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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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6558
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Yekaterina
Chzhen
Karen
A.
Mumford
Catia
Nicodemo
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Australian Private Sector: Is Selection Relevant across the Wage Distribution?
We use quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to explore gender gaps across the earning distribution for full-time employees in the Australian private sector. Significant ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (286), 367–381)
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J3, J7
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6557
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Yohanes E.
Riyanto
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Why Do People Pay for Useless Advice? Implications of Gambler's and Hot-Hand Fallacies in False-Expert Setting
We investigated experimentally whether people can be induced to believe in a non-existent expert, and subsequently pay for what can only be described as transparently useless advice about future ...
(published as 'Would You Pay for Transparently Useless Advice? A Test of Boundaries of Beliefs in the Folly of Predictions' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (2), 257 - 272)
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C91, D03
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6556
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Aysit
Tansel
Elif
Öznur
Acar
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The Formal/Informal Employment Earnings Gap: Evidence from Turkey
In this study, we examine the formal/informal sector earnings differentials in the Turkish labor market using detailed econometric methodologies and a novel panel data set drawn from the 2006-2009 ...
(published in: John A. Bishop and Juan Gabriel Rodrigue (eds.), Inequality after the 20th Century: Papers from the Sixth ECINEQ Meeting (Research on Economic Inequality Book 24) ,2016, 123-156)
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J21, J31, J40, O17
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6555
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Carlo
Dell’Aringa
Claudio
Lucifora
Laura
Pagani
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A 'Glass-Ceiling' Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 ...
(published as: 'Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives: the role of occupational attainment' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 4 (8), 2015)
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J31, J24, J61, F22
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6554
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Hans
Grönqvist
Per
Johansson
Susan
Niknami
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Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics 2012, 31 (4), 617-629 )
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I10, J15
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6553
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Per
Engström
Pathric
Hägglund
Per
Johansson
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Early Interventions and Disability Insurance: Experience from a Field Experiment
This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2017,127 (600), 363 - 392)
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C93, H51, H55, I18, J22
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6551
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Shareen
Joshi
T. Paul
Schultz
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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health: Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 149-180)
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O12, J13, I12, J16
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6550
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James
J.
Heckman
Junjian
Yi
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China
China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the ...
(published in: S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S. Wei, and X. Zhang (eds)., The Oxford Companion to the Economics of China on Human Capital, Oxford: OUP, 2014)
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I25, J24, O15
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6549
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Mehtabul
Azam
Vipul
Bhatt
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Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Education Mobility in India
An important constraint in studying intergenerational education mobility for India is the lack of data that contain information about parents' education for the entire adult population. This paper ...
(substantially revised version published in: Demography, 2015, 52(6), 1929-1959 )
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J6, I28
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6547
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Determinants of Immigrants' Cash-Welfare Benefits Intake in Spain
Much of the literature on immigrants' cash-welfare benefits use has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with well established Welfare states. This paper ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 167-180)
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J15, J61, J68, I38
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6545
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Oliver
Falck
Robert
Gold
Stephan
Heblich
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E-Lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet
This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (7), 2238-2265)
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D72, C50, L86
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6544
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Peter
Haan
Daniel
Kemptner
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Bayesian Procedures as a Numerical Tool for the Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
Dynamic discrete choice models usually require a general specification of unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of a female ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 49, 1123-1141)
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C11, C25, J22
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6543
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Miguel
Angel
Alcobendas
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Raquel
Vegas
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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how ...
(published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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6542
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Raquel
Vegas
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Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain
Using the 2007 Encuesta Nacional de Immigración (ENI), we find that male migrants follow a similar labor and legal assimilation pattern in Spain regardless of their nationality (with Romanians ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Do Moroccan Migrants to Spain Fare Better or Worse than Other Migrants?' in: Middle East Development Journal, 2014, 6 (2), 308 - 328 )
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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6541
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance
Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 824-837)
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I1, J1
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6540
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Anne
C.
Gielen
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Quit Behavior and the Role of Job Protection
Job protection reduces job turnover by changing firms' hiring and firing decisions. Yet the effect of job protection on workers' quit decisions and post-quit outcomes is still unknown. We present the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 624 - 632)
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J28, J62
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6537
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Mona
Larsen
Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Paid Work after Retirement: Recent Trends in Denmark
The labor market in Denmark seems to follow the trend in a number of other countries of increasing labor force participation in the 60+ group. We analyze trends for the early retirement age interval ...
(published as 'To work, to retire – or both? Labor market activity after 60' in: IZA Journal of European Studies, 2013, 2:21)
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H55, J14, J26
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6536
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Union Decline in Britain: Is Chauvinism Also to Blame?
The paper examines if workplace gender diversity offers some explanation for the decline of unions in Britain. Using the WERS2004 linked employer-employee data and alternative econometric estimators ...
