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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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7296
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Heather
Antecol
Ozkan
Eren
Serkan
Ozbeklik
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The Effect of Teach for America on the Distribution of Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Using data from a randomized experiment and fixed effect quantile regression (FEQR), we look at the effects of having a TFA teacher on test scores across the entire achievement distribution of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 113-125)
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C21, I21, I28, J24
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7294
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Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Sharing One's Fortune? An Experimental Study on Earned Income and Giving
In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort experiment, in which subjects enter data in four one-hour occasions and are paid a piece ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 66, 112-118)
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D64, J39
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7293
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Yoram
Weiss
Junjian
Yi
Junsen
Zhang
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Hypergamy, Cross-Boundary Marriages, and Family Behavior
We study the rise in marriages between residents of HK and China following the handover of HK to China in 1997. Cross-boundary marriages accounted for almost half the marriages registered in HK in ...
(revised version published as 'Cross-border marriage costs and marriage behavior: Theory and Evidence' in: International Economic Review, 2018. 59 (2), 757 -784)
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F22, J11, J12
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7291
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Alexander
Hijzen
Sébastien
Martin
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The Role of Short-Time Work Schemes during the Global Financial Crisis and Early Recovery: A Cross-Country Analysis
There has been a strong interest in short-time work (STW) schemes during the global financial crisis. Using data for 23 OECD countries for the period 2004 Q1 to 2010 Q4, this paper analyses the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:5)
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J23, J65, J68
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7290
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David
C.
Ribar
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Is Leaving Home a Hardship?
Nest-leaving – the transition of young adults from their parents' homes to other living arrangements – is a major life-course milestone. Although the causes of nest-leaving have been extensively ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal 2015, 81(3), 598-618)
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J12, J13
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7289
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Alicia
Adsera
Ana
Ferrer
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The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada
In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions at the time of arrival may be crucial in determining immigrants' economic ...
(revised version published as 'The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada' in: International Migration Review, 2016, 50 (2), 475 - 505)
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J11, J13, J15
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7288
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Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Estimating Obesity Rates in the Presence of Measurement Error
Reliable measures of obesity are essential in order to develop effective policies to tackle the costs of obesity. In this paper we examine what, if anything, we can learn about obesity rates using ...
(published as 'Bounding Obesity Rates in the Presence of Self-Reporting Errors' in; Empirical Economics, 2016, 50, 857-871 )
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C13, C26, I14
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7286
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Life Expectancy, Schooling, and Lifetime Labor Supply: Theory and Evidence Revisited
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2013, 81 (5), 2055–2086)
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E20, J22, J24, J26, O11
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7285
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Martin
Kahanec
Brian
Fabo
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Migration Strategies of the Crisis-Stricken Youth in an Enlarged European Union
This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged European Union at the onset of the Great Recession. We use the Eurobarometer ...
(published in: Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research, 2013, 19 (3), 365-380)
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F22, J61
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7284
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Bettina
Müller
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Team Heterogeneity in Startups and its Development over Time
We investigate the workforce heterogeneity of startups with respect to education, age and wages. Our explorative study uses data on the population of 1,614 Danish firms founded in 1998. We track ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2015, 45 (4), 787-804 )
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C10, L26, M13
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7283
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Nicholas-James
Clavet
Jean-Yves
Duclos
Guy
Lacroix
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Fighting Poverty: Assessing the Effect of Guaranteed Minimum Income Proposals in Québec
This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2013, 39 (4), 491-516)
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C25, D31, D63, H31, I30, J22
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7282
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Cristina
Cattaneo
Carlo
V.
Fiorio
Giovanni
Peri
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What Happens to the Careers of European Workers When Immigrants "Take Their Jobs"?
In this paper we use a dataset that follows a representative sample of native Europeans, resident of 11 countries, over the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2013, 2:17)
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J61, O15
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7279
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Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Top?Down vs. Bottom?Up: The Long?Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values
This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and ...
(published as 'Inevitable? Doping Attitudes among Berliners in 2011: The Role of Socialist State Socialisation and Athlete Experience' in: European Journal of Public Health, 2016, 26 (3), 520-522 )
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I18, K40, L83, N34, Z13
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7277
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Almas
Heshmati
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
Kai
Sun
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Estimation of Productivity in Korean Electric Power Plants: A Semiparametric Smooth Coefficient Model
This paper analyzes the impact of load factor, facility and generator types on the productivity of Korean electric power plants. In order to capture important differences in the effect of load policy ...
(published in: Energy Economics, 2014, 45, 491-500.)
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C14, C23, C51, D24, L25, L94
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7276
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Sónia
Torres
Pedro
Portugal
John
T.
Addison
Paulo
Guimaraes
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The Sources of Wage Variation: A Three-Way High-Dimensional Fixed Effects Regression Model
This paper estimates a wage equation with three high-dimensional fixed effects, using a longitudinal matched employer-employee dataset covering virtually all Portuguese wage earners over a little ...
(revised version published as 'The Sources of Wage Variation and the Direction of Assortative Matching: A Three-Way High Dimensional Fixed-Effects Regression Model" in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 47-60.)
