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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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7925
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Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
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The Value of Connections: Evidence from the Italian-American Mafia
Using declassified Federal Bureau of Narcotics records on 800 US Mafia members active in the 1950s and 1960s, and on their connections within the organized crime network, I estimate network effects ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (586), F256 - F288)
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A14, C21, D23, D85, K42, Z13
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7923
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Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Dario
Pozzoli
Davide
Sala
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 89, 248-263)
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J15, F14, F15, F16, D22
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7922
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Chiara
Conti
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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation during 2003-2008. Using instrumental variables estimation (based on immigrants' ...
(revised version published as "The effect of immigration on innovation in italy" in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52 (7), 934-947)
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O3, J2
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7920
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Pieter
Bevelander
Mikael
Spĺng
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From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of Immigrants
This is a draft chapter for the Handbook on Economics of International Migration (Eds. B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller) and deals with the political incorporation of immigrants in host societies. ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
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D72, J15, J61
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7919
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Arthur
Sweetman
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?
Intergenerational immigrant integration is central to the economic growth and social development of many countries whose populations comprise a substantial share of the children and grandchildren of ...
(published in: B.R. Chiswick and P.W. Miller (eds). Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Vol. 1b, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 1141-1193)
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J15
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7918
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Sergio
Firpo
Vladimir
Ponczek
Viviane
Sanfelice
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The Relationship between Federal Budget Amendments and Local Electoral Power
The objectives of this paper are twofold. First, we investigate whether politicians use resources from the federal budget as a strategy to maintain and expand their political capital. Second, we ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 116, 186-198)
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H7
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7917
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Denvil
Duncan
Christopher
Zeppenfeld
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Circumstantial Risk: Impact of Future Tax Evasion and Labor Supply Opportunities on Risk Exposure
This paper examines whether risk-taking in a lottery depends on the opportunity to respond to the lottery outcome through additional labor effort and/or tax evasion. Previous empirical attempts to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 109, 85 - 100)
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G11, H21, H24, H26, J22
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7916
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Richard
Blundell
Michael
Graber
Magne
Mogstad
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Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 58-73)
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C33, D3, D91, J31
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7915
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
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A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market
This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country ...
(revised version published in: K. Pouliakas and I. Psifidou (eds.), Greece: Vocational education and training in economic change', Education in the European Union Pre-2003 Member States, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015)
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C25, I29, J11, J20, J24, J69
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7914
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Yasuhiro
Sato
Yves
Zenou
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How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 75, 131-155.)
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J61, R14, R23
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7913
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Anna
Godoy
Knut
Rřed
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Unemployment Insurance and Underemployment
Should unemployment insurance (UI) systems provide coverage for underemployed job seekers? Based on a statistical analysis of Norwegian unemployment spells, we conclude that the answer to this ...
(revised version published in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 158–179)
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C41, J65
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7912
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Jonas
Maibom
Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Can Active Labour Market Policies Combat Youth Unemployment?
Active labour market policies (ALMPs) may play an important role in preventing an increase in long-term unemployment following the Great Recession. We consider this issue for Denmark, a country ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 1, 215-262)
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J0, J64
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7911
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Ximena
V
Del Carpio
Julián
Messina
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
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Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 358-382)
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J31, D31
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7909
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
Kevin
Reynolds
Rebecca
Searle
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The Poor and the Poorest, Fifty Years On
We re-explore Able-Smith and Townsend's landmark study of poverty in early post WW2 Britain. They found a large increase in poverty between 1953-4 and 1960, a period of relatively strong economic ...
(published in: Journal of The Royal Statistical Society, 2017, 180 (2), 45 5- 474.)
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N34, I32, J12
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7907
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ralitza
Dimova
Ira
N.
Gang
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Is Women's Ownership of Land a Panacea in Developing Countries? Evidence from Land-Owning Farm Households in Malawi
Our analysis of a rich representative household survey for Malawi, where patrilineal and matrilineal institutions coexist, suggests that (a) in matrilineal societies the likelihood of cash crop ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52(2), 242-253)
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Q12, O2, O13, J16
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7906
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Daron
Acemoglu
David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
Brendan
Price
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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores ...
(published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104 (5), 394-399)
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O3, J2, L6
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7905
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Maria
Knoth
Humlum
Jannie
H. G.
Kristoffersen
Rune
Majlund
Vejlin
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Timing of College Enrollment and Family Formation Decisions
The level of progression of an individual's educational or labor market career is a potentially important factor for family formation decisions. We address this issue by considering the effects of a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 48: 215-230)
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I2, J12, J13
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7904
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Matthias
Krapf
Heinrich
W.
Ursprung
Christian
Zimmermann
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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as ...
(published in:Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 140, 147-175)
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J13, I23, J24
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7902
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Michela
Braga
Marco
Paccagnella
Michele
Pellizzari
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The Academic and Labor Market Returns of University Professors
This paper estimates the impact of college teaching on students' academic achievement and labor market outcomes using administrative data from Bocconi University (Italy) matched with Italian tax ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34 (3), 781-822.)
