
Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?
It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces ...
(published as 'Immigration, Public Opinion and the Recession in Europe' in: Economic Policy, 2016, 86, 205-246)
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D72, F22, J61
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8247
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Robert
G.
Valletta
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Recent Extensions of U.S. Unemployment Benefits: Search Responses in Alternative Labor Market States
In response to the 2007-09 “Great Recession,” the maximum duration of U.S. unemployment benefits was increased from the normal level of 26 weeks to an unprecedented 99 weeks. I estimate the impact of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014, 3 )
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J64, J65
|
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8246
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Claus
Thustrup
Kreiner
Jakob
R.
Munch
Hans Jørgen
Whitta-Jacobsen
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Taxation and the Long Run Allocation of Labor: Theory and Danish Evidence
Inspired by Hayek (1945), we study the distortionary effects of taxation on labor mobility and the long run allocation of labor across different profitable opportunities. These effects are not well ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 74-86)
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J62, H24
|
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8245
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Leaving Poverty Behind? The Effects of Generous Income Support Paired with Activation
We evaluate a comprehensive activation program in Norway targeted at hard-to-employ social assistance claimants with reduced work capacity. The program offers a combination of tailored ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (1), 180–211)
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C21, C26, H55, I30, J24
|
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8244
|
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Shi
Li
Hiroshi
Sato
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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China
This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by ...
(published in China Economic Review, 2014, 30, 419-431)
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C83, D31, I32, P36
|
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8243
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Christoph
Lakner
Maria
Ana
Lugo
Berk
Özler
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Inequality of Opportunity and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Analysis
Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be associated with faster economic growth, other kinds, arising from unequal ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (4), 800-827)
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D31, D63, O40
|
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8241
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Shi
Li
Ludmila
Nivorozhkina
Haiyuan
Wan
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 248-265)
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J16, J31, J45, P23
|
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8240
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Aaron
Sojourner
Brigham
R.
Frandsen
Robert
J.
Town
David
C.
Grabowski
Michelle
M.
Chen
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Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes
This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (4), 771 - 806 )
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J0, J5, D2
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