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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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8192
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Mthuli
Ncube
Zorobabel
Bicaba
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Skills and Youth Entrepreneurship in Africa: Analysis with Evidence from Swaziland
The shortages of entrepreneurial skills have lowered search effectiveness of potential young entrepreneurs and the rate of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing a gap in the ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2015, 67 (3), 11 - 26)
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J11, J08, L26, O11
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8191
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Florencia
López Bóo
Maria
Eugenia
Canon
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Reversal of Gender Gaps in Child Development: Evidence from Young Children in India
This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter ...
(published in:Economics Letters, 2014, 124(1), 55-59)
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I2, J1, J7
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8189
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Takao
Kato
Naomi
Kodama
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Labor Market Deregulation and Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan
This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural ...
(revised version published as 'Deregulating Overtime Hours Restrictions on Women and Its Effects on Female Employment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (4), 804-821)
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J16, J78, J81, J82, J88
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8188
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Marike
Knoef
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How to Stimulate Single Mothers on Welfare to Find a Job: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two policy instruments were introduced: an earnings disregard and job creation. The ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, 1025-1061.)
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C41, C93, I38, J64
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8187
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Laura
Dague
Thomas
DeLeire
Lindsey
Leininger
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The Effect of Public Insurance Coverage for Childless Adults on Labor Supply
This study provides plausibly causal estimates of the effect of public insurance coverage on the employment of non-elderly, non-disabled adults without dependent children ("childless adults"). We use ...
(published in: American Econonomic Review, 2017, 9 (2), 124 - 154)
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I13, J22
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8185
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Lutz
C.
Kaiser
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The Gender-Career Estimation Gap
The paper discusses gender differences with regard to the self- and reciprocal estimation of career expectations. Firstly, the theoretical background and the literature are identified. Within this ...
(published in: M. Connerley, J. Wu (eds.), The Handbook on Well-Being of Working Women, Springer 2016, 429-448)
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J16, J24, J4, J71, J78
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8184
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Antonio
Filippin
Paolo
Crosetto
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A Reconsideration of Gender Differences in Risk Attitudes
This paper reconsiders the wide agreement that females are more risk averse than males providing a leap forward in its understanding. Thoroughly surveying the experimental literature we first find ...
(published in: Management Science, 2016, 62 (11), 3138 - 3160)
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C81, C91, D81
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8183
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Ruohong
Cai
Shuaizhang
Feng
Mariola
Pytlikova
Michael
Oppenheimer
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Climate Variability and International Migration: The Importance of the Agricultural Linkage
While there is considerable interest in understanding the climate-migration relationship, particularly in the context of concerns about global climatic change, little is known about underlying ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016, 79, 135-151.)
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Q54, J10
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8182
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Shahrouz
Abolhosseini
Almas
Heshmati
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The Main Support Mechanisms to Finance Renewable Energy Development
Considering that the major part of greenhouse gases is carbon dioxide, there is a global concern aimed at reducing carbon emissions. Additionally, major consumer countries are looking for alternative ...
(published as 'Financing Renewable Energy Development' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 85-106)
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H23, L71, O13, O31, Q27, Q42
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8181
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Ming-Jen
Lin
Elaine
M.
Liu
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Does in utero Exposure to Illness Matter? The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in Taiwan as a Natural Experiment
This paper uses the 1918 influenza pandemic in Taiwan as a natural experiment to test whether in utero conditions affect long-run developmental outcomes. Combining several historical and current ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 152-163)
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I12, N35, I19
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8180
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Hendrik
Wolff
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Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb: Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles
Spatial distribution and leakage effects are of great policy concern and increasingly discussed in the economics literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124(578), F481–F512)
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Q58, R48
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8179
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Jennifer
Alix-Garcia
Hendrik
Wolff
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Payment for Ecosystem Services from Forests
Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's ...
(published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2014, 6, 361-380)
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H23, H43, J43, Q23
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8178
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Alfred
Galichon
Marc
Henry
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Entropy Methods for Identifying Hedonic Models
This paper contributes to the literature on hedonic models in two ways. First, it makes use of Queyranne's reformulation of a hedonic model in the discrete case as a network flow problem in order to ...
