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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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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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6025
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity
This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 71 (1), 37-52)
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I12, I18, J13, R53
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6024
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Sajal
Lahiri
Javed
Younas
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. ...
(revised version published as 'Financing Growth Through Foreign Aid and Private Foreign Loans: Nonlinearities and Complementarities' in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2015, 56, 75-96)
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F34, F35, O11, O16
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6023
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Fabien
Postel-Vinay
Hélène
Turon
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Severance Packages
Job-to-job turnover provides a way for employers to escape statutory firing costs, as unprofitable workers may willfully quit their job on receiving an outside offer, thus sparing their incumbent ...
(published as 'The Impact of Firing Restrictions on Labour Market Equilibrium in the Presence of On-the-job Search' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (575), 31-61. )
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J33, J64, E24
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6021
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Floro
Ernesto
Caroleo
Francesco
Pastore
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Talking about the Pigou Paradox: Socio-Educational Background and Educational Outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (1), 27-50)
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H52, I23, I24, J13, J24
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6020
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Timm
Bönke
Giacomo
Corneo
Holger
Lüthen
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Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany
This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large sample of earning biographies from social security records, we show that the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (1), 171-208)
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D31, D33, H24
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6018
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Almas
Heshmati
Nabaz
T.
Khayyat
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Statistical Analysis of Landmine Fatalities in Kurdistan
This study analyzes mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) victim data in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the period of the 1960s to 2005. In addition to descriptive analysis of the data, we use ...
(published as 'Analysis of Landmine Fatalities and Injuries in the Kurdistan Region' in: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 30(5), 2015, 2591-2615.)
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C23, C42, H56, J15, N45
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6017
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi
We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at ...
(revised version published as 'De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi' in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345)
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E25, H52, J15, N31, O11, P16
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6016
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Octávio
Figueiredo
Paulo
Guimaraes
Douglas
Woodward
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Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters
In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee panel data set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 1 - 19)
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R12, R39, J31
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6015
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Margherita
Fort
Nicole
Schneeweis
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Is Education Always Reducing Fertility? Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1823 - 1855 )
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I2, J13
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6014
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David
W.
Johnston
Stefanie
Schurer
Michael A.
Shields
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Evidence on the Long Shadow of Poor Mental Health across Three Generations
Individuals suffering from mental health problems are often severely limited in their social and economic functioning. Mental health problems can develop early in life, are frequently chronic in ...
(published as "Exploring the intergenerational persistence of mental health: Evidence from three generations" in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (6), 1077-1089)
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I12, I14, J62
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6012
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Lídia
Farré
Francesco
Fasani
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Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 48–61)
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J61, L82, O15
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6010
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Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Does Institutional Diversity Account for Pay Rules in Germany and Belgium?
This paper examines the relationship between institutions and the remuneration of different jobs by comparing the German and Belgian labour markets with respect to a typology of institutions (social ...
(published in: Socio-Economic Review, 2013, 11 (1), 131-157)
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J31, J51, J52, J53
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6009
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Joachim
Wagner
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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?
This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct ...
(published in: Service Industries Journal, 2014, 34 (1), 24-37)
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F14, F21
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6007
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Patricia
Apps
Ngo Van
Long
Ray
Rees
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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation
Given its significance in practice, piecewise linear taxation has received relatively little attention in the literature. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2014, 16 (4), 523-545)
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H21, H31, J22
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6006
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Z. Bilgen
Susanli
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Firing Regulations and Firm Size in the Developing World: Evidence from Differential Enforcement
This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We exploit a large firm level dataset across 63 countries and within country variation ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 540–558)
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J21, J24, K20
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6005
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René
Böheim
Thomas
Leoni
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Firms' Moral Hazard in Sickness Absences
Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' ...
(published in: Sandinavian Journal of Economics, 2020, 122(2), 553–581)
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J22, I38
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6004
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Almas
Heshmati
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
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A General Model of Technical Change with an Application to the OECD Countries
In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2014, 23(1), 25-48. )
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C33, C43, D24, O33, O47, O57
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6002
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Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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It's About Time: Implications of the Period Length in an Equilibrium Job Search Model
This paper analyzes the role of the period length in a search model of the labor market and argues that it has profound implications for the market equilibrium. In the model, job offers and job ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2014, 55 (3), 839-867)
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J64, J31, D83
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6001
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Nikolaj
Malchow-Møller
Jakob
R.
