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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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6850
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Benjamin
Elsner
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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
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6842
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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
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Albrecht
Glitz
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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
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6839
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Luc
Behaghel
Julie
Moschion
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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
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6838
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Jonathan
Wadsworth
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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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6837
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Gil
S.
Epstein
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Frontier Issues of the Political Economy of Migration
Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their ...
(published in: A. Constant and K. F. Zimmermann (eds): International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar, 2013)
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F22, P48, O15
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6836
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Yusuf
Soner
Baskaya
Timur
Hulagu
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How Different Are the Wage Curves for Formal and Informal Workers? Evidence from Turkey
This paper presents wage curves for formal and informal workers using a rich individual level data for Turkey over the period 2005-2009. The wage curve is an empirical regularity describing a ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92, 271-283.)
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C26, J30, J60, O17
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6835
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Philip
Jung
Moritz
Kuhn
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Earnings Losses and Labor Mobility over the Lifecycle
Extensive literature demonstrates that workers with high tenure suffer large and persistent earnings losses when they are displaced. We study the reasons behind these losses in a tractable search ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, 17 (3), 678–724)
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E24, J63, J64
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6834
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Tito
Boeri
Marta
De Philippis
Eleonora
Patacchini
Michele
Pellizzari
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Moving to Segregation: Evidence from 8 Italian Cities
We use a new dataset and a novel identification strategy to analyze the effects of residential segregation on the employment of migrants in 8 Italian cities. Our data, which are representative of the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125, F82-F114.)
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J15, J61, R23
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6832
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Peter
Kooreman
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Rational Students and Resit Exams
Resit exams – extra opportunities to do an exam in the same academic year – are widely prevalent in European higher education, but uncommon in the US. I present a simple theoretical model to compare ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 213-215)
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D01, I21
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6831
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Renana
Lindner Pomerantz
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Assimilation through Marriage
During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 191–203.)
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F22, R23
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6830
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
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Getting Back into the Labor Market: The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females
A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(4), 1005-1043)
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J68, C14, H43
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6829
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Francesco
Cinnirella
Erik
Hornung
Ludger
Woessmann
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iPEHD: The ifo Prussian Economic History Database
This paper provides a documentation of the ifo Prussian Economic History Database (iPEHD), a county-level database covering a rich collection of variables for 19th-century Prussia. The Royal Prussian ...
(published in: Historical Methods, 2014, 47(2), 57-66)
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N13, N33
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6826
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Tito
Boeri
Pietro
Garibaldi
Espen
R.
Moen
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The Labor Market Consequences of Adverse Financial Shocks
The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first ...
(published as 'Financial Shocks and Labor: Facts and Theories' in: IMF Economic Review, 2013, 61 (4), 631-663)
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G1, J2, J6
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6825
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Chiara
Monfardini
Sarah
Grace
See
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Birth Order and Child Outcomes: Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the ...
(published as 'Birth Order and Child Cognitive Outcomes: an Exploration of the Parental Time Mechanism' in: Education Economics, 2016, 24 (5), 481- 495 )
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D13, J12, J13, J22, J24
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6824
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Patricia
Apps
Yuri
Andrienko
Ray
Rees
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Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households: More Scope for Precautionary Saving
The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: ...
(published as 'Risk and Precautionary Saving in Two-Person Households' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1040-1046)
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D10, D13, D14, D81, D91, E21
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6823
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
This paper presents for the first time the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the ...
(published as 'Optimal family taxation and income inequality' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2018, 25, 1093–1128)
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J22, H21, H24, H31, D13
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6822
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Ali
Fakih
Walid
Marrouch
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Determinants of Domestic Workers' Employment: Evidence from Lebanese Household Survey Data
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers' employment using a unique micro-level dataset on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) ...
(published as 'Who hires foreign domestic workers? Evidence from Lebanon' in: Journal of Developing Areas, 2014, 48 (3), 339-352)
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D13, J22, J23, J49
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6821
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Natalia
Zinovyeva
Manuel
Bagues
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The Role of Connections in Academic Promotions
This paper analyzes the role of connections in academic promotions. We exploit evidence from centralized evaluations in Spain, where evaluators are randomly assigned to promotion committees. We find ...
(published in: American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, 2015, 7 (2), 264-292)
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J44, M51
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6820
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Kai
Liu
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
Erik
Ø.
Sørensen
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Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession
We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 84, 3-17.)
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E32, J31, J62
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6819
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Frank
M.
Fossen
Tobias
J. M.
Büttner
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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 37, 66-84)
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J23, J24, J31, I20, L26
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6818
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Ruud
Gerards
Andries
de Grip
Maaike
Witlox
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"Employability-Miles" and Worker Employability Awareness
This article studies the use and impact of a firm-sponsored training ("Employability-miles") voucher scheme that aims to stimulate employees to develop a more active attitude toward their own ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46, 952-965)
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J24, M53
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6817
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Asako
Ohinata
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Young Immigrant Children and their Educational Attainment
We analyze the determinants of reading literacy, mathematical skills and science skills of young immigrant children in the Netherlands. We find that these are affected by age at immigration and ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 116, 288-290.)
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I21, J15
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6816
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Thomas
J.
Kniesner
W.
Kip
Viscusi
James
P.
Ziliak
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Willingness to Accept Equals Willingness to Pay for Labor Market Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life
Our research clarifies the conceptual linkages among willingness to pay for additional safety, willingness to accept less safety, and the value of statistical life (VSL). We present econometric ...
