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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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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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6356
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Florencia
López Bóo
Martín A.
Rossi
Sergio
Urzua
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The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We provide new evidence on the link between beauty and hiring practices in the labor market. Specifically, we study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be contacted after ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 170–172.)
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J71, J78
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6355
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Michael
Jan
Kendzia
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Celebrating 150 Years of Analyzing Fertility Trends in Germany
Ever since the very beginning of the Journal of Economics and Statistics, population economics has featured prominently in the Journal. Fertility naturally plays an important role in population ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 233 (3), 406-422)
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J10, J11, J13
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6353
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Arnaud
Chevalier
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To Be or Not to Be... a Scientist?
Policy makers generally advocate that to remain competitive countries need to train more scientists. Employers regularly complain of qualified scientist shortages blaming the higher wages in other ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2017, 45, 1 - 39 )
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I21, J24, J44
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6352
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Kristian
Giesen
Jens
Suedekum
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The Size Distribution Across All “Cities”: A Unifying Approach
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively ...
(substantially revised version pubslished as 'City age and city size' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 71,193-208)
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R11, R12, O4
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6350
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Guido
Friebel
Sergei
Guriev
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Human Smuggling
Despite its importance in global illegal migration, there is little, and mostly theoretical research on human smuggling. We suggest an analytical framework to understand the micro structure of the ...
(published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 121-133)
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J15, J61
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6349
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Daniel
Fackler
Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Establishment Exits in Germany: The Role of Size and Age
Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that between 1975 and 2006 the average exit rate has risen considerably. In order to ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 683-700)
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L2
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6348
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Annalisa
Cristini
Federica
Origo
Sara
Pinoli
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The Healthy Fright of Losing a Good One for a Bad One
In this paper we study the effect of different degrees of employment protection on absenteeism, paying attention to differences between workers moving from protected jobs to insecure jobs, on the one ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2017, 59, 129-144)
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J22, J41
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6346
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Christopher K.
Hsee
Yuval
Rottenstreich
Alois
Stutzer
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Suboptimal Choices and the Need for Experienced Individual Well-Being in Economic Analysis
Standard economic analysis assumes that people make choices that maximize their utility. Yet both popular discourse and other fields assume that people sometimes fail to make optimal choices and thus ...
(published in: International Journal of Happiness and Development, 2012, 1 (1), 63-85)
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D01, D11, D60, D91
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6345
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Simon
Gächter
Daniele
Nosenzo
Martin
Sefton
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Peer Effects in Pro-Social Behavior: Social Norms or Social Preferences?
We compare social preference and social norm based explanations for peer effects in a three-person gift-exchange game experiment. In the experiment a principal pays a wage to each of two agents, who ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 548-573)
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A13, C92, D03
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6344
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Marc
Blatter
Samuel
Mühlemann
Samuel
Schenker
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Hiring Costs of Skilled Workers and the Supply of Firm-Provided Training
This paper analyzes how the costs of hiring skilled workers from the external labor market affect a firm's supply of training. Using administrative survey data with detailed information on hiring and ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 238-257)
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J23, J24, J32
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