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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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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
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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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Linguère
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
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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
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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
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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
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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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7763
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Vanessa
Lutgen
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Regional Equilibrium Unemployment Theory at the Age of the Internet
This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 50-67)
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J61, J64, R13, R23
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7762
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Anders
Akerman
Ingvil
Gaarder
Magne
Mogstad
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130 (4), 1781–1824)
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J23, J24, J31, O33
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7761
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D. Mark
Anderson
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime
During the period 2001-2009, four combat brigades and the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment were based at Fort Carson, Colorado. These units were repeatedly deployed during the Iraq War, allowing us to ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 58 (1), 235-267)
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K4, H56
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7760
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Amedeo
Piolatto
Matthew
D.
Rablen
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Prospect Theory and Tax Evasion: A Reconsideration of the Yitzhaki Puzzle
The standard expected utility model of tax evasion predicts that evasion is decreasing in the marginal tax rate (the Yitzhaki puzzle). The existing literature disagrees on whether prospect theory ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2017, 82 (4), 543-565)
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H26, D81, K42
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7759
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Andrew
McGee
Peter
McGee
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After the Tournament: Outcomes and Effort Provision
Modeling the incentive effects of competitions among employees for promotions or financial rewards, economists have largely ignored the effects of competition on effort provision once the competition ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2019, 57 (4), 2125-2146.)
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C90, J30, D03
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7758
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William
Fuchs
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Subjective Evaluations: Discretionary Bonuses and Feedback Credibility
We provide a new rationale for the use of discretionary bonuses. In a setting with unknown match qualities between a worker and a firm and subjective evaluations by the principal, bonuses are useful ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2015, 7 (1), 99–108)
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D82, D83, D86, M5
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7756
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Daniel S. J.
Lechmann
Claus
Schnabel
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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees
Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2014, 67 (3), 368-390)
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I19, J22, J23
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7755
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Giorgio
Brunello
Simona
Lorena
Comi
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The Side Effect of Pension Reforms on Training: Evidence from Italy
Due to pension reforms, minimum retirement age increased substantially in Italy between the second part of the 1990s and the early 2000s. We compare the training participation of pre- and post-reform ...
(published in: Journal of Economics of Aging, 2015, 6, 113 - 122)
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J24, J26
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7754
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Mika
Haapanen
Petri
Böckerman
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Does Higher Education Enhance Migration?
This paper examines the causal impact of education on within-country migration. A major higher education reform took place in Finland in the 1990s. It gradually transformed former vocational colleges ...
(published as "More Educated, More Mobile? Evidence from Post-secondary Education Reform" in: Spatial Economic Analysis, 2017, 12 (1), 8-26)
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J10, J61, I20, R23
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7753
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Rania
Gihleb
Osea
Giuntella
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Nuns and the Effects of Catholic Schools: Evidence from Vatican II
This paper examines the causal effects of Catholic schooling on educational attainment. Using a novel instrumental-variable approach that exploits an exogenous shock to the Catholic school system, we ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2017, 137, 191-213)
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I20, J24, N3
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7752
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Kristian
Koerselman
Roope
Uusitalo
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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments
Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper we use a Finnish panel spanning 22 years to predict the mean, the variance and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 154-163)
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C33, I24, J31
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7751
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Joseph
Menis
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Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?
In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching ...
(published in: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Science, 2013, 3 (11), 614-632.)
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D2, L11
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7750
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James
J.
Heckman
Tim
Kautz
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Fostering and Measuring Skills: Interventions That Improve Character and Cognition
This paper reviews the recent literature on measuring and boosting cognitive and noncognitive skills. The literature establishes that achievement tests do not adequately capture character skills – ...
