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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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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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6475
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Julie
Rosaz
Robert
Slonim
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Quitting and Peer Effects at Work
While peer effects have been shown to affect worker's productivity when workers are paid a fixed wage, there is little evidence on their influence on quitting decisions. This paper presents results ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 55-67)
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C91, D83, J63, J28, J81
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6474
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Jasmin
Kantarevic
Boris
Kralj
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Link between Pay for Performance Incentives and Physician Payment Mechanisms: Evidence from the Diabetes Management Incentive in Ontario
Pay for performance (P4P) incentives for physicians are generally designed as additional payments that can be paired with any existing payment mechanism such as salary, fee-for-service, and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22(12), 1417–1439)
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I10, I12, I18
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6473
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
Davide
Ticchi
Andrea
Vindigni
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A Theory of Political Entrenchment
We develop a theory of endogenous political entrenchment in a simple two-party dynamic model of income redistribution with probabilistic voting. A partially self-interested left-wing party may ...
(Economic Journal, 2016, 126, 1238-1263)
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D72, P16
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6472
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Boris
Hirsch
Elke
J.
Jahn
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Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination against Immigrants? First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper investigates immigrants' and natives' labour supply to the firm within a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony framework. Applying duration models to a large administrative ...
(substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (3), 501-528)
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J42, J61, J71
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6471
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Elke
J.
Jahn
Enzo
Weber
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Identifying the Substitution Effect of Temporary Agency Employment
This paper fills a gap in the literature by investigating whether temporary agency employment substitutes regular employment. To take into account the interaction between the two employment forms, we ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2016, 20(5), 1264-1281)
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C32, J21, J41
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6470
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Anke
Becker
Thomas
Deckers
Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
Fabian
Kosse
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The Relationship Between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures
Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 453-478)
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C91, D01, D80, D90, I00, J30, J62
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6468
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Hadi
Salehi
Esfahani
Kamiar
Mohaddes
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters
This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (1), 1-21 )
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C32, C53, E17, F43, F47, Q32
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6467
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Lisa
A.
Cameron
Nisvan
Erkal
Lata
Gangadharan
Marina
Zhang
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Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences
Cultural traits play a significant role in the determination of economic outcomes and institutions. This paper presents evidence from laboratory experiments on the cultural integration of individuals ...
(published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 111, 38-58.)
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C91, J15, D64, D03
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6466
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Mario
Macis
Fabiano
Schivardi
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Exports and Wages: Rent Sharing, Workforce Composition or Returns to Skills?
We use linked employer-employee data from Italy to explore the relationship between exports and wages. Our empirical strategy exploits the 1992 devaluation of the Italian Lira, which represented a ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, 34(4), 945 - 978)
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F16, J31
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6464
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Rashmi
Barua
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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No Pass No Drive: Education and Allocation of Time
Do negative incentives or sticks in education improve student outcomes? Since the late 1980s, several U.S. states have introduced No Pass No Drive (NPND) laws that set minimum academic requirements ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8(4), 399-431)
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J08, J22, I2
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6463
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Mikael
Lindahl
Mårten
Palme
Sofia
Sandgren Massih
Anna
Sjögren
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The Intergenerational Persistence of Human Capital: An Empirical Analysis of Four Generations
Most previous studies of intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations – parents and their children. In this study we use a Swedish data set which enables us link ...
(split into two papers and published as 'A test of the Becker-Tomes model of human capital transmission using microdata on four generation' in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 7(1), 80-96 and as 'Long-term intergenerational persistence of human capital: an empirical analysis of four generations' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(1), 1-33. )
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D31, J62
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6462
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Costas
Meghir
Mårten
Palme
Emilia
Simeonova
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Education, Health and Mortality: Evidence from a Social Experiment
We study the effect of a compulsory education reform in Sweden on adult health and mortality. The reform was implemented by municipalities between 1949 and 1962 as a social experiment and implied an ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10 (2), 234–256)
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I12, I18, I21
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6461
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Susanto
Basu
Luigi
Pascali
Fabio
Schiantarelli
Luis
Serven
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Productivity and the Welfare of Nations
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (4), 1647–1682)
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D24, D90, E20, O47
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6460
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Sebastian
Fehrler
Michael
Kosfeld
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Pro-Social Missions and Worker Motivation: An Experimental Study
Do employees work harder if their job has the right mission? In a laboratory labor market experiment, we test whether subjects provide higher effort if they can choose the mission of their job. We ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 100, 99-110)
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C92, J33, M52
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6459
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Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
Aniruddha
Mitra
Robert E.
Prasch
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Globalization, Institutions, and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence
This paper investigates the determinants of economic growth emphasizing the role of institutional quality, social fragmentation, and increasing global integration on recent growth experience. Our ...
(published as 'Globalization and the Ethnic Divide: Recent Longitudinal Evidence' in: Social Science Quarterly, 2015, 96 (5), 1475-1492 )
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O47, O43, P14
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6458
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Daiji
Kawaguchi
Soohyung
Lee
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Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 55, 633-654.)
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A12, J12, J61
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6457
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Claudio
Lucifora
Simone
Moriconi
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Political Instability and Labor Market Institutions
This paper investigates the relationship between political instability and labor market institutions. We develop a theoretical model in which some features of the political process, by reducing the ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 39, 2015, 201–221)
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J64, J88, H11
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6456
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Pavel
Yakovlev
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
William P.
Lewis
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Legislative Term Limits and State Aid to Local Governments
We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most recent panel of 47 states from 1972 to 2005. Besides the usual economic, political, ...
(published as 'The Fiscal Consequences of State Legislative Term Limits' in: Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 2018, 48 (3), 1-19)
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H7, H3
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6455
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Stephen
Gibbons
Shqiponja
Telhaj
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Peer Effects: Evidence from Secondary School Transition in England
We study the effects of peers on school achievement, with detailed data on children making the same primary to secondary school transition in consecutive years in England. Our estimates show that ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (4), 548-575)
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I2
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6454
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Susan
L.
Averett
Laura
M.
Argys
Jennifer L.
Kohn
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Immigration, Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK. There is only one other paper that has estimated these dual effects on a sample of immigrants to the US. We ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:2)
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I10, J15, J31
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6453
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Heather
Antecol
Ozkan
Eren
Serkan
Ozbeklik
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The Effect of Teacher Gender on Student Achievement in Primary School: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
This paper attempts to reconcile the contradictory results found in the economics literature and the educational psychology literature with respect to the academic impact of gender dynamics in the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(1), 63-89)
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I21, J24
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6452
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Francesca
Cornaglia
Elena
Crivellaro
Sandra
McNally
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Mental Health and Education Decisions
Mental health problems – and depression in particular – have been rising internationally. The link between poor mental health and poor educational outcomes is particularly interesting in the case of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, Vol. 33, 1–12.)
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I1, I2
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6451
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Charlotte
Geay
Sandra
McNally
Shqiponja
Telhaj
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Non-Native Speakers of English in the Classroom: What Are the Effects on Pupil Performance?
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of children going to school in England who do not speak English as a first language. We investigate whether this has an impact on the ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F281-F307. )
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I2, J15
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6450
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Corrado
Giulietti
Jackline
Wahba
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Welfare Migration
This chapter reviews and discusses major theories and empirical studies about the welfare magnet hypothesis, i.e. whether immigrants are more likely to move to countries with generous welfare ...
(published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 26, 489-504)
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H53, J61, J68
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