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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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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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6138
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Oddbjřrn
Raaum
Knut
Rřed
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Educating Children of Immigrants: Closing the Gap in Norwegian Schools
Children of immigrant parents constitute a growing share of school cohorts in many OECD countries, and their educational performance is vital for successful social and economic integration. This ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2012, 3 (1), 211-251.)
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J15, I21, I24
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6137
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Werner
Eichhorst
Paul
Marx
José
Pastore
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The Use of Flexible Measures to Cope with Economic Crises in Germany and Brazil
This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil with particular emphasis on industrial relations, wage setting, unemployment ...
(also available in Portuguese)
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J21, J42, J52
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6136
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José
García-Quevedo
Gabriele
Pellegrino
Marco
Vivarelli
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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies
This paper examines the determinants of young innovative companies' (YICs) R&D activities taking into account the autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising ...
(published as 'R&D drivers and age: Are young firms different?' in: Research Policy, 2014, 43 (9), 1544-1556)
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O31
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6135
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Pushkar
Maitra
Sarmistha
Pal
Anurag
Sharma
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Reforms, Growth and Persistence of Gender Gap: Recent Evidence from Private School Enrolment in India
This paper examines the extent of gender gap in private school enrolment in India, an issue that has not been adequately addressed previously. Results based on individual level unit record data shows ...
(revised version forthcoming as 'Economic Reforms and Growth of Private School Enrolment in India: Is There a Cause for Concern?' in: Sonalde Desai, Pallavi Choudhuri, and Amaresh Dubey (eds.), India's Social and Economic Transformation in the 21st Century, Routledge )
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I25, O10, C21
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6133
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Alison
L.
Booth
Lina Marcela
Cardona Sosa
Patrick
J.
Nolen
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion: Do Single-Sex Environments Affect their Development?
Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a controlled experiment using first ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 99, 126-154)
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C9, C91, C92, J16, D01, D80, J16, J24
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6132
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Barry
Hirsch
Bruce
E.
Kaufman
Tetyana
Zelenska
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Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment
The economic impact of the 2007-2009 increases in the federal minimum wage (MW) is analyzed using a sample of quick-service restaurants in Georgia and Alabama. Store-level biweekly payroll records ...
(revised version published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54 (2), 188-239)
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J20, J30
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6129
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
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Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background of how the system is constructed is provided, statistical information reported, ...
(shorter version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 126-141)
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F22, I38, J15
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6128
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Aslan
Zorlu
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Immigrant Participation in Welfare Benefits in the Netherlands
The efficiency of Dutch welfare system is at the heart of debate as long as immigrants are overrepresented in social welfare benefits during the working age period. This paper examines the degree of ...
(published as 'Welfare use of migrants in The Netherlands' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 83-95)
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J15, J32
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6127
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Christian
Grund
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Job Preferences as Revealed by Employee Initiated Job Changes
Many previous studies try to discover job preferences by directly asking individuals. Since it is not sure, whether answers to these surveys are relevant for actual behaviour, this empirical ...
(published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management 24 (2013), 2825-2850)
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M5, J28, J63
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6126
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David
N.F.
Bell
Steffen
Otterbach
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Work Hours Constraints and Health
The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time ...
(published in: Annales d'Économie et de Statistique, 2012, 105-106, 35-54)
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I10, J21, J22
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6125
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Richard
Blundell
Hamish
Low
Ian
Preston
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Decomposing Changes in Income Risk Using Consumption Data
We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a nonstationary model of intertemporal choice. The approach allows for changes in income risk over the life-cycle and with the ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2013, 4 (1), 1–37)
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C30, D52, D91
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6124
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John
Cawley
Asako
S.
Moriya
Kosali
Simon
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The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage: Evidence from the Great Recession
This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (2), 206 - 223)
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I10, J3, J6, E32
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6123
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Benoit
Dostie
Pierre
Thomas
Léger
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Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: Is It Worth It for Older Workers?
We use longitudinal linked employer-employee data and find that the probability of participating in firm-sponsored classroom training diminishes rapidly for workers aged 45 years and older. Although ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de Politiques, 2014, 40 (4), 377-390)
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C23, D24, J31
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6122
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Claire L.
Adida
David
D.
Laitin
Marie-Anne
Valfort
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"One Muslim is Enough!" - Evidence from a Field Experiment in France
Anti-Muslim prejudice is widespread in Western countries. Yet, Muslims are expected to constitute a growing share of the total population in Western countries over the next decades. This paper ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 121-122, 121-160)
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A12, C90, D03, J15, J71, Z12
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6120
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Bruce
Bradbury
Miles
Corak
Jane
Waldfogel
Elizabeth
Washbrook
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Inequality during the Early Years: Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
This study of the emergence of inequality during the early years is based upon a comparative analysis of children at the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the ...
(published in: John Ermisch, Markus Jantti, and Timothy Smeeding (editors). From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage. Russell Sage Foundation, 2012.)
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I24, J13, J24
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6119
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Amelie
F.
Constant
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Sizing It Up: Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27
While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the ...
(published in: European Migration and Asylum Policies: Coherence or Contradiction, C. Gortázar, C. Parra, B. Segaert, and C. Timmerman, editors. Bruylant: Belgium, 2012, 49-77)
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J6, J3, F22, F24
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