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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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7106
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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
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Daniel
W.
Sacks
Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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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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7103
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Le
Wang
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Estimating Returns to Education when the IV Sample is Selective
The literature estimating returns to education has often utilized spousal education and parental education as instrument variables (IV). However, due to usual survey designs, both IVs are available ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 74-85)
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J24, I21, C14, C31, P52
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7102
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Fortuna
Casoria
Arno
Riedl
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Experimental Labor Markets and Policy Considerations: Incomplete Contracts and Macroeconomic Aspects
This survey focuses on experimental labor markets investigating two aspects that deem us important for a better understanding of labor market relations and the consequences for labor market policies. ...
(published in: Charles N. Noussair, Steven Tucker (eds.), A Collection of Surveys on Market Experiments, Wiley, 2014. )
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C90, C92, C93, D01, D51, E24, E62, F41, J01, J08
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7101
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Simon
Appleton
Lina
Song
Qingjie
Xia
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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality ...
(published in: World Development, 2014, 62, 1-13)
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J31, J42, O15, P23
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7098
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Arindrajit
Dube
Oeindrila
Dube
Omar
García-Ponce
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Cross-Border Spillover: U.S. Gun Laws and Violence in Mexico
To what extent, and under what conditions, does access to arms fuel violent crime? To answer this question, we exploit a unique natural experiment: the 2004 expiration of the U.S. Federal Assault ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2013, 107 (3), 397-417)
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K14, D72, D73
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7097
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Christian
Grund
Johannes
Martin
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Monetary Reference Points of Managers: An Empirical Investigation of Status Quo Preferences and Social Comparisons
We assemble two reference point based concepts of utility in our empirical study: the own previous status quo and social comparisons. We explore the relative relevance of these concepts for total ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64, 70-84)
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M5, J28, J31
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7096
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Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:5 )
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M51, J71, J78
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7095
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John
S.
Earle
Álmos
Telegdy
Gábor
Antal
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FDI and Wages: Evidence from Firm-Level and Linked Employer-Employee Data in Hungary, 1986-2008
We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on ...
(published as 'Foreign Ownership and Wages: Evidence from Hungary, 1986 -2008 ' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 71 (2), 458 - 491)
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F23, F66, J31
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7094
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Simone
Bertoli
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
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Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border
The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the ...
(revised version published as 'The Size of the Cliff at the Border' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 51, 1-6)
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F22, O15, J61
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7093
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Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data
We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (6), 918-931)
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I21, J24
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7092
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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The Effect of Tip Credits on Earnings and Employment in the U.S. Restaurant Industry
According to federal law in 2012, employers can take a credit of up to $5.13 for tips received by workers in satisfying the minimum wage requirement of $7.25. This study uses interstate variation in ...
(revised version published as "The Effect of the Tipped Minimum Wage on Employees in the U.S. Restaurant Industry" in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80 (3), 633-655)
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J30, J31, J38
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7091
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Vincenzo
Scoppa
Daniela
Vuri
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Absenteeism, Unemployment and Employment Protection Legislation: Evidence from Italy
Efficiency wages theories argue that the threat of firing, coupled with a high unemployment rate, is a mechanism that discourages employee shirking in asymmetric information contexts. Our empirical ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3:3)
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J41, M51, J45
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7090
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Alexander
Muravyev
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey: Towards a Better Understanding of Labor Markets in Transition
The paper presents the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS), which is one of the most widely used household and labor force surveys in Eastern Europe. It is based on a statistically ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2012, 1, Article 9 )
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C83, J00, P20
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7089
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Michael
S.
Delgado
Daniel
J.
Henderson
Christopher
F.
Parmeter
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Does Education Matter for Economic Growth?
Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (3), 334-359)
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C14, J24, I20, O10, O40
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7088
|
Christian
Pfeifer
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Base Salaries, Bonus Payments, and Work Absence among Managers in a German Company
Questions about compensation structures and incentive effects of pay-for-performance components are important for firms' Human Resource Management as well as for economics in general and labor ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 61 (5), 523-536)
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J22, J24, J31, J33, M12, M52
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7087
|
Greg
J.
Duncan
Aaron
Sojourner
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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?
How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (4), 945-986.)