Munch
Jan
Rose
Skaksen
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Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121, 517-546. )
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F22, J24, J31, J61, L2
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6000
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Ceren
Ozgen
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data
Due to the growth in international migration in recent decades, the workforce of firms in host countries has become considerably more diverse, both demographically and culturally. It is an important ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:18)
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D22, F22, O31
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5999
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This paper reports the results of a real-effort experiment in which participants ...
(revised version published as 'Are Women More Attracted to Co-operation Than Men?' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 125, 115-140.)
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C91, J16, J24, J31, M5
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5998
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Alberto
Bayo-Moriones
Jose
Enrique
Galdon-Sanchez
Sara
Martinez-de-Morentin
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The Process of Wage Adjustment: An Analysis Using Establishment-Level Data
This article presents a study of the influences on the factors that shape wage adjustments. The cost of living, comparability with other firms' wages, the fulfilment of collective agreements at ...
(published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2016, 37(2), 245-268)
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J30, J40
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5997
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Oleg
Badunenko
Daniel
J.
Henderson
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 863-892)
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C14
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5995
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David
J.
Bjerk
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Re-examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood
This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 110-122)
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J31, K42, I21
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5994
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Libertad
González
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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted ...
(published as 'The Effect of a Universal Child Benefit on Conceptions, Abortions, and Early Maternal Labor Supply' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2013, 5 (3), 160-188)
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D1, H5, J1, J2
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5993
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Roberto
González
Hector
Sala
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The Frisch Elasticity in the Mercosur Countries: A Pseudo-Panel Approach
This paper provides estimates for the Mercosur countries of the Frisch elasticity – i.e., the elasticity of substitution between worked hours and real wages holding constant the marginal utility of ...
(published in: Development Policy Review, 2015, 33 (1), 107-131)
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J22, J82, D91
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5992
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Xavier
Raurich
Hector
Sala
Valeri
Sorolla
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Factor Shares, the Price Markup, and the Elasticity of Substitution between Capital and Labor
In a Walrasian labor market, the labor income share is constant under the assumptions of a Cobb-Douglas production function and perfect competition. Given the observed decline of the labor share in ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 4 (1), 181-198)
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E22, E24, E25
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5991
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Uwe
Sunde
Thomas
Vischer
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Human Capital and Growth: Specification Matters
This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the ...
(revised version published in: Economica, 2015, 82(326), 368–390)
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O47, O11, O15, E24
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5989
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
John
G.
Sessions
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Cross-Assignment Discrimination in Pay: A Test Case of Major League Baseball
The traditional Becker/Arrow style model of discrimination depicts majority and minority and workers as perfectly substitutable inputs, implying that all workers have the same job assignment. The ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 28. 84-95)
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J7
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5987
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John
T.
Addison
Paulino
Teixeira
Alex
Bryson
André
Pahnke
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The Structure of Collective Bargaining and Worker Representation: Change and Persistence in the German Model
This paper depicts and examines the decline in collective bargaining coverage in Germany. Using repeat cross-section and longitudinal data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show the overwhelming ...
(revised version published as 'Collective Agreement Status and Survivability: Change and Persistence in the German Model' in: Labour, 2013, 27 (3), 288-309)
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J50, J53
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5986
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Johan Moritz
Kuhn
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Long-Run Effects of Public-Private Research Joint Ventures: The Case of the Danish Innovation Consortia Support Scheme
Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly popular in Europe and the US. We study the long-run effects of such a support ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2012, 41 (5), 913–927)
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O31, O38
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5983
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Florian
Hoffmann
Philip
Oreopoulos
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A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnicity Interactions in the Classroom
This paper uses detailed administrative data from one of the largest community colleges in the United States to quantify the extent to which academic performance depends on students being of similar ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (8), 2567-2591)
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I23, I24
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5982
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Zvi
Eckstein
Esther
Gal-Or
Thorvaldur
Gylfason
Jürgen
von Hagen
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review
This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we ...
