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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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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
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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
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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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7573
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Ragui
Assaad
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Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:6)
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I25, J21, J24, J31, J45, O53, P52
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7571
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Robert
Holzmann
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A Provocative Perspective on Population Aging and Old-Age Financial Protection
Population aging is typically associated with economic challenges for productivity and financial threats for the old-age financial protection system of a country. This paper takes an optimistic ...
(published in: Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies 2013 50 (2), 107-137)
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H55, J11, J14, J26
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7570
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Hans
Bloemen
Stefan
Hochguertel
Jochem
Zweerink
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The Causal Effect of Retirement on Mortality: Evidence from Targeted Incentives to Retire Early
This paper identifies and estimates the impact of early retirement on the probability to die within five years, using administrative micro panel data covering the entire population of the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (12), e204-e218)
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C26, I1, J26
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7569
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Elvire
Guillaud
Paul
Marx
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Preferences for Employment Protection and the Insider-Outsider Divide
Insider-outsider theory suggests that in dual labour markets two groups have opposing preferences regarding protection against dismissals: insiders defend employment protection, because it increases ...
(revised version published in: West European Politics, 2014, 37 (5), 1177-1185)
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J08, J41, K31
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7568
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Alberto
Alesina
Johann
Harnoss
Hillel
Rapoport
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Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity
We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 101-138)
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O1, O4, F22, F43
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7567
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Byung-Yeon
Kim
Syngjoo
Choi
Jungmin
Lee
Sokbae
Lee
Kyunghui
Choi
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Do Institutions Affect Social Preferences? Evidence from Divided Korea
The Cold War division of Korea, regarded as a natural experiment in institutional change, provides a unique opportunity to examine whether institutions affect social preferences. We recruited North ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (4), 865 - 888)
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C92, C93, D03, P20
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7566
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Kostas
Mavromaras
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An Analysis of the Impact of Socioeconomic Disadvantage and School Quality on the Probability of School Dropout
PISA scores are an internationally established indicator of student and school performance. This paper builds on the evidence that better PISA scores are known to be associated with better later life ...
(published in Education Economics, 2014, 22 (4), 389-411)
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I24, I21
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7565
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Helmuth
Cremer
Kerstin
Roeder
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Long-Term Care and Lazy Rotten Kids
This paper studies the determination of informal long-term care (family aid) to dependent elderly in a worst case scenario concerning the "harmony" of family relations. Children are purely selfish, ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 19, 2017, 583-602)
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D13, H21, I13
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7564
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Christoph
Rothe
Sergio
Firpo
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Semiparametric Estimation and Inference Using Doubly Robust Moment Conditions
We study semiparametric two-step estimators which have the same structure as parametric doubly robust estimators in their second step, but retain a fully nonparametric specification in the first ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2019, 35 (5), 1048-1087)
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C14, C21, C31, C51
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7563
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David
E.
Bloom
Elizabeth
T.
Cafiero
Mark
E.
McGovern
Klaus
Prettner
Anderson
Stanciole
Jonathan
Weiss
Samuel
Bakkila
Larry
Rosenberg
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The Economic Impact of Non-communicable Disease in China and India: Estimates, Projections, and Comparisons
This paper provides estimates of the economic impact of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in China and India for the period 2012-2030. Our estimates are derived using WHO's EPIC model of economic ...
(published as 'The macroeconomic impact of non-communicable diseases in China and India: Estimates, projections, and comparisons' in: Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2014, 4, 100-111)
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E13, I15, O40
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7562
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Chunbing
Xing
Junfu
Zhang
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The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2017, 43, 72-90)
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O15, R12, R23
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7561
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Massimo
Bordignon
Tommaso
Nannicini
Guido
Tabellini
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Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule
We compare single round vs runoff elections under plurality rule, allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under runoff elections, the number of political candidates is larger, but the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (8), 2349-70)
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H72, D72, C14
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7558
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Lídia
Farré
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain
Most EaP migrants in Spain come from Ukraine, followed by, to a much lesser extent, Moldavia, Armenia, and Georgia. Relative to other migrants, they are those who most recently arrived to Spain. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:1)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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7557
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Olivier
Deschenes
Michael
Greenstone
Joseph
S.
Shapiro
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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade ...
(published as 'Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program' in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (10), 2958–2989))
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H4, I1, Q4, Q5, D1
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7556
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Tim
Higgins
Mathias
Sinning
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Modeling Income Dynamics for Public Policy Design: An Application to Income Contingent Student Loans
This paper studies the importance of dynamic earnings modeling for the design of income contingent student loans (ICLs). ICLs have been shown to be theoretically optimal in terms of efficiency in the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37 (1), 273-285)
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H81, I22, C15
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7555
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Mary
Gallagher
John
T.
Giles
Albert
Park
Meiyan
Wang
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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The ...
(revised version published in: Human Relations, 2015, 68 (2), 197-235)
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J08, J16, J28, J41, J52, J53, O15, O17
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7554
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Chris
Rohlfs
Ryan
Sullivan
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Hedonic Estimation under Very General Conditions Using Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs
This paper develops a generalized hedonic model in which an exogenous shock to a single product attribute can affect other attributes, the markets for the product's complements and substitutes, and ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016, 57, 54-62)
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D12, C35, C31, D61, C9
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7552
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James
J.
Heckman
Rodrigo
Pinto
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Econometric Mediation Analyses: Identifying the Sources of Treatment Effects from Experimentally Estimated Production Technologies with Unmeasured and Mismeasured Inputs
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (1-2), 6-31)
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C21, C38, C43, D24
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7551
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nikhil
Jha
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Educational Achievement and the Allocation of School Resources
The school resources – educational outcomes debate has focused almost exclusively on spending levels. We extend this by analysing the relationship between student achievement and schools' budget ...
(published in: Australian Economic Review, 2016, 49 (3), 251 – 271)
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I21, I22, I28
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7549
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Giovanni
Peri
Agnese
Romiti
Mariacristina
Rossi
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Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement
Women contribute disproportionately to household production, especially in Southern European countries. As a consequence of population aging assistance to elderly parents, rather than child care, has ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 18-34)
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J22, J26, F22
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