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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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6219
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Takao
Kato
Pian
Shu
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Competition, Group Identity, and Social Networks in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm
Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an ...
(revised version published as 'Social Networks and Economic Transformation: Evidence from a Resettled Village in Brazil' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 131 (Part A), 37–50 )
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M5, J24, L2
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6217
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Helmut
Fryges
Karsten
Kohn
Katrin
Ullrich
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are ...
(published in: Journal of Small Business Management, 2015, 53 (S1), 251-277)
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G32, O32, L26
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6216
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Irma
Clots-Figueras
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Health and the Political Agency of Women
We investigate whether politician gender influences policy outcomes in India. We focus upon antenatal and postnatal public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (2), 164-97)
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H41, I18, O15
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6215
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Matthias
Doepke
Michčle
Tertilt
Alessandra
Voena
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2012, 4, 339-372)
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J10, N30, O10
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6214
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Kerry
L.
Papps
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The Effects of Social Security Taxes and Minimum Wages on Employment: Evidence from Turkey
Worker-level panel data are used to analyse the separate employment effects of increases in the social security taxes paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (3), 686-707)
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J32
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6213
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Orley
Ashenfelter
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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (1), 96 - 102)
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B10, B30
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6212
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Asako
Ohinata
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children
In this paper, we analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children. Our analysis uses data from various sources, which allow us ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F308-F331)
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I21, J15
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6210
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Cahit
Guven
Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Height and Cognitive Function among Older Europeans: Do People from "Tall" Countries Have Superior Cognitive Abilities?
Previous research has found that height is correlated with cognitive functioning at older ages. It therefore makes sense to ask a related question: do people from countries where the average person ...
(revised version published as 'Height, Ageing and Cognitive Abilities across Europe' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2015, 16, 16-29.)
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C21, J24, N3
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6209
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Nidhiya
Menon
Yana
van der Meulen Rodgers
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War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal
This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a ...
(published in: Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2015, 59 (1), 51-73)
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J21, O12, D74
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6208
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Guido
Schwerdt
Martin
R.
West
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The Impact of Alternative Grade Configurations on Student Outcomes through Middle and High School
We use statewide administrative data from Florida to estimate the impact of attending public schools with different grade configurations on student achievement through grade 10. Based on an ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97 (C), 308-326)
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H52, I21, I28
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6207
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Joachim
Wagner
John Philipp
Weche Gelübcke
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys ...
(published in: International Economics / Economie Internationale, 2012, 132 (Q4), 117-139)
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F23, L60
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6206
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Jérôme
Adda
Valerie
Lechene
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Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (3), 902-931)
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I12
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6205
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Brian
Bell
Stephen
Machin
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Immigrant Enclaves and Crime
There is conflicting evidence on the consequences of immigrant neighbourhood segregation for individual outcomes, with various studies finding positive, negative or insubstantial effects. In this ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 118–141)
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F22, J15, K42
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6203
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Konstanze
Albrecht
Emma
von Essen
Juliane
Parys
Nora
Szech
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Updating, Self-Confidence and Discrimination
In a laboratory experiment, we show that subjects incorporate irrelevant group information into their evaluations of individuals. Individuals from on average worse performing groups receive lower ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 144-169)
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J16, C91, D81
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6202
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Jo
Blanden
Paul
Gregg
Lindsey
Macmillan
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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality
Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in 1958. This result is in stark contrast to the finding on the basis of social ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (2), 541–563)
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J13, J31, Z13
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6201
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Jérôme
Adda
Christian
Dustmann
Katrien
Stevens
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The Career Costs of Children
This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2017, 125 (2), 293-337)
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J1, J2, J31
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6199
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Jungmin
Lee
Daiji
Kawaguchi
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Aggregate Impacts of a Gift of Time
How would people spend additional time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We examine the impacts of cuts in legislated standard hours that raised employers' overtime costs in Japan ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 612-616)
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J22, J11, E24
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6198
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Řivind
Anti
Nilsen
Katrine
Holm
Reiso
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Scarring Effects of Unemployment
Using Norwegian individual register data of young workers, from the period 1986-2008, we analyse whether there are large and persistent negative relationships between unemployment and the risk of ...
(published as 'Scarring Effects of Early-Career Unemployment' in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, 1, 13-45)
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J64, J65, C23
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6197
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Roberto
Basile
Alessandro
Girardi
Marianna
Mantuano
Francesco
Pastore
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Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, ...