(published in: Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2014, 8 (4), 405-416)
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D12, J3, L11
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8177
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Alex
Bryson
Arnaud
Chevalier
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What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League
Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 34, 51-63)
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J15, J23, J24, J71, M51
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8176
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Daniel
Borowczyk-Martins
Jake
Bradley
Linas
Tarasonis
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Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 49, 106-127)
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J31, J64, J71
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8175
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Meta
Brown
Elizabeth
Setren
Giorgio
Topa
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Do Informal Referrals Lead to Better Matches? Evidence from a Firm's Employee Referral System
Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (1 Part 1), 161–209)
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J30, J63, J64
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8174
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Perihan
Saygin
Andrea
Weber
Michèle
Weynandt
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Coworkers, Networks, and Job Search Outcomes
Social networks are an important channel of information transmission in the labor market. This paper studies the mechanisms by which social networks have an impact on labor market outcomes of ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2021, 74 (1), 95-130)
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J63, J64, M51
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8173
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Pierre
Cahuc
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Search, Flows, Job Creations and Destructions
This paper presents a short overview of dynamic models of labor markets with transaction costs. It shows that these models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 22-29)
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J6, J31, J38
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8172
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Edmund
Cannon
Giam Pietro
Cipriani
Katia
Bazar-Rosen
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Surprising Selection Effects in the UK Car Insurance Market
We document a large and persistent anomaly in the UK car insurance market over the period 2012-13: insurance companies charged a higher premium for third-party (liability) insurance than ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (4), 879-897)
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D82, G22
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8171
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
Angelo
Mele
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Viral Altruism? Generosity and Social Contagion in Online Networks
How do the social media affect the success of charitable promotional campaigns? We use individual-level longitudinal data and experimental data from a social-media application that facilitates ...
(published as 'Viral Altruism? Charitable Giving and Social Contagion in Online Networks' in: Sociological Science, 2016, 3, 202 - 289)
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D64, C93
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8170
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Luca
Corazzini
Antonio
Filippin
Paolo
Vanin
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Economic Behavior under Alcohol Influence: An Experiment on Time, Risk, and Social Preferences
We report results from an incentivized laboratory experiment to provide controlled evidence on the causal effects of alcohol consumption on risk preferences, time perception and altruism. Our design ...
(published in: PloS ONE, 10(4), e0121530)
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D03, I10, C91
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8169
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Stephan
Meier
Lamar
Pierce
Antonino
Vaccaro
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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime
We use experiments in high schools in two neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Palermo, Italy to experimentally demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 132 (Part A), 78-92)
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C91, C92
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8168
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David
Akerlund
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Hans
Grönqvist
Lena
Lindahl
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Time Preferences and Criminal Behavior
One main motive behind lengthy prison terms for serious crime is to deter potential offenders from engaging in crime. Yet, economic theory predicts that the scope for punishment as acting as a ...
(published as 'Time Discounting and Criminal Behavior' in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), 2016, 133, 22)
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K4, D03, D90
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8167
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Sarah
Mohan
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A Survey of the Economics of Fair Trade
Fair Trade has spread in developing countries as an initiative aimed at lifting poor smallholder farmers out of poverty by providing them with premium prices, availability of credit, and improved ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2015, 29(5), 855-868)
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O19, P46
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8165
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Verena
Dill
Uwe
Jirjahn
Stephen
C.
Smith
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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany
Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2016, 40(1), 123-140)
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F23, G34, M16, P10
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8164
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Pablo
Agnese
Jana
Hromcová
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Low-Skill Offshoring: Labor Market Policies and Welfare Effects
We analyze the effect of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria, we discuss two policies that could ...
(published as 'Low-skill offshoring and welfare compensation policies' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 52, part B, 408 - 426)
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J68, F66
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8163
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey
Following the attempt by Alesina and Guiliano (2013) to measure global culture and to project these measurements onto real choropleth geographical world maps, we utilize the data from the World ...
(published as 'Testing Turkey’s Place Within the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values' in: Polish Political Science Review, 2017, 5 (1), 73 - 110)
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C43, F50, Z12, D73
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8162
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Fabrizio
Coricelli
Luigi
Moretti
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Economic Growth and Political Integration: Estimating the Benefits from Membership in the European Union Using the Synthetic Counterfactuals Method
This paper presents new estimates of the economic benefits from economic and political integration. Using the synthetic counterfactuals method, we estimate how GDP per capita and labour productivity ...
(published as 'Institutional integration and economic growth in Europe' in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2019, 103, 88-104)
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C33, F15, F43, O52
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8161
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Wolfgang
Dauth
Jens
Suedekum
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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2016, 16 (5), 1007-1034 )
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R11, O14, F16
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8160
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Nava
Kahana
Doron
Klunover
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Rent Seeking and the Excess Burden of Taxation
The social costs of rent seeking are generally evaluated with respect to rent dissipation. A common assumption is complete rent dissipation so that the value of a contested rent is the value of ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 35,158 - 167)
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H2
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8159
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Matt
Dickson
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
Hélène
Turon
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The Lifetime Earnings Premium in the Public Sector: The View from Europe
In a context of widespread concern about budget deficits, it is important to assess whether public sector pay is in line with the private sector. Our paper proposes an estimation of differences in ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 141–161)
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J45, J31, J62
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8158
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Raul
Ramos
Esteban
Sanromá
Hipólito
Simón
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials by Type of Contract: Evidence from Spain
The article examines public-private sector wage differentials in Spain using microdata from the Structure of Earnings Survey (Encuesta de Estructura Salarial). When applying various decomposition ...
