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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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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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6501
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Pierre-Philippe
Combes
Gilles
Duranton
Laurent
Gobillon
Sébastien
Roux
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Sorting and Local Wage and Skill Distributions in France
This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (6), 913-930)
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J31, J61, R12, R23
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6500
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Orley
Ashenfelter
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Comparing Real Wage Rates
A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 617 - 642)
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C81, C82, D24, J31, N30, O57
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6499
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Marginal Employment, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality
In some countries including Germany unemployed workers can increase their income during job search by taking up "marginal employment" up to a threshold without any deduction from their benefits. ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 10177)
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J64, C41, C33
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6498
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David
McKenzie
Caroline
Theoharides
Dean
Yang
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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination countries. We find a large ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6(2), 49-75.)
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O12, J23, F22
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6497
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Ben
Kriechel
Samuel
Mühlemann
Harald
Pfeifer
Miriam
Schuette
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Works Councils, Collective Bargaining and Apprenticeship Training
In this paper, we investigate the effects of works councils on apprenticeship training in Germany. The German law attributes works councils substantial information and co-determination rights to ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 66 (5), 1095-1112)
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J24, J50, M53
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6496
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Giorgio
Brunello
Maria
De Paola
Giovanna
Labartino
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More Apples Less Chips? The Effect of School Fruit Schemes on the Consumption of Junk Food
We use scanner data of supermarket sales to investigate the effects of the EU School Fruit campaign, conducted in a sample of primary schools in the city of Rome during 2010 and 2011, on the ...
(published in: Health Policy, 2014, 118 (1), 114-126)
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I18
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6495
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Gabriella
Conti
Christopher
Hansman
James
J.
Heckman
Matthew F.X.
Novak
Angela
M.
Ruggiero
Stephen
J.
Suomi
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Primate Evidence on the Late Health Effects of Early Life Adversity
This paper exploits a unique ongoing experiment to analyze the effects of early rearing conditions on physical and mental health in a sample of rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). We analyze the health ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012, 109(23): 8866-8871.)
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I12, J13
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6494
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Erling
Barth
Karl Ove
Moene
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The Equality Multiplier: How Wage Setting and Welfare Spending Make Similar Countries Diverge
The complementarity between wage setting and welfare spending can explain how almost equally rich countries differ in economic and social equality among their citizens. More wage equality increases ...
(published as 'Quality Multiplier: How Wage Compression and Welfare Empowerment Interact' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016,14 (5), 1011-1037)
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H53, I31, J31
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6493
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Francesco
Figari
Alari
Paulus
Holly
Sutherland
Panos
Tsakloglou
Gerlinde
Verbist
Francesca
Zantomio
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Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income
Imputed rental income of homeowners is tax exempt in most countries, despite the long-standing arguments recommending its inclusion in the tax base, on both equity and efficiency grounds. The current ...
(revised version published as 'Removing Homeownership Bias in Taxation: the Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income' in: Fiscal Studies, 2017, 38 (4), 525 - 557)
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D31, H23, I31, I32
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6492
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Suqin
Ge
Dennis
T.
Yang
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Changes in China's Wage Structure
Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (2), 300-336)
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J31, E24, O40
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6490
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Francine
D.
Blau
Peter
Brummund
Albert
Yung-Hsu
Liu
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Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970-2009: Adjusting for the Impact of Changes in the Occupational Coding System
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the Census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (2), 493-494)
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J16, J24, J62, J71
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6489
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Wei
Huang
Xiaoyan
Lei
Geert
Ridder
John
Strauss
Yaohui
Zhao
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Health, Height, Height Shrinkage and SES at Older Ages: Evidence from China
Adult height, as a marker of childhood health, has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between childhood health and health outcomes at older ages. However, measured height of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(2), 86-121.)
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D1, I12, J13
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6488
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Mirko
Abbritti
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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Asymmetric Labor Market Institutions in the EMU and the Volatility of Inflation and Unemployment Differentials
How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this question, this paper sets up a dynamic currency union model with monopolistic ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2013, 45 (6), 1165-1186)
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E32, E52, F41
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6487
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Francesco
Pastore
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"I Wish I Had 100 Dollars a Month …" - The Intergenerational Transfer of Poverty in Mongolia
This paper aims to study the mechanisms of the intergenerational transfer of poverty: it considers household poverty as a risk factor for youth poverty. The study is based on a unique, nationally ...
(substantially revised version published as 'I wish I had 100 dollars a month…: The Determinants of Poverty in Mongolia' in: European Journal of Development Research, 2016, 28 (5), 934-956 )
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D63, H24, J62, I32, P36
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6486
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Masaru
Sasaki
Katsuya
Takii
Junmin
Wan
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Horizontal Transfer and Promotion: New Evidence and an Interpretation from the Perspective of Task-Specific Human Capital
This paper provides new evidence about horizontal transfer and promotion using the largest available personnel panel data in Japan and interprets them from the perspective of task-specific human ...
(published as 'Synchronized job transfer and task-specific human capital' in: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2020, 56, 101075)
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J62, M51
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6485
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Martin
Kahanec
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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, pp. 137-152)
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F22, J61
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6484
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Ronald
Bachmann
Thomas
K.
Bauer
Hanna
Kroeger
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Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from Germany
This study analyses employers' support for the introduction of industry-specific minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 ...
(published in: Labour, 2014, 28 (3), 338-357)
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J38, J50, L41, L80
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6483
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Claudio
Lucifora
Federica
Origo
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Performance Related Pay and Firm Productivity: New Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Italy
This paper investigates the causal effect of a switch from fixed wages to collective performance-related pay on firm productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment ...
(published as 'Performance-Related Pay and Firm Productivity: Evidence from a Reform in the Structure of Collective Bargaining' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 606-632)
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J31, J33, J52, L61
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6480
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Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
Arjan
Non
Willem
Verbeke
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The Effects of Prize Spread and Noise in Elimination Tournaments: A Natural Field Experiment
We conduct a natural field experiment in a large retail chain to test basic predictions of tournament theory regarding prize spread and noise. A random subset of the 208 stores participates in ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(3), 521-569)
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C93, M51, M52
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6479
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Aaron
Sojourner
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Do Unions Promote Members' Electoral Office Holding? Evidence from Correlates of State Legislatures' Occupational Shares
Controversies over the promise and perils of union political influence have erupted around the U.S. This study develops the first evidence on the degree to which labor unions develop members' ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 467–486)
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D7, H7, J5
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6478
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Herbert
Dawid
Gerd
Muehlheusser
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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116, 387–406)
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J24, M53, I25, I28
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