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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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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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6874
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Esfandiar
Maasoumi
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Searching for Rehabilitation in Nonparametric Regression Models with Exogenous Treatment Assignment
This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially ...
(published in: Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su and Aman Ullah (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Nonparametric and Semiparametric Econometrics and Statistics, Oxford: OUP, 2014)
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C14
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6873
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John
T.
Addison
Orgul
Demet
Ozturk
Si
Wang
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Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career: Gender, Unionism, and Sector
This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Gender in Promotion and Pay over a Career' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (3), 280-317)
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J16, J31, J51, J62
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6872
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Javier
E.
Baez
Dorothy
Kronick
Andrew D.
Mason
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and ...
(published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2013, 28 (2), 267–289)
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Q12, Q54, O13
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6871
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Steven
Stillman
John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
Halahingano
Rohorua
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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on ...
(published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 79-93)
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I31, J61
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6869
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John
V.
Winters
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Human Capital Externalities and Employment Differences across Metropolitan Areas of the U.S.
It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the extent to which the local human capital level, measured as the share of prime age ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2013, 13 (5), 799-822)
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J21, J24, R23
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6868
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Daniela
Del Boca
Chiara
Monfardini
Cheti
Nicoletti
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Self Investments of Adolescents and their Cognitive Development
While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of child's own investments. Information on how children ...
(published as 'Parental and child time and cognitive development of adolescents' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (2), 565-608)
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J13, D1
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6867
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Michael
Hoy
Joniada
Milla
Thanasis
Stengos
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Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes
We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2015, 45 (1), 48-82 )
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I20, J00
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6866
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Kristin
Göbel
Michael
Grimm
Jann
Lay
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Constrained Firms, Not Subsistence Activities: Evidence on Capital Returns and Accumulation in Peruvian Microenterprises
We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 94-110)
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D13, D61, O12
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6865
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Robert
Slonim
Carmen
Wang
Ellen
Garbarino
Danielle
Merrett
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Opting-In: Participation Biases in the Lab
Assuming individuals rationally decide whether to participate or not to participate in lab experiments, we hypothesize several non-representative biases in the characteristics of lab participants. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 43-70)
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C9
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6864
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Prashant
Bharadwaj
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Christopher
A.
Neilson
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Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement
This paper studies the effect of improved neonatal health care on mortality and long run academic achievement in school. We use the idea that medical treatments often follow rules of thumb for ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1862-91)
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I38, J13, J24
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6863
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Raymond
Montizaan
Maarten
C.M.
Vendrik
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Misery Loves Company: Exogenous Shocks in Retirement Expectations and Social Comparison Effects on Subjective Well-Being
This study investigates the effects of social comparisons accompanying a substantial reform of the Dutch pension system on the job satisfaction of workers who are close to retirement. The reform ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 97, 1-26)
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D63, D1, I3, J26
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6862
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M. Shahe
Emran
Fenohasina
Maret-Rakotondrazaka
Stephen
C.
Smith
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Education and Freedom of Choice: Evidence from Arranged Marriages in Vietnam
Using household data from Vietnam, we provide evidence on the effects of education on freedom of spouse choice. We use war disruptions and spatial indicators of schooling supply as instruments. The ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2014, 50 (4), 481-501)
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I2, O12, D1, J12
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6861
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Yoichi
Hizen
Keisuke
Kawata
Masaru
Sasaki
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An Experimental Test of a Committee Search Model
The objective of this paper is to design a laboratory experiment for an infinite-horizon sequential committee search model in order to test some of the implications obtained by the model in Albrecht, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 59-76)
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C91, D83
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6860
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Stefan
Bauernschuster
Oliver
Falck
Stephan
Heblich
Jens
Suedekum
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Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?
Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 98, 56-69)
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J61, R23, D81
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6859
|
Guido
Friebel
Matthias
Heinz
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Media Slant Against Foreign Owners: Downsizing
We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation-wide distributed quality newspapers in Germany, we find that a foreign firm that downsizes ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 97-106)
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L82, L33, L10
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6857
|
Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Chad
Sparber
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In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants and its Impact on College Enrollment, Tuition Costs, Student Financial Aid, and Indebtedness
The 1996 Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act barred states from giving unlawful residents postsecondary education benefits that states do not offer to U.S. citizens. In contrast to this federal ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, 49, 11-24.)