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I20, M55
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7899
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Sandra
E.
Black
Jane
Arnold
Lincove
Jenna
Cullinane
Rachel
Veron
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Can You Leave High School Behind?
In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, June 2015)
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I20
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7898
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Verena
Wondratschek
Karin
Edmark
Markus
Frölich
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The Short- and Long-Term Effects of School Choice on Student Outcomes: Evidence from a School Choice Reform in Sweden
This paper evaluates the effects of a major Swedish school choice reform. The reform in 1992 increased school choice and competition among public schools as well as through a large-scale introduction ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 111/112, 71-102)
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I20, C21
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7897
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Christian
Dustmann
Patrick
A.
Puhani
Uta
Schönberg
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The Long-Term Effects of Early Track Choice
Despite its efficiency in tailoring education to the needs of students, a tracking system has the inherent problem of misallocating students to tracks because of incomplete information at the time of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1348–1380)
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I21, J10
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7896
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Nikos
Askitas
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Selfish Altruism, Fierce Cooperation and the Emergence of Cooperative Equilibria from Passing and Shooting
There is continuing debate about what explains cooperation and self-sacrifice in nature and in particular in humans. This paper suggests a new way to think about this famous problem. I argue that, ...
(published as 'Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the predator' in: Journal of Biological Dynamics, 2018, 12 (1), 471 - 485)
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C71, C73, C57, D87
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7895
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Jeremy
Greenwood
Nezih
Guner
Georgi
Kocharkov
Cezar
Santos
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Marry Your Like: Assortative Mating and Income Inequality
Has there been an increase in positive assortative mating? Does assortative mating contribute to household income inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104(5), 348-353)
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D31, J11, J12, J22
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7894
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Tim
Friehe
Hannah
Schildberg-Hörisch
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The Individual and Joint Performance of Economic Preferences, Personality, and Self-Control in Predicting Criminal Behavior
We explore the individual and joint explanatory power of concepts from economics, psychology, and criminology for criminal behavior. More precisely, we consider risk and time preferences, personality ...
(published as 'Predicting norm enforcement: the individual and joint predictive power of economic preferences, personality, and self-control' in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 45, 127 - 146)
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K42, D03, D81, D90, C21, C91
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7893
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Donal
O'Neill
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Measuring Obesity in the Absence of a Gold Standard
Reliable measures of body composition are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. To date the lack of an acceptable gold-standard for measuring fatness has ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 17, 116-128.)
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I18, C38
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7892
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Rřed
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The Impacts of Vocational Rehabilitation
Based on local variations in vocational rehabilitation (VR) priorities, we examine the impacts of alternative VR programs on short- and long-term labor market outcomes for temporary disability ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 1-13.)
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C21, C26, H55, I38, J24
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7891
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Andrea
Bassanini
Eve
Caroli
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Is Work Bad for Health? The Role of Constraint vs Choice
This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the intensive margin, i.e. how many hours an individual works and (ii) the extensive ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119-120, 13-37)
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I10, I31, J22, J28
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7890
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (1), 66-69)
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D8, J2, J6
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7888
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Rodolphe
Dos Santos Ferreira
Teresa
Lloyd-Braga
Leonor
Modesto
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Employment Dynamics and Redistributive Policies under Workers' Social Norms
We study employment dynamics using an OLG model with unemployment benefits and universal old-age survival pensions, both financed by taxing employed workers. The novelty is that we explicitly ...
(published as 'The destabilizing effects of the social norm to work under a social security system' in: Mathematical Social Sciences, 2015, 76, 64-72)
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E32, H23, H31, J65
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7887
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Cassandra
M. D.
Hart
Aaron
Sojourner
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Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools
This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2015. 55 (4), 422-448)
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I21, J5, J45, J24, H75, D24
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7886
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ralitza
Dimova
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
Kai
Sun
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More Is Better! What Can Firm-Specific Estimates of the Impact of Institutional Quality on Performance Tell Us?
We introduce a novel approach to modeling the impact of institutional quality on firm performance. Our methodology enables us to estimate the marginal effect of institutional quality on TFP, factor ...
(published as 'Is Tinkering with Institutional Quality a Panacea for Firm Performance? Insights from a Semiparametric Approach to Modeling Firm Performance' in: Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22 (1), 1-22)
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C14, D24, K31, O43
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7884
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Krisztina
Kis-Katos
Bambang
Suharnoko
Sjahrir
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The Impact of Fiscal and Political Decentralization on Local Public Investments in Indonesia
We investigate the effects of the Indonesian decentralization and democratization process on budget allocation at the sub-national level. Based on panel data for 271 Indonesian districts for the ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (2), 344-365)
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H72, H75
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7883
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Frédéric
Docquier
Tobias
Müller
Joaquín
Naval
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Informality and Long-Run Growth
One of the most salient features of developing economies is the existence of a large informal sector. This paper uses quantitative theory to study the dynamic implications of informality on wage ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119(4), 1040-1085)
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O11, O15, O17
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7882
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Susanne
Prantl
Alexandra
Spitz-Oener
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Interacting Product and Labor Market Regulation and the Impact of Immigration on Native Wages
Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native workers? Focusing on the large, sudden and unanticipated wave of migration from East ...