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I2, J24, I3
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7086
|
Erich
Battistin
Antonio
Schizzerotto
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Threat of Grade Retention, Remedial Education and Student Achievement: Evidence from Upper Secondary Schools in Italy
We use a reform that was recently implemented in Italy to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more stringent requirements for the admission to the next grade at upper secondary school. ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2019, 56 (2), 651-678)
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C31, I24, I28
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7085
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Eline
van der Heijden
Tobias
J.
Klein
Wieland
Müller
Jan
Potters
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Framing Effects and Impatience: Evidence from a Large Scale Experiment
We confront a representative sample of one 1,102 Dutch individuals with a series of incentivized investment decisions and also elicit their time preferences. There are two treatments that differ in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84(2), 701-711)
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C93, D03, D81
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7084
|
Ann-Sofie
Kolm
Mirco
Tonin
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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is ...
(published as 'Benefits Conditional on Work and the Nordic Model' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 115–126)
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H24, J21, J24
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7083
|
Francisco
Alvarez-Cuadrado
Mayssun
El-Attar
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Income Inequality and Saving
Over the last three decades, average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by eight percentage points. Over the same period the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (6), 1029 - 1061)
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D91, E21, C23
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7082
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Laurent
Gobillon
Carine
Milcent
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Evaluating the Effect of Ownership Status on Hospital Quality: The Key Role of Innovative Procedures
Mortality differences between university, non-teaching public and for-profit hospitals are investigated using a French exhaustive administrative dataset on patients admitted for heart attack. Our ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 121-122, 161-186)
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I12, I18
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7081
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Daniel
Fackler
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change 2014, 23 (4), 1121-1140)
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L2, D22, J65
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7078
|
Alois
Stutzer
Bruno
S.
Frey
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Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness: A Selective Overview
What makes people happy in life? This is a crucial question that has the potential to shake up economics. In recent years, the dissatisfaction with the understanding of welfare in economics together ...
(published in: Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer (eds.), Recent Developments in the Economics of Happiness, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013, ix-xxiii)
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I31
|
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7077
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Miki
Kohara
Masaru
Sasaki
Tomohiro
Machikita
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Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?
This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after ...
(published in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2013, 29, 44-56)
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J64, J65, J68
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7076
|
Sarmistha
Pal
Zaki
Wahhaj
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Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Indonesia
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (2), 383-409)
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D02, H41, O43
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7073
|
Kusum
Mundra
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Immigration and Trade Creation for the U.S.: The Role of Immigrant Occupation
This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners ...
(published in: International Trade Journal, 28 (4), 2014, 311-343.)
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F22, F11, J10, J61
|
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7071
|
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Philippe
Van Kerm
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The Relationship between EU Indicators of Persistent and Current Poverty
The current poverty rate and the persistent poverty rate are both included in the EU's portfolio of primary indicators of social inclusion. We show that there is a near-linear relationship between ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2014, 116(2), 611–638)
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I32, D31
|
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7070
|
Michael
C.
Burda
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Jay
Stewart
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Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS
We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the ...
(published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 99-104)
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E23, J22
|
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7069
|
Matteo
Cervellati
Florian
Jung
Uwe
Sunde
Thomas
Vischer
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Income, Democracy, and Critical Junctures
Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the ...
(substantially revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 707-719)
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P16, O10
|
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7068
|
David
Autor
David
Dorn
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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1553-1597)
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E24, J24, J31, J62, O33
|
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7067
|
Zvi
Eckstein
Osnat
Lifshitz
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Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women
Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (2), 427 - 555)
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E24, J2, J3
|
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7066
|
Anders
Björklund
Markus
Jäntti
Martin
Nybom
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The Role of Parental Income over the Life Cycle: A Comparison of Sweden and the UK
Research on intergenerational income mobility has shown stronger persistence between parental and offspring's income in the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to ...
(published as "The Contribution of Early-life versus Labour Market Factors to Intergenerational Income Persistence: A Comparison of the UK and Sweden" in: The Economic Journal, 2017, 126 (605), F71-F94 )
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J24
|
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7065
|
Bruno
Arpino
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
Lara
P.
Tavares
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Mothers' Labour Market Participation: Do Grandparents Make It Easier?
Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30, 369-390)
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J10, J13, C26
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