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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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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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7628
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James
J.
Heckman
Rodrigo
Pinto
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Causal Analysis after Haavelmo
Haavelmo's seminal 1943 paper is the first rigorous treatment of causality. In it, he distinguished the definition of causal parameters from their identification. He showed that causal parameters are ...
(revised version published in: Econometric Theory, 2015, 31(1), 115-151)
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C10, C18
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7627
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Gaetano
D'Adamo
Riccardo
Rovelli
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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence
During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2015, 43, 21-37)
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C34, E52, F31
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7626
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Natalia
Danzer
Victor
Lavy
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before ...
(published as 'Paid Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes' in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (608), 81-117)
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J13, J24, J22
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7625
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Heike
Hennig-Schmidt
Bernd
Irlenbusch
Rainer
Michael
Rilke
Gari
Walkowitz
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Self-Serving Use of Equity Rules in Bargaining with Asymmetric Outside Options
We experimentally investigate multiple notions of equity in ultimatum bargaining with asymmetric outside options. Building on the generalized equity principle formulated by Selten (1978), we derive ...
(completely revised and extended version published as 'Designing Feedback in Voluntary Contribution Games: The Role of Transparency" in: Experimental Economics 2019, 22(2), 552–576)
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C71, C72, C78, C91, D63
|
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7624
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Hanna
Brenzel
Hermann
Gartner
Claus
Schnabel
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Wage Posting or Wage Bargaining? Evidence from the Employers' Side
Using a representative establishment dataset, this paper is the first to analyze the incidence of wage posting and wage bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 29, 41-48)
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E24, J30, J63, M51
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7623
|
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Structure of the Permanent Job Wage Premium: Evidence from Europe
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for thirteen countries during 1995-2001, I investigate the wage premium for permanent jobs relative to ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55 (1), 149-178)
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J31, J42
|
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7622
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Raquel
Fonseca
Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Arie
Kapteyn
Titus
Galama
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Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (1), 536–579)
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I10, I38, J26
|
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7619
|
Magnus
Carlsson
Luca
Fumarco
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Artifactual Evidence of Discrimination in Correspondence Studies? A Replication of the Neumark Method
The advocates of correspondence testing (CT) argue that it provide the most clear and convincing evidence of discrimination. The common view is that the standard CT can identify what is typically ...
(revised version published as 'Does the design of correspondence studies influence the measurement of discrimination?' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3, 11 )
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J71
|
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7618
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Martin
Guzi
Pablo
de Pedraza
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A Web Survey Analysis of the Subjective Well-being of Spanish Workers
This paper makes use of a large sample of individual data obtained from web surveys in the WageIndicator project. Data includes extensive information on the quality of working conditions together ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36 (1), 48-67)
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J28, J81
|
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7617
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Thomas
Cornelissen
Christian
Dustmann
Uta
Schönberg
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Peer Effects in the Workplace
Existing evidence on peer effects in a work environment stems from either laboratory experiments or from real-word studies referring to a specific firm or specific occupation. Yet, it is unclear to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107(2), 425-56)
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J24, J31
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