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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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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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6404
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Saibal
Kar
Poulomi
Roy
Sarani
Saha
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Public and Private Sector Jobs, Unreported Income and Consumption Gap in India: Evidence from Micro-Data
This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate empirically the wage gap as well as consumption expenditure parity between public ...
(published in: North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2014, 29, 285-300)
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C12, C31, D23, J21
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6403
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Christina
Gathmann
Hendrik
Jürges
Steffen
Reinhold
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Compulsory Schooling Reforms, Education and Mortality in Twentieth Century Europe
Education yields substantial non-monetary benefits, but the size of these gains is still debated. Previous studies, for example, report contradictory effects of education and compulsory schooling on ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 127, 74 - 82)
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I12, I21, I28
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6402
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Robert
G.
Valletta
K. Jody
Hoff
Jane
S.
Lopus
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Lost in Translation? Teacher Training and Outcomes in High School Economics Classes
Using data on 24 teachers and 982 students from a 2006 survey of California high school economics classes, we assess the effects of student and teacher characteristics on student achievement. We ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2014, 32(4))
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A21, I21
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6400
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Alison
L.
Booth
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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Salience, Risky Choices and Gender
Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 517 - 520)
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D8, D81, J16
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6399
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Delia
Furtado
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects
Immigrants who marry outside of their ethnicity tend to have better economic outcomes than those who marry within ethnicity. It is difficult, however, to interpret this relationship because ...
(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 15, 276-292)
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J12, J15, J61
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6398
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Josefina
Posadas
Marian
Vidal-Fernandez
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Grandparents' Childcare and Female Labor Force Participation
In the U.S., grandparents look after one in five preschool children of employed women. Does this source of informal childcare increase female labor force participation and if so, up to what extent? ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:14)
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J2, I3
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6397
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Christoph
Rothe
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Decomposing the Composition Effect
This paper proposes a decomposition of the composition effect, i.e. the part of the observed between-group difference in the distribution of some economic outcome that can be explained by differences ...
(published as 'Decomposing the Composition Effect: The Role of Covariates in Determining Between-Group Differences in Economic Outcomes' in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2015, 33 (3), 323-337 )
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C13, C18, C21, J31
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6396
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Christos
Koutsampelas
Panos
Tsakloglou
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The Distribution of Full Income in Greece
Non-cash incomes from either private or public sources can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. However, standard approaches to inequality measurement either neglect them ...
(published in: International Journal of Social Economics 2013, 40, 311-330)
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D31, I38
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6394
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Zhiqiang
Feng
Maarten
van Ham
Paul
Boyle
Gillian
M.
Raab
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A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales
Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ...
(published as: 'A longitudinal study of migration propensities for mixed ethnic unions in England and Wales' in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2014, 40 (3), 384-403)
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J12, J15, J61, R23
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6393
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Joachim
Wagner
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The Microstructure of the Great Export Collapse in German Manufacturing Industries, 2008/2009
This paper uses comprehensive high-quality panel data from official statistics for exporting enterprises to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries ...
(published in: Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 2013, 7 (1), 20130005)
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F14, E32
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6392
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Benoit
Dostie
Lene
Kromann
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Labour Supply and Taxes: New Estimates of the Responses of Wives to Husbands' Wages
In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (31), 4355-4368)
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C25, H31, J22
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6391
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Jason
M.
Fletcher
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The Effects of Personality Traits on Adult Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Siblings
While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging literature examines the importance of so-called "non-cognitive skills" in producing ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2013, 89, 122–135)
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J24, J31
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6390
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
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Gender Differences in Education
This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that female educational attainment has surpassed, or is about to surpass, male ...
(published in Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2012, 1, 165-197)
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I20, J16, J24
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6389
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Per
Johansson
Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Jouko
Kullervo
Verho
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Cross-Border Health and Productivity Effects of Alcohol Policies
This paper studies the cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol taxes. We estimate the effect of a large cut in the Finnish alcohol tax on mortality, alcohol related illnesses and work ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 36, 125-136)
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H23, H73, I18
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6388
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Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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Experimental Evidence of Self-Image Concerns as Motivation for Giving
We conduct an experiment in which subjects make a series of decisions of allocating an endowment of £10 between themselves and a passive recipient that is either a charity or the experimenter. When ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 19-27)
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C91, D03, D64
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6387
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Antonio
Filippin
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Run for Fun: Intrinsic Motivation and Physical Performance
We use data from the 24-hours Belluno run which has the unique characteristic that participants are affiliated with teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual ...
(revised version published as 'Positive Assortative Matching: Evidence from Sports Data', in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54 (3), 401-421)
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J14, J24, J31
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6386
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Giorgio
Brunello
Guglielmo
Weber
Christoph T.
Weiss
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Books Are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Income
In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2017)
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J24
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6384
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Teresa
García-Muñoz
Shoshana
Neuman
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Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing ...
(revised version published as 'Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants' Religiosity' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:23. A different revised version published as 'Immigration-Religiosity Intersections at the Two Sides of the Atlantic: Europe and the United States' in: Constant A. and Zimmermann K. (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, 2013, Eward Elgar Publishing)
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J11, J15, Z12, Z13
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6382
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ralitza
Dimova
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Does Human Capital Endowment of FDI Recipient Countries Really Matter? Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data
The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (3), 559-570)
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F23, I25
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6381
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Christian
Pfeifer
Joachim
Wagner
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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large ...
