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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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7063
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W. Bentley
MacLeod
Miguel
Urquiola
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Competition and Educational Productivity: Incentives Writ Large
Friedman (1962) suggested that in general, unfettered markets ensure the efficient provision of goods and services. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with ...
(published in: Paul Glewwe (ed.), Education Policy in Developing Countries, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, 2013)
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D2, D8, J3, I2
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7061
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Olivier
Godart
Holger
Görg
David
Greenaway
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Domestic Multinationals, Foreign Affiliates, and Labour Demand Elasticities
Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2013, 149 (4), 611-630)
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F23, J23, J24
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7060
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Gabriella
Conti
James
J.
Heckman
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The Developmental Approach to Child and Adult Health
Pediatricians should consider the costs and benefits of preventing rather than treating childhood diseases. We present an integrated developmental approach to child and adult health that considers ...
(published in: Pediatrics, 131 (supplement 2), 2013, 133-141)
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I12, I18
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7058
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Robert
Dur
Robin
Zoutenbier
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Working for a Good Cause
A rich literature in public administration has shown that public sector employees have stronger altruistic motivations than private sector employees. Recent economic theories stress the importance of ...
(published in: Public Administration Review, 2014, 74(2), 144-155)
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H1, J45, M5
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7055
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Tilman
Brück
Damir
Esenaliev
Antje
Kroeger
Alma
Kudebayeva
Bakhrom
Mirkasimov
Susan
Steiner
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Household Survey Data for Research on Well-Being and Behavior in Central Asia
This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42 (3), 819 - 835 )
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O12, I32, J22
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7053
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Christina
Felfe
Natalia
Nollenberger
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development
What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (2), 393-422)
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J13, I28
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7052
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Simone
Schüller
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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education
The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2016, 69 (4), 604–632. )
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F22, I21, J61
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7051
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Maria
Bigoni
Gabriele
Camera
Marco
Casari
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Strategies of Cooperation and Punishment among Students and Clerical Workers
We study the individual behavior of students and workers in an experiment where they repeatedly face the same cooperative task. The data show that clerical workers differ from college students in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 94, 172-182)
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C90, C70, D80
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7050
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Christian
Pfeifer
Joachim
Wagner
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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2014, 47 (3), 223-231)
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D22, D24, J21, J24, L25
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7049
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Costanza
Biavaschi
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The Labor Demand Was Downward Sloping: Disentangling Migrants' Inflows and Outflows, 1929-1957
This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (3), 531–534)
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F22, J01, J61, N32
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7048
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D. Mark
Anderson
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Per Se Drugged Driving Laws and Traffic Fatalities
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) recently announced a goal of reducing drugged driving by 10 percent within three years. In an effort to achieve this goal, ONDCP is encouraging all ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2015, 42, 122 - 134)
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I10, I18
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7047
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Bodo
Aretz
Melanie
Arntz
Terry
Gregory
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The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2013, 14 (3), 282-315.)
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J38, J21, J23
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7045
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Arnaud
Lefranc
Fumiaki
Ojima
Takashi
Yoshida
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (1), 91-134)
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D1, D3, J3
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7044
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Sander
M.
Hoogendoorn
Simon
C.
Parker
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Ability Dispersion and Team Performance: A Field Experiment
This paper studies the impact of diversity in cognitive ability among members of a team on their performance. We conduct a large field experiment in which teams start up and manage real companies ...
(published online in: Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings, 30 November 2017)
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C93, D83, J24, L25, L26, M13, M54
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7043
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed
This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 105-127)
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D13, J16, J22
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7040
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James
J.
Heckman
Rodrigo
Pinto
Peter
A.
Savelyev
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Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes
A growing literature establishes that high quality early childhood interventions targeted toward disadvantaged children have substantial impacts on later life outcomes. Little is known about the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2052-86)
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I21, I28, I29, J13, J15, J16, J24, O15
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7039
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Chris
M.
Herbst
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The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development: Evidence from the Summer Participation
Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 105, 86–105)
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J13
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7038
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Helmuth
Cremer
Pierre
Pestieau
Kerstin
Roeder
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United but (Un-)Equal: Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract
This paper studies how the risk of divorce affects the human capital decisions of a young couple. We consider a setting where complete specialization (one of the spouses uses up all the education ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (1), 195-217)
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D13, J24, K36
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7035
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Alexander
Muravyev
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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal ...
(published in: Froelich, M., Kaplan, D., Pages, C., Rigolini, J. and D. Robalino (Eds.): Social Insurance ad Labor Markets: How to Protect Workers while Creating Good Jobs, Oxford University Press, 2014, 375-410.)
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E24, J21, J42, O17, P20
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7034
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Daniel
I.
Rees
Joseph
J.
Sabia
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Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (6), 659-671)
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I10, J30
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7033
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Jan-Emmanuel
De Neve
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Estimating the Influence of Life Satisfaction and Positive Affect on Later Income Using Sibling Fixed-Effects
The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue across the social, psychological, and behavioral sciences. Much research has found ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (49), 19953-19958)
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I13, I31, J31
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7032
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
Shmuel
Nitzan
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Lotteries vs. All-Pay Auctions in Fair and Biased Contests
The form of contests for a single fixed prize can be determined by a designer who maximizes the contestants' efforts. This paper establishes that, under common knowledge of the two asymmetric ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2013, 25(1), 48–60)
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D70, D71, D72
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7031
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
Shmuel
Nitzan
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The Efficacy and Efforts of Interest Groups in Post Elections Policy Formation
This paper presents a new model of interest groups and policy formation in the legislature. In our setting, the already given party ideological predispositions and power distribution determine the ...
(published in: Economics of Governance, 2013, 14(1), 77-105)
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D70, D72, D74, D78
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7030
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Ernst
Fehr
Holger
Herz
Tom
Wilkening
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The Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power
Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life, but empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority is limited. We study the motivation and ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (4), 1325-59)
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C92, D83, D23
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7028
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Michael
A.
Clemens
Erwin
R.
Tiongson
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Split Decisions: Family Finance when a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99 (3), 531-543)
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J61, O15, R23
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7027
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Gilles
Duranton
Laurent
Gobillon
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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86(4), 1556-1589)
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R14, R21, R31
|
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7026
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Suqin
Ge
Dennis
T.
Yang
Junsen
Zhang
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 101, 181 - 209)
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E21, J11, J13
|
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7025
|
Joop
Hartog
Michael
Sattinger
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Nash Bargaining and the Wage Consequences of Educational Mismatches
The paper provides a theoretical foundation for the empirical regularities observed in estimations of wage consequences of overeducation and undereducation. Workers with more education than required ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 50-56)
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J31, J24, C78, C51
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