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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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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
Røed
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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
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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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
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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
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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
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Tony
Fang
Ying
Ge
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Joseph
Ferrie
Timothy
J.
Hatton
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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
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Benjamin
Elsner
Gaia
Narciso
Jacco
J. J.
Thijssen
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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
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7862
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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
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7861
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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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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7860
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Mehtap
Akgüç
Corrado
Giulietti
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The RUMiC Longitudinal Survey: Fostering Research on Labor Markets in China
This paper describes the Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC), a unique data source in terms of spatial coverage and panel dimension for research on labor markets in China. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:5, )
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C81, J01, P36, R23
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7859
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Corrado
Giulietti
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Sibling Influence on the Human Capital of the Left Behind
While a growing literature has analyzed the effects of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children left behind, this is the first study to highlight the importance of sibling ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 403–438.)
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O15, J61
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7858
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Héctor
Bellido
José Alberto
Molina
Anne
Solaz
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Which Children Stabilize Marriage?
Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce more costly. We exploit the richness of pre- and post-marital information from ...
(published as 'Do children of the first marriage deter divorce?' in: Economic Modelling, 2016, 55, 15-31)
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J12, J13, J19
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7857
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Valeria
Maggian
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Social Preferences and Lying Aversion in Children
While previous research has shown that social preferences develop in childhood, we study whether this development is accompanied by reduced use of deception when lies would harm others, and increased ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 19 (3), 663-685, 2016)
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C91, D03, D63
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7856
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Timothy
M.
Diette
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Gender and Race Heterogeneity: The Impact of Increases in Students with Limited English on Native Students' Performance
The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina. Recent evidence from North Carolina suggests that increases in Limited English ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2014, 104 (5), 412-417)
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I20, I21, J15, J24
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7854
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Gabriel
Burdin
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Equality under Threat by the Talented: Evidence from Worker-Managed Firms
Are high-ability individuals more likely to quit egalitarian regimes? Does the threat of exit by talented individuals restrict the redistributive capacity of democratic organizations? This paper ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126(594), 1372-1403)
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H00, J54, J62, M52, P0
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7853
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Sylvi
Rzepka
Marcus
Tamm
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Local Employer Competition and Training of Workers
The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for firm-specific training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (35), 3307-3321)
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I24, J24, J42
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7852
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Michael
Fritsch
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Katharina
Pijnenburg
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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany
We investigate whether people are more willing to become self-employed during boom periods or during recessions and to what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into ...
(published in: International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2015, 11(2), 267-286)
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L26, E32
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7851
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Almas
Heshmati
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The Effect of Credit Guarantees on R&D Investment of SMEs in Korea
Korean government has invested significant amount of resources through credit guarantee funds to promote SMEs survival, performance and R&D investment. This study attempts to identify determinants of ...
(published in: Asian Journal of Technology Innovation, 2015, 23 (3), 407-421. )
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C13, D92, G28, L25, O32, O38
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7850
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Guido
Schwerdt
Simon
Wiederhold
Ludger
Woessmann
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Returns to Skills around the World: Evidence from PIAAC
Existing estimates of the labor-market returns to human capital give a distorted picture of the role of skills across different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 73, 103-130)
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J31, I20
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7849
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Tiziano
Razzolini
Roberto
Leombruni
Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
Mario
Pagliero
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Beneath the Surface: The Decline in Gender Injury Gap
Despite its policy relevance there is little evidence on the joint evolution of gender differences in wages and workplace safety. Between 1994 and 2002 Italian micro-level data show a decline in both ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 282-288)
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J16, J28, J31
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7848
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Hani
Mansour
Terra
McKinnish
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Couples' Time Together: Complementarities in Production versus Complementarities in Consumption
Economists have previously suggested that gains from marriage can be generated by complementarities in production (gains from specialization and exchange) or by complementarities in consumption ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27, 1127-1144)
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J12, J13, J16
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7847
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Stijn
Baert
Lynn
Decuypere
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Better Sexy than Flexy? A Lab Experiment Assessing the Impact of Perceived Attractiveness and Personality Traits on Hiring Decisions
In this letter we present a laboratory experiment to assess the relative and independent effect of perceived attractiveness and personality traits on hiring decisions. Our results indicate that ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters , 2014, 21 (9), 597 - 601)
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C91, J24, J71
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7846
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Chris
M.
Herbst
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Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily-subsidized and universal child care program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 519–564)
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J13
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7845
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Stijn
Baert
Elsy
Verhofstadt
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Labour Market Discrimination against Former Juvenile Delinquents: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We identify hiring discrimination against former juvenile delinquents in a direct way. To this end we conduct a field experiment in the Belgian labour market. We find that labour market ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (11), 1061 - 1072)
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C93, J2, J71
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7844
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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Re-defining Informal Employment and Measuring its Determinants: Evidence from Russia
Informal activities impact countries' economic development and overall growth. However, studying informal employment is not easy and it is crucial to provide a valid definition of it. This paper ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2015, 27 (4), 464 - 488)
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J31, J40, P23
|
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7842
|
Sarah
Bohn
Todd
Pugatch
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U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice
We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement ...
(published in: Demography, 2015, 52 (5), 1543-1570)
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J15, J61
|
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7841
|
Alfonso
Miranda
Yu
Zhu
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The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling ...
(published as 'The Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Wage in the UK: Correcting for measurement error, endogenous treatment, and sample selection bias' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28 (5), 349-353 )
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J15, J31, J61, C21
|
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7840
|
Lídia
Farré
|
New Evidence on the Healthy Immigrant Effect
This paper provides new empirical evidence on the contribution of selective migration to the health advantage of immigrants upon arrival to the new destination (i.e. the Healthy Immigrant Effect). It ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (2), 365-394)
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J61, I14, C14
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