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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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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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6098
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Jinjing
Li
Denisa
M.
Sologon
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A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation: A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension
This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of ...
(published in: PLoS ONE, 2014, 9 (11), e111903)
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C20, D90, J22
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6097
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Joshua
Healy
Kostas
Mavromaras
Peter J.
Sloane
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Adjusting to Skill Shortages: Complexity and Consequences
Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countries including the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about their prevalence, causes ...
(published as 'Adjusting to skill shortages in Australian SMEs' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47(24), 2470-2487)
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J0, J20, J23, J24
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6096
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Guillermo
Cruces
Pablo
Glüzmann
Luis-Felipe
López-Calva
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Economic Crises, Maternal and Infant Mortality, Low Birth Weight and Enrollment Rates: Evidence from Argentina's Downturns
This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health and education outcomes. The identification strategy relies on both the ...
(published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (2), 303-314 )
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I15, I25
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6095
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Ernst
Fehr
Oliver
Hart
Christian
Zehnder
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How Do Informal Agreements and Renegotiation Shape Contractual Reference Points?
Previous experimental work provides encouraging support for some of the central assumptions underlying Hart and Moore (2008)’s theory of contractual reference points. However, existing studies ignore ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (1), 1-28)
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C91, D03, D86, J41
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6093
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Christoph
Kneiding
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Funding Self-Employment: The Role of Consumer Credit
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1741-1749)
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G32, D12, D14
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6092
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Anette Primdal
Kvist
Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Marianne
Simonsen
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The Effects of Children's ADHD on Parents' Relationship Dissolution and Labor Supply
This paper uses Danish register-based data for the population of children born in 1990-1997 to investigate the effects on parents of having a child with attention-deficit/hyperactivity-disorder ...
(published as 'The importance of children's ADHD for parents' relationship stability and labor supply' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2013, 88, 30-38)
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I12, J12, J13, J22
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6091
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William
Collier
Matloob
Piracha
Teresa
Randazzo
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Remittances and Return Migration
This paper utilises survey data of return migrants to analyse the determinants of remittances sent while the migrants were abroad. We approach our research question from the perspective of three ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22(1), 174-202)
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F22, F24
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6089
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Matteo
Picchio
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Lagged Duration Dependence in Mixed Proportional Hazard Models
We study the non-parametric identification of a mixed proportional hazard model with lagged duration dependence when data provide multiple outcomes per individual or stratum. We show that the ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 108-110)
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C14, C41
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6088
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John
T.
Giles
Dewen
Wang
Wei
Cai
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The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, ...
(published in: M. Majmundar and J. Smith (eds.), Aging in Asia: Findings from New and Emerging Data Initiatives, Washington, DC,The National Academies Press, 2012)
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J26, J14, O15, O17, O57
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6087
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Julian
Conrads
Bernd
Irlenbusch
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Strategic Ignorance in Bargaining
In his classic article "An Essay on Bargaining" Schelling (1956) argues that ignorance might actually be strength rather than weakness. We test and confirm Schelling's conjecture in a simple ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 92, 104-115)
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C72, C78, C91, D63, D82, D83
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6086
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David
Card
Francesco
Devicienti
Agata
Maida
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Rent-Sharing, Hold-up, and Wages: Evidence from Matched Panel Data
It is widely believed that rent-sharing reduces the incentives for investment when long term contracts are infeasible because some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. We propose a ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 84–111)
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J31
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6084
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Enno
Mammen
Christoph
Rothe
Melanie
Schienle
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Semiparametric Estimation with Generated Covariates
In this paper, we study a general class of semiparametric optimization estimators of a vector-valued parameter. The criterion function depends on two types of infinite-dimensional nuisance ...
(published in: Econometric Theory, 2016, 32 (5), 1140-1177 )
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C14, C31
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6083
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
Lei
Zhang
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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle
Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (1), 48-87)
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J24, J64, J31, I20
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6082
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Anne
E.
Winkler
Sharon
Levin
Paula
Stephan
Wolfgang
Glänzel
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Publishing Trends in Economics across Colleges and Universities, 1991-2007
There is good reason to think that non-elite programs in economics may be producing relatively more research than in the past: Research expectations have been ramped-up at non-PhD institutions and ...
(published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2014, 40, 560–582)
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A14, I23
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6081
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Lutz
Bellmann
Hans-Dieter
Gerner
Richard
Upward
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Job and Worker Turnover in German Establishments
We use a simple regression-based approach to measure the relationship between employment growth, hirings and separations in a large panel of German establishments over the period 1993-2009. Although ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2018, 86 (4), 417-445)
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J2, J23, J63, D22
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6080
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Gaetano
Basso
Mathias
Dolls
Werner
Eichhorst
Thomas
Leoni
Andreas
Peichl
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The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements across Socio-Economic Groups
The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. ...
(published in: Intereconomics, 2012, 47 (4), 217-223.)
