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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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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
Sřrensen
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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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7799
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Maria
De Paola
Francesca
Gioia
Vincenzo
Scoppa
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Are Females Scared of Competing with Males? Results from a Field Experiment
We conducted a field experiment involving 720 Italian undergraduate students to investigate the existence of gender differences in performance in competitive settings and whether performance is ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 48, 117-128)
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J16, J24, J70, C93
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7798
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Belton
M.
Fleisher
William
H.
McGuire
Adam
Nicholas
Smith
Mi
Zhou
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology ...
(published as 'Knowledge capital, innovation, and growth in China' in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2015, 39, 31-42.)
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O31, O33, O34, O43, P33
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7797
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Riccardo
Crescenzi
Max
Nathan
Andrés
Rodríguez-Pose
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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation
This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2016, 45 (1), 177–194)
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O31, O33, R11, R23
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7796
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Seçil
Hülya
Danakol
Saul
Estrin
Paul
Reynolds
Utz
Weitzel
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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?
This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro-panel of more than two thousand individuals ...
(published as 'Foreign direct investment via M&A and domestic entrepreneurship: blessing or curse?' in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 48 (3), 599 - 612)
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F23, M13, L26
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7795
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Nora
Stel
Wim
Naudé
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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon
The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial ...
(published as 'Public–Private Entanglement’: Entrepreneurship in Lebanon’s Hybrid Political Order' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52 (2), 254–268)
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L26, M48, O17, O53
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7794
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sonja
C.
de New
Trinh
Le
Duncan
McVicar
Rong
Zhang
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Is There an Educational Penalty for Being Suspended from School?
Suspension from school is a commonly-used, yet controversial, school disciplinary measure. This paper uses unique survey data to estimate the impact of suspension on the educational outcomes of those ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2015, 23 (4), 376-395)
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I24, I28
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7792
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Giuseppina
Autiero
Niall
O'Higgins
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Jailer of Freedom and Enemy of Growth? The Role of Personal and Social Identities in Educational Choices
This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends the existing literature in several directions. The theoretical model proposed ...
(published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2016, 30(5), 591-604)
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D01, I21, J24
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7791
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Giorgio
Brunello
Maria
De Paola
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The Costs of Early School Leaving in Europe
The reduction of early school leaving to less than 10 percent of the relevant population by 2020 is a headline target in the Europe 2020 strategy and one of the five benchmarks of the strategic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2014)
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J24
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7790
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Sonja
C.
de New
Trinh
Le
Duncan
McVicar
Rong
Zhang
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"High"-School: The Relationship between Early Marijuana Use and Educational Outcomes
We use unique survey data linked to nearly a decade of administrative welfare data to examine the relationship between early marijuana use (at age 14 or younger) and young people's educational ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2015, 91(293), 247-266)
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I20, I24, I10, I18
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7789
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Andrea
Garnero
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (3), 926-954)
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J22, J24, J31
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7788
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Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Francesco
Pastore
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Overeducation at a Glance: Determinants and Wage Effects of the Educational Mismatch, Looking at the AlmaLaurea Data
This paper provides the first available evidence on overeducation/overskilling based on AlmaLaurea data. We focus on jobs held 5 years after graduation by pre-reform graduates in 2005. ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2018, 137 (3): 999-1032.)
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C25, C26, C33, I2, J13, J24
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7787
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Aedin
Doris
Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Wage Flexibility and the Great Recession: The Response of the Irish Labour Market
There is considerable debate about the role of wage rigidity in explaining unemployment. Despite a large body of empirical work, no consensus has emerged on the extent of wage rigidity. Previous ...
(published in: [IZA Journal of European Labor Studies], 2015, 4(18))
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J31, J38, D31
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7786
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Laura
Juarez
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Old-Age Government Transfers and the Crowding Out of Private Gifts: The 70 and Above Program for the Rural Elderly in Mexico
We estimate the crowding out of private transfers caused by 70 y Más – a public assistance program for the rural elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81 (3), 782–802)
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H3, H55, J14, J18
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7782
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James
P.
