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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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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
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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
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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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6629
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Marco
Bertoni
Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% – depending on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 104, 65-77)
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C31, H52, I2
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6628
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Luca
De Benedictis
Gianluca
Santoni
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by ...
(revised version published in: Review of World Economics, 2014, 150 (3), 557-594)
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F10, F14, F22, R10
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6627
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Ali
T.
Akarca
Aysit
Tansel
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Southwest as the New Internal Migration Destination in Turkey
Antalya and Mu?la provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as the new magnets for internal migration in the country. Characteristics of immigration from other provinces to these two are ...
(first part published as 'Tourism Driven Migration to Southwestern Turkey' in: Bogazici Journal, 2017, 31 (1). 23-42 / second part published as 'Analysing Internal Migration to Antalya and Mugla Through Gravity Modelling' in: Sosyoekonomi, 2018, 26 (37), 117-126.)
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J61, R23
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6626
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Aysit
Tansel
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Private Tutoring and the Question of Equitable Opportunities in Turkey
This paper focuses on the implications of private tutoring in Turkey for questions of equity regarding the provision of public education, based on an analysis of previously published research. The ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Private Tutoring and Equitable Opportunities in Turkey: Challenges and Policy Implications' in: Mark Bray and André E. Mazawi (eds.), Private Tutoring Across the Mediterranean - Power Dynamics and Implications for Learning and Equity, Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, 2013, Chapter 11, 177-186)
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I21, I24, I25
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6625
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Werner
Eichhorst
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The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model
Most Continental European labour markets and welfare states underwent a substantial transformation over the last two decades moving from a situation of low employment and limited labour market ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(1), 49-69)
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J21, J31, J52, J68
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6623
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Audrey
Light
Andrew
McGee
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Employer Learning and the "Importance" of Skills
We ask whether the role of employer learning in the wage-setting process depends on skill type and skill importance to productivity. Combining data from the NLSY79 with O*NET data, we use Armed ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1), 72-107)
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J31, D83
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6622
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan
Pozo
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Remittances and Portfolio Values: An Inquiry Using Spanish Immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas
Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who ...
(published in: World Development, 2013, 41, 83-95. )
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F24, F22
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6621
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Anna
D'Souza
Dean
Jolliffe
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Conflict, Food Price Shocks, and Food Insecurity: The Experience of Afghan Households
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. ...
(published in: Food Policy, 2013, 42, 32-47)
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D12, I3, O12
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6620
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Thomas
Markussen
Ernesto
Reuben
Jean-Robert
Tyran
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition, which ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (574), F163-F195)
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D72, J33, H41
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6619
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Emilia
Del Bono
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Does Breastfeeding Support at Work Help Mothers and Employers at the Same Time?
This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (1), 88-115.)
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J13, C26
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6618
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Ron
P.
Smith
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Counterfactual Analysis in Macroeconometrics: An Empirical Investigation into the Effects of Quantitative Easing
This paper is concerned with ex ante and ex post counterfactual analyses in the case of macroeconometric applications where a single unit is observed before and after a given policy intervention. It ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2016, 70 (2), 262-280)
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C18, C54, E65
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6617
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Pablo
Ibarrarán
Laura
Ripani
Bibiana
Taboada
Juan Miguel
Villa
Brígida
García
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Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design
This paper presents an impact evaluation of a revamped version of the Dominican youth training program Juventud y Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:10)
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J24, J64, O15, O17
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6616
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Deniz
Karao?lan
Cagla
Okten
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Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey: Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?
This article analyzes married women's labor supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added worker effect) and worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that ...
(published as 'Labor-Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey' in: Emerging Markets Finance & Trade, 2015, 51 (1), 274-290 )
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J21, J60
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6613
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Gordon
B.
Dahl
Lance
John
Lochner
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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (5), 1927-1956)
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I2, I3
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6611
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Volker
Grossmann
David
Stadelmann
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Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence
This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2013, 27 (2), 297-319)
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F22, O30
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6610
|
Volker
Grossmann
David
Stadelmann
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Does High-Skilled Migration Affect Publicly Financed Investments?
This paper analyzes the interaction between migration of high-skilled labor and publicly financed investment. We develop a theoretical model with multiple, ex ante identical jurisdictions where ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (5), 944-959.)
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F22, H40
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6609
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Hans
K.
Hvide
Eirik
Gaard
Kristiansen
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Management of Knowledge Workers
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with ...
(published in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2012, 55 (4), 815-838)
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J30, J60
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6608
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Ervin
Prifti
Daniela
Vuri
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Employment Protection and Fertility: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) on fertility decisions of Italian working women using administrative data. We exploit a reform that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 77-88)
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J2, J13, J65
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6606
|
Xiaodong
Gong
Robert
Breunig
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Child Care Assistance: Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (1), 7 - 48)
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C15, C35, J22
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6605
|
Abigail
Wozniak
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Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment
Nearly half of U.S. employers test job applicants and workers for drugs. I use variation in the timing and nature of drug testing regulation to study discrimination against blacks related to ...
(Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 93 (7), 548-566)
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J7, J15, K2, K3, M5
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