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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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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
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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
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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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7696
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Jacques
Poot
Matthew
Roskruge
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Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market
The education services provided in any given country increasingly contribute to human capital that is employed in another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to ...
(published in: Studies in Regional Science, 2013, 43(1), 61-78)
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F22, I24, J24, J31
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7695
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Junghee
Han
Almas
Heshmati
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Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea
The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues ...
(published in: International Journal of Innovation Management, 2016, 20(7), 235-257. )
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A20, D45, I22, L24, P12
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7694
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Heather
Antecol
Ozkan
Eren
Serkan
Ozbeklik
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Peer Effects in Disadvantaged Primary Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
We examine the effect of peer achievement on students' own achievement and teacher performance in primary schools in disadvantaged neighborhoods using data from a well-executed randomized experiment ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 95 - 132)
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I21, J24
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7692
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Rey
Hernández-Julián
Hani
Mansour
Christina
Peters
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The Effects of Intrauterine Malnutrition on Birth and Fertility Outcomes: Evidence from the 1974 Bangladesh Famine
This paper uses the Bangladesh famine of 1974 as a natural experiment to estimate the impact of intrauterine malnutrition on sex of the child and infant mortality. In addition, we estimate the impact ...
(published in: Demography, 2014, 51(5), 1775-1796)
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I15, J13
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7691
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Jan
Goebel
Christian
Krekel
Tim
Tiefenbach
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima
We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well-being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental ...
(published as 'How Natural Disasters Can Affect Environmental Concerns, Risk Aversion, and Even Politics: Evidence from Fukushima and Three European Countries' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(4), 1137-1180 )
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I18, I31, Z13, Q54
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7690
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Michael
Lechner
Paul
Downward
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Heterogeneous Sports Participation and Labour Market Outcomes in England
Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49 (4), 335–348. )
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I12, I18, J24, L83, C21
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7689
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Stefan
Boes
Michael
Gerfin
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Does Full Insurance Increase the Demand for Health Care?
We estimate the causal effect of having full health insurance on health care expenditures. We take advantage of a unique quasi-experimental setup in which deductibles and co-payments were zero in a ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (11), 1483-1496)
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I11, C14
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7685
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
Cahit
Guven
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Engaging in Corruption: The Influence of Cultural Values and Contagion Effects at the Micro Level
Previous empirical work on corruption has generally been cross-country in nature and focused on utilizing country-level corruption ratings. By using micro-level data for over 20 European countries ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 39, 287-300)
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K42, O17
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7682
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Richard
Layard
Andrew
E.
Clark
Francesca
Cornaglia
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
James
Vernoit
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F720- F738)
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A12, D60, H00, I31
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7681
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Daniela
Del Boca
Christopher
Flinn
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Household Behavior and the Marriage Market
There is some controversy in the field of household economics regarding the efficiency of household decisions. We make the point that a flexible specification of spousal preferences and the household ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 137-155)
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D13, J12, J22
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7679
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
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Laterborns Don't Give Up: The Effects of Birth Order on Earnings in Europe
While it is well known that birth order affects educational attainment, less is known about its effects on earnings. Using data from eleven European countries for males born between 1935 and 1956, we ...
(published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (2), 449-470)
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D13, J12, J24
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7678
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Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Nina
Smith
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Why So Few Women on Boards of Directors? Empirical Evidence from Danish Companies 1997-2007
This paper analyzes the determinants of women on the boards of directors based on a panel sample of all Danish companies in the private sector with more than 50 employees. The share of women on the ...
(published in: Journal of Business Ethics, 2018, 147 (2), 445-467 )
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G34, J16, L25
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7676
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Brian
Stacy
Cassandra
M.
Guarino
Mark
D.
Reckase
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 50-74)
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I0, I20, I21, I28, J01, J08, J24, J44, J45
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7675
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Giorgio
Di Pietro
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Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates?
Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes, relatively little research has been conducted to explore their benefits. Using data on a large sample of recent Italian ...
