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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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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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6173
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Le
Wang
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How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is widely believe that investing in education could be an effective strategy to ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (3), 435-454)
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J24, J61, J31, J7, J15, C31
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6172
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Alpaslan
Akay
Gökhan
Karabulut
Peter
Martinsson
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The Effect of Religiosity and Religious Festivals on Positional Concerns: An Experimental Investigation of Ramadan
This paper examines the effect of religion on positional concerns using survey experiments. We focus on two of the dimensions of religion – degree of religiosity and religious festivals. By ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (27), 3914-3921)
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C90, D63
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6171
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Hector
Sala
José
I.
Silva
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Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe
In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivity growth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to what extent ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2013, 40 (1), 31-41)
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E22, J24, O41
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6170
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
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Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material ...
(revised version published in: Fiscal Studies, 2013, 34 (3), 355-371)
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D31, D63, I31
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6169
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'
In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks'. We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological ...
(published in: Bo?aziçi Journal Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, 2012, 26 (2), 27-89.)
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C43, F22, F24, Q56
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6167
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Christian
Belzil
Jörgen
Hansen
Xingfei
Liu
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2017, 8, 895–927)
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I2, J1, J3
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6166
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Peter
Berkhout
Joop
Hartog
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self-employment rather than as a wage earner. In the literature, this is seen as a puzzle. We ...
(published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40 (2), 249-268)
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J24, L26
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6165
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Joshua S.
Gans
Andrew
Leigh
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Bargaining Over Labor: Do Patients Have Any Power?
We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88 (281), 182 - 194)
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I11, J13
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6164
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Andries
de Grip
Jan
Sauermann
Inge
Sieben
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The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data
In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data that contain detailed information on individual workers' performance. We find that a 10 per cent increase in tenure ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126, 39-54 )
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J24, D24, L89
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6163
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Alpaslan
Akay
Melanie
Khamis
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The Persistence of Informality: Evidence from Panel Data
Informality is a growing phenomenon in the developing and transition country labor market context. In particular, it is noticeable that working in an informal employment relationship is often not ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 229 - 255)
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D60, I31
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6162
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Pedro
Carneiro
Michael
Lokshin
Cristobal
Ridao-Cano
Nithin
Umapathi
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Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia
This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics. 2017, 32 (1), 16 - 36)
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J31
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6161
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Jérémie
Gignoux
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2014, 28(2), 210-246)
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D39, D63, I29, O54
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6160
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Mathias
Dolls
Andreas
Peichl
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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A Challenge for the G20: Globally Stipulated Debt Brakes and Transnational Independent Fiscal Supervisory Councils
Debt-to-GDP ratios have grown to unprecedented levels in many industrialized economies. This requires disciplined consolidation efforts which are, however, supposed to come now at the wrong time with ...
(published in: Intereconomics, 2012, 47 (1), 31-38 )
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H1, H3, H6
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6159
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Aslan
Zorlu
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Ethnic Disparities in the Graduate Labour Market
This paper examines ethnic wage differentials for the entire population of students enrolled in 1996 using unique administrative panel data for the period 1996 to 2005 from the Dutch tertiary ...
(published in: Economics Research International, 2012, Article ID 836379)
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J15, J24, J31
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6158
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Aslan
Zorlu
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Ethnic Disparities in Degree Performance
Using unique administrative individual data, this paper examines ethnic differences in degree performance in Dutch colleges and universities. The paper estimates parametric duration models and ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013 2:3)
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I23, I24, J15
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6157
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Daniel S. J.
Lechmann
Claus
Schnabel
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Are the Self-Employed Really Jacks-of-All-Trades? Testing the Assumptions and Implications of Lazear's Theory of Entrepreneurship with German Data
Using a large representative German data set and various concepts of self-employment, this paper tests the "jack-of-all-trades" view of entrepreneurship by Lazear (AER 2004). Consistent with its ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (1), 59-76)
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J23, J24
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6156
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Joshua S.
Gans
Andrew
Leigh
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How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to federal parliamentarians. First, we use parliamentary mentions to code over 100 ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88 (280), 127-147)
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D72, L82
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6155
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Simone
Schüller
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Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants
A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (4), 965–1004. )
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I21, J15, J16
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6154
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Pranab
Kumar Das
Saibal
Kar
Madhumanti
Kayal
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Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal
Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods, either as outcome of discriminatory practices or due to historical antecedents, such ...
(published as 'Are religious minorities deprived of public good provision? Regional Evidences from India' in: Journal of Developing Areas, 2016, 50 (1), 351-372 )
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H41, H51, J15, J71, I31
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6153
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring: A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation
The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic ...
(published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2012, 19 (18), 1861-1864)
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J64, J71
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6152
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Kostas
Mavromaras
Peter J.
Sloane
Zhang
Wei
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Disability and Job Mismatches in the Australian Labour Market
We examine the relationship between disability, job mismatch, earnings and job satisfaction, using panel estimation on data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38 (5), 1221-1246)
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I0, J2, J3, J7, J24, J31
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