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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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7162
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Biwei
Su
Almas
Heshmati
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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China
This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and ...
(published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2013, 2(1), 1-29.)
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O15, O18, D31, D63, C31
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7161
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Quasi-Experimental Impact Estimates of Immigrant Labor Supply Shocks: The Role of Treatment and Comparison Group Matching and Relative Skill Composition
This paper examines the employment effects of a large burst of immigration – the politically-driven exodus of ethnic Turks from Bulgaria into Turkey in 1989. In some locations, the rise in the labor ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 98, 282-315)
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J21, J61
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7157
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Unemployment and Mortality: Evidence from the PSID
In this paper, we use the death file from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate the relationship between county-level unemployment rates and mortality risk. After partialling out ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2014, 113, 15-22)
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I0, I12, J1
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7156
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Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 86-92)
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N30, P0, Z1
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7155
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Paolo
Brunori
Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Vito
Peragine
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Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
Despite a recent surge in the number of studies attempting to measure inequality of opportunity in various countries, methodological differences have so far prevented meaningful international ...
(published in: Eva Paus (ed.), Getting Development Right, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)
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D71, D91, I32
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7153
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Leonardo
Becchetti
Riccardo
Massari
Paolo
Naticchioni
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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality: Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion
This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66(2), 419-442)
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I31, I28, J17, J21, J28
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7151
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Ludger
Woessmann
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Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties
The interplay between religion and the economy has occupied social scientists for long. We construct a unique panel of income and Protestant church attendance for six waves of up to 175 Prussian ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 539-544)
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Z12, N33
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7150
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
Gordon
H.
Hanson
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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States
We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2121-68)
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F16, H53, J23, J31
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7149
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Huu
Chi
Nguyen
Christophe
Jalil
Nordman
François
Roubaud
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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49 (12), 1694-1710)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
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7148
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Wojtek
Przepiorka
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Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts
It has been shown that psychological predispositions to benefit others can motivate human cooperation and the evolution of such social preferences can be explained with kin or multi-level selection ...
(published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2013, 34, 139-145)
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C72, C92, H41
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7147
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Lisa
B.
Kahn
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Asymmetric Information between Employers
Employer learning about workers' abilities plays a key role in determining how workers sort into jobs and are compensated. This study explores whether learning is symmetric or asymmetric, i.e., ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (4), 165-205)
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D21, D83, J33
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7146
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Hans
K.
Hvide
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether ...
(published as 'Entrepreneur Death and Startup Performance' in: Review of Finance, 2021, 26 (1), 163-185)
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D21, D24, J23, L11, L25, G39
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7145
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Stijn
Baert
Bart
Cockx
Niels
Gheyle
Cora
Vandamme
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Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour ...
(revised version published as 'Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult?' in: Industrial and Labor Relations, 2015, 68 (3), 467 - 500)
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C93, J15, J21, J24, J42, J71
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7144
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Giam Pietro
Cipriani
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Population Ageing and PAYG Pensions in the OLG Model
This paper shows the effects on a pay-as-you-go pension system of the demographic change in the standard overlapping generations model. Firstly, we consider a setting with exogenous fertility and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (1), 251-256)
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J13, H55
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7143
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Jay
Stewart
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Early to Bed and Earlier to Rise: School, Maternal Employment, and Children's Sleep
School-age children need 10-11 hours of sleep per night. It has been well-documented that lack of sleep leads to diminished cognitive performance and that people who sleep less are more likely to be ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 29-50)
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J22
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7142
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Qingjie
Xia
Lina
Song
Shi
Li
Simon
Appleton
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The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression ...
(published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2014, 12(1), 29-45)
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J31, J42, O15, P23
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7141
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Gary
S.
Fields
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important ...
(published in: African Development Review, 2015, 27 (S1), 5 -16)
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I3, J2, O1, O19
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7140
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind?
In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD countries. By 2010, its rank had fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies including ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 251-256)
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J16, J22
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7139
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Felix
Weinhardt
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Neighborhood Quality and Student Performance
Children who grow up in deprived neighborhoods underperform at school and later in life but whether there is a causal link remains contested. This study estimates the effect of very deprived ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 82, 12-31)
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J18, I21, J24
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7138
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Ricard
Gil
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'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data
In this paper we empirically explore the 'make-or-buy' decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants ...