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F22, J15, I23, I28
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6854
|
Barry
R.
Chiswick
Nicholas
Larsen
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Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience ...
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2015, 35 (3), 191 - 209)
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F22, J61, J31, J24
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6853
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Yuanyuan
Chen
Shuaizhang
Feng
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Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China
A significant proportion of migrant children in China are not able to attend public schools for lack of local household registration (HuKou), and turn to privately-operated migrant schools. This ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2013, 26, 75-88)
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I28, J15, O15
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6852
|
Govert
Bijwaard
Stijn
van Doeselaar
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The Impact of Divorce on Return-Migration of Family Migrants
Many migrants have non-labour motives to migrate and they differ substantially in their migration behaviour. Family migrants main migration motive is to join their future spouse. Thus, when their ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Changes in the Marital Status on Return-Migration of Family Migrants' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(4), 961-997 )
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J12, F22, C41
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6851
|
Quang
Nguyen
Marie Claire
Villeval
Hui
Xu
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Trust and Trustworthiness under the Prospect Theory: A Field Experiment in Vietnam
We study the influence of risk and time preferences on trust and trustworthiness by conducting a field experiment in Vietnamese villages and by estimating the parameters of the Cumulative Prospect ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64 (3), 545-572)
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C91, C93, D81, D90, O10, O53
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6850
|
Gil
S.
Epstein
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Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State
A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to ...
(published in: Korean Economic Review, 2012, 28 (2), 117-136.)
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F22, O15, D6
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6849
|
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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Separations, Sorting and Cyclical Unemployment
This paper establishes a new fact about the compositional changes in the pool of unemployed over the U.S. business cycle and evaluates a number of theories that can potentially explain it. Using ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107 (7), 2081-2107)
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E24, E32, J63
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6848
|
Kailing
Shen
Peter
J.
Kuhn
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Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board
Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We ...
(published in: Corrado Giulietti, Konstantinos Tatsiramos and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), Research in Labor Economics, vol 37, Labor Market Issues in China, Emerald, 2013)
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J64, J24
|
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6845
|
Michaela
Trax
Stephan
Brunow
Jens
Suedekum
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Cultural Diversity and Plant?Level Productivity
Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2015, 53, 85-96 )
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R23, J21, J31
|
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6844
|
Christopher
Dawson
David
Emmanuel
de Meza
Andrew
Henley
Reza
Arabsheibani
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Entrepreneurship: Cause or Consequence of Financial Optimism?
Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2014, 23(4), 717–742)
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D84, M13
|
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6843
|
Benjamin
Elsner
|
Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement
Around 9% of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to Western Europe after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 531-553)
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F22, J61, R23
|
|
6842
|
Grant
R.
McDermott
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
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Electricity Prices, River Temperatures and Cooling Water Scarcity
Thermal-based power stations rely on water for cooling purposes. These water sources may be subject to incidents of scarcity, environmental regulations and competing economic concerns. This paper ...
(revised version published in: Land Economics, 2014 90 (1), 131-148.)
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Q25, Q41, Q5, C3
|
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6841
|
Albrecht
Glitz
|
Ethnic Segregation in Germany
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the nature and extent of ethnic segregation in Germany. Using matched employer-employee data for the universe of German workers over the period 1975 ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 29, 28-40)
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J61, J63, J31
|
|
6839
|
Luc
Behaghel
Julie
Moschion
|
Skilled Labor Supply, IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability
We provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 ...
(published as 'IT-Based Technical Change and Job Instability' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (1), 79 - 104)
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J23, J24, J41
|
|
6838
|
Jonathan
Wadsworth
|
Musn't Grumble: Immigration, Health and Health Service Use in the UK and Germany
A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2013, 34 (1), 55-82)
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H00, J00
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