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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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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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6052
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
Andrei
Shleifer
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Teaching Practices and Social Capital
We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5(3), 189-210)
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I2, Z1
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6051
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Richard
Blundell
Antoine
Bozio
Guy
Laroque
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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply: Working Hours in the US, UK and France
This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2013, 34 (1), 1-29, )
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J21, J22
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6049
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Martin
Fochmann
Joachim
Weimann
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The Effects of Tax Salience and Tax Experience on Individual Work Efforts in a Framed Field Experiment
We conduct a framed field experiment with 245 employed persons (no students) as subjects and a real tax, which is levied on the subjects' income from working in our real effort task. In our first ...
(published in: FinanzArchiv / Public Finance Analysis, 2013, 69 (4), 511-542)
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C91, D14, H24
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6048
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Anagaw Derseh
Mebratie
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2013, 22 (1), 94-115)
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J24
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6047
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David
Carroll
Massimiliano
Tani
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Labour Market Under-Utilisation of Recent Higher Education Graduates: New Australian Panel Evidence
Recent research into the Australian labour market has reported that a substantial proportion of the tertiary-educated labour force is under-utilised relative to their level of education, echoing ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 207-218)
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I23, J24
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6044
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Paul
L.
Latreille
Peter J.
Sloane
Anita
Staneva
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Work-Related Health in Europe: Are Older Workers More at Risk?
This paper uses the fourth European Working Conditions Survey (2005) to address the impact of age on work-related self-reported health outcomes. More specifically, the paper examines whether older ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2013, 88, 18-29)
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I0, J28, J81, J20
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6043
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Z. Eylem
Gevrek
Deniz
Gevrek
Sonam
Gupta
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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in ...
(published in: International Migration, 2013, 51 (6), 146-167 )
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J12, J16, J22, J61
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6042
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Erdal
Tekin
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Fathers and Youth's Delinquent Behavior
This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (2), 327-358)
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J12, J13, K42
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6041
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Atheendar
Venkataramani
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The Captain of the Men of Death and His Shadow: Long-Run Impacts of Early Life Pneumonia Exposure
We exploit the introduction of sulfa drugs in 1937 to identify the causal impact of exposure to pneumonia in infancy on later life well-being and productivity in the United States. Using census data ...
(Second R&R Journal of Political Economy )
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I18, H41
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6038
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Anna Laura
Mancini
Chiara
Monfardini
Silvia
Pasqua
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On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy: Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?
The intergenerational transmission of preference and attitudes has been less investigated in the literature than the intergenerational transmission of education and income. Using the Italian Time Use ...
(published as 'Is a Good Example the Best Sermon? Children's Imitation of Parental Reading' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (3), 965 - 993)
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J13, J22, J24, C21
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6036
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John
T.
Addison
McKinley
L.
Blackburn
Chad
Cotti
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Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances
Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper ...
(revised version published as 'Minimum wage increases in a recessionary environment' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 30-39)
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J2, J3, J4, J8
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6035
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Marco
Caliendo
Jens
Hogenacker
Steffen
Künn
Frank
Wießner
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Alte Idee, neues Programm: Der Gründungszuschuss als Nachfolger von Überbrückungsgeld und Ich-AG
Die Gründungsförderung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit ist im Rahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Rechtskreis SGB III nach wie vor eines der bedeutsamsten Instrumente. Zum 1. August 2006 löste der ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2012, 45 (2), 99-123)
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J68, M13, H43
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6033
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Chiara
Amini
Simon
Commander
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Educational Scores: How Does Russia Fare?
This paper uses two large multi-country datasets on educational scores – PISA and TIMSS – to examine the performance of Russia in comparative light as well as the factors associated with differences ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2012, 40 (3), 508 - 527)
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H5, I21, I28, J24, O15, P5
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6032
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Eswar
Prasad
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Role Reversal in Global Finance
I document that emerging markets have cast off their "original sin" – their external liabilities are no longer dominated by foreign-currency debt and have instead shifted sharply towards direct ...
(published in: Proceedings of the 2011 Jackson Hole Symposium, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, 2011, 391-398)
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F3, F4
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6031
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Bettina
Drepper
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Inference for Shared-Frailty Survival Models with Left-Truncated Data
Shared-frailty survival models specify that systematic unobserved determinants of duration outcomes are identical within groups of individuals. We consider random-effects likelihood-based statistical ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 35(6), 2016, 1075-1098)
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C41, C34
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6030
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Herwig
Immervoll
Linda
Richardson
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Redistribution Policy and Inequality Reduction in OECD Countries: What Has Changed in Two Decades?
We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or accelerated the trend towards greater income disparities in the past 20-25 years. In ...
(also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper)
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D31, H22, H55, C81
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6029
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Olivier
Donni
Prudence
Magejo
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Intrahousehold Distribution and Child Poverty: Theory and Evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 107, 262-276)
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D11, D12, D36, I31, J12
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6028
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Raul
Ramos
Esteban
Sanromá
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Overeducation and Local Labour Markets in Spain
The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of individual variables and some characteristics related to spatial mobility in regional labour markets on overeducation in Spain. With this ...
(published in: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 2013, 104 (3), 278-291)
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J61, J24, J31
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6026
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Michal
Bauer
Julie
Chytilová
Barbara
Pertold-Gebicka
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Effects of Parental Background on Other-Regarding Preferences in Children
Other-regarding preferences are central for the ability to solve collective action problems and thus for society's welfare. We study how the formation of other-regarding preferences during childhood ...
(revised version published as 'Parental Background and Other-regarding Preferences in Children' in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17(1), 24-46)
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C91, D03, D64, I24
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