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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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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
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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
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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
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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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8239
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Robert
Dur
Robin
Zoutenbier
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Intrinsic Motivations of Public Sector Employees: Evidence for Germany
We examine differences in altruism and laziness between public sector employees and private sector employees. Our theoretical model predicts that the likelihood of public sector employment increases ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16(3), 343-366)
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H1, J45, M5
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8238
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Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Are Public Sector Workers Different? Cross-European Evidence from Elderly Workers and Retirees
The public sector employs a large share of the labor force to execute important functions (e.g. regulation and public good provision) in an environment beset by severe agency problems. Attracting ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 4:11, 2015)
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D64, H83, J45
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8236
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David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
In this paper we investigate how cognitive ability and character skills influence behavior, success and the evolution of play towards Nash equilibrium in repeated strategic interactions. We study ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124 (6), 1619-1676)
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C92, C73, D83
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8235
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Miriam
Gensowski
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Personality, IQ, and Lifetime Earnings
Talented individuals are seen as drivers of long-term growth, but how do they realize their full potential? In this paper, I show that even in a group of high-IQ men and women, lifetime earnings are ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51, 170-183)
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J24, I24, J16
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8234
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Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Troy
Timko
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Does Participation in 4-H Improve Schooling Outcomes? Evidence from Florida
We examine the effect of participation in 4-H, the largest youth development program in the United States, on standardized test scores. We do this by utilizing grade-level longitudinal data on ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2015, 97 (2), 414–434)
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I21, I28, H52
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8233
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Niaz
Asadullah
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The Effect of Islamic Secondary School Attendance on Academic Achievement
Using unique survey data on rural secondary school children, this paper evaluates the relative quality of Islamic secondary schools (i.e. madrasahs) in Bangladesh. Students attending registered ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2016, 61 (4), 1550052-01)
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D04, I21, O15
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8232
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Stijn
Baert
Eddy
Omey
Dieter
Verhaest
Aurélie
Vermeir
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Mister Sandman, Bring Me Good Marks! On the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Academic Achievement
This study assesses the relationship between sleep quality and academic achievement. We survey college students about their sleep quality by means of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) before ...
(revised version published in: Social Science and Medicine , 2015, 130, 91 - 98)
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I10, J24, I23
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8231
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Francisca
M.
Antman
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Spousal Employment and Intra-Household Bargaining Power
This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014 21(6), 560-563)
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J12, J16, D13, O15
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8230
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Ang
Sun
Yaohui
Zhao
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Divorce, Abortion and Children's Sex Ratio: The Impact of Divorce Reform in China
This paper explores how the relative circumstances of men and women following marital dissolution affect sex-selection behavior within marriages. China's 2001 divorce reform liberalized divorce in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 53-69)
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D13, J12, J13, J16
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8229
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Kamila
Cygan-Rehm
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments
We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46(28), 3503-3522)
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J13, Z18, I00
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8228
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Guglielmo
Barone
Alessio
D'Ignazio
Guido
de Blasio
Paolo
Naticchioni
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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences
We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2016, 136, 1-14)
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D72, P16, J61
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8227
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Li
Hao
Daniel
Houser
Lei
Mao
Marie Claire
Villeval
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A Field Study of Chinese Migrant Workers' Attitudes toward Risks, Strategic Uncertainty, and Competitiveness
Using a field experiment in China, we study whether migration status is correlated with attitudes toward risk, ambiguity, and competitiveness. Our subjects include migrants and non-migrants. We find ...
(Revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131, 126-140)
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C93, D03, D63, J61
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8226
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Ilhom
Abdulloev
Ira
N.
Gang
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation
Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – ...
(published in: European Journal of Development Research, 2014, 26 (4), 509–526 )
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J01, J16, O15
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8225
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Alina
Botezat
Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
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The Impact of Parents Migration on the Well-being of Children Left Behind: Initial Evidence from Romania
Many children grow up with parents working abroad. Economists are interested in the achievement and well-being of these "home alone" children to better understand the positive and negative aspects of ...
(published as 'The Impact of labour migration on left-behind children's educational and psychosocial outcomes: Evidence from Romania' in: Population, Space and Place 2020, 26 (1), e2277)
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I12, I21, J13
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8224
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David
J.
Bjerk
Caleb
Mason
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The Market for Mules: Risk and Compensation of Cross-Border Drug Couriers
This paper uses a unique dataset to examine the economics of cross-border drug smuggling. Our results reveal that loads are generally quite large (median 30 kg), but with substantial variance within ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 39, 58-72.)
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K42
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8223
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Donald
O.
Parsons
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Job Displacement Insurance: An Overview
Earnings losses from permanent job separations are a serious threat to the financial security of long-tenured workers. Job displacement insurance is presumably designed to offset these losses, but ...
(published in: J. Wright (ed.): International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd ed., 2015, 12. Oxford, 819-832)
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J65, J41, J33, J08
|
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8222
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Daniele
Checchi
Herman
G.
van de Werfhorst
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Educational Policies and Income Inequality
In this paper we study the associations between educational policies, distributions of educational attainments and income distributions. By matching inequality measures on test scores, years of ...
(published in Socio-Economic Review, 2018, 16 (1), 137 - 160)
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I24, I28
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8221
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Robert
Dixon
Guay
C.
Lim
Jan
C.
van Ours
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
This paper presents an analysis of labour market dynamics, in particular of flows in the labour market and how they interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (24), 2523-2539)
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E17, E24, J21, J64
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8220
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Wiemer
Salverda
Daniele
Checchi
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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 1535–1727)
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D02, D13, D31, J22, J31, J51, J52
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