(published as 'Union decline in Britain: does gender have anything to do with it?' in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 64 (1), 25 - 49 )
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J51, J16, J82
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6535
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Andrea
Bassanini
Andrea
Garnero
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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in OECD Countries: Evidence from Cross-Country/Cross-Industry Data
Exploiting a unique dataset including cross-country comparable hiring and separation rates by type of transition for 24 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and 13 years, we study the effect ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21 (1), 25-41)
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J23, J24, J62, J63
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6534
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Andrew
Kerr
Francis
J.
Teal
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The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from South Africa
In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences ...
(published as 'The Determinants of Earnings Inequalities: Panel Data Evidence from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa' in: Journal of African Economics, 2015, 24 (4), 530- 558)
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J31, J51, J45, O12
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6533
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Robert
J.
McCann
Xianwen
Shi
Aloysius
Siow
Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Becker Meets Ricardo: Multisector Matching with Social and Cognitive Skills
This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when individuals have heterogeneous social and cognitive skills. In the model, there are ...
(published in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2015, 31 (4), 690-720)
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E24, J12, J24, J31
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6532
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Aysit
Tansel
Nil Demet
Güngör
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Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Several recent empirical studies have examined the gender effects of education on economic growth or on steady-state level of output using the much exploited, familiar cross-country data in order to ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2013, 40 (6), 794-821. )
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O11, O15, I21, J16
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6531
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Dana
Burde
Leigh
L.
Linden
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The Effect of Village-Based Schools: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Afghanistan
We conduct a randomized evaluation of the effect of village-based schools on children's academic performance using a sample of 31 villages and 1,490 children in rural northwestern Afghanistan. The ...
(published as "Bringing Education to Afghan Girls: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Village-Based Schools" in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(3), 27-40)
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I21, I25, I28, O12, O22
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6530
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Stéphane R.
Robin
Agnieszka
Rusinowska
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Ingratiation and Favoritism: Experimental Evidence
We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in favor of workers with whom they share similar opinions. In our Baseline, managers ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 16-38.)
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C7, C92, D03, D86, M51
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6529
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Melinda
Sandler
Morrill
Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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What Effects Do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on Families' Time Together?
We examine family time together using data from the 2003-2010 American Time Use Survey combined with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on state-level unemployment rates. Couple time together is ...
(published as 'What Effects do Macroeconomic Conditions Have on the Time Couples with Children Spend Together?' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(4), 791-814 )
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D1, J22, J12, E32
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6528
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Hong
Liu
Hai
Fang
Zhong
Zhao
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Urban-Rural Disparities of Child Health and Nutritional Status in China from 1989 to 2006
This paper analyzes urban–rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and Nutrition Survey data from 1989 to 2006. We investigate degrees of health and ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2013, 11 (3), 294–309)
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I14, I15
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6527
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Klaus
Prettner
David
E.
Bloom
Holger
Strulik
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Declining Fertility and Economic Well-Being: Do Education and Health Ride to the Rescue?
It is widely argued that declining fertility slows the pace of economic growth in industrialized countries through its negative effect on labor supply. There are, however, theoretical arguments ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 22, 70 - 79)
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I15, I25, J24, O47
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6526
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Carlo
Dell’Aringa
Marco
Leonardi
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Temporary Employment, Job Flows and Productivity: A Tale of Two Reforms
We investigate the effects of two reforms of temporary employment using panel data on Italian firms. We exploit variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. Our ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (562), F188-F215.)
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J24, J41
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6525
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Joshua
Angrist
Parag A.
Pathak
Christopher R.
Walters
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Explaining Charter School Effectiveness
Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter schools in other settings do not. Using the largest available sample of lotteried ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (4), 1-27)
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I21, I24, I28, J45
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6524
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Sergio
Firpo
Renan
Pieri
André
Portela Souza
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Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality: Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
School accountability systems that establish the adoption of incentives for teachers and school managers usually impact positively students’ performance. However, in many circumstances, school ...
(published in: EconomiA., 2017, 18 (1), 1-17)
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H11, H41, H52, H72 I21, I28
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6523
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Michele
Binci
Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
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Internal vs. International Migration: Impacts of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam
This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2018, 2018, 52 (1), 43–65)
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F22, I39, J13, O15
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6522
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Roman
Horváth
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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms
What are the factors that explain reversals in the implementation of structural reforms? Our main hypothesis is that reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (1), 217 - 219)
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E23, D72, H26, O17
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6520
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Gary
Y.C.
Yeung
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
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The Impact of Early Life Economic Conditions on Cause-Specific Mortality During Adulthood
The aim of this study is to assess the effects of economic conditions in early life on cause-specific mortality during adulthood. The analyses are performed on a unique historical sample of 14,520 ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (3), 895-919)
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I12, C41
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6518
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Luc
Behaghel
Bruno
Crépon
Marc
Gurgand
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Private and Public Provision of Counseling to Job-Seekers: Evidence from a Large Controlled Experiment
Contracting out public services to private firms has ambiguous effects when quality is imperfectly observable. Using a randomized experiment over a national sample in France, we compare the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6 (4), 142-174)
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J64, J68, H44
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6517
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Michel
Grignon
Yaw
Owusu
Arthur
Sweetman
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The International Migration of Health Professionals
Health workforce shortages in developed countries are perceived to be central drivers of health professionals' international migration, one ramification being negative impacts on developing nations' ...
