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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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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
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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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7653
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Max
Nathan
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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:4)
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G23, G24, J15, J61, L5, L26, M12, M13, O31, O32, R11
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7652
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Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
Arjan
Non
Willem
Verbeke
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Dynamic Incentive Effects of Relative Performance Pay: A Field Experiment
We conduct a field experiment among 189 stores of a retail chain to study dynamic incentive effects of relative performance pay. Employees in the randomly selected treatment stores could win a bonus ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28, 1-13)
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C93, M52
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7651
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Iván
Fernández-Val
Yevgeniya
Savchenko
Francis
Vella
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Evaluating the Role of Individual Specific Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Subjective Health Assessments and Income
This paper investigates the impact of income on an individual's subjective self-assessment of own health. We employ recently developed methods in the non linear panel data literature to account for ...
(published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2017, 25, 85-98)
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I12, C33, C35
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7650
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Rafael
Lalive
Camille
Landais
Josef
Zweimüller
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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105 (12), 3564-3596)
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J65, J21, J22
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7649
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
Anders
Stenberg
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Does Expert Advice Improve Educational Choice?
This paper reports evidence that an individual meeting with a study counselor at high school significantly improves the quality of choice of tertiary educational field, as self-assessed 18 months ...
(published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10 (12))
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I2, J24, J31
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7648
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Govert
Bijwaard
Hans
van Kippersluis
Justus
Veenman
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 42, 29–43 )
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C41, I14, I24
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7646
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Etienne
Lehmann
Laurent
Simula
Alain
Trannoy
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Tax Me If You Can! Optimal Nonlinear Income Tax between Competing Governments
We investigate how potential tax-driven migrations modify the Mirrlees income tax schedule when two countries play Nash. The social objective is the maximin and preferences are quasilinear in income. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2014, 129 (4), 1995-2030 )
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D82, H21, H87
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7645
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Krisztina
Kis-Katos
Robert
Sparrow
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 Indonesian regions, and investigate the labour market mechanisms behind these effects. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015, 117, 94-106)
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J13, O24, O15
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7644
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Natalia
Danzer
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Job Satisfaction and Self-Selection into the Public or Private Sector: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Are public sector jobs better than private sector jobs? To answer this question, this paper investigates observed differences in job satisfaction between public- and private-sector workers and ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 57(C), 46-62. )
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J28, J45, J31, J32
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7643
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Yuanyuan
Ma
Patrick
Paul
Walsh
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Party Membership and State Jobs in Urban China
The "dual-track approach" for transition would have to be facilitated by an endogenous movement of workers away from the state into private jobs. Yet, using the Chinese Household Income Project ...
(published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2017, 16(2), 167-184)
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J42, J62, O15, P23, R23
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7641
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Donald
O.
Parsons
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Understanding Severance Pay
Severance pay, a fixed-sum payment to workers at job separation, has been the focus of intense policy concern for the last several decades, but much of this concern is unearned. The design of the ...
(Cuadernos de Economía (Spanish Journal of Economics and Finance), 2013, 36 (106), 155-165.)
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J65, J41, J33, J08
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7639
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Aysit
Tansel
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Supplementary Education in Turkey: Recent Developments and Future Prospects
Purpose: This paper aims to provide the recent developments on the supplementary education system in Turkey. The national examinations for advancing to higher levels of schooling are believed to fuel ...
(published in: J. Aurini, S. Davies and J. Dierkes (eds.), Out of the Shadows: The Global Intensification of Supplementary Education, 2014, 23-66)
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I20, I21, I22
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7637
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Markus
M.
Grabka
Jan
Marcus
Eva
Sierminska
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Wealth Distribution within Couples
While most studies on wealth inequality focus on the inequality between households, this paper examines the distribution of wealth within couples. For this purpose, we make use of unique individual ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(3), 459-486)
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J2, D13, D31, D69, I31
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7635
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Sabrina
Marchetti
Daniela
Piazzalunga
Alessandra
Venturini
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study: Italy
Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:8)
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J15, J26, J61, J62
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7634
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Michael
Fertig
Martin
Kahanec
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Mobility in an Enlarging European Union: Projections of Potential Flows from EU's Eastern Neighbors and Croatia
This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform out-of-sample forecasts using an adaption of the model of Hatton (1995) to time ...
(published as 'Projections of Potential Flows to the Enlarging EU from Ukraine, Croatia and other Eastern Neighbors' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:6)
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F22, C23, C53
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7633
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Cain
Polidano
Domenico
Tabasso
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Making It Real: The Benefits of Workplace Learning in Upper-Secondary VET Courses
In OECD countries, 'real world' upper-secondary vocational education and training (VET) programs are used to engage less academically oriented youth in learning, while helping to prepare them for ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 42, 130-146)
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I20, J01
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7632
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János
Köllő
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Patterns of Integration: Low Educated People and their Jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary
The paper looks at how the distribution of jobs by complexity and firms' willingness to hire low educated labor for jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway, Italy ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2015, 23(1), 105-134)
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J21, J24
|
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7631
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Charles
Courtemanche
Samir
Soneji
Rusty
Tchernis
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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation ...
(published in: HSR Health Services Research, 2015, 50 (5), 1413-1431)
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I14, C11
|
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7630
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Arne
Uhlendorff
Joachim
Wolff
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Sanctions for Young Welfare Recipients
Social welfare systems usually imply specific obligations for benefit recipients. If a recipient does not comply with these obligations, a sanction involving a punitive benefits reduction may be ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 177-208)
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J64, J65, I38, C41
|
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7629
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Catia
Batista
Dan
Silverman
Dean
Yang
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Directed Giving: Evidence from an Inter-Household Transfer Experiment
We investigate the determinants of giving in a lab-in-the-field experiment with large stakes. Study participants in urban Mozambique play dictator games where their counterpart is the closest person ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 118, 2-21)
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C92, C93, D01, D03, D64, O17
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