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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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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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Lingučre
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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7727
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Sylvie
Démurger
Hui
Xu
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Left-Behind Children and Return Decisions of Rural Migrants in China
This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple illustrative model based on Dustmann (2003) that incorporates economic and non-economic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:10)
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J61, J13, C41, C25, O53
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7726
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Manuela
Angelucci
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Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico
Using data collected for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty program, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but ...
(revised version published in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 224-228)
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J61, O12, O15, F22
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7725
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Corrado
Giulietti
Zahra
Siddique
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The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization
We examine the impact of the Americanization of names on the labor market outcomes of migrants. We construct a novel longitudinal data set of naturalization records in which we track a complete ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 1089-1116)
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J61, J62, Z1, N32
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7724
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Antonio
Di Paolo
Aysit
Tansel
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Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey
Foreign language skills represent a form of human capital that can be rewarded in the labor market. Drawing on data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007, this is the first study estimating returns ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51(4), 407-421)
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I25, J24, J31, O15, O53
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7723
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Todd
Pugatch
Elizabeth
Schroeder
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Incentives for Teacher Relocation: Evidence from the Gambian Hardship Allowance
We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on the distribution and characteristics of teachers ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 120-136)
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I25, I28, J38, J45, J61, O12, O15
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7722
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Daniele
Checchi
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Re-testing PISA Students One Year Later: On School Value Added Estimation Using OECD-PISA
Thanks to the effort of two local educational authorities, in two regions of North Italy (Valle d'Aosta and the autonomous province of Trento) the PISA 2009 test was re-administered to the same ...
(revised version published in: Rivista di Politica Economica, 2016, 105, 145-189 )
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I21, J24
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7721
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Eleni
Kalfa
Matloob
Piracha
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Immigrants' Educational Mismatch and the Penalty of Over-Education
This paper analyses immigrants' education-occupation mismatch as well as its impact on their wages in Spain. Using cross-sectional data from the National Immigrant Survey of Spain 2007, we estimate a ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2017, 22(5), 462-481)
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C34, J24, J61
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7720
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Asako
Ohinata
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students: A Quantile Regression Approach
We analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary ...
(published as 'Quantile Peer Effects of Immigrant Children at Primary Schools' in: Labour, 2016, 30 (2), 135 - 157)
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I21, J15
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7719
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Matteo
Picchio
Stefano
Staffolani
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Does Apprenticeship Improve Job Opportunities? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
In Italy the reforms of the last twenty years shaped a dual labour market with different levels of employment protection for permanent jobs, on one side, and temporary jobs like apprenticeships and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56 (1), 23-60)
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C36, C41, J24, J41
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7718
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A. Kerem
Cosar
Nezih
Guner
James
Tybout
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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (3), 625-63.)
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F12, F16, E24, J64, L11
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7717
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Pramod
N. (Raja)
Junankar
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Is there a Trade-off between Employment and Productivity?
The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of ...
(published as 'Macroeconomic and Sectoral Issues in Youth Employment Policy' in: O'Higgins, N., Ebell, M.; Junankar, P.N. (eds.), Rising to the Youth Employment Policy, Geneva, 2017, Ch.2)
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O11, O47, O17
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7716
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Giovanni
S. F.
Bruno
Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Orietta
Dessy
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Temporary Contracts and Young Workers' Job Satisfaction in Italy
The Italian process of flexibilization of the labour market has created a dual market populated by protected permanent employees and unprotected temporary workers. The latter comprises not only ...
(published in: M.A. Malo and D. Sciulli (eds.), Disadvantaged Workers, AIEL Series in Labour Economics, Springer, 2014, 95-120)
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J28, J81
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7715
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Olivier
Coibion
Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Dmitri
Koustas
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Amerisclerosis? The Puzzle of Rising U.S. Unemployment Persistence
The persistence of U.S. unemployment has risen with each of the last three recessions, raising the specter that future U.S. recessions might look more like the Eurosclerosis experience of the 1980s ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2013, 47 (2), 193-26)
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E24, E32, E52, J64, R11, R23
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7714
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Matthias
Sutter
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Second-Degree Moral Hazard in a Real-World Credence Goods Market
Empirical literature on moral hazard focuses exclusively on the direct impact of asymmetric information on market outcomes, thus ignoring possible repercussions. We present a field experiment in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 1-18.)
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C93, D82
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7713
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Iris
Kesternich
Bettina
M.
Siflinger
James
P.
