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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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6288
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Eren
Inci
Simon
C.
Parker
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Financing Entrepreneurship and the Old-Boy Network
We study entrepreneurs' start-up financing from banks and local financiers. An informal network, whose membership cannot be observed by outsiders, conveys the good signals it gets about the hidden ...
(published in: Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 232-258)
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D82, G20, L26
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6287
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Pia
M.
Orrenius
Madeline
Zavodny
Emily
Kerr
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Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy
The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and ensuing government crackdown affected Chinese nationals not only at home but around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2012, 46 (2), 456-482)
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J15
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6286
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Andrea
Hammermann
Alwine
Mohnen
Petra
Nieken
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Whom to Choose as a Team Mate? A Lab Experiment about In-Group Favouritism
The practical relevance of favouritism among students of the same study path is evident in lifelong memberships in fraternities or sororities or in high donations to faculties. In our study, we focus ...
(published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2014, 8(3), 327–350)
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C92, D03, J71, M51
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6284
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Andrea
Hammermann
Alwine
Mohnen
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Who Benefits from Benefits? Empirical Research on Tangible Incentives
Although a broad field of literature on incentive theory exists, employer-provided tangible goods (hereafter called benefits) have so far been neglected by economic research. A remarkable exception ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2014, 43 (1), 1-15.)
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C83, J32, M52
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6283
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Christos
Koutsampelas
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Short-Run Distributional Effects of Public Education in Greece
The present paper examines the short-run distributional impact of public education in Greece using the micro-data of the 2004/5 Household Budget Survey. The aggregate distributional impact of public ...
(revised version published as 'The Progressivity of Public Education in Greece: Empirical Findings and Policy Implications' in: Education Economics, 2015, 23(5), 596-611)
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I24, D31
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6282
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Olena
Y.
Nizalova
Irina
Murtazashvili
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Exogenous Treatment and Endogenous Factors: Vanishing of Omitted Variable Bias on the Interaction Term
Whether interested in the differential impact of a particular factor in various institutional settings or in the heterogeneous effect of policy or random experiment, the empirical researcher ...
(published in Journal of Econometric Methods, 2016, 5(1), 71-78)
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C21, C93
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6281
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Stephen
Gibbons
Sandra
McNally
Martina
Viarengo
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Does Additional Spending Help Urban Schools? An Evaluation Using Boundary Discontinuities
Improving the educational attainment of disadvantaged students in urban schools is a priority for policy worldwide, but existing research is equivocal about the effectiveness of additional funding ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16 (5), 1618-1668 )
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R0, I21, H52
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6280
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D. Mark
Anderson
Daniel
I.
Rees
Joseph
J.
Sabia
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High on Life? Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide
Using state-level data for the period 1990 through 2007, we estimate the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on suicide rates. Our results suggest that the passage of a medical marijuana law is ...
(published as 'Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicides by Gender and Age' in: American Journal of Public Health, 2014, 104 (12), 2369-2376)
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I10, I18
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6279
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Oriana
Bandiera
Iwan
Barankay
Imran
Rasul
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Team Incentives: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment
Many organizations rely on teamwork, and yet field evidence on the impacts of team-based incentives remains scarce. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (5), 1079-1114)
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D23, J33, M52
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6278
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Katja
Görlitz
Marcus
Tamm
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Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasks and Firm Effects
This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm ...
(revised version published as 'Revisiting the Complementarity between Education and Training: The Role of Job Tasks and Firm Effects' in: Education Economics, 2016, 24(3), 261-279)
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I21, J24
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6277
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Christian
Thöni
Simon
Gächter
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Peer Effects and Social Preferences in Voluntary Cooperation
Substantial evidence suggests the behavioral relevance of social preferences and also the importance of social influence effects ("peer effects"). Yet, little is known about how peer effects and ...
(revised version published as 'Peer effects and social preferences in voluntary cooperation: A theoretical and experimental analysis' in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2015, 48, 72 - 88)
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C92, D03
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6276
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Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians
Much of the socioeconomic mobility achieved by U.S. immigrant families takes place across rather than within generations. When assessing the long-term integration of immigrants, it is therefore ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (5), 1146-1175)
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J15, J61, J62
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6275
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Denvil
Duncan
Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
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Nice Guys Finish Last: Are People with Higher Tax Morale Taxed More Heavily?
This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of 'tax morale'. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale implies a high ...
(substantially revised version published in: Kyklos, 2014, 67 (1), 29-53)
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H2, H3, D7
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6274
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Joachim
Wagner
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed ...
(published in: Journal for Labour Market Research, 2012, 45 (2), 161-170)
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C81, F14, J31
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6273
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Daniel
Rosenblum
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The Indian Ultrasound Paradox
The liberalization of the Indian economy in the 1990s made prenatal ultrasound technology affordable and available to a large fraction of the population. As a result, ultrasound use amongst pregnant ...
(substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 15838)
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J13, J16, O1
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6272
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Nick
Drydakis
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Men's Sexual Orientation and Job Satisfaction
This study investigates the differences in three aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, and respect received from one's supervisor – between male heterosexual and gay employees ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (8), 901-917)
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J28, C93, J7, J16, J31, J42, J64, J71
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6271
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Aysit
Tansel
Elif
Öznur
Acar
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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data
Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2017, 44 (4), 617-635.)
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J21, J24, J40, J63, O17
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6270
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C. Sofia
Machado
Miguel
Portela
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Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior
Using a novel dataset from the 2006 Portuguese Labor Force Survey this paper examines the impact of a voluntary reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (16), 1-22)
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J14, J26, J22, J21
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6268
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Jason
Gagnon
Theodora
Xenogiani
Chunbing
Xing
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Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China
The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant workers, particularly to their working conditions and pay. This paper uses data from ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2014, 3:17)
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O15, R23, J24, J71
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6267
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Marco
Stampini
Ron
Leung
Setou M.
Diarra
Lauréline
Pla
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How Large Is the Private Sector in Africa? Evidence from National Accounts and Labor Markets
In recent years, the private sector has been recognized as a key engine of Africa's economic development. Yet, the most simple and fundamental question remains unanswered: how large is the African ...
(revised version published in: South African Journal of Economics, 2013, 81 (1), 140-165)
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H10, J21, O10, O55, P17, Y10
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6265
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Richard
Akresh
Joyce
J
Chen
Charity
Moore
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Altruism, Cooperation, and Efficiency: Agricultural Production in Polygynous Households
Altruism among family members can, in some cases, inhibit cooperation by increasing the utility that players expect to receive in a non-cooperative equilibrium. To test this, we examine agricultural ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2016, 64(4), 661-696)
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D13, D70, J12, O13, O55
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6264
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Sarah
Marchal
Ive
Marx
Natascha
Van Mechelen
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Do Europe's Minimum Income Schemes Provide Adequate Shelter against the Economic Crisis and How, If at All, Have Governments Responded?
The present economic crisis comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for ...
(revised version published as 'The great wake-up call? Social citizenship and minimum income provisions in Europe in times of crisis' in: Journal of Social Policy, 2014, 43 (2), 247-267)
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I38, H75, H12
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6263
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Biwei
Su
Almas
Heshmati
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Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces
As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources of labor productivity has gradually come to the forefront. This paper studies ...
(published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2014, 2 (2), 1-30.)
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C23, J24, R23, O15
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6262
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David
A.
Jaeger
Zahra
Siddique
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Are Drone Strikes Effective in Afghanistan and Pakistan? On the Dynamics of Violence between the United States and the Taliban
Strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, have been the primary weapon used by the United States to combat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This paper examines the dynamics ...
(revised version published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2018, 64(4), 667-697)
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C32, D74
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6261
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Christian
Dustmann
Tommaso
Frattini
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Immigration: The European Experience
This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures ...
(published in David Card and Steve Raphael (eds.), Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality, Russell Sage Foundation, 2013)
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J15, J61, J62
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6260
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Martin
Kahanec
Anna Myunghee
Kim
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State
This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 39-55.)
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J15, J71, J78
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6258
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Frédéric
Docquier
Caglar
Ozden
Giovanni
Peri
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The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries
In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD countries. To accomplish this, we are the first to employ a comprehensive database ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (579), 1106-1145)
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F22, J61, J31
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6257
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Christian
Dustmann
Albrecht
Glitz
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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3) part 1, 711-750)
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F1, J2, J61, L2, O3
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6256
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Irina
Berezinets
Yulia
Ilina
Alexander
Muravyev
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CEO and Board Characteristics as Determinants of Private Benefits of Control: Evidence from the Russian Stock Exchange
This paper investigates whether and how various characteristics of CEOs and corporate boards are related to the severity of corporate governance problems within firms. The latter is proxied by ...
(substantially revised version published as: 'The Structure of Corporate Boards and Private Benefits of Control: Evidence from the Russian Stock Exchange' in: International Review of Financial Analysis, 2014, 34, 247-261)
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G34
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6254
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Lucia
Marchegiani
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
Matteo
Rizzolli
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How Unjust! An Experimental Investigation of Supervisors' Evaluation Errors and Agents' Incentives
In our simple model the supervisor: i) cannot observe the agent's effort; ii) aims at inducing the agent to exert high effort; but iii) can only offer rewards based on performance. Since performance ...
(revised version published as 'Loss Averse Agents and Lenient Supervisors in Performance Appraisal' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131, 183-197)
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C91, M50, J50
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6252
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Biwei
Su
Almas
Heshmati
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Analysis of Gender Wage Differential in China's Urban Labor Market
This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data from the Chinese Family Panel Studies. Several estimation and decomposition ...
