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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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7414
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Ive
Marx
Lina
Salanauskaite
Gerlinde
Verbist
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The Paradox of Redistribution Revisited: And That It May Rest in Peace?
There is a long-standing controversy over the question of whether targeting social transfers towards the bottom part of the income distribution actually enhances or weakens their redistributive ...
(revised version published in: Social Forces, 2016, 95 (1), 1-24)
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H1, H2, H53
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7412
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Gabriel
Burdin
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Are Worker-Managed Firms Really More Likely to Fail?
Different theoretical explanations suggest that worker-managed firms (WMFs) are prone to failure in competitive environments. Using a long panel of Uruguayan firms, the author presents new evidence ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67(1), 202-238)
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P13, P51, C41
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7411
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Michael
Kosfeld
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Can You Trust the Good Guys? Trust Within and Between Groups with Different Missions
NGOs and other non-profit organizations attract workers who strongly identify themselves with their missions. We study whether these "good guys" are more trustworthy and how such pronounced group ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 121, 400-404)
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C72, C92, M51
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7410
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Jannie
H. G.
Kristoffersen
Nina
Smith
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Gender Differences in the Effects of Behavioral Problems on School Outcomes
Behavioral problems are important determinants of school outcomes and later success in the labor market. We analyze whether behavioral problems affect girls and boys differently with respect to ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Differences in Behavioral Problems and School Outcomes' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 115, 75–93)
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J16, I29, I19
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7409
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Peter
Eibich
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our ...
(published in: Health Policy, 2014, 114 (1), 41-53)
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I12, I14, I18
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7407
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Thierry
Magnac
Nicolas
Pistolesi
Sébastien
Roux
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Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings
We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126(3), 1219-1249.)
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C33, D91, I24, J24, J31
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7406
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Tanika
Chakraborty
Bakhrom
Mirkasimov
Susan
Steiner
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Transfer Behaviour in Migrant Sending Communities
We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(3), 690–705)
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D63, F22, O12, I30
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7403
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Gerhard
Krug
Gesine
Stephan
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Is the Contracting-Out of Intensive Placement Services More Effective than Provision by the PES? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
There is a longstanding debate on the advantages of quasi-markets for placement services compared to their public deliverance. During 2009, the German Public Employment Service (PES) implemented a ...
(revised version published as 'Private and Public Placement Services for Hard-To-Place Unemployed: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment' in: ILR Review, 2016, 69, 471-500)
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J68, J64, J65
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7402
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Gustavo
Henrique
de Andrade
Miriam
Bruhn
David
McKenzie
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A Helping Hand or the Long Arm of the Law? Experimental Evidence on What Governments Can Do to Formalize Firms
Many governments have spent much of the past decade trying to extend a helping hand to informal businesses by making it easier and cheaper for them to formalize. Much less effort has been devoted to ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2016, 30 (1), 24-54)
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O17, O12, C93, D21, L26
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7401
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David
McKenzie
Melissa
Siegel
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Eliciting Illegal Migration Rates through List Randomization
Most migration surveys do not ask about the legal status of migrants due to concerns about the sensitivity of this question. List randomization is a technique that has been used in a number of other ...
(published in: Migration Studies, 2013, 1(3): 276-91)
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F22, C83, J61, K42
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7400
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Patrick
Hullegie
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Seek and Ye Shall Find: How Search Requirements Affect Job Finding Rates of Older Workers
Unemployment insurance recipients in the Netherlands were for a long time exempted from the requirement to actively search for a job when they reached the age of 57.5. We study how this exemption ...
(published in De Economist, 2014, 162 (4), 377 - 395)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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7399
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Petri
Böckerman
Mika
Maliranta
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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (4), 878-914)
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J28, F23
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7397
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Alfred
Lameli
Volker
Nitsch
Jens
Suedekum
Nikolaus
Wolf
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Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade
Language is a strong and robust determinant of international trade patterns: Countries sharing a common language trade significantly more with each other than countries using different languages, ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16 (3), 290-306)
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F14, F15, Z10
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7396
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Jason
M.
Lindo
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Aggregation and the Estimated Effects of Local Economic Conditions on Health
This paper considers the relationship between local economic conditions and health with a focus on different approaches to geographic aggregation. After reviewing the tradeoffs associated with more- ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 83-96)
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I10, J20, E32
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7395
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
Virgilio
Galdo
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Digital Labor-Market Intermediation and Job Expectations: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Subjective expectations are fundamental for understanding individual behavior. Yet, little is known about how individuals use new information to formulate and update their subjective expectations. In ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (1), 112-116)
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I3, J2
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7394
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Ana
C.
Dammert
Jose
C.
