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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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6695
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Eskil
Wadensjö
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Overeducation among Immigrants in Sweden: Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:9)
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J61, I21, J24, J31, F22
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6694
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Aimee
Chin
N. Meltem
Daysal
Scott A.
Imberman
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Impact of Bilingual Education Programs on Limited English Proficient Students and Their Peers: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Texas
Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 107, 63-78)
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I21, J24
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6693
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Pia
M.
Orrenius
Madeline
Zavodny
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Immigrants in Risky Occupations
This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by briefly explaining the theory of compensating wage differentials. It then provides a ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), The International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, 214-226)
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J15, J61, J81
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6692
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Xavier
de Luna
Per
Johansson
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Testing for Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects in the Presence of a Quasi-Instrument
The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When ...
(published as 'Testing for the Unconfoundedness Assumption Using an Instrumental Assumption' in: Journal of Causal Inference, 2014, 2, 187-199)
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C26, C52
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6691
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Stefan
Eriksson
Per
Johansson
Sophie
Langenskiöld
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What is the Right Profile for Getting a Job? A Stated Choice Experiment of the Recruitment Process
We study the recruitment behavior of Swedish employers using data from a stated choice experiment. In the experiment, the employers are first asked to describe an employee who recently and ...
(published in: Emperical Economics, 2017, 53, 803 - 826)
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J71
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6690
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Sebastian
Till
Braun
Michael
Kvasnicka
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Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (2), 253-269)
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J61, J21, C36, N34
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6689
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Dirk
Bethmann
Michael
Kvasnicka
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A Theory of Child Adoption
Women can bear own children or adopt them. Extending economic theories of fertility, we provide a first theoretical treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Development, 2022, 47 (2), 101-114)
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J12, J13, D02
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6688
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Jérôme
Adda
Francesca
Cornaglia
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Taxes, Cigarette Consumption, and Smoking Intensity: Reply
This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit data covering the period 1988 ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103(7), 3102-3114)
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D12, H25, I12
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6685
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Wolfgang
Dauth
Sebastian
Findeisen
Jens
Suedekum
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The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe – in the period 1988–2008 on German local labor markets. Using detailed ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (6), 1643-1675)
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F16, J31, R11
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6684
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Nick
Drydakis
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination in the Cypriot Labour Market: Distastes or Uncertainty?
Sexual orientation and employment bias is examined in Cyprus (Republic of Cyprus: Nicosia, Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos) by implementing an experiment for the period 2010-2011. The design is aimed at ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35(5), 720–744)
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C93, J7, J82
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6683
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Anders
Böhlmark
Mikael
Lindahl
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Independent Schools and Long-Run Educational Outcomes: Evidence from Sweden's Large Scale Voucher Reform
This paper evaluates average educational performance effects of an expanding independent-school sector at the compulsory level by assessing a radical voucher reform that was implemented in Sweden in ...
(published in: Economica, 2015, 82(327), 508-551)
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I2, H4
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6681
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Magne
Mogstad
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Peer Effects in Program Participation
The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (7), 2049-2074)
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D62, J13, I38
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6680
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Susan
L.
Averett
Yang
Wang
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The Effects of EITC Payment Expansion on Maternal Smoking
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the largest anti-poverty program in the U.S. In 1993, the EITC benefit levels were changed significantly based on the number of children in the family such that ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (11), 1344-1359)
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I12, I38
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6679
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Ugo
Colombino
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Equilibrium Simulation with Microeconometric Models: A New Procedure with an Application to Income Support Policies
Many microeconometric models of discrete labour supply include alternative-specific constants meant to account for (possibly besides other factors) the density or accessibility of particular types of ...
(substantially revised version published as 'A new equilibrium simulation procedure with discrete choice models' in: International Journal of Microsimulation, 2013, 6 (3), 25-49)
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C35, C53, H31, J22
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6678
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Hani
Mansour
Terra
McKinnish
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Who Marries Differently-Aged Spouses? Earnings, Ability and Appearance
In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 577-580)
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J12, J16
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6676
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Kusum
Mundra
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Immigrant Homeownership and Immigration Status: Evidence from Spain
Because of the many advantages of homeownership for immigrants and for the communities where immigrants reside, a variety of countries have implemented policies that facilitate immigrant ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, Special Issue: Migration and Culture, 2013, 21(2), 204-218.)
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R21, J61
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6675
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David
W.
Johnston
Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?
