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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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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
Oddbjørn
Raaum
Knut
Røed
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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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6118
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Kornelius
Kraft
Julia
Lang
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Profit Sharing and Training
We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (6), 940-961)
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C14, J33, M52, J24
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6117
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Antonio
Filippin
Marco
Paccagnella
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Family Background, Self-Confidence and Economic Outcomes
In this paper we analyze the role played by self-confidence, modeled as beliefs about one's ability, in shaping task choices. We propose a model in which fully rational agents exploit all the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 824-834)
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D83, J24, J62
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6116
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Sher
Verick
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Giving Up Job Search During a Recession: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market
The global financial crisis deeply impacted the South African labour market resulting in the shedding of almost 1 million jobs over 2009 and 2010. Reflecting longer term structural problems, this ...
(published in: Journal of African Economies, 2012, 21 (3), 373-408)
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G01, J21, J64
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6115
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Joachim
Wagner
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The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy
Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (17), 1663-1665)
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E32
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6113
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Martin
Biewen
Constantin
Weiser
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A New Approach to Testing Marginal Productivity Theory
We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginal products. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify production functions and to ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2014, 46 (9), 996-1020)
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D33, D22, D40
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6112
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D. Mark
Anderson
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption
To date, 16 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their effects. Using state-level data, we examine the relationship between medical marijuana laws and a variety ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2013, 56 (2), 333-369)
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I00, I1
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6111
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Benjamin
Elsner
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Emigration and Wages: The EU Enlargement Experiment
The enlargement of the European Union provides a unique opportunity to study the impact of the lifting of migration restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2013, 91(1), 154-163)
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F22, J31, O15, R23
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6110
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Pia
Pinger
Johannes
Schoch
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (3), 465–506)
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I12, J11, C21, C26
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6109
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Stephan
Russek
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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy: Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory ...
(published in revised form in: S. Beugelsdijk , S. Brakman, H. van Ees and H. Garretsen (eds.), Firms in the International Economy - Firm Heterogeneity Meets International Business, MIT-Press 2013)
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F12, F13, F15, L25
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6108
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Etienne
Lehmann
François
Marical
Laurence
Rioux
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Labor Earnings Respond Differently to Income-Tax and to Payroll-Tax Reforms
We estimate the responses of gross labor earnings with respect to marginal and average net-of-tax rates in France over the period 2003-2006. We exploit a series of reforms to the income-tax and the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 99 (1), 66-84.)
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H24, H31, J22, J38
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6107
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Seth
D.
Zimmerman
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The Returns to Four-Year College for Academically Marginal Students
I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on ...
(published as 'The Returns to College Admission for Academically Marginal Students' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 711-754)
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I20, J30
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6106
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Christopher
A.
Neilson
Seth
D.
Zimmerman
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The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 18-31)
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I21, I22, H75, R30
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6105
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Christina
Felfe
Michael
Lechner
Andreas
Steinmayr
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Sports and Child Development
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports ...
(published in: PLoS One, 2016, 11(5), e0151729)
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J24, J13, I12
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6104
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Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
Sara
Salomone
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (5), 817-28)
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F24, F22, O15, J61
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6103
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Timothy
Bates
Simon
C.
Parker
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Transitions to Entrepreneurship and Industry-Specific Barriers
Drivers of entrepreneurial entry are investigated in this study by examining how entry into small-business ownership is shaped by industry-specific constraints. The human- and financial-capital ...
(published as 'Why Are Some People More Likely to Become Small-Businesses Owners than Others: Entrepreneurship Entry and Industry-specific Barriers' in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29(2), 232–251)
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J24, L26, M13
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6102
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
André
Decoster
Mathias
Dolls
Dirk
Neumann
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Welfare, Labor Supply and Heterogeneous Preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US
Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market ...
(revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2013, 41 (4), 789-817)
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C35, D63, H24, H31, J22
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6100
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Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Anonymous Job Applications of Fresh Ph.D. Economists
Discrimination in recruitment decisions is well documented. Anonymous job applications may reduce discriminatory behavior in hiring. This paper analyzes the potential of this approach in a randomized ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (2), 441-444 )
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J44, J79, J20
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6099
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Petter
Lundborg
Martin
Nordin
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital: Exploring the Role of Skills and Health Using Data on Adoptees and Twins
In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of ...
(published as 'The intergenerational transmission of human capital: the role of skills and health' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018, 31 (4), 1035-1065.')
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I12, I11, J14, J12, C41
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12982Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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