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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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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
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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
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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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7599
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Afsin
Sahin
Aysit
Tansel
Hakan
Berument
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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between ...
(published in: Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 2013, 2, 1-23.)
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C32, E24, E32
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7598
|
Jakub
Cerveny
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Unemployment of Non-western Immigrants in the Great Recession
This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161, 463-480.)
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J15, J64
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7597
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Stephan
Klasen
Janneke
Pieters
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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?
We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Revew, 2015, 29 (3), 449-478)
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J20, J16, I25, O15
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7596
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Alan
Barrett
Irene
Mosca
Brendan
J.
Whelan
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(Lack of) Pension Knowledge
Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be ...
(published as 'How Well-informed are Pension Scheme Members on their Future Pension Benefits?: Evidence from Ireland' in: Journal of Aging and Social Policy, 2015, 27(4), 295-313)
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I38, J14
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7594
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Alexander
Hijzen
Leopoldo
Mondauto
Stefano
Scarpetta
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The Perverse Effects of Job-Security Provisions on Job Security in Italy: Results from a Regression Discontinuity Design
This paper analyses the impact of employment protection (EP) on the composition of the workforce and worker turnover using a unique firm-level dataset for Italy. The impact of employment protection ...
(published as "The Impact of Employment Protection on Temporary Employment: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design" in: Labour Economics, 2017 , 46 (C), 65 - 76)
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J42, J63, J65
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7592
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David
Card
Ana Rute
Cardoso
Patrick
Kline
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Bargaining and the Gender Wage Gap: A Direct Assessment
An influential recent literature argues that women are less likely to initiate bargaining with their employers and are (often) less effective negotiators than men. We use longitudinal wage data from ...
(published as 'Bargaining, sorting, and the gender wage gap: Quantifying the impact of firms on the relative pay of women' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2016, 131 (2), 633-686)
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J16, J31, J71
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7591
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Todd
J.
Kumler
Eric
Verhoogen
Judith
A.
Frias
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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Non-compliance of firms with tax regulations is a major constraint on state capacity in developing countries. We focus on an arguably under-appreciated dimension of non-compliance: under-reporting of ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (5), 881–896. )
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O17, H26, H55
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7590
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Hielke
Buddelmeyer
Duncan
McVicar
Mark
Wooden
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Non-Standard 'Contingent' Employment and Job Satisfaction: A Panel Data Analysis
It is widely assumed that contingent forms of employment, such as fixed-term contracts, labour-hire and casual employment, are associated with low quality jobs. This hypothesis is tested using data ...
(Published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54(2), 256-275. doi:10.1111/irel.12090)
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J28, J41, J81
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7587
|
Pramod
N. (Raja)
Junankar
Abu
S.
Shonchoy
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The Informal Labour Market in India: Transitory or Permanent Employment for Migrants?
This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as a temporary location before moving on to the organised or formal sector to ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:9)
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O17, J15, J61, J42
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7586
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Eibhlin
Hudson
Alan
Barrett
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Peer Groups, Employment Status and Mental Well-being among Older Adults in Ireland
Research has shown that employment status, such as being unemployed or retired, can be related to well-being. In addition, the direction and size of these relationships can be influenced by the ...
(published as 'Peer Groups, Employment Status and Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in Ireland' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2014, 7 (1), 43-54)
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I10, J26, C21
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7585
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Karthik
Muralidharan
Nishith
Prakash
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Cycling to School: Increasing Secondary School Enrollment for Girls in India
We study the impact of an innovative program in the Indian state of Bihar that aimed to reduce the gender gap in secondary school enrollment by providing girls who continued to secondary school with ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (3), 321- 350)
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H42, I2, O15
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7584
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John
V.
Winters
Weineng
Xu
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Geographic Differences in the Earnings of Economics Majors
Economics has been shown to be a relatively high earning college major, but geographic differences in earnings have been largely overlooked. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2014, 45 (3), 262-276)
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I23, J24, J31, R23
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7583
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Mark
L.
Bryan
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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Regression Analysis of Country Effects Using Multilevel Data: A Cautionary Tale
Cross-national differences in outcomes are often analysed using regression analysis of multilevel country datasets, examples of which include the ECHP, ESS, EU-SILC, EVS, ISSP, and SHARE. We review ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2016, 32 (1), 3–22 )
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C52, C81, O57
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7582
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Matloob
Piracha
Teresa
Randazzo
Florin
Vadean
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Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind
This paper analyses the role of remittances and migration on the occupational outcomes of the household members left behind in Tajikistan. Using the control function approach, we show that, contrary ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (2), 278 - 293)
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F22, J24
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7581
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Kostas
Mavromaras
Rong
Zhu
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Labour Force Participation of Mature Age Men in Australia: The Role of Spousal Participation
In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67, 310–333)
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J14, J21
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7580
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Ursula
Jaenichen
Thomas
Rothe
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Doing Well in Reforming the Labour Market? Recent Trends in Job Stability and Wages in Germany
The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, ...
(published as 'The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms 'in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2016, 49, 269-294)
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C34, C41, J31, J62, J68
|
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7579
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Ernesto
Reuben
Matthew
Wiswall
Basit
Zafar
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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender
Standard observed characteristics explain only part of the differences between men and women in education choices and labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students' levels of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 2153-2186)
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D81, D84, I21, I23, J10
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7577
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Wenjin
Long
Simon
Appleton
Lina
Song
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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family ...
(Published with a revised title “The Impacts of job contact network on wages of rural-urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach”, in Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2017, 15 (1) 81-101)
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J24, J31, O15
|
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7576
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Annalisa
Cristini
Almudena
Sevilla
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Do House Prices Affect Consumption? A Re-assessment of the Wealth Hypothesis
This paper undertakes a comparison exercise to disentangle what drives the opposite findings regarding the effect of house prices on consumption documented in two papers using the same data set for ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81, 601-625.)
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D13
|
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7575
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Jessica
Holmes
Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
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Testosterone and the Gender Wage Gap
Testosterone, which induces sexual differentiation of the male fetus, is believed to transfer from males to their littermates in placental mammals. Among humans, individuals with a male twin have ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 30-61)
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J16, J31
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