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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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6976
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Giorgio
Brunello
Maria
De Paola
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Leadership at School: Does the Gender of Siblings Matter?
Having leader positions at school, as well as participating in sports and clubs helps promoting valuable non cognitive skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 120 (1), 51-64)
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J24
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6975
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Gabriel
Felbermayr
Volker
Grossmann
Wilhelm
Kohler
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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation: Cause or Effect?
In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first ...
(published in: Chiswick, Barry R. and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Vol. 1B, Elsevier, North-Holland, Ch. 18, 2015)
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F1, F2, F4
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6974
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Trong-Ha
Nguyen
Amy
Y.C.
Liu
Alison
L.
Booth
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Monetary Transfers from Children and the Labour Supply of Elderly Parents: Evidence from Vietnam
In the absence of a broad-based pension scheme, the elderly in developing countries may rely on monetary transfers made by their children and on their own labour supply. This paper examines whether ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (8), 1177–1191)
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J14, J22, J26
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6973
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Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Dario
Pozzoli
Mariola
Pytlikova
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Does Labor Diversity Affect Firm Productivity?
Using a matched employer-employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity in terms of cultural background, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. ...
(revised version published as 'Labor Diversity and Firm Productivity' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 144 -179)
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J15, J16, J24, J61, J81, L20
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6972
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Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Dario
Pozzoli
Mariola
Pytlikova
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The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation
In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer-employee data from Denmark. Specifically, exploiting information retrieved from this ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (2), 303-364)
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J15, J16, J24, J61, J82, O32
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6971
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Patricia
Apps
Silvia
Mendolia
Ian
Walker
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The Impact of Pre-school on Adolescents' Outcomes: Evidence from a Recent English Cohort
This paper investigates the relationship between attendance at nursery school and children's outcomes in adolescence. In particular, we are interested in child cognitive development at ages 11, 14 ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 183-199)
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J13, I21
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6970
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Jonas
Maibom
Michael
Rosholm
Michael
Svarer
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Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Early Meetings and Activation
We analyze the effects of four randomized social experiments, involving early and intensive active labour market policy, conducted in Denmark in 2008. The experiments entailed different combinations ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2017, 119 (3), 541 - 570)
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J64, J68
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6968
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Yuling
Cui
Daehoon
Nahm
Massimiliano
Tani
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The Determinants of Rural Migrants' Employment Choice in China: Results from a Joint Estimation
This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking ...
(short version published in: Procedia Economics and Finance, 2012, 1, 98-107)
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C35, J21, J61
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6967
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Claudio
Lucifora
Marco
Tonello
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Students' Cheating as a Social Interaction: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in a National Evaluation Program
We analyze students' cheating behavior during a national evaluation test. We model the mechanisms that trigger cheating interactions between students and show that, when monitoring is not ...
(published as: "Cheating and social interactions. Evidence from a randomized experiment in a national evaluation program", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 115, 2015, 45–66)
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C31, D62, I21
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6966
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Ekrame
Boubtane
Dramane
Coulibaly
Christophe
Rault
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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (4), 399-420)
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E20, F22, J61
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6965
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Astrid
Würtz
Rasmussen
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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How Distance to a Non-Residential Parent Relates to Child Outcomes
A substantial and growing fraction of children across Europe and the US live in single parent households. Law practices are evolving to encourage both parents to maintain contact with their children ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (4), 829-857 )
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D13, I12, I21, J12, J13
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6964
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Dennis
T.
Yang
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Aggregate Savings and External Imbalances in China
Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 26 (4), 125–146.)
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E21, O16, F32
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6963
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Daniel
Lau
Dario
Pozzoli
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The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2016, 16 (2), 577-617.)
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I12, I20, J18, C33, C35
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6962
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Mette
Lausten
Dario
Pozzoli
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Does Mother Know Best? Parental Discrepancies in Assessing Child Functioning
We investigate the degree of correspondence between parents' reports on child behavioral and educational outcomes using the most recent available wave of a rich Danish longitudinal survey of children ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (2), 407-425)
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I12, J13
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6961
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Jeffrey
V.
Butler
Paola
Giuliano
Luigi
Guiso
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Trust and Cheating
When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1703 - 1738)
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A1, A12, D1, O15, Z1
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6960
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Christiana
E.
Hilmer
Michael
J.
Hilmer
Michael
R.
Ransom
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Fame and the Fortune of Academic Economists: How the Market Rewards Influential Research in Economics
We analyze the pay and position of 1,009 faculty members who teach in doctoral-granting economics departments at fifty-three large public universities in the United States. Using the Web of Science, ...