(published as 'The Impact of Immigration on Competing Natives’ Wages: Evidence from German Reunification' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (1), 79–97)
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J61, L50, J3
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7881
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Giovanni
Facchini
Eleonora
Patacchini
Max
F.
Steinhardt
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Migration, Friendship Ties and Cultural Assimilation
Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117, 619-649.)
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A14, J15, J61
|
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7880
|
Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
|
International Migration and the Economics of Language
This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its primary focuses are on:
(1) the effect of the language skills of an individual ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015)
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J15, J24, J31, J61
|
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7876
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Lucija
Muehlenbachs
Stefan
Staubli
Mark
A.
Cohen
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The Effect of Inspector Group Size and Familiarity on Enforcement and Deterrence
The paper provides new insights into the productivity of teams and the relationship between the inspector and the inspected party. Exploiting exogenous variation in the number of inspectors that are ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3 (1), 159-204)
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Q58, K42
|
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7875
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Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
Maike
Schmitt
Martin
Karlsson
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The Short-Term Population Health Effects of Weather and Pollution: Implications of Climate Change
This study comprehensively assesses the immediate effects of extreme weather conditions and high concentrations of ambient air pollution on population health. For Germany and the years 1999 to 2008, ...
(revised version published as: Karlsson, M.; Zierbarth, N.R., 'Population health effects and health-related costs of extreme temperatures: Comprehensive evidence from Germany' in:Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 91, 93-117)
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I12, I18, Q51, Q53, Q54, Q58
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7874
|
Arun
Advani
Tymon
Sloczynski
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Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies
In this paper we evaluate the premise from the recent literature on Monte Carlo studies that an empirically motivated simulation exercise is informative about the actual ranking of various estimators ...
(superseded by IZA Discussion Paper No. 11862)
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C15, C21, C25, C52
|
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7872
|
Pierluigi
Balduzzi
Emanuele
Brancati
Fabio
Schiantarelli
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Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises
We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 ...
(published in: Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2018, 36, 1-15)
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D92, G21, J23
|
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7871
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Katalin
Evers
Lutz
Bellmann
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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?
The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem has been used to justify positive as well as negative effects of unionism. At ...
(revised version published as 'Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: A Case of Cooperative Industrial Relations?' in: Industrial Relations, 2017, 56(1), 73-121.)
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J51, J53, O31
|
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7870
|
Tony
Fang
Ying
Ge
|
Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance
This paper uses the national firm level survey data to investigate the effects of Chinese unions on firm performance. We show that Chinese unions have a strong "State-Party voice" face and a ...
(published in: Asian Business & Management, 2019,18, 281–300.)
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J51, J52, J53
|
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7869
|
Richard
J.
Long
Tony
Fang
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Profit Sharing and Workplace Productivity: Does Teamwork Play a Role?
The conditions under which profit sharing affects workplace productivity have never been fully understood. Using panel data, this paper examines whether there is any link between adoption of an ...
(published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2021, 76 (1), 90-114 )
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J33, J24, J54
|
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7868
|
Amelie
F.
Constant
Simone
Schüller
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity
Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2024, 22 (2), 205 - 230)
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J15, R23, Z10
|
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7867
|
Alexandra
Rudolph
Friedrich
Schneider
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International Human Trafficking: Measuring Clandestinity by the Structural Equation Approach
Worldwide human trafficking (HT) is the third most often registered international criminal activity, ranked only after drug and weapon trafficking. The aim of the paper is to measure the extent of HT ...
(published in: Social Inclusion, 2017, 5 (2), 39 - 58)
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C39, F22, K42, K49
|
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7866
|
Joseph
Ferrie
Timothy
J.
Hatton
|
Two Centuries of International Migration
This is a draft chapter for B. R. Chiswick and P. W. Miller (eds.) Handbook on the Economics of International Migration. It provides an overview of trends and developments in international migration ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1A)
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F22, N30, N40
|
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7863
|
Benjamin
Elsner
Gaia
Narciso
Jacco
J. J.
Thijssen
|
Migrant Networks and the Spread of Misinformation
Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success in the host country. While the existing literature explains the effect of ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (3), 659-688)
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F22, J15, J61
|
|
7862
|
Alpaslan
Akay
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Home Sweet Home? Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries and the Well-Being of Migrants
This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic conditions in their country of origin. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel for the ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (2), 351-373)
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C90, D63
|
|
7861
|
Costanza
Biavaschi
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
|
Eastern Partnership Migrants in Germany: Outcomes, Potentials and Challenges
Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:7 )
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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