Smith
Liam
Delaney
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Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration
Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 564 - 600)
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I24, I25
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7781
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Catia
Batista
Janis
Umblijs
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policymakers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:17)
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F22, J01, J15, J61, L26
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7780
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Marion
Mercier
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We build up an original database on the personal background of 932 politicians who ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 122, 76-91)
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O11, E02, F22, N40
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7779
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Matloob
Piracha
Amrita
Saraogi
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Remittances and Migration Intentions of the Left-Behind
Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they can also result in further brain drain and demographic imbalance for the ...
(published in: Migration and Development, 2016, 6(1), 102-122)
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F22, F24, J1
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7778
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Sara
de la Rica
Albrecht
Glitz
Francesc
Ortega
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Immigration in Europe: Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence
This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1B, 2014)
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J2, J11, J15, J61
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7777
|
Eswar
Prasad
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Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policy Choices in Emerging Market Economies
Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since ...
(published in: IMF Economic Review, 2014, 62 (3), 409-429)
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E5, E6, F4
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7776
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Boris
Hirsch
Elke
J.
Jahn
Claus
Schnabel
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The Cyclical Behaviour of Employers' Monopsony Power and Workers' Wages
This paper investigates the behaviour of employers' monopsony power and workers' wages over the business cycle. Using German administrative linked employer-employee data for the years 1985-2010 and ...
(substantially revised version published as "Do employers have more monopsony power in slack labor markets?" in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71(3), 676-704)
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J42, J31
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7775
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Mark
L.
Bryan
Simonetta
Longhi
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Couples' Labour Supply Responses to Job Loss: Boom and Recession Compared
We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (3) 333-357)
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J22, J64
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7774
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Stijn
Baert
Freddy
Heylen
Daan
Isebaert
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Does Homeownership Lead to Longer Unemployment Spells? The Role of Mortgage Payments
This paper examines the impact of housing tenure choice on unemployment duration in Belgium using EU-SILC micro data. We contribute to the literature in distinguishing homeowners with mortgage ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2014, 152, 263 - 286)
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C41, J64, R2
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7771
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Irma
Clots-Figueras
Lakshmi
Iyer
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Path-Breakers: How Does Women's Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success?
This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (614), 1844 -1878)
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J16, J71, P16
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7770
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Lingučre
Mously
Mbaye
Natascha
Wagner
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Bride Price and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from Rural Senegal
This paper is the first to provide evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fertility decisions in the African context. Remarkably, the results show that bride price payments ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (6), 891-910 )
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O12, Z13
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7769
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Maria
De Paola
Francesca
Gioia
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Does Patience Matter for Marriage Stability? Some Evidence from Italy
Time preferences can affect divorce probability both affecting the quality of the match and affecting the spouses' reactions to negative shocks. We analyze the relationship between time preferences ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 15, 549 - 577)
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I20, D03, D91, J01
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7768
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Christina
Felfe
Michael
Lechner
Petra
Thiemann
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After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply
Does after-school care provision promote mothers' employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 42, 62-75)
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J13, J22, C14
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7767
|
Stijn
Baert
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Career Lesbians: Getting Hired for Not Having Kids?
Using a field experiment, we investigate whether discrimination based on women's sexual orientation differs by age and family constraints. We find weakly significant evidence of discrimination ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Relations Journal, 2014, 45 (6), 543 - 561)
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C93, J13, J16, J71
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7766
|
Terence
Chai
Cheng
Guyonne
Kalb
Anthony
Scott
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Public, Private or Both? Analysing Factors Influencing the Labour Supply of Medical Specialists
This paper investigates the factors influencing the allocation of time between public and private sectors by medical specialists. A discrete choice structural labour supply model is estimated, where ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51 (2), 659-691.)
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I10, I11, J22, J24
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7765
|
Catia
Batista
Jacques
Potin
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Stages of Diversification in a Neoclassical World
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 122 (2), 276–284)
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F11, L16, O40
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7764
|
Robert
W.
Fairlie
Samantha
H.
Grunberg
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Access to Technology and the Transfer Function of Community Colleges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Access to information may represent an important barrier to learning about and ultimately transferring to 4-year colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (3), 1040 - 1059)
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I21, J24, O33
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