(revised version published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 82(2), 430–452)
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J31, J44
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6959
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María
Laura
Alzúa
Guillermo
Cruces
Laura
Ripani
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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Latin America
This study looks at the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the adult labor supply in developing countries. The analysis builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26(4), 1255-1284)
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J08, J22, I38
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6958
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Nicole
Schneeweis
Vegard
Skirbekk
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Does Schooling Improve Cognitive Functioning at Older Ages?
We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using ...
(published as 'Does Education Improve Cognitive Performance Four Decades After School Completion?' in: Demography, 2014, 51 (2), 619-643)
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I21, J14
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6957
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Santiago
Budría
Pablo
Swedberg
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The Impact of Language Proficiency on Immigrants' Earnings in Spain
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrants' earnings. The results, based on Instrumental Variables ...
(published in: Revista de Economía Aplicada, 2015, 23 (67), 63-91)
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F22, J24, J61
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6956
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Anita
Ratcliffe
Karl
Taylor
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Who Cares about Stock Market Booms and Busts? Evidence from Data on Mental Health
This paper investigates the relationship between share prices and mental health, exploiting the availability of interview dates in the British Household Panel Survey to match the level and changes in ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (3), 826-845)
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J26, D12
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6955
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Raymond
Montizaan
Frank
Cörvers
Andries
de Grip
Thomas
Dohmen
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Negative Reciprocity and Retrenched Pension Rights
We document the importance of negatively reciprocal inclinations in labor relationships by showing that a retrenchment of pension rights, which is perceived as unfair, causes a larger reduction in ...
(published as 'The Impact of Negatively Reciprocal Inclinations on Worker Behavior: Evidence from a Retrenchment of Pension Rights' in: Management Science, 2016, 62(3), 668-681)
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D63, J2
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6953
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Claire L.
Adida
David
D.
Laitin
Marie-Anne
Valfort
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Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium
We analyze the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 reveal that Muslims and ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 1039-1086)
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C90, D03, J15, J71, Z12
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6952
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Veronica
Grembi
Tommaso
Nannicini
Ugo
Troiano
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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design
We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing ...
(published as 'Do Fiscal Rules Matter?' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8 (3), 1-30)
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C21, C23, H62, H72, H77
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6951
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Andriana
Bellou
Rachana
Bhatt
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Reducing Underage Alcohol and Tobacco Use: Evidence from the Introduction of Vertical Identification Cards
From 1994-2009, forty-three states changed the design of their driver's license/state identification cards in an effort to reduce underage access to and consumption of alcohol and tobacco. In these ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (2), 353-366)
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I1, J1
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6950
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Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2014, 28 (2), 284 - 311)
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J64, J65, J68
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6948
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Christian
Belzil
Michael
L.
Bognanno
François
Poinas
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Promotion Determinants in Corporate Hierarchies: An Examination of Fast Tracks and Functional Area
This article estimates a dynamic reduced-form model of intra-firm promotions using an employer-employee panel of over 300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The ...
(published in: Transitions through the Labor Market (Research in Labor Economics, 48), 2018)
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C33, M5, M51
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6947
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Christopher
Dawson
Andrew
Henley
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Gender, Risk and Venture Creation Intentions
This paper is concerned with whether women are less likely to express business start-up intentions because of a less favourable attitude to risk. Previous research suggests that attitude to risk ...
(published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53(2), 501-515)
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D84, J13, M13
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6946
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Jacob
S.
Hacker
Gregory
Alain
Huber
Austin
Nichols
Philipp
Rehm
Mark
Schlesinger
Robert
G.
Valletta
Stuart
Craig
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The Economic Security Index: A New Measure for Research and Policy Analysis
This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (S1), S5-S32)
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I14, D31, J11
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6944
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Bruce
Headey
Ruud
Muffels
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Parents Transmit Happiness along with Associated Values and Behaviors to Their Children: A Lifelong Happiness Dividend?
There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2014, 116(3), 909–933)
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D60, I31, J13, J22, C33
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6943
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Alfred
Galichon
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Personality Traits and the Marriage Market
Which and how many attributes are relevant for the sorting of agents in a matching market? This paper addresses these questions by constructing indices of mutual attractiveness that aggregate ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2014, 122 (6), 1271-1319.)
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D3, J21, J23, J31
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6942
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Alfred
Galichon
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Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark
In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 119/120, 375 - 383)
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C78, D61, C13
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6941
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Mariya
Aleksynska
Giovanni
Peri
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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade
Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional ...