(published in: Hacienda Pública Española/Review of Public Economics, 2014, 208 (1), 107-141)
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C2, E3, J3, J4
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8157
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Jesper
Roine
Daniel
Waldenström
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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 469-592)
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D31, H2, J3, N3
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8156
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Tetsushi
Murao
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Labor Market Institutions and Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment
Graduating from a school during a time of adverse economic conditions has a persistent, harmful effect on workers' subsequent employment opportunities. An analysis of panel data from OECD countries ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2014, 46(S2), 95–116)
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E24, J64, J65, K31
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8155
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Werner
Eichhorst
Verena
Tobsch
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Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labour market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2015, 48 (2), 81-95)
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J21, J31, J42
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8154
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Ive
Marx
Brian
Nolan
Javier
Olivera
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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 2063-2139)
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I3, I38, D63
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8153
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan
L.
Averett
Cynthia
Bansak
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Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility
Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29(3), 757-779.)
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J13, I38
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8151
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Carlo
Devillanova
Francesco
Fasani
Tommaso
Frattini
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Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program
This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (4), 853-881 )
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F22, J61, K37
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8150
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Bruno
Decreuse
Morgane
Laouénan
Alain
Trannoy
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Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market
The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (1 Part 1), 107 - 160)
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J15, J61, R23
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8149
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Raven
Molloy
Christopher
L.
Smith
Abigail
Wozniak
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Declining Migration within the US: The Role of the Labor Market
Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a ...
(published in: Demography, 2017, 54 (2), 631-653.)
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J6, J1
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8148
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Marco
Vivarelli
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Structural Change and Innovation as Exit Strategies from the Middle Income Trap
This paper is intended to provide an updated discussion on a series of issues that the relevant literature suggests to be crucial in dealing with the challenges a middle income country may encounter ...
(published in: Economic Change and Restructuring , 2016, 49, 159-193)
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O14, O33
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8146
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Michael
Grimm
Robert
Sparrow
Luca
Tasciotti
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Does Electrification Spur the Fertility Transition? Evidence from Indonesia
We analyse various pathways through which access to electricity affects fertility, using a pseudo-panel of Indonesian districts covering the period 1993-2010. Identification of causal effects relies ...
(published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1773-1796, )
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H43, H54, J13, J22, O18, Q40
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8145
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Shahrouz
Abolhosseini
Almas
Heshmati
Jörn
Altmann
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A Review of Renewable Energy Supply and Energy Efficiency Technologies
Electricity consumption will comprise an increasing share of global energy demand during the next two decades. In recent years, the increasing prices of fossil fuels and concerns about the ...
(published as 'Alternative Renewable Energy Production Technologies' in: The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment, 2015, 31-64)
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D61, D62, H23, N50, O13, Q52, Q55
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8144
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Deniz
Ozabaci
Daniel
J.
Henderson
Liangjun
Su
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Additive Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Regressors
In this paper we consider nonparametric estimation of a structural equation model under full additivity constraint. We propose estimators for both the conditional mean and gradient which are ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2014, 32, 555-575)
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C14, C36, I21, J13
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8143
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Corrado
Andini
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Persistence Bias and Schooling Returns
A well-established empirical literature suggests that individual wages are persistent. Several theoretical arguments support this empirical finding. Yet, the standard approach to the estimation of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2024, 51 (2), 319-337)
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C23, I21, J31
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8142
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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Does High School Homework Increase Academic Achievement?
Although previous research has shown that homework improves students' academic achievement, the majority of these studies use data on students' homework time from retrospective questionnaires, which ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (1), 45-59 )
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I2, J22, J24
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8141
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Nils
Saniter
Thomas
Siedler
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Door Opener or Waste of Time? The Effects of Student Internships on Labor Market Outcomes
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience on labor market choices and wages later in life. We use variation in the introduction and abolishment of mandatory internships at ...
(revised version published as 'Do Internships Pay Off? The Effects of Student Internships on Earnings' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2022, 57 (4), 1242-1275 (joint with Shushanik Margaryan and Mathias Schumann))
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I23, J01, J31
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8140
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Paolo
Naticchioni
Michele
Raitano
Claudia
Vittori
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La Meglio Gioventù: Earnings Gaps across Generations and Skills in Italy
This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six years of working career across three birth cohorts (1965-1969, 1970- 1974, ...
(published in: Economia Politica, 2016, 33 (2), 233-264)
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J24, J31
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8138
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Steffen
Ahrens
Inske
Pirschel
Dennis
J.
Snower
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A Theory of Price Adjustment under Loss Aversion
We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 134, 78-95)
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D03, D21, E31, E50
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8136
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Conchita
D'Ambrosio
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Attitudes to Income Inequality: Experimental and Survey Evidence
We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings ...
(published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (Eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2A, 2015, 1147-1208)
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C91, D31, D63, I31
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