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J2, J41
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7275
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
Mintewab
Bezabih
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The Transformation of Hunger Revisited
We examine Trevon Logan's 2009 claim to have found low levels of nutrition among British worker's households in the late 19th century. Using the same data, we conclude that Logan's estimates are ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75(2), 512 - 552)
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I15, I32, N33
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7274
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Matloob
Piracha
Massimiliano
Tani
Matias
Vaira-Lucero
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2016, 95, S107-S126.)
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F22, J01, J61, Z13
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7273
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Michael
A.
Kuhn
Peter
J.
Kuhn
Marie Claire
Villeval
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The Importance of the Cognitive Environment for Intertemporal Choice
We experimentally manipulate two aspects of the cognitive environment, cognitive depletion and recent sugar intake, and estimate their effects on individuals' time preferences in a way that allows us ...
(Revised version published as "Decision-Environment Effects on Intertemporal Financial Choices: How Relevant are Resource-Depletion Models?" in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137, 72-89, 2017.)
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C91, D90
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7272
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Ignacio
González
Hector
Sala
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Investment Crowding-Out and Labor Market Effects of Financialization in the U.S.
This paper studies the impact of financialization on unemployment in the U.S. We estimate a dynamic multi-equation macro labor model including labor demand, labor supply, wage-setting and capital ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (5), 589-613)
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D2, E22, E24, G2
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7270
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Corrado
Giulietti
Jackline
Wahba
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind
While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated, previous studies have not focused on whether migration provides the same benefits to ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2013, 37, 65-92)
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J23, J61, O15
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7269
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Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Raymond
Montizaan
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How Sensitive Are Individual Retirement Expectations to Raising the Retirement Age?
This paper investigates the causal effects of the announcement of an increase in the statutory pension age on employee retirement expectations. In June 2010, the Dutch government signed a new pension ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161, 225–251)
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J14, J26
|
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7268
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Abel
Brodeur
Mathias
Lé
Marc
Sangnier
Yanos
Zylberberg
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Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back
Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (1), 1-32)
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A11, B41, C13, C44
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7266
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Bart
Cockx
Corinna
Ghirelli
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Monitoring Job Search Effort with Hyperbolic Time Preferences and Non-Compliance: A Welfare Analysis
This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI ...
(revised version published as 'Is it Socially Efficient to Impose Job Search Requirements on Unemployed Benefit Claimants with Hyperbolic Preferences?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 80-95 )
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D60, D90, J64, J65, J68
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7265
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Johannes
Binswanger
Martin
Salm
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Does Everyone Use Probabilities? Intuitive and Rational Decisions about Stockholding
We investigate the relationship between subjective probabilities of future stock market returns and decisions about stockholding. Specifically, we examine whether acting upon subjective probabilities ...
(revised version published as 'Does everyone use probabilities? The role of cognitive skills' in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 73-85 )
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D03, D81, D84, G11
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7263
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William H.
Rogers
Anne
E.
Winkler
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The Relationship between the Housing & Labor Market Crises and Doubling-Up: An MSA-Level Analysis, 2005-2010
It is now well-established that the U.S. housing market crisis preceded the labor market crisis and that, in the wake of these crises, doubling-up and cohabitation increased and homeownership fell. ...
(Published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2013)
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R23, J12
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7262
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Stijn
Baert
Bart
Cockx
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Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions: When Do They Arise?
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 276 - 294)
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C35, J15, J70
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7261
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Casey
Boyd-Swan
Chris
M.
Herbst
John
Ifcher
Homa
Zarghamee
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The Earned Income Tax Credit, Health, and Happiness
This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In particular, we use data from the National Survey of Families and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 126, 18-38)
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I1, J00
|
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7260
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Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?
Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success story makes it a showcase for labor policy and labor market reforms. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published in: IMF Economic Review, 2013, 61 (4), 702-729 )
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J68, J21, P52, O57
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7259
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Christine
Binzel
Jean-Paul
Carvalho
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (607), 2553 - 2580)
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D10, D63, I24, J24, J62, O10, Z12, Z13
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7257
|
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Lene
Kromann
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An Equilibrium Search Model of the Labor Market Entry of Second-Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Danes
Using a search model for Danish labor market entrants, we are one of the first studies to test whether second-generation immigrants have the same job-offer arrival and layoff rates as ethnic Danes ...
(published as "Differences in the labor market entry of second-generation immigrants and ethnic Danes" in IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:16)
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J15, J61, J71
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7256
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Abel
Brodeur
Sarah
Flèche
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Where the Streets Have a Name: Income Comparisons in the US
This paper analyses how neighbors' income affect agents' well-being using unprecedented data from the BRFSS and the City of Somerville. We conduct a multi-scale approach at the county, ZIP code and ...
(published as 'Neighbors' Income, Public Goods and Well-Being' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 217-238)
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C25, D00, J31
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7254
|
Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
Yu
Chen
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The Labor Market Behavior of Married Women with Young Children in the U.S.: Have Differences by Religion Disappeared?
Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of ...
(published in Keister, L. and Sherkat, D. (eds.): Religion and Inequality in America - Research and Theory on Religion's Role in Stratification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.)
