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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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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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6449
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Sebastian
G.
Kessing
Chiara
Strozzi
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The Regional Distribution of Public Employment: Theory and Evidence
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an ...
(revised and updated version published in: Regional Studies, 2017, 51 (7), 1100-1114)
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H11, J45, R12
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6448
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Florian
Englmaier
Andreas
Roider
Uwe
Sunde
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The Role of Salience in Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Incentive schemes affect performance and priorities of agents but, in reality, they can be complicated even for simple tasks. We analyze the effects of the salience of incentives in a team production ...
(revised version published as 'The Role of Communication of Performance Schemes: Evidence from a Field Experiment' in: Management Science, 2017, 63(12), 4061-4080)
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M52, J30, D03, D80
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6447
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Daniel
Pollmann
Thomas
Dohmen
Franz
C.
Palm
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data: An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of ...
(published in: De Economist, 2020, 168, 519 - 540)
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C14, C21, C24, J24, J31, D01, D81
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6446
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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Social Insurance Networks
Based on administrative panel data from Norway, we examine how social insurance dependency spreads within neighborhoods, families, ethnic minorities, and among former schoolmates. We use a fixed ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2015, 50(4), 1081-1113)
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C31, H55, I38
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6445
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Jeff
E.
Biddle
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle
Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7)
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E29, J71
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6444
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Fidan
Ana
Kurtulus
Donald
Tomaskovic-Devey
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Do Women Top Managers Help Women Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 ...
(published as 'Do Female Top Managers Help Women to Advance? A Panel Study Using EEO-1 Records' in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2022, 639, 173-197 )
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J16, J21, J24, J44, J62, J71, J78, J82, M51
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6443
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Philippe
Askenazy
Gilbert
Cette
Paul
Maarek
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Rent Building, Rent Sharing: A Panel Country-Industry Empirical Analysis
Through panel estimates using OECD country-industry statistics, this paper aims to clarify the determinants of rent creation and the mechanisms of rent sharing, and the role of market regulations in ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2018, 120 (2), 563-596.)
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E25, J20, J30
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6442
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
The majority of firms in most developing countries are informal. We conducted a field experiment in Sri Lanka which provided incentives for informal firms to formalize. Offering only information ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 122-50)
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O17, O12, C93, D21, L26
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6441
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Olaf
Hübler
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Are Tall People Less Risk Averse than Others?
This paper examines the question of whether risk aversion of prime-age workers is negatively correlated with human height to a statistically significant degree. A variety of estimation methods, tests ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2013, 133 (1), 23-42)
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D90, J13, J24
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6440
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Christina
Gathmann
Björn
Sass
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (3), 665-709)
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J13, J22, J18
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6438
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Ioana
E.
Marinescu
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HIV, Wages, and the Skill Premium
The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 181-197)
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J22, I15, J31
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6437
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Nicole
B.
Simpson
Chad
Sparber
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less-Educated Immigration into U.S. States
This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U.S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2013, 80(2), 414-438)
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J61, E01
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6436
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Leslie
S.
Stratton
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The Role of Preferences and Opportunity Costs in Determining the Time Allocated to Housework
The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 606-611)
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D13, J22
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6435
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Daniel S. J.
Lechmann
Claus
Schnabel
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What Explains the Gender Earnings Gap in Self-Employment? A Decomposition Analysis with German Data
Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, ...
(published as 'Why is there a gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data' in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1 (6))
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J31, J71
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6434
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Niall
O'Higgins
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This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets During 'The Great Recession'
This paper looks at the effects of the 'Great Recession' on young people's labour market experiences in the European Union. The paper documents some of the key characteristics of young people's ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2012, 54 (2), 395-412)
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I28, J13, J23, J24
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6433
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
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Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category
Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection ...
(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 23, 432-452)
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J61, J68
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6432
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Testing Weak Cross-Sectional Dependence in Large Panels
This paper considers testing the hypothesis that errors in a panel data model are weakly cross sectionally dependent, using the exponent of cross-sectional dependence ?, introduced recently in ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2015, 34 (6-10), 1089-1117 )
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C12, C13, C33
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6431
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Michael
L.
Bognanno
Eduardo
Melero Martín
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Promotion Signals, Age and Education
This paper examines whether more informative job promotions carry larger wage increases. In job assignment models with asymmetric information, unexpected promotions send a signal to the external ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2016, 25 (1), 111 - 132)
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J3
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6428
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Chiara
Mussida
Matteo
Picchio
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The Gender Wage Gap by Education in Italy
This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994–2001 ECHP data. We estimate wage distributions in the presence of covariates and sample selection separately ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2014, 12 (1), 117-147)
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C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
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6426
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Yannis
Georgellis
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Back to Baseline in Britain: Adaptation in the BHPS
We look for evidence of adaptation in well-being to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of a child and widowhood appears to be rapid ...
(published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (319), 496–512)
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I31, J12, J13, J63, J64
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6425
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Mara
Ewers
Florian
Zimmermann
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Image and Misreporting
In this paper we ask if reports of private information about skills, abilities or achievements are affected by image concerns. We develop a simple model that illustrates how image utility can lead to ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (2), 363-380)
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C91, D03, D82
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6424
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David
A.