(revised version published in: Education, Finance & Policy, 2015, 10 (2), 223-243)
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I2, J6
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7673
|
Carlos
Lamarche
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Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data
In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:11)
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J52, O14, O43, O54
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7672
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Tanja
Hethey-Maier
Johannes
F.
Schmieder
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Does the Use of Worker Flows Improve the Analysis of Establishment Turnover? Evidence from German Administrative Data
Economists have long been interested in analyzing entries and exits of establishments. In many countries administrative datasets provide an excellent source for detailed analysis on a fine and ...
(published in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2013, 133 (4), 477–510)
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L1, M1, J6
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7671
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Andrea
Conte
Marco
Vivarelli
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Succeeding in Innovation: Key Insights on the Role of R&D and Technological Acquisition Drawn from Company Data
This paper discusses the relationship between a company's investment in innovation and its success in introducing new product and/or process innovations. In doing so, this analysis departs from the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1317-1340)
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O31
|
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7670
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Anabela
Carneiro
Pedro
Portugal
José
Varejão
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Catastrophic Job Destruction
In this article we study the resilience of the Portuguese labor market, in terms of job flows, employment and wage developments, in the context of the current recession. We single out the huge ...
(published as 'Catastrophic job Destruction during the Portuguese Economic Crisis' in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39 (Part B), 444-457)
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E24, J23, J63
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7669
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Magnus
Lofstrom
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1B, Elsevier, 2015)
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J15, J18, J31, J38, J61, L26, M13
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7668
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Niall
O'Higgins
Christian
Brüggemann
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The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic
Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other – ...
(published in: European Educational Research Journal, 2014, 13(3), 282-294 )
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J15, I24
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7667
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Niall
O'Higgins
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Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe
The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics 2015, 39 (2), 631-654)
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J16, J15
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7665
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Ken
Clark
Stephen
Drinkwater
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UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries
This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3(1), Article 15)
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J61, F22
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7663
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Indermit
Gill
Johannes
Koettl
Truman
Packard
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Full Employment: A Distant Dream for Europe
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:19)
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I38, J08, J21, J24, J32, J42
|
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7662
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Werner
Eichhorst
Paul
Marx
Verena
Tobsch
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Non-Standard Employment across Occupations in Germany: The Role of Replaceability and Labour Market Flexibility
The share of non-standard jobs in total employment has increased in Germany over recent decades. Research tends to attribute this in particular to labour market re-forms and socio-economic change. ...
(published in: Werner Eichhorst and Paul Marx (eds.), Non-Standard Employment in Post-Industrial Labour Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2015)
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J24, J21, J41
|
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7659
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Andrey
Launov
Klaus
Wälde
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Thumbscrews for Agencies or for Individuals? How to Reduce Unemployment
To which extent does an increase in operating effectiveness of public employment agencies on the one hand and a reduction of unemployment benefits on the other reduce unemployment? Using the recent ...
(substantially revised version published as 'The Employment Effect of Reforming a Public Employment Agency' in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 140-164)
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E24, J65, J68
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7658
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Eskil
Wadensjö
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Labor Market Transparency
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and ...
(published in: Jens Forssbaeck and Lars Oxelheim (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
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F22, J22, J23, J30
|
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7657
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Rusty
Tchernis
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The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence
Rates of childhood obesity have increased dramatically in the last few decades. Non-causal evidence suggests that childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56, 2185-2224)
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C23, I12, I18
|
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7656
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Samuel
Mühlemann
Harald
Pfeifer
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The Structure of Hiring Costs in Germany: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
This paper analyzes the structure of hiring costs of skilled workers in Germany. Using detailed and representative firm-level data on recruitment and adaptation costs of new hires, we find that ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55 (2), 193–218)
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J32, J63
|
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7655
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Adrian
Hille
Jürgen
Schupp
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How Learning a Musical Instrument Affects the Development of Skills
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the causal effects of music training on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how long-term music training during ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 44, 56-8)
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I21, J24, Z11
|
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7654
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Christian
von Scheve
Frederike
Esche
Jürgen
Schupp
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The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation
Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of ...
(published in: Journal of Happiness Studies, 2017, 18(4), 1231-1254.)
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A14, D63, J17
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