Galdo
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Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs
This paper analyzes the effects of training quality on the likelihood of treatment completion by estimating dose-response functions via a generalized propensity score. Results show a statistically ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 243-246)
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I3, J2, C8
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7393
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Vincent
O'Sullivan
Brian
Nolan
Alan
Barrett
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Income and Wealth in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Between 2009 and 2011, data were collected under the first wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Over 8,500 people aged 50 and over and living in Ireland were interviewed on a wide ...
(revised version published in: Economic and Social Review, 2014, 45 (3), 329-348, with Cara Dooley added as fourth author)
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D31, J14
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7392
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Albrecht
Glitz
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Coworker Networks in the Labour Market
This paper studies the effect of coworker-based networks on individual labour market outcomes. I analyse how the provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 44, 218–230)
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J63, J64
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7391
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David
E.
Bloom
David
Canning
Günther
Fink
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Disease and Development Revisited
Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health ...
(pubished in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1355-1366 )
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I10, O40
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7390
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Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany
Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP 9606)
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H2, H7, J3
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7389
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities
This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2015, 18 (1))
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J61, J31, F22
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7387
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Alain
Jousten
Mathieu
Lefèbvre
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Retirement Incentives in Belgium: Estimations and Simulations Using SHARE Data
The paper studies retirement behavior of wage-earners in Belgium – for the first time using rich survey data to explore retirement incentives as faced by individuals. Specifically, we use SHARE data ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (3), 253-276)
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H55, J21, J26, J14
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7385
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Eva
Spring
Volker
Grossmann
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Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?
Trust in the citizens of a potential partner country may affect the decision to trade with or to migrate to a foreign country. This paper employs panel data to examine the causal impact of such ...
(published as "Does Bilateral Trust Across Countries Really Affect International Trade and Factor Mobility?" in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (1), 103-136)
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F10, F22, Z10
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7382
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Bo
Cowgill
Mitchell
Hoffman
Michael
Housman
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The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little ...
(revised version published as 'The Value of Hiring through Employee Referrals' in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2015, 130(2), 805-839)
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M51, J24, O32, J63, L84, L86, L92
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7381
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David
L.
Sjoquist
John
V.
Winters
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State Merit-Aid Programs and College Major: A Focus on STEM
Since 1991 more than two dozen states have adopted merit-based student financial aid programs, intended at least in part to increase the stock of human capital by improving the knowledge and skills ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 973-1006. )
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I23, J24
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7380
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Jan
Feld
Nicolás
Salamanca
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination
The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others – are exophobic – ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (594), 1503-1527)
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J71, I24, B40
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7377
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Avner
Greif
Murat
Iyigun
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Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth
Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (3), 534-538)
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O10, N10, N13
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7376
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
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Family Ties
We study the role of the most primitive institution in society: the family. Its organization and relationship between generations shape values formation, economic outcomes and influences national ...
(published in Philippe Aghion and Steven Durlauf (eds.), Handbook of Economic Growth, Vol. 2A, The Netherlands: North Holland, pp. 177-215, 2014)
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J2, J6, O4, O5, Z1
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7375
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Richard
Blundell
Monica
Costa Dias
Costas
Meghir
Jonathan
Shaw
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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2016, 84 (5), 1705-1753)
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J22, J24, H31
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7374
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Johannes
Abeler
Daniele
Nosenzo
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Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards
Laboratory experiments have become a wide-spread tool in economic research. Yet, there is still doubt about how well the results from lab experiments generalize to other settings. In this paper, we ...
(revised version published as 'Self-Selection into Laboratory Experiments: Pro-Social Motives versus Monetary Incentives' in: Experimental Economics, 2015, 18(2), 195-214)
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C90, D03
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7373
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Johannes
Abeler
Simon
Jäger
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Complex Tax Incentives: An Experimental Investigation
How does the tax system's complexity affect people's reaction to tax changes? To answer this question, we conduct a real-effort experiment in which subjects receive a piece rate and face a set of ...
(revised version published as 'Complex Tax Incentives' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (3), 1-28)
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C91, D03, H31, J22
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7372
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Benjamin
Enke
Florian
Zimmermann
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Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation
Many information structures generate correlated rather than mutually independent signals, the news media being a prime example. This paper shows experimentally that in such contexts many people ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86 (1), 313–33)
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C91, D03, D83, D84, D40
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7371
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Wencke
Gwozdz
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
Lucia
A.
Reisch
Wolfgang
Ahrens
Stefaan
De Henauw
Gabriele
Eiben
Juan
M.