(published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2017, 62 (2), 423-445 )
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J70, J31, J16, J78
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6250
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Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Another Economic Miracle? The German Labor Market and the Great Recession
The mild response of the German labor market to the worst global recession in post-war history appears as an economic miracle. In response to the crisis, Germany has shown to be a strong case of ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2012, 1:3, reprinted as 'Un altro miracolo economico? Il mercato del lavoro tedesco e la grande recessione' in: 'Diritto delle Relazioni Industriali , 2013, 23 (2), 401-423)
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J68, J21, P52, O57
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6248
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Juan
Carlos
Candeal
Esteban
Induráin
José Alberto
Molina
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Agreement Theory and Consensus
In order to formalize the act of agreement between two individuals, the concept of consensus functional equation, for a bi-variate map defined on an abstract choice set, is introduced. Then, and in a ...
(published as 'The consensus functional equation in agreement theory' in: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2013, 228, 219-235)
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C60, D63
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6247
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Fabian
Kosse
Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
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Impatience among Preschool Children and their Mothers
Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child's impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (3), 493-495)
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C93, D03, D90
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6246
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Regina
T.
Riphahn
Daniel D.
Schnitzlein
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
This article studies the long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39 , 11-34)
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J30, J31, J60, D63
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6245
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Assar
Lindbeck
Mĺrten
Palme
Mats
Persson
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Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures
In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (1), 49-78)
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H56, I38, J22, Z13
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6244
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Leonardo
Gasparini
Sebastian
Galiani
Guillermo
Cruces
Pablo
A.
Acosta
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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the ...
(published in: Latin American Economic Review, 2019, 28 (18).)
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J2, D3, I2, O5
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6243
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Javier
Ortega
Gregory
Verdugo
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Assimilation in Multilingual Cities
Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(3), 785-815)
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F22, J15
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6242
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Beatrice
Schindler Rangvid
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The Impact of Parents' Years since Migration on Children's Academic Achievement
In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent's years since migration on their children's school achievements. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:6)
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I21, J12, J62
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6241
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Hendrik
Schmitz
Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
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In Absolute or Relative Terms? How Framing Prices Affects the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice
This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be ...
(revised version published as: 'Does Price Framing Affect the Consumer Price Sensitivity of Health Plan Choice?' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52(1): 89-128)
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H51, I11, I18
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6240
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Maya
Rossin-Slater
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
Jane
Waldfogel
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The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (2), 224-245)
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J2, J13, J18
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6239
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Mario
Centeno
Alvaro
A.
Novo
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Excess Worker Turnover and Fixed-Term Contracts: Causal Evidence in a Two-Tier System
Portuguese firms engage in intense reallocation, most employers simultaneously hire and separate from workers, resulting in high excess worker turnover flows. These flows are constrained by the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 320-328)
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J21, J23, J63
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6238
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Matloob
Piracha
Massimiliano
Tani
Matias
Vaira-Lucero
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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter ...
(published in: International Migration, 2014, 52(2), 53 - 65)
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C34, J24, J61
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6237
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Carl
Lin
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Decomposing Excess Returns in Stochastic Linear Models
We present a theorem helpful in estimating the mean and variance of a linear function with arbitrary multivariate randomness in its coefficients and variables. We derive a generalized decomposition ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118(1), 143-147)
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G14, J31, J38
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6236
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Ilhom
Abdulloev
Ira
N.
Gang
John
Landon-Lane
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Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan
How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 205-227)
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O17, J61, P23
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6235
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Stefan
Eriksson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Do Employers Use Unemployment as a Sorting Criterion When Hiring? Evidence from a Field Experiment
In this paper, we use unique data from a field experiment in the Swedish labor market to investigate how past and contemporary unemployment affect a young worker's probability of being invited to a ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (3), 1014-1039)
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J64
|
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6234
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Alan
Fuchs
Hendrik
Wolff
|
Concept and Unintended Consequences of Weather Index Insurance: The Case of Mexico
Recently, Weather Index Insurance (WII) has received considerable attention as a tool to insure farmers against weather related risks, particularly in developing countries. Donor organizations, local ...
(published in: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2011, 93 (2), 505–511)
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Q11, Q14, O13, G22
|
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6233
|
Martin
Kahanec
Renáta
Králiková
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Pulls of International Student Mobility
Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled ...
(shortened version published as 'Higher Education Policy and Migration: The Role of International Student Mobility' in: CESifo DICE Report, 2012, 9(4), 20-27)
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I23, I28, J21, J24, J61, J68
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6232
|
Krzysztof
Karbownik
Michal
Myck
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Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the ...
(revised published as 'Who gets to look nice and who gets to play? Effects of child gender on household expenditures' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15(3), 925-944)
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J13, J12, J16, J22
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6231
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Veronica
Amarante
Marco
Manacorda
Edward
Miguel
Andrea
Vigorito
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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8 (2), 1 - 43)
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J88, I38, J13
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