(published in: the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 48 (3), 187-205)
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C23, I10, J17, J28, K00
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6815
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Paolo
Masella
Stephan
Meier
Philipp
Zahn
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Incentives and Group Identity
This paper investigates in a principal-agent environment whether and how group membership influences the effectiveness of incentives and when incentives can have “hidden costs”, i.e., a detrimental ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 86, 12-25)
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C91, D03, Z13
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6814
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
Sarah
S.
Stith
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Removing Financial Barriers to Organ and Bone Marrow Donation: The Effect of Leave and Tax Legislation in the U.S.
In an attempt to alleviate the shortfall in organs and bone marrow available for transplants, many U.S. states passed legislation providing leave to organ and bone marrow donors and/or tax benefits ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 33, 43-56)
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D64, H41, I12, J18, K32
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6812
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Nezih
Guner
Ezgi
Kaya
Virginia
Sánchez-Marcos
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Gender Gaps in Spain: Policies and Outcomes over the Last Three Decades
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work, and if they work they ...
(published in: SERIEs - Journal of Spanish Economic Association, 2014, 5,(1), 61-103.)
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J16, J21, J22, J24
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6811
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Zoe
McLaren
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Coping with Intra-Household Job Separation in South Africa's Labor Market
In the context of South Africa's pervasive poverty and mass unemployment, households provide an important private safety net for the unemployed. Using new South African Labour Force Survey panel ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (4), 757–798)
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J22, O15
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6810
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Marco
Caliendo
Jens
Hogenacker
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The German Labor Market after the Great Recession: Successful Reforms and Future Challenges
The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1(3), 1-24 )
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J26, J38, J68
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6809
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Isis
Gaddis
Janneke
Pieters
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Trade Liberalization and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Brazil
While there is a large literature analyzing the distributional impacts of trade reforms across the income or skill distribution, very little is known about the gender effects of trade reforms. This ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(2), 457-490)
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F13, F16, J16, J21, O15
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6808
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Guyonne
Kalb
Trinh
Le
Boyd
Hunter
Felix
Leung
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Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians
Despite several policy efforts to promote economic participation by Indigenous Australians, they continue to have low participation rates compared to non-Indigenous Australians. This study decomposes ...
(published as 'Identifying Important Factors for Closing the Gap in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians' in: Economic Record, 2014, 90(291), 536–550)
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J15, J21
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6807
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John
Cawley
David
E.
Frisvold
Chad
D.
Meyerhoefer
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity among Elementary School Children
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (4), 743-755)
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I12, I18, I21, H75, K32
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6806
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Alejandra
Mizala
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
How much are teachers paid in comparison to those in other professions in Latin America? How have these differences evolved at the turn of the 20th century? This paper reports the evolution, between ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32)
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J31, J44, J8, O54
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6804
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Abel
Brodeur
Marie
Connolly
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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 93, 1-16)
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I31, J20, J28
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6803
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Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Comparing Quasi-Experimental Designs and Structural Models for Policy Evaluation: The Case of a Reform of Lone Parental Welfare
This paper compares two different ways of doing policy evaluation: on the one hand, quasi-experimental methods (or "ex-post" evaluations) which exploit the introduction of a reform and identify its ...
(published as 'Fighting Lone Mothers’ Poverty Through In-Work Benefits: Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions' in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (1), 95 - 122)
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I38, J22, C25
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6802
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Matthew
Harding
Carlos
Lamarche
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Estimating and Testing a Quantile Regression Model with Interactive Effects
This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a panel data model with interactive effects potentially correlated with the independent variables. We provide conditions under which the slope ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, 101-113)
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C23, C33, I21, I28
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6801
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David
L.
Sjoquist
John
V.
Winters
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State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment
We examine the effects of recently adopted state merit-based financial aid programs on college attendance and degree completion. Our primary analysis uses microdata from the 2000 Census and 2001-2010 ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2015, 55(3), 364-390)
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H75, I23, J24
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6800
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Robert
Holzmann
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Global Pension Systems and Their Reform: Worldwide Drivers, Trends, and Challenges
Across the world, pension systems and their reforms are in a constant state of flux driven by shifting objectives, moving reform needs, and a changing enabling environment. The ongoing worldwide ...
(published in: International Social Security Review 2013, 66 (2), 1-29)
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G23, H55, I3, J21, J26
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6799
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Matthias
Strifler
Thomas
Beissinger
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Fairness Considerations in Labor Union Wage Setting: A Theoretical Analysis
We consider a theoretical model in which unions not only take the outside option into account, but also base their wage-setting decisions on an internal reference, called the fairness reference. Wage ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 63 (3), 303-330)
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J51, J64, E24
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6798
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Seth
H.
Giertz
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under a variety of migration elasticity assumptions. Key outputs from the simulation ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2012, 65, 1069-92)
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H21, H23, H71
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6797
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Ren
Mu
Yang
Du
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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China
When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2017, 31(2), 483-503.)
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J26, J24, O15, D13
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6796
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Erez
Siniver
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Can an Ethnic Group Climb Up from the Bottom of the Ladder?
Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32(3), 2414-2441)
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J15, J24, J31
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6795
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Costanza
Biavaschi
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Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration
This paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In particular, it recovers the counterfactual wage distribution if all Mexican ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 38 (1), 59-80)
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J61, F22
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6794
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Lina
Hedman
David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
John
Östh
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Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects
Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual outcomes. It has been suggested that it is not solely ...
(published as 'Cumulative Exposure to Disadvantage and the Intergenerational Transmission of Neighbourhood Effects' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2015, 15 (1), 195-215)
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I30, J60, R23
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6793
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Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
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Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research
Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2012, 44 (12), 2787-2793)
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I30, R23
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