(published in: J. Heckman, J.E. Humphries, and T. Kautz (eds.), The Myth of Achievement Tests: The GED and the Role of Character in American Life, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014)
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D01, I20, J24
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7749
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Simone
Bertoli
Hillel
Rapoport
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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous Skills, Migration Networks and the Effectiveness of Quality-Selective Immigration Policies
A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying assumption behind such policies is that more skill-selection should raise ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117 (2), 565-591)
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F22, O15, J61
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7748
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Carl
Lin
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How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2016, 61(5), 1-38)
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J31, J61
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7746
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Hector
Sala
Pedro
Trivín
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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times
The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were ...
(published in: SERIEs, 2014, 5(2), 197-221)
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J20, E24, J61, R11
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7743
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Tavis
Barr
Carl
Lin
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A Detailed Decomposition of Synthetic Cohort Analysis
Social scientists are often interested in assessing relative changes between two groups over time, for example, the convergence of black-white wages from 1940 to 1990. In such situations, we need a ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 127(0), 76-80)
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C20, J70
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7741
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Matthew
Harding
Carlos
Lamarche
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Penalized Quantile Regression with Semiparametric Correlated Effects: Applications with Heterogeneous Preferences
This paper proposes new ?1-penalized quantile regression estimators for panel data, which explicitly allows for individual heterogeneity associated with covariates. We conduct Monte Carlo simulations ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, 342-358)
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C21, C23, J22
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7740
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Structural Empirical Evaluation of Job Search Monitoring
We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2019, 60 (2), 879-903)
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J64, J65, J68, J62, D83, D82, C31, C32
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7739
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Alfonso
Gambardella
Tullio
Jappelli
Carmela A.
Nappi
Franco
Peracchi
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Bibliometric Evaluation vs. Informed Peer Review: Evidence from Italy
A relevant question for the organization of large scale research assessments is whether bibliometric evaluation and informed peer review where reviewers know where the work was published, yield ...
(revised version published in: Research Policy, 2015, 44, 451-466)
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I23, C80, O30
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7738
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Rolf
Aaberge
Tarjei
Havnes
Magne
Mogstad
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A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions
When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution ...
(published as 'Ranking intersecting distribution functions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021,36 (6), 639 - 662)
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D30, D63, I31
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7737
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Tim
Callan
Karina
Doorley
Claire
Keane
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Changes in Income Distributions and the Role of Tax-Benefit Policy During the Great Recession: An International Perspective
This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely France, Germany, the UK and Ireland, and the contribution of tax and benefit policy ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 559-585)
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H23, H53, I32
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7736
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation
Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2014, 79, 133 -149)
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D70, D71, D72
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7735
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Patrick
Kline
Enrico
Moretti
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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs
Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2014, 6, 629-662 ()
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H2, R1, J2
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7734
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Eva
Sierminska
Karina
Doorley
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To Own or Not to Own? Household Portfolios, Demographics and Institutions in a Cross-National Perspective
Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2018, 25 (1), 1-43)
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G11, G21, J10
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7733
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Sutirtha
Bagchi
Jan
Svejnar
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Does Wealth Inequality Matter for Growth? The Effect of Billionaire Wealth, Income Distribution, and Poverty
A fundamental question in social sciences relates to the effect of wealth inequality on economic growth. Yet, in tackling the question, researchers have had to use income as a proxy for wealth. We ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43 (3), 505-530)
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D31, O40, O43
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7732
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Govert
Bijwaard
Jackline
Wahba
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Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?
We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68 )
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F22, J61, C41
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7731
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Almas
Heshmati
Robert
Rudolf
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Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes
Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. ...
(published in: Asian Economic Journal, 2014, 28(4), 413-436. )
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D63, D31, I31, C14
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7730
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Markus
Jäntti
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Income Mobility
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in ...
(published in: AB Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds), Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2A, North-Holland Elsevier, 2015, Chapter 10, 807–935.)
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D31, I30
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7728
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Linguère
Mously
Mbaye
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'Barcelona or Die': Understanding Illegal Migration from Senegal
Fatalities from illegal immigration from Africa is an important issue, representing a major challenge for both major migrant sending and receiving countries. Nonetheless, almost nothing is known ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3, 21 (2014))
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F22, O15
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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