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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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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
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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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7615
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Andriana
Bellou
Emanuela
Cardia
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Occupations after WWII: The Legacy of Rosie the Riveter
WWII induced a dramatic increase in female labor supply, which persisted over time, particularly for women with higher education. Using Census micro data we study the qualitative aspects of this long ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2016, 62, 124-142)
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J24, J31, N42
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7612
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Marco
Alberto
De Benedetto
Maria
De Paola
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The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout: Evidence from Italian Municipalities
We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period ...
(published in: Electoral Studies, 2016, 44, 98-108)
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D72, D78, J71, J16
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7610
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Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
Andreas
Grunewald
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Incentives and Information as Driving Forces of Default Effects
The behavioral relevance of non-binding default options is well established. While most research has focused on decision makers' responses to a given default, we argue that this individual decision ...
(substantially revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics)
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D03, D18, D83, C92
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7609
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Werner
Eichhorst
Verena
Tobsch
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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?
This paper gives an overview of the transformation of the German labor market since the mid-1990s with a special focus on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or 'dualization' of ...
(also available as: ILO Employment Working Paper 145 and DIW SOEP Paper 596)
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J21, J31, J58
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7608
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in India
In this paper, we examine the intergenerational occupational mobility in India among men born during 1945-85. Following Long and Ferrie (2013, American Economic Review), we not only distinguish ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Men in India' in: Journal of Development Studies , 2015, 51(10), 1389-1408)
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J62
|
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7607
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Shelly
Lundberg
Robert
Pollak
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, ...
(published in: Leah Platt Boustan, Carola Frydman and Robert A. Margo (eds.), Human Capital in History: The American Record, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014, 241-272.)
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J12, J13
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7606
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Benedikt
Herrmann
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Growing out of the Crisis: Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:14)
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L2, L26, O3, O4
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7604
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Hannes
Schwandt
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Unmet Aspirations as an Explanation for the Age U-shape in Human Wellbeing
A large literature in behavioral and social sciences has found that human wellbeing follows a U-shape over age. Some theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 122, 75-87)
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A12, I30, D84
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7602
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Erick
Gong
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Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter?
Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the "mission" of the organization. Well-identified estimates of exactly how much harder they will work have been elusive, ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 35 (1 Part 1), 211-236 )
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C91, J22, J33, M52
|
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7600
|
Joanne
Lindley
Stephen
Machin
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Spatial Changes in Labour Market Inequality
We study spatial changes in labour market inequality for US states and MSAs using Census and American Community Survey data between 1980 and 2010. We report evidence of significant spatial variations ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 121-138)
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J31, R11
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