Green
W. Craig
Riddell
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Ageing and Literacy Skills: Evidence from Canada, Norway and the United States
We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. – countries that represent a wide range of literacy outcomes – using data from the 1994 and 2003 International ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 22, 16 - 29)
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I20, J14, J24
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6421
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Claire L.
Adida
David
D.
Laitin
Marie-Anne
Valfort
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Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France
Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2015, 26 (1), 79-95)
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C90, D03, J15, J16, J71, Z12
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6420
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Francesca
Fabbri
Dalia
Marin
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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009
The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone’s hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (2), 235-263 )
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F23, J3, M12, M52
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6419
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Santiago
Budría
Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
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Income Comparisons and Non-Cognitive Skills
People gain utility from occupying a higher ranked position in the income distribution of the reference group. This paper investigates whether these gains depend on an individual's set of ...
(published as 'Life Satisfaction, Income Comparisons and Individual Traits' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65 (2), 337 - 357)
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D62, I31
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6418
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N. Meltem
Daysal
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Does Uninsurance Affect the Health Outcomes of the Insured? Evidence from Heart Attack Patients in California
In this paper, I examine the impact of uninsured patients on the health of the insured, focusing on one health outcome – the in-hospital mortality rate of insured heart attack patients. I employ ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 31 (4), 545-563)
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I10, I11, I18
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6417
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Farzana
Afridi
Sherry
Xin
Li
Yufei
Ren
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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System
We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals' response to economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which ...
(published in Journal of Public Economics,Vol. 123, March 2015: 17-29)
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C93, D03, O15, P36
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6416
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Yuval
Arbel
Yossef
Tobol
Erez
Siniver
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Social Involvement and Level of Household Income among Immigrants: New Evidence from the Israeli Experience
Previous studies of immigrant populations suggest that ceteris paribus (after controlling for the number of years in the receiving country and other socio-demographic variables), the level of income ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35(6), 798-816)
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J15, Z13
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6414
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Matloob
Piracha
Florin
Vadean
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Migrant Educational Mismatch and the Labour Market
This paper reviews the literature on educational mismatch of immigrants in the labour market of destination countries. It draws on the theoretical arguments postulated in the labour economics ...
(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 9, 176-192)
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J24, J61
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6413
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Carmen
Aina
Francesco
Pastore
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Delayed Graduation and Overeducation: A Test of the Human Capital Model versus the Screening Hypothesis
The academic circles are devoting a growing interest to delayed graduation and overeducation, but none has analyzed the joint consequences of these two phenomena. Thus, this paper studies the link ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 152(2), 533-553)
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C25, C26, C33, I2, J13, J24
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6412
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Mohamed
El Hedi
Arouri
Adel
Ben-Youssef
Hatem
M'henni
Christophe
Rault
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to ...
(published in: Energy Policy, 2012, 45, 342 - 349)
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Q43, Q53, Q56
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6409
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N. Meltem
Daysal
Chiara
Orsini
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Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Health Behavior
We examine the impact of new medical information on drug safety on preventive health behavior. We exploit the release of the findings of the Women's Health Initiative Study (WHIS) – the largest ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Spillover Effects of Drug Safety Warnings on Preventive Health Care Use' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 15(1), 179–208)
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I10, I12, I14, I18
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6408
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Jon
E.
Anderson
Manjari
Govada
Tricia K.
Steffen
Chris P.
Thorne
Vasileia
Varvarigou
Stefanos N.
Kales
Stephen
V.
Burks
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Health Behavior and Accident Risk: Obesity Is Associated with the Future Risk of Heavy Truck Crashes among Newly Recruited Commercial Drivers
This study estimates the dose-response relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and crash risk in commercial motor vehicle operators. Intake data was collected on 744 new truck drivers who were ...
(revised version published as 'Obesity is associated with the future risk of heavy truck crashes among newly recruited commercial drivers,' in: Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2012, 49, 378-384)
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I12, J49, R41
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6407
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Bernd
Fitzenberger
Ute
Leuschner
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Up or Out: Research Incentives and Career Prospects of Postdocs in Germany
Academic careers in Germany have been under debate for a while. We conduct a survey among postdocs in Germany, to analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2014, 15 (2), 287-328)
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A11, A29, I21, I23, J24, J49
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6406
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John
Bennett
Matthew
D.
Rablen
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Self-Employment, Wage Employment and Informality in a Developing Economy
We construct a simple model incorporating various urban labour market phenomena obtaining in developing economies. Our initial formulation assumes an integrated labour market and allows for ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2015, 67 (2), 227-244)
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O17, J23
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6405
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Elke
J.
Jahn
Michael
Rosholm
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Is Temporary Agency Employment a Stepping Stone for Immigrants?
We investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment for immigrants to Denmark using the timing-of-events approach. We provide evidence of large positive in-treatment effects, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 225-228)
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J61, J64, J68
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