(published in: World Economy, 2014, 37 (3), 434 - 455)
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F14, F16, F22
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6940
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Olga
Nottmeyer
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Economics of Circular Migration
Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor flows. This review discusses the advantages and disadvantages of circular ...
(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 3, 55-74)
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J61, F22, F24
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6939
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Firat
Yaman
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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach
It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 311–325)
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J15, R23, J61
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6938
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Giorgio
Brunello
Monica
Langella
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Bridge Jobs in Europe
We study the transitions from career to bridge jobs and to permanent retirement by European males aged 55 to 70 at the time of the interview in the late 2000s. We find that only 10.54 percent of the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:11)
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J26
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6937
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Does Immigration Policy Affect the Education-Occupation Mismatch? Evidence from Australia
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy ...
(published in: Australian Bulletin of Labour, 2012, 38(2), 111-141)
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C34, J24, J61
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6936
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Laurent
Gobillon
Carine
Milcent
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Spatial Disparities in Hospital Performance
Using a French exhaustive dataset, this paper studies the determinants of regional disparities in mortality for patients admitted to hospitals for a heart attack. These disparities are large, with an ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (6), 1013-1040)
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I11, C41
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6935
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Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
Mustafa
Ulus
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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector
We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118(1), 192-194)
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E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
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6934
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Murat
Iyigun
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Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism
New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the ...
(published in: Annual Proceedings of the Wealth & Well-Being of Nations, 2013, 5, 73-84)
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O11, O57, N10
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6933
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Krzysztof
Karbownik
Michal
Myck
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For Some Mothers More Than Others: How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment Are Low
We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24(4), 705-725 )
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J13, J22
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6932
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John
H.
Pencavel
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Worker Cooperatives and Democratic Governance
A worker co-operative is a firm that is owned and managed by those who work in it. This paper provides a selective review of research in economics on worker cooperatives. It concentrates on the ...
(published in: Anna Grandori (ed.), Handbook of Economic Organization, Edward Elgar, 2013)
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J54
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6931
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David
C.
Ribar
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Immigrants' Time Use: A Survey of Methods and Evidence
This paper discusses research questions related to immigrants' time use, reviews conceptual and methodological approaches to examining time allocations, and reviews evidence from previous studies. It ...
(published in: A. Constant and K.F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook of the Economics of Migration, Cheltenham, 2013, 373-92)
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J22, J61
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6930
|
Gabriella
Conti
James
J.
Heckman
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The Economics of Child Well-Being
This chapter presents an integrated economic approach that organizes and interprets the evidence on child development. It also discusses the indicators of child well-being that are used in ...
(published in: A. Ben-Arieh, F. Casas, I. Frones, and J. Korbin (eds.), Handbook of Child Well-Being: Theories, Methods, and Policies in Global Perspective, Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag, 2013)
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J13, I21, D03, D04
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6929
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Tin-chi
Lin
Alicia
Adsera
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Son Preference and Children's Housework: The Case of India
Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally ...
(published in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2013, 32 (4), 553-584)
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J13, J22, O15, J16
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6928
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Laurent
Gobillon
Dominique
Meurs
Sébastien
Roux
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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs
This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(2), 317-363)
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J16, J31, J71
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6927
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Kadir
Atalay
Fayzan
Bakhtiar
Stephen
L.
Cheung
Robert
Slonim
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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts
Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially fragile households also have the highest lottery expenditures as a proportion of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 107 (A), 86-106)
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E21, D14, C91, L83, D12
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6925
|
Laszlo
Goerke
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Profit Sharing and Relative Consumption
Traditionally, it has been argued that profit sharing can increase employment and welfare because it lowers marginal labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 167-169)
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D62, J22, J33
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6924
|
Pieter
Bevelander
Ravi
Pendakur
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The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants: A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden
This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration ...
(published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2014, 40 (5), 689-709.)
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F22, J61, J68
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6923
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Eric
Strobl
Marie-Anne
Valfort
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The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Uganda
Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2015, 29 (2), 385-412)
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E24, J21, J61, Q54, R23
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6922
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
Morten
Hedegaard
Stefan
Palan
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To See Is To Believe: Common Expectations in Experimental Asset Markets
We challenge the recent claim that mispricing in the experimental asset markets introduced by Smith, Suchanek, and Williams (1988) is merely an artefact of confusion over declining fundamental value, ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 84-96)
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C92, D84, G12
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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