(published in: Contemporary Economics, 2014, 8 (1), 25-49)
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D22, D24, J21, J24, L25
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6379
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Gustaf
Bruze
Michael
Svarer
Yoram
Weiss
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The Dynamics of Marriage and Divorce
We formulate and estimate a dynamic model of marriage, divorce, and remarriage using 27 years of panel data for the entire Danish cohort born in 1960. The marital surplus is identified from the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33(1), 123-170)
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J12
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6378
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Chris
Riddell
W. Craig
Riddell
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The Pitfalls of Work Requirements in Welfare-to-Work Policies: Experimental Evidence on Human Capital Accumulation in the Self-Sufficiency Project
This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project ('SSP') was a ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 39-49)
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I38, J08, J24
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6377
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W. Craig
Riddell
Xueda
Song
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The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey
Adoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (5), 1219-1253.)
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I20, O33
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6376
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Tue
Gorgens
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Parents' Economic Support of Young-Adult Children: Do Socioeconomic Circumstances Matter?
This paper assesses how the economic support provided by parents to young adults as they complete their education and enter the labor market is related to the family's socioeconomic circumstances. We ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (2), 447-471)
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J12, J13, J22, J24
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6374
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Francisca
M.
Antman
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The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind
This paper addresses the effects of migration on families left behind and offers new evidence on the impact of migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, pp. 293-308)
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O15, D13, J13, J14, F22, I15, I25
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6373
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Anders
Frederiksen
Fabian
Lange
Ben
Kriechel
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Subjective Performance Evaluations and Employee Careers
Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017, 134, 408-429)
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M5
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6372
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Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
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Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing: How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process
In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive governments have expressed a commitment to the contradictory aims of providing greater ...
(published in: Christopher D Lloyd, Ian Shuttleworth and David Wong (eds.), Social-Spatial Segregation: Concepts, Processes and Outcomes, The Policy Press, 2014)
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R21, R23
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6371
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Laura
Chioda
João
M. P.
de Mello
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Spillovers from Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: Bolsa Família and Crime in Urban Brazil
This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 54, 306-320)
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I28, I38, K42
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6369
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Ulf
Rinne
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The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the ...
(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 28, 530-551)
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F22, J15, J61, C21
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6368
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Raquel
Vegas
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Moroccans' Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration
An important immigration policy question is to identify the best criteria to select among potential migrants. At least two methodological problems arise: the host country's immigration policy regime ...
(published in: Middle East Development Journal, 2011, 3 (2), 119-139 )
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J15, J24, J61, J62
|
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6367
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Earnings Growth and Movements in Self-Reported Health
We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for unobserved heterogeneity, we focus on the relationship between earnings growth and ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2017, 63 (4), 760-776)
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I0, I12, J1
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6366
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Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Eric
Smith
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Search Capital
We construct a simple equilibrium search model in which workers accumulate information about previously met employment contacts. We term the latter search capital. Here search capital (partially) ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2017, 23, 191 - 211. )
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J62, J63, J64
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6365
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Pierre
Cahuc
Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
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Explaining the Spread of Temporary Jobs and its Impact on Labor Turnover
This paper provides a simple model which explains the choice between permanent and temporary jobs. This model, which incorporates important features of actual employment protection legislations ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2016, 57 (2), 533-572)
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J63, J64, J68
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6364
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Christoph
Rothe
Dominik
Wied
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Misspecification Testing in a Class of Conditional Distributional Models
We propose a specification test for a wide range of parametric models for the conditional distribution function of an outcome variable given a vector of covariates. The test is based on the ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (501), 314-324)
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C12, C14, C31, C52, J31
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6363
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Julia
Beckhusen
Raymond J.G.M.
Florax
Thomas
de Graaff
Jacques
Poot
Brigitte
Waldorf
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Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Learning English is a potentially profitable investment for immigrants in the U.S.: while there are initial costs, the subsequent benefits include the ability to communicate with the majority of the ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92(2), 305-328)
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F22, J15, J24, R23
|
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6362
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Ronald
Bachmann
Mathias
Sinning
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Decomposing the Ins and Outs of Cyclical Unemployment
This paper analyzes the contribution of the socioeconomic and demographic composition of the pool of employed and unemployed individuals to the dynamics of the labor market in different phases of the ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (6), 853-876)
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J63, J64, J21, E24
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6360
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Alessandro
Barbarino
Giovanni
Mastrobuoni
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The Incapacitation Effect of Incarceration: Evidence from Several Italian Collective Pardons
We estimate the "incapacitation effect" on crime using variation in Italian prison population driven by eight collective pardons passed between 1962 and 1995. The prison releases are sudden – within ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6(1), 1-37)
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K40, K42, H11
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6358
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Giorgio
Di Pietro
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The Short-Term Effectiveness of a Remedial Mathematics Course: Evidence from a UK University
Whilst in the US there is a growing debate about the effectiveness of remedial university courses, this issue is less questioned in the UK. Using a regression discontinuity approach and data from a ...
(revised version published in: The Manchester School, 2014, 82 (3), 363-384)
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A22, I20
|
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6357
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Laurent
Gobillon
Thierry
Magnac
Harris
Selod
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Do Unemployed Workers Benefit from Enterprise Zones? The French Experience
This paper presents an impact evaluation of the French enterprise zone program which was initiated in 1997 to help unemployed workers find employment by granting a significant wage-tax exemption ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (9), 881 - 892)
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C21, J60, J68, R58
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