Fernández-Alvira
Charalampos
Hadjigeorgiou
Eva
Kovács
Fabio
Lauria
Toomas
Veidebaum
Garrath
Williams
Karin
Bammann
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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective
The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades has often been linked in political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 728-742)
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I12, J13, J22
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7370
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Barbara
Dietz
Kseniia
Gatskova
Achim
Schmillen
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Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants
This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(1), 230-245)
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P36, I31, R23
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7369
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Nicole
B.
Simpson
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Families, Taxes and the Welfare System
In this paper, I will describe in detail both the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit in the U.S., including their origins, their structure, and the effects they have on the labor ...
(published in: Esther Redmount (eds): The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth, 2013, 59-92)
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D1, H24, H53
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7368
|
William
Betz
Nicole
B.
Simpson
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The Effects of International Migration on the Well-Being of Native Populations in Europe
With worldwide migration becoming increasingly prevalent in policy agendas over the past several decades, understanding the effects that migrants have on a host country's population continues to be ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:12.)
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F22, I31, O15
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7365
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Warn
N.
Lekfuangfu
Mark
Wooden
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The Marginal Income Effect of Education on Happiness: Estimating the Direct and Indirect Effects of Compulsory Schooling on Well-Being in Australia
Many economists and educators favour public support for education on the premise that education improves the overall well-being of citizens. However, little is known about the causal pathways through ...
(substantially revised version published as: 'What's the good of education on our overall quality of life? A simultaneous equation model of education and life satisfaction for Australia' in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2015, 54 (1), 10-21)
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I20, I32, C36
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7363
|
Robert
Dur
Jan
Tichem
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Altruism and Relational Incentives in the Workplace
This paper studies how altruism between managers and employees affects relational incentive contracts. To this end we develop a simple dynamic principal-agent model where both players may have ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2015, 24(3), 485-500)
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D23, J33, M52, M55
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7362
|
Giovanni
Facchini
Anna Maria
Mayda
Mariapia
Mendola
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South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa
Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (4), 823-853.)
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F22, J61
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7361
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Christian
Grund
Andreas
Schmitt
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Works Councils, Quits and Dismissals in Germany
We examine the relationship between works councils and two different types of employment separation: dismissals by the firm and voluntary quits by employees. Based on representative data from the ...
(revised version published in: German Journal of Human Resource Management, 2016, 30, 53-75, together with Johannes Martin as an additional co-author)
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M5, J6
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7360
|
Ingo
E.
Isphording
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Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores
This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique ...
(shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (2) 236–239)
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F22, J15, J24, J31
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7359
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Ian
K.
McDonough
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Dynamic Panel Data Models with Irregular Spacing: With Applications to Early Childhood Development
With the increased availability of longitudinal data, dynamic panel data models have become commonplace. Moreover, the properties of various estimators of such models are well known. However, we show ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32 (4), 725-743)
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C23, C51, I21
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7358
|
Rita
K.
Almeida
Jennifer
P.
Poole
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Trade and Labor Reallocation with Heterogeneous Enforcement of Labor Regulations
This paper revisits the question of how trade openness affects labor market outcomes in a developing country setting. We explore the fact that plants face varying degrees of exposure to global ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 126, 154-166)
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F16, J6, J8
|
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7354
|
Jan
Bergerhoff
Lex
Borghans
Philipp
K.
Seegers
Tom
van Veen
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International Education and Economic Growth
In recent years international student mobility increased. While net hosting countries are in a better position to win highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:3)
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I25
|
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7353
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Subjective Well?Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?
Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of ...
(shorter version published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 598-604)
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D6, I3, N3, O1, O4
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7352
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Mthuli
Ncube
Abebe
Shimeles
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The Making of Middle Class in Africa: Evidence from DHS Data
This paper presents evidence on the making of the middle class in Africa by exploiting a comparable micro data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for thirty-seven countries over two ...
(published in : Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (2), 178 - 193)
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D31, J15
|
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7351
|
Andrea
Garnero
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data
The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 760–788)
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J31, J33, J51
|
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7350
|
Andrea
Garnero
François
Rycx
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2014, 53 (3), 430-477.)
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D24, J24, J31, M12
|
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7349
|
Yuling
Cui
Daehoon
Nahm
Massimiliano
Tani
|
Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008
This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China's economy between 1995 and 2008. Using data from CHIP and RUMiC, we find that rural ...
(revised version published in : Australian Economic Review, 2015, 48, 382 –399)
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C31, J24, J61, O15
|
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7347
|
Henry
S
Farber
Robert
G.
Valletta
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Do Extended Unemployment Benefits Lengthen Unemployment Spells? Evidence from Recent Cycles in the U.S. Labor Market
In response to the Great Recession and sustained labor market downturn, the availability of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits was extended to historical highs in the United States. We exploit ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 873-909)
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J64, J65
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