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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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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
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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
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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
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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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6921
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Immigration and the Distribution of Incomes
We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1B, 2014)
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D33, J61
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6920
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Yong
Yin
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The Problem of the Uninsured
The problem of the uninsured – those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies – cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called ...
(published in: Ehrlich, Isaac; Yin, Yong (eds.), Research in Economics, 2018, 72 (1), 147-168)
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G22, H42, I13, I28
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6919
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Johannes
Abeler
Anke
Becker
Armin
Falk
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Truth-Telling: A Representative Assessment
A central assumption of the canonical cheap talk literature is that people misreport their private information if this is to their material benefit. Recent evidence from laboratory experiments with ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 96-104)
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C93, D01, D82, D83
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6918
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Andrea
Bassanini
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Aggregate Earnings and Macroeconomic Shocks: The Role of Labour Market Policies and Institutions
I examine the effect of labour market policies and institutions on the transmission of macroeconomic shocks to the labour market, using both aggregate and industry-level annual data for 23 OECD ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 3 (3), Article 1)
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J21, J31, J60
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6917
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Aedin
Doris
Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Gender, Single-Sex Schooling and Maths Achievement
This paper examines the determinants of mathematical achievement among primary school children. Previous studies have found that boys perform better in maths than girls, particularly at the upper end ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 104-119)
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J24, I21
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6916
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Jeffrey
V.
Butler
Paola
Giuliano
Luigi
Guiso
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Trust, Values and False Consensus
Trust beliefs are heterogeneous across individuals and, at the same time, persistent across generations. We investigate one mechanism yielding these dual patterns: false consensus. In the context of ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (3), 889-915)
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A1, A12, D1, Z1
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6915
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Steven
W.
Cole
Gabriella
Conti
Jesusa
M.
Arevalo
Angela
M.
Ruggiero
James
J.
Heckman
Stephen
J.
Suomi
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Transcriptional Modulation of the Developing Immune System by Early Life Social Adversity
To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109(50), 20578-20583)
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I12, J13
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6914
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Denvil
Duncan
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Experimental Evidence on the Relationship between Tax Evasion Opportunities and Labor Supply
Motivated by the observation that access to evasion opportunities is distributed heterogeneously across the labor market, this paper examines the extent to which labor supply elasticities with ...
(substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 48–70)
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H21, H24, H26, J22
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6913
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Magnus
Carlsson
Gordon
B.
Dahl
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills
How schooling affects cognitive skills is a fundamental question for studies of human capital and labor markets. While scores on cognitive ability tests are positively associated with schooling, it ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 533–547)
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J24, I20
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6912
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Karine
Torosyan
Randall
K.
Filer
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Tax Reform in Georgia and the Size of the Shadow Economy
This paper applies three different methods widely used in the literature to track changes in shadow economic activity in Georgia following a drastic tax reform in 2005. The first method is a currency ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2014, 22 (1), 179 - 210)
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E01, H26, J39
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6911
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society
Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals. Recently economists' assumption of rational actors has come under sustained ...
(published in: Economic Affairs, 2013, 33 (1), 119–126)
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B40, D03, D10, H10
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6910
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Denvil
Duncan
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Unequal Inequalities: Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23 (4), 762 - 783 )
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H2, I3, J3, O1, O2
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6908
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Luca
Flabbi
James
Mabli
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Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter? Evidence from Lifetime Inequality Estimates
Search Models of the labor market are widespread and influential but they usually ignore that labor market decisions are frequently taken at the household level. We fill this gap by developing and ...
(published as 'Household Search or Individual Search: Does It Matter?' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 35 (1), 1 - 46)
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J64, D63, C63
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6907
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Deng
Quheng
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Shi
Li
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Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China
Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years 1995 and 2002 and compared with results from other studies. We find that the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59 (3), 416-436)
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D31, J62, P32
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6906
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Jean-Olivier
Hairault
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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The Cyclicality of the Separation and Job Finding Rates in France
In this paper, we aim to shed light on the relative contribution of the separation and job finding rates to French unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 76, 60-84 )
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E24, J6
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6905
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
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Stochastic Choice and Consideration Sets
We model a boundedly rational agent who suffers from limited attention. The agent considers each feasible alternative with a given (unobservable) probability, the attention parameter, and then ...
(revised version published in: Econometrica, 2014, 82 (3), 1153–1176)
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D0
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6904
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Jennifer
Hunt
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The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives
Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school completion of natives in the United States. Immigrant children could compete for ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4), 1060-1118)
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J15, I21
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6903
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Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
We conduct a large-scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:12)
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J71, J23, J15, O52, P25
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6902
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Christopher
Jepsen
Kenneth
Troske
Paul
A.
Coomes
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The Labor-Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates
This paper provides among the first rigorous estimates of the labor-market returns to community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimating the returns to the more commonly-studied ...
(revision published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (1), 95-121)
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J24
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6900
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Richard
Blundell
Luigi
Pistaferri
Itay
Saporta-Eksten
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Consumption Inequality and Family Labor Supply
In this paper we examine the link between wage inequality and consumption inequality using a life cycle model that incorporates household consumption and family labor supply decisions. We derive ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (2), 387 - 435)
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J22
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6899
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James
P.
Smith
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The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America
This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller. (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, Volume 1A, Chapter 4, pp. 167-195, 2014)
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I20, I23, I28, J10, J15, J61
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6898
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Susan
L.
Averett
Julie
K.
Smith
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Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt
There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused ...
(published as 'Financial hardship and obesity' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 15, 201-212 )
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I10, I12, I14
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6897
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Holger
Görg
Dennis
Görlich
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected ...
(published in: Review of World Economics / Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 2015, 151(3), 533-554)
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J31, F14
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6896
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 106: 199-210)
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O12, J16, L26, M53
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6895
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David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of ...
(revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2014, 29(1), 48-82)
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O12, J16, L26, M53
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6894
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Vanessa
Dräger
Paul
Marx
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms’ demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (4), 942-975)
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J23, J28, J21, J63, J68, J82
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6893
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Philippe
Belley
Nathalie
Havet
Guy
Lacroix
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Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap
The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 42, 231-260)
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J16, J71, J41
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