(Published as: Grignon, Michel, Yaw Owusu, and Arthur Sweetman. 2013. “The International Migration of Health Professionals” in International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar; 75-97.)
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J61, I15, I18
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6516
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Horst
Entorf
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Certainty and Severity of Sanctions in Classical and Behavioral Models of Deterrence: A Survey
This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay ...
(published in: Gerben Bruinsma and David Weisburd (eds), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Springer, 2014)
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K4, H0
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6515
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Raul
Ramos
Juan
Carlos
Duque
Sandra
Nieto
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Decomposing the Rural-Urban Differential in Student Achievement in Colombia Using PISA Microdata
Despite the large number of studies that draw on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) microdata in their analyses of the determinants of educational outcomes, no more than a few ...
(published in: Estudios de Economía Aplicada, 2016, 34 (2), 379-412.)
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J24, I25, R58
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6514
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Alessia
Lo Turco
Daniela
Maggioni
Matteo
Picchio
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Offshoring and Job Stability: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing
We study the relationship between offshoring and job stability in Italy in the period 1995–2001 by using an administrative dataset on manufacturing workers. We find that the international ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 26, 27-46)
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C41, F14, F16, J62
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6513
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Marco
Vivarelli
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Entrepreneurship in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Microeconomic Perspective
The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, ...
(published as 'Is entrepreneurship necessarily good? Microeconomic evidence from developed and developing countries' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2013, 22, 1453-1495)
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L26, O12
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6512
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Laura
Rosendahl Huber
Randolph
Sloof
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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The Effect of Early Entrepreneurship Education: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To this end, we conduct a randomized field experiment to evaluate a leading entrepreneurship education ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 76-97)
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L26, I21, J24, C93
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6511
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Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
Andre
Zylberberg
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Equilibrium Unemployment and Retirement
As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement decisions at the individual level: unemployed people are more likely to retire. Our ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2015, 79, 35-58)
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J22, J26, H55
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6510
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Ive
Marx
Sarah
Marchal
Brian
Nolan
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Mind the Gap: Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US ...
(published in Marx, I. and K. Nelson (eds.), Minimum Income Protection in Flux, Palgrave MacMillan, 2012, pp. 54-80)
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I3, H2, J8
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6509
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Bertil
Holmlund
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Wage and Employment Determination in Volatile Times: Sweden 1913-1939
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the ...
(published in: Cliometrica, 2013, 7 (2), 131–159)
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J23, J31, N14, N34
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6508
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Espen
Bratberg
Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Kjell
Vaage
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Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?
This paper addresses whether children's exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an ...
(revised version published as 'Assessing the Intergenerational Correlation in Disability Pension Recipiency' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67(2), 205-226)
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H55, J62
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6507
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Abhiroop
Mukhopadhyay
Soham
Sahoo
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Does Access to Secondary Education Affect Primary Schooling? Evidence from India
This paper investigates if better access to secondary education increases enrolment in primary schools among children in the 6-10 age group. Using a household-level longitudinal survey covering 43 ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 124-142)
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I2, I20, I21
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6506
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Andrew
Benito
Jumana
Saleheen
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Labour Supply as a Buffer: Evidence from UK Households
This paper examines labour supply adjustment – both hours worked and participation decisions. We focus on the response of each to financial shocks, employing data from the BHPS. Estimated responses ...
(published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (130), 698-720)
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J22
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6505
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Andreas
Peichl
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The Impact of Redistributive Policies on Inequality in OECD Countries
Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government intervention and redistribution. Due to obvious behavioral effects caused by ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46 (17), 2066-2086)
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D31, D60, H20
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6504
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Achilleas
Anagnostopoulos
W. Stanley
Siebert
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The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment: Evidence from a New Survey
This paper uses an original dataset for 206 workplaces in Thessaly (Greece), to study consequences of Greece's employment protection law (EPL) and national wage minimum for temporary employment. We ...
(published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2015, 26 (18), 2366-2393)
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J38, J41, J81
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6503
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Catia
Nicodemo
Josep
M.
Raya
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Change in the Distribution of House Prices across Spanish Cities
This paper presents the quantile estimation of house price between two years, 2004 and 2007 (a boom house price period) in several Spanish cities. We decompose the change in house price distribution ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (4), 739–748)
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C1, R21, R31
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6502
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Gilles
Duranton
Laurent
Gobillon
Diego
Puga
Sébastien
Roux
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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities: Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection
Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (6), 2543-2594)
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C52, R12, D24
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