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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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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
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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
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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
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Lídia
Farré
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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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7839
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Catia
Batista
Gaia
Narciso
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Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 203–219.)
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F22, J61, O15
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7838
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Steven
Raphael
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Incarceration and Crime: Evidence from California's Public Safety Realignment Reform
We evaluate the effect of perhaps the largest exogenous decline in a state's incarceration rate in U.S. history on local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that ...
(published in: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2016, 664 (1), 196-220 )
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K40, K42, H11
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7837
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sonja
C.
de New
Mathias
Sinning
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Locus of Control and Savings
This paper analyzes the relationship between individuals' locus of control and their savings behavior, i.e. wealth accumulation, savings rates, and portfolio choices. Locus of control is a ...
(published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2016, 73, 113-130)
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G02, G11, I31, R21
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7836
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Masaru
Sasaki
Fumio
Ohtake
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Corporate Sports Activity and Work Morale: Evidence from a Japanese Automobile Maker
This paper estimates the factors affecting the relationship between the wins and losses of corporate sports club teams and the work morale of employees, using an original survey of employees from a ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral Economics and Finance, 2013, 6, 37-46)
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L62, M52, M54
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7835
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Damien
Échevin
Bernard
Fortin
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Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk of readmission. To do so, we exploit a major reform implemented in Quebec ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 112-124)
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J33, I10, I12, I18, C41
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7833
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Atheendar
Venkataramani
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Cognitive Development and Infectious Disease: Gender Differences in Investments and Outcomes
We exploit exogenous variation in the risk of waterborne disease created by implementation of a major water reform in Mexico in 1991 to investigate impacts of infant exposure on indicators of ...
(revised version available from authors)
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I38, J16, I12, I14, I15, I24, I25, H51
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7832
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Alan
Barrett
Vincent
O'Sullivan
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The Wealth, Health and Wellbeing of Ireland's Older People Before and During the Economic Crisis
The economic crisis of 2008/9 was felt more acutely in Ireland relative to elsewhere and culminated in the international bailout in 2010. Given the economic collapse, Ireland provides an ideal ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2014, 21 (10), 675-678)
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D31, J14
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7831
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
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Environmental Federalism: A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the 'optimal' level of government at which to delegate environmental policymaking. Although this issue receives widespread attention across the ...
(published in: Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2014, 64 (4), 1669-1757)
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H77, Q58
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7830
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John
V.
Winters
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STEM Graduates, Human Capital Externalities, and Wages in the U.S.
Previous research suggests that the local stock of human capital creates positive externalities within local labor markets and plays an important role in regional economic development. However, there ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, 48, 190-198)
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J24, R23
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7829
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Werner
Eichhorst
Tito
Boeri
An
De Coen
Vincenzo
Galasso
Michael
Jan
Kendzia
Nadia
Steiber
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How to Combine the Entry of Young People in the Labour Market with the Retention of Older Workers?
This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3(19))
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J11, J14, J18, J13, J63, J64
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7828
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Etienne
Lehmann
Paola L.
Montero Ledezma
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Inefficient Equilibrium Unemployment in a Duocentric Economy with Matching Frictions
This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, 91, 26-44. )
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J64, R13, R23
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7826
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Michael
Jetter
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Volatility and Growth: Governments are Key
There exists a persistent disagreement in the literature over the effect of business cycles on economic growth. This paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 36, 71-88)
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E32, H11, O43, P16
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7824
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Jan
Svejnar
Katherine
Terrell
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the ...
(published in : Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(4), 954-969)
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F23, M16, O16, P23
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7823
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Sirma
Demir
?eker
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Poverty Trends in Turkey
This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (3), 401 - 424 )
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I32, D31, C12
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7822
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Zuzana
Brixiova Schwidrowski
Balázs
Égert
Thouraya
Hadj Amor Essid
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The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and stagnant export shares. The limited export competitiveness has hampered external ...
(published in: Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 2014, 10 (1), 25 - 51)
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F3, F41, F63, C5, O1
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7820
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
Ilina
Srour
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct ...
(published in: Eurasian Business Review, 2017, 7, 1-23)
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O33, F16, L60, O55, C33
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7819
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Christian
Dreger
Tongsan
Wang
Yanqun
Zhang
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Understanding Chinese Consumption: The Impact of Hukou
The Chinese growth miracle was based on exports and investment in recent years. While strong output growth has been maintained even during the financial crisis, the imbalances within the country ...
