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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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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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6151
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
Victor
Sulla
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The Financial Crisis, Labor Market Transitions and Earnings: A Gendered Panel Data Analysis for Serbia
While results are starting to emerge, not much is known yet about the dynamics of the labor markets of the former Eastern economies, especially in the context of the current Financial Crisis. ...
(published as 'World gone wrong: the financial crisis, labor market transitions and earnings in Serbia' in: Economic Change and Restructuring, 2014, 47(3), 187-226)
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I31, J2, J24, J6
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6150
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Mathias
Sinning
Steven
Stillman
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Migrant Youths' Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions
We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and ...
(published in: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 2012, 643 (1), 18-45)
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F22, I24
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6149
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Christopher
J.
Ruhm
Jane
Waldfogel
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education
This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, Economics of Education, 2012, 23-51)
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J13, J18, J48
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6148
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Melanie
Khamis
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Rubble Women: The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes
During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about forty percent of the total housing stock nationwide. With a large ...
(substantially revised paper appeared as DP No. 10830)
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I21, I12, J24, N34
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6147
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Aslan
Zorlu
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Occupational Adjustment of Immigrants
This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2013, 14 (4), 711-731)
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J15, J24
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6146
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Rory
Coulter
Maarten
van Ham
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Contextualised Mobility Histories of Moving Desires and Actual Moving Behaviour
Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour ...
(published as: 'Following People Through Time: An Analysis of Individual Residential Mobility Biographies' in: Housing Studies, 2013, 28(7), 1037-1055)
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J61, R23
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6145
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Murat
Genc
Masood
Gheasi
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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The Impact of Immigration on International Trade: A Meta-Analysis
Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies ...
(published in: P. Nijkamp, J. Poot J and M. Sahin (eds.) Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons, Edward Elgar, 2012)
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F16, F22
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6144
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Stephen
Drinkwater
Catherine
Robinson
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Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK
Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 100-112)
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J61, F22, I38
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6141
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Beatrice
Brunner
Andreas
Kuhn
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Financial Incentives, the Timing of Births, Birth Complications, and Newborns' Health: Evidence from the Abolition of Austria's Baby Bonus
We analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997. The abolition of the benefit was publicly announced about ten months in advance, ...
(revised version published as 'Announcement effects of health policy reforms: evidence from the abolition of Austria's baby bonus' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 15(4), 373-388)
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H31, J13
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6140
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Beata
Nowok
Maarten
van Ham
Allan
M.
Findlay
Vernon
Gayle
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Does Migration Make You Happy? A Longitudinal Study of Internal Migration and Subjective Well-Being
The majority of modelling studies on consequences of internal migration focus almost exclusively on the labour market outcomes and the material well-being of migrants. We investigate whether ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2013, 45 (4), 986-1002)
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J61, R23
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