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J22, J24, Z12, Z13
|
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7253
|
Sabien
Dobbelaere
Kozo
Kiyota
Jacques
Mairesse
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Product and Labor Market Imperfections and Scale Economies: Micro-Evidence on France, Japan and the Netherlands
Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, 43(2): 290-322)
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C23, D21, J50, L13
|
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7252
|
Nicole
Bosch
Bas
ter Weel
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Labour-Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the Netherlands: Measuring Job Prospects Using the Occupational Age Structure
This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital ...
(published in: De Economist, 2013, 161 (2), 199-218)
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J24, J60
|
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7251
|
Hong
Liu
Qi
Sun
Zhong
Zhao
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Social Learning and Health Insurance Enrollment: Evidence from China's New Cooperative Medical Scheme
This paper examines the role of social learning in household enrollment decisions for the New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 84–102)
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I1, G22
|
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7250
|
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
Martin
Karlsson
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The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System
This article evaluates an expansion of employer-mandated sick leave from 80 to 100 percent of forgone gross wages in Germany. We employ and compare parametric difference-in-difference (DID), matching ...
(short version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29(2), 208-230)
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H51, I18, J22, J32
|
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7248
|
Ulrich
Kaiser
Susan
J.
Méndez
Thomas
Rønde
Hannes
Ullrich
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Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark
Reference prices constitute a main determinant of patient health care reimbursement in many countries. We study the effects of a change from an "external" (based on a basket of prices in other ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 174-187)
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I18, C23
|
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7246
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Lucia
Mangiavacchi
Luca
Piccoli
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Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2013)
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D1, I1, J13, J22
|
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7245
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Orley
Ashenfelter
David
E.
Bloom
Gordon
B.
Dahl
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Lawyers as Agents of the Devil in a Prisoner's Dilemma Game: Evidence from Long Run Play
Do the parties in a typical dispute face incentives similar to those in the classic prisoner's dilemma game? In this paper, we explore whether the costs and benefits of legal representation are such ...
(published in: Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2013, 10 (3), 399-423)
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J52, K0
|
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7244
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
|
Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US
In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2020, 51 (2), 275-303.)
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D33, E25
|
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7243
|
René
Böheim
Mario
Lackner
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Gender and Competition: Evidence from Jumping Competitions
We analyze if female athletes differ from male athletes in their competitive behavior, using data from high jump and pole vault competitions. We estimate if female athletes use risky strategies as ...
(published as 'Gender and risk taking: evidence from jumping competitions' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 2015, 178( 4), 883–902)
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J16, D81
|
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7242
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Cathal
O'Donoghue
Jason
Loughrey
Karyn
Morrissey
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Using the EU-SILC to Model the Impact of the Economic Crisis on Inequality
In this paper we attempted to chart the impact of the early part of Ireland's economic crisis from 2008-2010 on the distribution of income. In order to decompose the impact of components of income, ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:23)
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I38, C53
|
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7240
|
Boris
Hirsch
Elke
J.
Jahn
Ott
Toomet
Daniela
Hochfellner
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Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 212-222)
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J61, J31, J24
|
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7239
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Melanie
Khamis
Mutlu
Yuksel
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For Better or for Worse: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Family Formation
This paper provides causal evidence on the long-term legacies of postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's family formation outcomes such as marriage, age at first marriage and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(29): 2771-2784.)
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J12, J16, J21, J48
|
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7236
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T. H.
Gindling
Juan Diego
Trejos
|
The Distribution of Income in Central America
We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central ...
(revised version published in: Salvador Marti i Puig; Diego Sanchez-Ancochea (eds.), The Handbook of Central American Governance, London: Routledge, 2014, 75-94.)
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O15, J31, O54
|
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7235
|
Yeimin
Chung
Almas
Heshmati
|
Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries
This study measures productivity growth using the Metafrontier Malmquist-Luenberger productivity growth index (MML index) method and decomposes the index. The results are compared with those obtained ...
(published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, 2015, 104, 380-391. )
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D24, C61, O31, O44
|
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7233
|
Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
Mustafa
Ulus
|
Unemployment Compensation and the Allocation of Labor in Developing Countries
This paper studies the effects of the introduction of unemployment compensation (UC) in countries characterized by pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2016, 18 (3), 385 - 416)
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E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
|
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7232
|
John
H.
Pencavel
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The Changing Size Distribution of U.S. Trade Unions and Its Description by Pareto's Distribution
The size distribution of trade unions in the United States and changes in this distribution are documented. Because the most profound changes are taking place among very large unions, these are ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (1), 138-170 )
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J51
|
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7231
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Henry
R.
Hyatt
James
R.
Spletzer
|
The Recent Decline in Employment Dynamics
In recent years, the rate at which workers and businesses exchange jobs has declined in the United States. Between 1998 and 2010, rates of job creation, job destruction, hiring, and separation ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 2:5)
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E24, J63
|
|
7230
|
Nicole
Schneeweis
|
Immigrant Concentration in Schools: Consequences for Native and Migrant Students
In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 63-76)
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I21, J15, J24
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