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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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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
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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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7024
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Daniel
Sgroi
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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How Should Peer-Review Panels Behave?
Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014. In the REF, peer-review panels will be provided with ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), 255-278)
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I23, C11, O30
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7023
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Gil
S.
Epstein
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Employer's Information and Promotion-Seeking Activities
This paper presents a model in which promotion of employees within the internal firm hierarchy is determined by the individuals' allocation of time between promotion/rent-seeking and productive ...
(published in: Economics and Business Letters, 2012, 1(4), 21-32)
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D2, D72, J2
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7022
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Rafael
Gralla
Kornelius
Kraft
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Separating Introduction Effects from Selectivity Effects: The Differences in Employment Patterns of Co-Determined Firms
This study examines differences in employment growth between firms with and without works councils by separating introduction effects from potential selectivity effects. Using a difference in ...
(published in: Labour, 2018, 32 (1), 93-111)
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J53, J63, C23, M54
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7020
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 14, 259-275)
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F22, F52, F54, F59, J15, J16, Z10
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7019
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Alfonso
Miranda
Yu
Zhu
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English Deficiency and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap
We focus on the effect of English deficiency on the native-immigrant wage gap for male employees in the UK using the first wave of the UK Household Longitudinal Survey. We show that the wage gap is ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 38-41)
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J15, J61
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7017
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Stefanie
Schurer
Daniel
Kühnle
Anthony
Scott
Terence
Chai
Cheng
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One Man's Blessing, Another Woman's Curse? Family Factors and the Gender-Earnings Gap of Doctors
Using data from a new longitudinal survey of doctors from Australia, the authors test whether observed large gender-pay gaps among general practitioners (GPs) are the result of women's larger ...
(published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, 2016, 55(3), 385-414 )
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J24
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7015
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Todd
Pugatch
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Safety Valve or Sinkhole? Vocational Schooling in South Africa
As an alternative to traditional academic schooling, vocational schooling in South Africa may serve as a safety valve for students encountering difficulty in the transition from school to work. Yet ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:8)
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I25, J24, J31, O12
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7014
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Tony
Atkinson
Peter
G.
Backus
John
Micklewright
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Charitable Bequests and Wealth at Death
Charitable bequests are a major source of income for charities but surprisingly little is known about them. The aim of this paper is to propose a multi-stage framework for analysing the bequest ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (605), F1-F23)
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D12, D31, D64, L31
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7013
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Sylvie
Blasco
Barbara
Pertold-Gebicka
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Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance
In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 12-24)
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C21, J63, J68
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7012
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R?ta
Ubarevi?ien?
Donatas
Burneika
Maarten
van Ham
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Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region
This paper analyses the interrelationship between the process of suburbanization and a changing political and ethnic landscape in the Vilnius urban region. The region surrounding Vilnius city is ...
(published as: 'Ethno-political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region. An Analysis of Voting Behaviour' in: Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015, 46 (2), 217 - 242)
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D72, J15, R11, R14, R23
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7010
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Petter
Lundborg
Johan
Vikström
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The Economics of Grief
We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 1794 - 1832)
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I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
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7009
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Alexander
Weiss
James
E.
King
Miho
Inoue-Murayama
Tetsuro
Matsuzawa
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Evidence for a ‘Midlife Crisis’ in Great Apes Consistent with the U-Shape in Human Well-Being
Recently, economists and behavioral scientists have studied the pattern of human well-being over the lifespan. In dozens of countries, and for a large range of well-being measures, including ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109 (49), 19949-19952)
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I31
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