(published as 'Outsourcing of Peripheral Services: Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Plant-Level Data' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 328-344)
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L23, L22, L60, J29, J59
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7137
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Elisabeth
Fevang
Inés
Hardoy
Knut
Røed
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Getting Disabled Workers Back to Work: How Important Are Economic Incentives?
We investigate the impacts of economic incentives on the duration and outcome of temporary disability insurance (TDI) spells. The analysis is based on a large quasi-experiment in Norway, with a ...
(revised version published as: 'Temporary disability and economic incentives' in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1410–1432.)
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H55, I38, J22
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7136
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Harriet
Duleep
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U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy ...
(published as 'U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?' in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823-845)
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J15, J24, J39, J61, L26
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7135
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Laura
Cavalli
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Delayed First Birth and New Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks
We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30 (1), 35-63)
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J13, J22
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7134
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Thitima
Puttitanun
Ana
Martinez-Donate
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How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Impact Unauthorized Immigrants?
The recent impetus of tougher immigration-related measures passed at the state-level raises concerns about the impact of such measures on the migration experience, trajectory and future plans of ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50(3), 1067-91)
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F22, O15
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7133
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Nikolaj
Malchow-Møller
Jakob
R.
Munch
Claus
Aastrup
Seidelin
Jan
Rose
Skaksen
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Immigrant Workers and Farm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Many developed countries have recently experienced a significant inflow of immigrants in the agricultural sector. At the same time, the sector is still in a process of structural transformation ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 95 (4), 819-841)
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J61, J43
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7132
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Matteo
Cervellati
Alireza
Naghavi
Farid
Toubal
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Trade Liberalization, Democratization and Technology Adoption
We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2018, 23 (2), 145-173 )
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F16, J24, O14, P51, F59
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7130
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Benjamin
Elsner
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that ...
(published as 'Migration 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany' in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.): Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2016, 85 - 101)
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F22
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7129
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Ceren
Ozgen
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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Measuring Cultural Diversity and its Impact on Innovation: Longitudinal Evidence from Dutch Firms
To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2017, 96 (S1), S29-S50)
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D22, F22, O31
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7128
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Paul
Bingley
Lorenzo
Cappellari
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Unemployment Insurance, Wage Dynamics and Inequality over the Life Cycle
We investigate the relationship between life cycle wages and individual membership of unemployment insurance schemes in Denmark. We separate permanent from transitory wages and characterise them ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (568), 341–372)
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J31, J65
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7126
|
Francesco
Pastore
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Primum vivere… Industrial Change, Job Destruction and the Geographical Distribution of Unemployment
This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment, and, based on it, to survey the most recent literature. An overly optimistic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:7)
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J6, P2, R1, R23
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7125
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Maria
Bigoni
Margherita
Fort
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Information and Learning in Oligopoly: An Experiment
This paper presents an experiment on learning in repeated games, which complements the analysis of players' actual choices with data on the information acquisition process they follow. Subjects play ...
(revised version published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 81, 192-214)
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L13, C92, C72
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7124
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Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Ludo
Visschers
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle
We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2023, 91 (3), 1119 - 1153)
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E24, E30, J62, J63, J64
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7123
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Matt
Dickson
Paul
Gregg
Harriet
Robinson
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Early, Late or Never? When Does Parental Education Impact Child Outcomes?
We study the intergenerational effects of parents' education on their children's educational outcomes. The endogeneity of parental education is addressed by exploiting the exogenous shift in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126, F184-F231)
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I20, J62, J24
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7122
|
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
Ole
J.
Røgeberg
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The Changing of the Guards: Can Physicians Contain Social Insurance Costs?
Based on administrative data from Norway, we examine the extent to which family doctors influence their clients' propensity to claim sick pay and disability benefits. The analysis is based on ...
(revised version published as 'The Changing of the Guards: Can Family Doctors Contain Worker Absenteeism?' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (6), 1230–1239)
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H55, I13
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7121
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Knut
Røed
Jens
Fredrik
Skogstrøm
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Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurship
Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment ...