(publlished in: Development and Change, 2015, 46 (6), 1331 -1344)
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E21, O15, R23
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7817
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Torben
M.
Andersen
Jonas
Maibom
Michael
Svarer
Allan
Sørensen
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Do Business Cycles Have Long-Term Impact for Particular Cohorts?
Will the current employment crisis produce lost generations with permanently lower labour market attachment? Taking an explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong ...
(published in: LABOUR, 2017, 31 (3), 309 - 336)
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J6, E32
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7816
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Brindusa
Anghel
Sara
de la Rica
Aitor
Lacuesta
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Employment Polarization in Spain along the Cycle 1997-2012
This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997-2012 and the way particular sociodemographic adapt to those changes. There seems to be clear evidence ...
(published as 'The Impact of the Great Recession on Employment Polarization in Spain' in: SERIEs, 2014, 5 (2-3), 143-171 )
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E24, J24, J62, O33
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7815
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Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
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Occupational Mobility and Living in Deprived Neighbourhoods: Housing Tenure Differences in 'Neighbourhood Effects'
The literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that the lack of social mobility of some groups has a spatial dimension. It is thought that those living in the most deprived neighbourhoods are the ...
(published in: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 2015, 8, 309 - 324)
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I30, J60, R23
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7814
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Melanie
E.
Ward-Warmedinger
Corrado
Macchiarelli
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Transitions in Labour Market Status in the EU
This paper presents information on labour market mobility in 23 EU countries, using Eurostat's Labour Force Survey (LFS) data over the period 1998-2008. More specifically, it discusses alternative ...
(published as 'Transitions in labour market status in EU labour markets' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2014, 3, 17 (2014))
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J21, J60, J82, E24
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7813
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Tony
Fang
Carl
Lin
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Minimum Wages and Employment in China
Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum wage have been substantial, both over time and across jurisdictions. This paper ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:22, 1-30)
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J38
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7812
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Bartlomiej
Rokicki
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The Polish Wage Curve: Micro Panel Data Analysis Based on the Polish Labor Force Survey
This paper analyzes the Polish wage curve using individual data from the Polish Labor Force Survey (LFS) at the 16 NUTS2 regions over the period 1999 - 2010. This survey does not gather information ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014,49, 36-47.)
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C26, J30, J60
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7811
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Alessia
Matano
Paolo
Naticchioni
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What Drives the Urban Wage Premium? Evidence along the Wage Distribution
This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2016, 56 (2), 191 - 209)
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J31, J61, R23
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7810
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Olena
Y.
Nizalova
Tamara
Sliusarenko
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Motherhood Wage Penalty in Times of Transition
Motherhood is usually associated with lower wages due to a number of reasons such as career interruptions, potentially decreased productivity/effort, and discrimination. Earlier literature provides a ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44 (1), 56-75)
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J31, J13, J71
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7809
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Bertil
Holmlund
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What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 62-69)
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J01, J08
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7808
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Luc
Behaghel
Adrien
Lorenceau
Simon
Quantin
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Replacing Churches and Mason Lodges? Tax Exemptions and Rural Development
This paper uses regression discontinuity design to provide quasi-experimental estimates of the impact of a tax credit program targeted at rural areas in France, including corporate and payroll tax ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 125, 1–15)
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J23, J32, H32
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7806
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Giuseppe
Bertola
Winfried
Koeniger
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Hidden Insurance in a Moral Hazard Economy
We consider an economy where individuals privately choose effort and trade competitively priced securities that pay off with effort-determined probability. We show that if insurance against a ...
(revised version published in: RAND Journal of Economics, 2015, 46 (4), 777-790)
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E21, D81, D82
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7804
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Nico
Pestel
Eric
Sommer
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Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: Efficient, but Regressive?
Shifting taxes from labor income to consumption is regularly suggested as a measure to induce work incentives. We investigate the effect of increases in the Value Added Tax on labor supply and the ...
(revised version published as 'Shifting Taxes from Labor to Consumption: More Employment and more Inequality?' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (3), 524-563)
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H21, H23, C63, D31
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7803
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Tim
Barmby
John
G.
Sessions
Alexandros
Zangelidis
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Looking After Number Two? Competition, Cooperation and Workplace Interaction
We build a model of worker interdependence in which two workers can either compete or cooperate and compare performance under either scenario to that of a single worker working in isolation. We show ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 131 (Part A), 166-182)
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J33, J41, J54
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7800
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Hein
Bogaard
Jan
Svejnar
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Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 100 - 115)
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F23, G21, M52
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