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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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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
|
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
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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
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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
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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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6230
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Tiziano
Razzolini
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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Job Separations and Informality in the Russian Labor Market
In the years 2003-2008 the Russian economy experienced a period of strong and sustained growth, which was accompanied by large worker turnover and rising informality. We investigate whether the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 257-290)
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J64, J65, P50
|
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6229
|
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
Arthur
van Soest
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Retirement and Home Production: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 600-605)
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J22, J26, J14
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6228
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Zahra
Siddique
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Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality
We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 1-53)
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J3, J6, O17
|
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6227
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap
Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these wage gaps are the result of prejudice toward ethnic minority workers is ...
(published in: Industrial Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (1), 227-252 )
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J64, J71
|
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6226
|
Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Arjun
S.
Bedi
Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
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Transnational Trafficking, Law Enforcement and Victim Protection: A Middleman Trafficker's Perspective
We explore three hitherto poorly understood characteristics of the human trafficking market – the cross-border ease of mobility of traffickers, the relative bargaining strength of traffickers and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57 (2), 349-386)
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K42, R23, O15
|
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6225
|
Roger
Wilkins
Mark
Wooden
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Gender Differences in Rates of Job Dismissal: Why Are Men More Likely to Lose Their Jobs?
Empirical studies have consistently reported that rates of involuntary job separation, or dismissal, are significantly lower among female employees than among males. Only rarely, however, have the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (2), 582-608)
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J16, J63, J71
|
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6224
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Peter
Elek
János
Köllő
Balázs
Reizer
Péter A.
Szabó
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Detecting Wage Under-reporting Using a Double Hurdle Model
We estimate a double hurdle (DH) model of the Hungarian wage distribution assuming censoring at the minimum wage and wage under-reporting (i.e. compensation consisting of the minimum wage, subject to ...
(published in: Informal Employment in Emerging a Transition Economies, Research in Labor Economics, 34,. Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2012, 135-166)
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C34, H26, J38
|
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6223
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Arno
Riedl
Ingrid M.T.
Rohde
Martin
Strobel
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Efficient Coordination in Weakest-Link Games
Existing experimental research on behavior in weakest-link games shows overwhelmingly the inability of people to coordinate on the efficient equilibrium, especially in larger groups. We hypothesize ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83 (2), 737-767 )
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C72, C92, D02, D03, D85
|
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6221
|
Ronelle
Burger
Indraneel
Dasgupta
Trudy
Owens
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A Model of NGO Regulation with an Application to Uganda
We develop a model of regulation of service-delivery NGOs, where future grants are conditional on prior spending of some minimal proportion of current revenue on direct project-related expenses. Such ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 64 (1), 71-111)
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G18, L31
|
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6220
|
Peder
J.
Pedersen
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Immigration and Welfare State Cash Benefits: The Danish Case
The purpose in this paper is to summarize existing evidence on welfare dependence among immigrants in Denmark and to supply new evidence with focus on the most recent years. Focus is on immigrants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 113-125)
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H53, I38, J61
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