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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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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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6890
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Werner
Eichhorst
Corrado
Giulietti
Michael
Jan
Kendzia
Alexander
Muravyev
Janneke
Pieters
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Ricarda
Schmidl
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training
This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and ...
(substantially revised version published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2013, 9 (1-2), 1-157 )
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J24, I25, O17
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6889
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Marc
Piopiunik
Guido
Schwerdt
Ludger
Woessmann
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 31, 93-108)
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I20, J24, J31, J64
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6887
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John
T.
Giles
Irina
Murtazashvili
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A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China
This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. Such a model is of particular value for ...
(published as 'A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors' in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2 (1), 69-87)
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C13, C33, O15, P25
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6885
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Jennifer
Hunt
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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?
I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2016, 69 (1), 199-22)
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J16, J44
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6884
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Sandra
Hentschel
Gerd
Muehlheusser
Dirk
Sliwka
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The Impact of Managerial Change on Performance: The Role of Team Heterogeneity
When a key responsibility of a manager is to allocate more or less attractive tasks to subordinates, these subordinates have an incentive to work hard and demonstrate their talents. As a new manager ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry 54(2), 1128-119, 2016)
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D22, J44, J63
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6883
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Niaz
Asadullah
Rupa
Chakrabarti
Nazmul
Chaudhury
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What Determines Religious School Choice? Theory and Evidence from Rural Bangladesh
This paper looks at the determinants of school selection in rural Bangladesh, focusing on the choice between registered Islamic and non-religious schools. We consider a two period framework where ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2015, 67(2), 186–207)
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D04, I21, O15
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6881
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Jeffrey
B.
Nugent
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The Dynamics of the Regulation of Labor in Developing and Developed Countries since 1960
This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system ...
(published in in N. Campos, P. De Grauwe and Y. Ji (eds.), The Political Economy of Structural Reforms in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 75-88.)
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J41, J65, J33, K31, O21
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6880
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Alessio
J. G.
Brown
Johannes
Koettl
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Active Labor Market Programs: Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4:12)
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J08, J22, J23, J38, E24
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6879
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N. Meltem
Daysal
Mircea
Trandafir
Reyn
van Ewijk
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Saving Lives at Birth: The Impact of Home Births on Infant Outcomes
Many developed countries have recently experienced sharp increases in home birth rates. This paper investigates the impact of home births on the health of low-risk newborns using data from the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2015, 7(3), 28-50)
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I11, I12, I18, J13
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6878
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Alan
Barrett
Irene
Mosca
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Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Between 2009 and 2011, fieldwork was undertaken for the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Extension information was collected on about 8,500 people aged 50 and over and ...
(revised version published as 'Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (1), 29-45)
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J14, J15
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6877
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Denis
Conniffe
Donal
O'Neill
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An Alternative Explanation for the Variation in Reported Estimates of Risk Aversion
There is a large literature estimating Arrow-Pratt coefficients of absolute and relative risk aversion. A striking feature of this literature is the very wide variation in the reported estimates of ...
(published in: Journal of Risk, 2013, 15 (4), 91-102)
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C91, D81, G11
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6876
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Teresa
Lloyd-Braga
Leonor
Modesto
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Can Taxes Stabilize the Economy in the Presence of Consumption Externalities?
Considering a finance constrained economy, we discuss the stabilization role of variable labour and capital income taxes under a balanced-budget rule in the presence of consumption externalities of ...
(published in K. Nishimura et al. (eds.), Sunspots and Non-Linear Dynamics, Studies in Economic Theory 31, Springer 2017.)
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E32, E62
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6875
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Alessia
Matano
Paolo
Naticchioni
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Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect
In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 55-59)
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C33, J16, J31, J41, L25
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