Promotions ordinarily involve higher wages and greater privileges; but they also often involve increased responsibility, accountability and work hours. Therefore, whether promotions are good for ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (1), 32-54)
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I0, I31, J62
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6674
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Karina
Doorley
Eva
Sierminska
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Myth or Fact? The Beauty Premium across the Wage Distribution
We apply an innovative technique to allow for differential effects of physical appearance and self-confidence across the wage distribution, as traditional methods can confound opposing effects at ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 129, 29–34 )
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D31, J24, J30, J70
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6673
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Karen
A.
Mumford
Peter
N.
Smith
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Peer Salaries and Employee Satisfaction in the Workplace
We explore the relationship between reported job satisfaction and own wage, relative wage and average comparison group wage; allowing for asymmetry in these responses across genders. We find that the ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2015, 83 (3), 307 -313 )
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J3, J7, J28
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6672
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Xavier
Ramos
Dirk
Van de gaer
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Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence
We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 30(5), 855-883)
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D3, D63
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6670
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Christoph
Ehlert
Jochen
Kluve
Sandra
Schaffner
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Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy: Evaluating an Innovative Program for Disadvantaged Youths
While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that disadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (2), 765-773)
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J08, J68
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6669
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Stephane
Bonhomme
Laura
Hospido
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The Cycle of Earnings Inequality: Evidence from Spanish Social Security Data
We use detailed information on labor earnings and employment from social security records to document the evolution of earnings inequality in Spain from 1988 to 2010. Male earnings inequality was ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (603), 1244–1278)
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D31, J21, J31
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6668
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Yu
Chen
Kenneth
D.
Gibb
Chris
Leishman
Robert
E.
Wright
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The Impact of Population Ageing on House Prices: A Micro-simulation Approach
This paper attempts to estimate the impact of population ageing on house prices. There is considerable debate about whether population ageing puts downwards or upwards pressure on house prices. The ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59 (5), 523 - 542)
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J1, R2
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6664
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J. William
Ambrosini
Karin
Mayr
Giovanni
Peri
Dragos
Radu
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania: Evidence and Long-Run Implications
This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selection of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and ...
(published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2015, 34 (4), 753 - 793)
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F22, J61, O15
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6663
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Andrew
Seltzer
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The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers: Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941
The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; ...
(published in: Economic History Review, 66, 4 (2013), 1039–1062.)
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N3, J3
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6662
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Martyn
J.
Andrews
Leonard
Gill
Thorsten
Schank
Richard
Upward
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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms: Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 824-827)
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J20, J30, C23
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6661
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Caitlin
Knowles
Myers
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Power of the Pill or Power of Abortion? Re-Examining the Effects of Young Women's Access to Reproductive Control
Recent research postulating that the diffusion of confidential access to the birth control pill to young women in the United States contributed to the dramatic social changes of the late 1960s and ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (6), 2178–2224)
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I18, J12, J13
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6659
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Kasey
Buckles
Ofer
Malamud
Melinda
Sandler
Morrill
Abigail
Wozniak
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The Effect of College Education on Health
We exploit exogenous variation in college completion induced by draft-avoidance behavior during the Vietnam War to examine the impact of college completion on adult mortality. Our preferred estimates ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2016, 50, 99-114.)
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I12, I23, J24
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6658
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Katalin
Evers
Lutz
Bellmann
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Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Evidence from the Orientation of Uncovered Employers
It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of orientation, a process whereby uncovered firms profess to shadow the wages set ...
(revised version published as 'Is the Erosion Thesis Overblown? Alignment from Without in Germany' in: Industrial Relations, 2016, 55, 415-443)
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J31, J5
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6656
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David
W.
Johnston
Stefanie
Schurer
Michael A.
Shields
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Maternal Gender Role Attitudes, Human Capital Investment, and Labour Supply of Sons and Daughters
Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining the differential educational expectations mothers have for their daughters and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (3), 631-659)
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J62
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6655
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Francesc
Ortega
Giovanni
Peri
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The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants
This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD ...
(published as 'The effect of income and immigration policies on international migration' in: Migration Studies, 2013, 1 (1), 47-74.)
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F22, E25, J61
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6654
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Maite
Blázquez Cuesta
Santiago
Budría
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Unemployment Persistence: How Important Are Non-Cognitive Skills?
Using a random effects dynamic panel data model and the 2000-2008 waves of the German SOEP this paper shows that non-cognitive skills have a predictive power on unemployment transitions.
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017, 69, 29-37)
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C33, J64
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6653
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Jian
Zhang
John
T.
Giles
Scott
Rozelle
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Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting ...
(Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40 (3), 337-356)
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O16, O17, J45, P25, P26
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6652
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Martyn
J.
Andrews
Hans-Dieter
Gerner
Thorsten
Schank
Richard
Upward
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More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours
Increases in standard hours have been a contentious policy issue in Germany. Whilst this might directly lead to a substitution of workers by hours, there may also be a positive employment effect due ...
(published in: Oxford Eonomic Papers,, 2015, 67(2), 245-268)
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C23, J23, J81
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6651
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
Veruska
Oppedisano
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Fostering the Emancipation of Young People: Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy
In Southern Europe youngsters leave the parental home significantly later than in Northern Europe and United States. In this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' ...
(published as: 'Fostering Household Formation: Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions, 2015, 15 (1), 53 - 85)
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J1, H2, I3
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6650
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Simon
M.S.
Lo
Gesine
Stephan
Ralf
Wilke
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Estimating the Latent Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Unemployment Duration
We estimate the effect of a shortening of unemployment benefit entitlements on unemployment duration. Previous studies on the same or related problems have not taken into account that the competing ...
(fundamentally revised version published as 'Competing Risks Copula Models for Unemployment Duration: An Application to a German Hartz Reform' in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2017, 6, 1-20)
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C34, C41, J64
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6649
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Delia
Furtado
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
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Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from US Census Data
This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (1), 247–267)
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C31, H55, I18, J61
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6648
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Marianna
Brunetti
Costanza
Torricelli
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Is It Money or Brains? The Determinants of Intra-Family Decision Power
We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey ...
(revised version published as 'Who Holds the Purse Strings within the Household? The Determinants of Intra-family Decision Making' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 101, 65-86)
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J12, D13, E21, G11
|
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6646
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Oana
Borcan
Mikael
Lindahl
Andreea
Mitrut
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The Impact of an Unexpected Wage Cut on Corruption: Evidence from a "Xeroxed" Exam
This paper aims to understand how corruption responds to financial incentives and, in particular, it is an attempt to identify the causal impact of a wage loss on the prevalence of corruption in the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 32-47)
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I2, H7, J3
|
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6644
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Pedro
S.
Martins
Matloob
Piracha
José
Varejão
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Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? Evidence from Matched Panel Data
Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 72(C), 216-222, 2018)
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J15, J61
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6642
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Thierry
Madies
Marie Claire
Villeval
Malgorzata
Wasmer
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Aging and Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition: An Artefactual Field Experiment in a Swiss Bank
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational Attitudes Towards Strategic Uncertainty and Competition' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61, 153-168.)
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C91, D83, J14, J24, M5
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6641
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Niklas
Bengtsson
Bertil
Holmlund
Daniel
Waldenström
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Lifetime versus Annual Tax Progressivity: Sweden, 1968–2009
This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (4), 619-645)
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D31, H20
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6640
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Francisca
M.
Antman
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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind
Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (4), 1187-1214)
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O15, J12, J13, J16, J24, F22
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6637
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Almas
Heshmati
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Survey of Models on Demand, Customer Base-Line and Demand Response and Their Relationships in the Power Market
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, ...
(published in: Journal of Economics Surveys, 2014, 28(5), 862-888. )
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C50, D10, D40, H30, L11, L51, L94, N70, O13, Q21, Q43
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6635
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Maria
Guadalupe
Hongyi
Li
Julie
M.
Wulf
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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven ...
(published in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (4), 824–844)
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J24, J33, L25, D22
|
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6634
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Claudio
Ferraz
Frederico
S.
Finan
Diana B.
Moreira
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Corrupting Learning: Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (9-10), 712-726)
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D73, I21, H72
|
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6633
|
Olivier
Coibion
Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Lorenz
Kueng
John
Silvia
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Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S.
We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2017, 88(C), 70-89. )
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E3, E4, E5
|
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6632
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Mikael
Elinder
Henrik
Jordahl
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Political Preferences and Public Sector Outsourcing
Given the intensive and ideologically charged debate over the use of private contractors for publicly funded services, it is somewhat surprising that many social scientists have preferred to explain ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 30, 43-57 )
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D23, H11, H40, L33
|
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6631
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Alpaslan
Akay
Corrado
Giulietti
Juan
David
Robalino
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
The main objective of this paper is to propose a systematic approach to empirically analyse the effect of remittances on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (3), 517-546 )
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J61, D63, D64, I3
|
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6630
|
Alpaslan
Akay
Amelie
F.
Constant
Corrado
Giulietti
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The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 103, 72–92)
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C90, J61, D63
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