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H24, J65, J68
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6079
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Vasiliki
Bozani
Nick
Drydakis
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Studying the NAIRU and its Implications
The current paper is a means of demonstrating our knowledge about macroeconomic theories, and its key variables, phenomena, and history. Given the key role that the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of ...
(published in: Amine S. (Ed) Labor Markets: Dynamics, Trends and Economic Impact, Nova, New York, 2011)
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E02, E24, E61
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6078
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Nick
Drydakis
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece
This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ...
(published in: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2012, 36 (3), 389 - 402)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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6077
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Carla
Haelermans
Lex
Borghans
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Wage Effects of On-the-Job Training: A Meta-Analysis
A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 502–528)
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J21, J24, M53, I21
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6076
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Christoph
Rothe
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Partial Distributional Policy Effects
In this paper, we propose a method to evaluate the effect of a counterfactual change in the unconditional distribution of a single covariate on the unconditional distribution of an outcome variable ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (5), 2269-2301)
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C14, C31
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6075
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Corrado
Giulietti
Martin
Guzi
Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU
The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 24-38 )
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H53, J61
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6072
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Miles
Corak
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Age at Immigration and the Education Outcomes of Children
The successful acquisition of a language is often characterized in terms of critical periods. If this is the case it is likely that children who migrate face different challenges in attaining high ...
(abridged version published in: Ann Masten, Karmela Liebkind and Donald J. Hernandez (editors). Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Ch. 4)
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I29, J13
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6070
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Patrick
Kampkötter
Dirk
Sliwka
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Differentiation and Performance: An Empirical Investigation on the Incentive Effects of Bonus Plans
It is often claimed that supervisors do not differentiate enough between high and low performing employees when evaluating performance. The purpose of this paper is to study the incentive effects of ...
(revised version published as 'More Dispersion, Higher Bonuses?-The Role of Differentiation in Subjective Performance Evaluations' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36 (2), 511–549)
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M52, D23
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6069
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Francois
Keslair
Eric
Maurin
Sandra
McNally
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Every Child Matters? An Evaluation of "Special Educational Needs" Programmes in England
The need for education to help every child rather than focus on average attainment has become a more central part of the policy agenda in the US and the UK. Remedial programmes are often difficult to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31(6), 932-948.)
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I2
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6068
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Ive
Marx
Pieter
Vandenbroucke
Gerlinde
Verbist
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Can Higher Employment Levels Bring Lower Poverty in the EU? Regression Based Simulations of the Europe 2020 Target
At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes. But what can we expect the actual impact to be? Up until now shift-share ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2012, 22 (5) 472– 486)
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I32, J21, R28, J68
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6067
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Ive
Marx
Josefine
Vanhille
Gerlinde
Verbist
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Combating In-Work Poverty in Continental Europe: An Investigation Using the Belgian Case
Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a policy issue only recently in most continental European countries. Policies ...
(published in: Journal of Social Policy, 2012, 41 (1) 19-41)
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I32, J21, R28, J68
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6066
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Mette
Ejrnæs
Astrid
Kunze
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2013, 115 (3), 856-877)
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C23, J18, J22, J24, J31
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6065
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German
Blanco
Carlos
A.
Flores
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
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Bounds on Average and Quantile Treatment Effects of Job Corps Training on Wages
We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (3), 659-701)
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J24, I38, C21
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6064
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Chung
Choe
Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Sang-Jun
Lee
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Do Dropouts Benefit from Training Programs? Korean Evidence Employing Methods for Continuous Treatments
Failure of participants to complete training programs is pervasive in existing active labor market programs both in developed and developing countries. The proportion of dropouts in prototypical ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 48, 849 - 881)
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O15, I38, C21
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6063
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Zeynel Abidin
Ozdemir
Mehmet
Balcilar
Aysit
Tansel
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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2013, 65 (S1), s142-s164.)
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C22, E24, J16, J21
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6062
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Darja
Reuschke
Maarten
van Ham
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Testing the 'Residential Rootedness'-Hypothesis of Self-Employment for Germany and the UK
Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2013, 45 (5), 1219-1239)
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D22, J61, J62, L26
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6061
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Michael
Kosfeld
Ulrich
Schüwer
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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive ...
(published as 'Add-on Pricing in Retail Financial Markets and the Fallacies of Consumer Education' in: Review of Finance, 2017, 21 (3), 1189 - 1216)
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D40, D80, L50
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6060
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Isaac
Ehrlich
Jong Kook
Shin
Yong
Yin
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Private Information, Human Capital, and Optimal "Home Bias" in Financial Markets
By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2011, 5 (3), 255-301)
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D82, F30, G11, G12, G15, J24
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6055
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Kenneth T.
Whelan
Ronald
G.
Ehrenberg
Kevin
F.
Hallock
Ronald L.
Seeber
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Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program
We evaluate potential determinants of enrollment in an early retirement incentive program for non-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, Vol. 36, 159-190)
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I23, J26
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