Smith
Joachim
Winter
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Individual Behavior as a Pathway between Early-Life Shocks and Adult Health: Evidence from Hunger Episodes in Post-War Germany
We investigate long-run effects of episodes of hunger experienced as a child on health status and behavioral outcomes in later life. We combine self-reported data on hunger experiences from ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (588), F372-F393)
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I10
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7712
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Arnaud
Chevalier
Olivier
Marie
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Economic Uncertainty, Parental Selection, and the Criminal Activity of the 'Children of the Wall'
We explore the link between parental selection and criminality of children in a new context. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, East Germany experienced a very large, but temporary, drop ...
(revised version publisehd as 'Risky moms, risky kids? fertility and crime after the fall of the wal' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105048)
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J13, K42
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7711
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Christian
Dustmann
Francesco
Fasani
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The Effect of Local Area Crime on Mental Health
This paper analyses the effect of local crime rates on the mental well-being of residents. Our identification strategy addresses the problem of sorting, and endogenous moving behaviour. We find that ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 978-1017)
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I18, K42, R23
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7710
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Angela
Cipollone
Eleonora
Patacchini
Giovanna
Vallanti
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Women Labor Market Participation in Europe: Novel Evidence on Trends and Shaping Factors
We investigate the changes in women's participation patterns across 15 EU countries over the last 20 years using individual data from ECHP and EUSILC databases. Our findings reveal a role of social ...
(published as 'Female labour market participation in Europe: novel evidence on trends and shaping factors' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3, 18 (2014))
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J11, J21, J2
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7709
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Nicolas
Moreau
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Household Consumption at Retirement: A Regression Discontinuity Study on French Data
Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117-118, 253-276)
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D12, J22, J14, C1
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7708
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Sungwook
Cho
Almas
Heshmati
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What If You Had Been Less Fortunate: The Effects of Poor Family Background on Current Labor Market Outcomes
This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2015, 42 (1), 20-33. )
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C21, E24, J13, J31, J62, O15
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7707
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Magne
Mogstad
Kari
Vea
Salvanes
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What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98(4), 655-670)
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J13, J18, H42
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7705
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Fabian
Slonimczyk
Anna
Yurko
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Assessing the Impact of the Maternity Capital Policy in Russia Using a Dynamic Model of Fertility and Employment
With declining population and fertility rates below replacement levels, Russia is currently facing a demographic crisis. Starting in 2007, the federal government has pursued an ambitious pro-natalist ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 265-281)
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J13, C61
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7704
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Claudia
Olivetti
Eleonora
Patacchini
Yves
Zenou
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Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity
This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18(1), 266-301. )
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J22, Z13
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7703
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Fabian
Slonimczyk
Vladimir
Gimpelson
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Informality and Mobility: Evidence from Russian Panel Data
Informality is a defining characteristic of labor markets in developing and transition countries. This paper analyzes patterns of mobility across different forms of formal and informal employment in ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2015, 23(2), 299–341)
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J6
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7702
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Andrey
Stoyanov
Nick
Zubanov
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Money on the Table? Firms' and Workers' Gains from Productivity Spillovers through Worker Mobility
We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked ...
(revised version published as 'The Distribution of the Gains from Spillovers through Worker Mobility between Workers and Firms' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 17-35)
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D24, J31, J60
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7701
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Sandra
Nieto
Alessia
Matano
Raul
Ramos
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Skill Mismatches in the EU: Immigrants vs. Natives
The objective of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors behind the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and immigrants in EU countries. Using ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36(4), 540-561)
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J15, J24, J31
|
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7700
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Raul
Ramos
Jordi
Surinach
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A Gravity Model of Migration between ENC and EU
Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main ...
(published in: Tijdschrift Voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 2017, 108 (1), 21-35)
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J11, J15, J61, C23, C53
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7699
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Alois
Kneip
Monika
Merz
Lidia
Storjohann
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Aggregation and Labor Supply Elasticities
The aggregate Frisch elasticity of labor supply has played a key role in business cycle analysis. This paper develops a statistical aggregation procedure which allows for worker heterogeneity in ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020, 18, 2315-2358)
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C51, E10, J22
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7698
|
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Andreas
Peichl
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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey
Previous reviews of static labor supply estimations concentrate mainly on the evidence from the 1980s and 1990s, Anglo-Saxon countries and early generations of labor supply modeling. This paper ...
(published as 'Own-wage labor supply elasticities: variation across time and estimation methods' in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 5, 10 (2016) )
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C25, C52, H31, J22
|
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7697
|
Guido
Cozzi
Noemi
Mantovan
Robert
M.
Sauer
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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers
Working as a volunteer is a widespread phenomenon that has both individual and societal benefits. In this paper, we identify the wage returns to working for free by exploiting exogenous variation in ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79(6), 1018-1045)
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C26, D64, H41, J16, J31, J71
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