(published in: Empirica, 2012, 39 (4), 525-545)
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C14, C21, L16, R23
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6196
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Sonia
Oreffice
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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Black-White Marital Matching: Race, Anthropometrics, and Socioeconomics
We analyze the interaction of race with physical and socioeconomic characteristics in the U.S. marriage market, using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1999 to 2009 for black, white, and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2016, 82, 399-421.)
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D1, J1
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6195
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Gunther
Bensch
Jochen
Kluve
Jörg
Peters
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Impacts of Rural Electrification in Rwanda
Rural electrification is believed to contribute to the achievement of the MDG. In this paper, we investigate electrification impacts on different indicators. We use household data that we collected ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Development Effectiveness, 2011, 3 (4), 567-588)
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O12, O13, O18, O22
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6194
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Richard
Akresh
Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Marinella
Leone
Una
O.
Osili
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War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated south-eastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 273-277)
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I12, O12, J13
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6192
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
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The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery
We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between ...
(revised version published as 'The Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40, 581-595)
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J15, I24, N31, O11
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6191
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Sarah
Brown
Karl
Taylor
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Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits
We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2014, 45, 197-212)
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C24, D03, D14
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6190
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Michela
Braga
Daniele
Checchi
Elena
Meschi
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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective
In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the ...
(revised version published as 'Educational policies in a long-run perspective' in: Economic Policy, 2013, 28 (73), 45-100)
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I2
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6187
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Antonio
Filippin
Francesco
Guala
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Costless Discrimination and Unequal Achievements in a Labour Market Experiment
We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups compete for a monetary prize, submitting independent bids to an auctioneer. The ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(3), 285-305)
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J71, D44, C9
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6186
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Samuel
Bentolila
Juan
J.
Dolado
Juan
F.
Jimeno
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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience
This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:4)
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H29, J23, J38, J41, J64
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6185
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Susanne
Link
Ludger
Woessmann
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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA
Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, 212-232)
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I20, O15, H75, I25
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6184
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Chunbing
Xing
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Changes in Job Structure and Rising Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007
We use household surveys from 1995, 2002, and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China's rising urban wage inequality, considering three job characteristics: occupation, ...
(published in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2012, 7 (2), 305-337)
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C21, J31, O15
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6183
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Ryo
Kambayashi
Takao
Kato
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Long-term Employment and Job Security over the Last Twenty-Five Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the U.S.
Taking advantage of a recent relaxation of Japanese government's data release policy, we conduct a cross-national analysis of micro data from Japan's Employment Status Survey and its U.S. ...
(revised version published as 'Long-Term Employment and Job Security over the Past 25 Years: A Comparative Study of Japan and the United States' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2017, 70 (2), 359 -394 )
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J63, J64, J41
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6181
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Bart
Cockx
Muriel
Dejemeppe
Andrey
Launov
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model
We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals ...
(for substantially revised version please see IZA DP 10487)
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J64, J68, C41
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6180
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Alexander
Spermann
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The New Role of Temporary Agency Work in Germany
This paper reviews the development of temporary agency work after its deregulation in the context of the so-called Hartz reforms in Germany. The new role of agency work emerges from its enormous ...
(published in: Bouncken, Ricarda B. u. Lutz Bellmann u. Manfred Bornewasser (ed.), Die neue Rolle der Zeitarbeit in Deutschland, Beiträge zur Flexibilisierung, Band 3, München und Mering , 2012, 203-224.)
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I2, J2, J4
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6179
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Alpaslan
Akay
Gökhan
Karabulut
Peter
Martinsson
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The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Cooperation and punishment: The effect of religiosity and religious festival' in: Economics Letters, 2015, 130, 43–46)
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C72, C91, H41
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6178
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Alan
Manning
Barbara
Petrongolo
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How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model
This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2017, 107, 2877-2907)
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J61, J63, J64, R12
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6176
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Christian
M.
Dahl
Daniel
le Maire
Jakob
R.
Munch
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Wage Dispersion and Decentralization of Wage Bargaining
This paper studies how decentralization of wage bargaining from sector to firm-level influences wage levels and wage dispersion. We use detailed panel data covering a period of decentralization in ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 501-533)
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J31, J51, C23
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6175
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Claudia
Senik
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The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness
This article sheds light on the important differences in self-declared happiness across countries of equivalent affluence. It hinges on the different happiness statements of natives and immigrants in ...
(published as 'Why are the French so Unhappy? The Cultural Dimension of Happiness' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 379-401.)
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I31, H52, O15, O52, Z10
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