(revised version published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2014, 26 (4), 430-448)
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L26, J65, M13
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7120
|
Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Economic Science and Political Influence
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (5), 1004 - 1031)
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A11, E6
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7119
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Shoshana
Grossbard
Sankar
Mukhopadhyay
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Children, Spousal Love, and Happiness: An Economic Analysis
In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (3), 447-467)
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J13, D10
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7117
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health
Job reallocation is considered to be a key characteristic of well-functioning labor markets, as more productive firms grow and less productive ones contract or close. However, despite its potential ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(4), 833-861)
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I18, C14, J64, J65
|
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7116
|
Pierre
Koning
Arthur
van de Meerendonk
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The Impact of Scoring Weights on Price and Quality Outcomes: An Application to the Procurement of Welfare-to-Work Contracts
This paper assesses the effects of changes in scoring weights in auctions, using a unique sample of biddings of private Welfare-to-Work (WTW) organizations to reintegrate groups of unemployed and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 71, 1–14)
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D44, I38
|
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7115
|
Niaz
Asadullah
Nazmul
Chaudhury
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Peaceful Coexistence? The Role of Religious Schools and NGOs in the Growth of Female Secondary Schooling in Bangladesh
BRAC, a non-governmental organization (NGO), runs a large number of non-formal primary schools in Bangladesh which target out-of-school children from poor families. These schools are well-known for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2013, 49 (2), 223-237)
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I21, Z12, O12, O15
|
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7114
|
David
Neumark
Matthew
Thompson
Leslie
Koyle
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The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families: What Do We Know Now?
We provide updated evidence on the effects of living wage laws in U.S. cities, relative to the earlier research covering only the first six or seven years of existence of these laws. There are some ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012, 1:11)
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J23, J38
|
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7113
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David
Neumark
Matthew
Thompson
Francesco
Brindisi
Leslie
Koyle
Clayton
Reck
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Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data: Evidence for New York City
Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no ...
(pubished in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2013, 27 (4), 271 - 283)
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J23, J38, R51
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7112
|
Steven
G.
Dieterle
Cassandra
M.
Guarino
Mark
D.
Reckase
Jeffrey
M.
Wooldridge
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How do Principals Assign Students to Teachers? Finding Evidence in Administrative Data and the Implications for Value-added
The federal government's Race to the Top competition has promoted the adoption of test-based performance measures as a component of teacher evaluations throughout many states, but the validity of ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2015, 34 (1), 461-480)
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I0, I20, I21, I28, J01, J08, J24, J44, J45
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7111
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Anzelika
Zaiceva
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants during the Crisis
The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 countries. A significant proportion of these migrants stayed abroad only ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al., 2016 : 397-418)
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F22, J61
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7110
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Werner
Eichhorst
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Ricarda
Schmidl
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World
With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This paper ...
(published as 'A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training in Industrialized Countries' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (2), 314-337 )
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J24, I25, O17
|
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7109
|
Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
Pedro
Portugal
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex Discrimination
Earlier literature on the gender pay gap has taught us that occupations matter and so do firms. However, the role of the firm has received little scrutiny; occupations have most often been coded in a ...
(published as 'What drives the gender wage gap? A look at the role of firm and job-title heterogeneity' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (2), 506-524)
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J31, J16, J24, J71
|
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7108
|
Matthias
Doepke
Fabrizio
Zilibotti
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Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission
We construct a theory of intergenerational preference transmission that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (related to Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2017, 85 (5), 1331-1371 )
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D10, J10, O10, O40
|
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7107
|
Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
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Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment
Subjective well-being is primarily treated as an outcome variable in the economic literature. However, is happiness also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 96, 1-20)
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J60, J64, I31
|
|
7106
|
Saibal
Kar
Shrabani
Saha
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Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia
A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2021, 45 (2), 100774)
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J48, K42, O17, O53
|
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7105
|
Daniel
W.
Sacks
Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
|
The New Stylized Facts about Income and Subjective Well-Being
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in ...
(published in: Emotion, 2012, 12(6), 1181-1187 (lead article))
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D6, I3, J1, O1
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