(published in: Michael Szenberg and Lall.Ram (eds.): Secrets of Economics Editors, MIT Press, 2014)
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A11, A14
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5981
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Joanne
Lindley
Stephen
Machin
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Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education
This paper considers what has hitherto been a relatively neglected subject in the wage inequality literature, albeit one that has been becoming more important over time, namely the role played by ...
(published as 'The Rising Postgraduate Wage Premium' in: Economica, 2016, 83, 281-306 )
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J24, J31
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5980
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Stephen
Gibbons
Olmo
Silva
Felix
Weinhardt
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Everybody Needs Good Neighbours? Evidence from Students' Outcomes in England
We estimate the effect of neighbours' characteristics and prior achievements on teenage students' educational and behavioural outcomes using census data on several cohorts of secondary school ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 831-874)
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C21, I20, H75, R23
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5978
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Saibal
Kar
Sugata
Marjit
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Firm Heterogeneity, Informal Wage and Good Governance
We provide an analysis of enforcement policies applicable to formal sector in dual labor markets. We use a framework with heterogeneous firms, endogenous determination of informal wage and ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 527-539)
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J21, J31, J50
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5977
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Divya
Balasubramaniam
Santanu
Chatterjee
David
B.
Mustard
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Got Water? Social Divisions and Access to Public Goods in Rural India
We use data for 436 rural districts from the 2001 Census of India to examine whether different aspects of social divisions help explain the wide variation in access to tap water across rural India. ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81 (321), 140-160)
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H4, O2
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5976
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Andries
de Grip
Jan
Sauermann
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The Effects of Training on Own and Co-Worker Productivity: Evidence from a Field Experiment
This paper analyses the effects of work-related training on worker productivity. To identify the causal effects from training, we combine a field experiment that randomly assigns workers to treatment ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (559), 376-399)
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J24, M53, C93
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5975
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Raquel
Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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Productivity Gains from R&D Investment: Are High-Tech Sectors Still Ahead?
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures considered as an investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2015, 24(3), 204-222)
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O33, L25
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5974
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
Min
Sun
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Is the Persistence of Teacher Effects in Early Grades Larger for Lower-Performing Students?
We examined the persistence of teacher effects from grade to grade on lower-performing students using high-quality experimental data from Project STAR, where students and teachers were assigned ...
(published in: American Journal of Education, 2012, 118 (3), 309-339)
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I20
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5972
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António M. S.
Pimenta
Francisco J. F.
Silva
José
António Cabral
Vieira
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Duration of Low Wage Employment: A Study Based on a Survival Model
This paper includes a survival analysis which attempts to explain the duration, as in the number of years a worker remains in a low wage situation. Explanatory variables take into account the ...
(published in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2018, 45 (2), 286-299 )
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J31, J42
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5971
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Eirini
Andriopoulou
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Once Poor, Always Poor? Do Initial Conditions Matter? Evidence from the ECHP
The paper analyzes the effects of individual and household characteristics on current poverty status, while controlling for initial conditions, past poverty status and unobserved heterogeneity in 14 ...
(published in Research on Economic Inequality Vol. 23 "Measurement of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility" (eds T.I. Garner and K.S. Short), 2015, pp 23-70 )
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I32, I38
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5970
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David
W.
Johnston
Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity
An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to 'climb the job ladder.' However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2012, 51 (1), 128 - 151)
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J16, J33, J71
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5968
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Julian
Conrads
Bernd
Irlenbusch
Rainer
Michael
Rilke
Gari
Walkowitz
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Lying and Team Incentives
We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on participants' inclination to lie, by adapting the experimental setup of Fischbacher ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2013, 34, 1-7)
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C91, C92, M52
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5966
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Andrew
E.
Clark
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off ...
(published in: Stefano Bartolini, Ennio Bilancini, Luigino Bruni, and Pier-Luigi Porta (Eds.), Policies for Happiness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, 62-94)
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D01, D31, H00, I31, J12, J28
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5965
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Frederico
S.
Finan
Laura
Schechter
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Vote-Buying and Reciprocity
While vote-buying is common, little is known about how politicians determine who to target. We argue that vote-buying can be sustained by an internalized norm of reciprocity. Receiving money ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2012, 80 (2), 863-881)
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H0
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5964
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Brian
Duncan
Stephen
J.
Trejo
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Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market
Over the last several decades, two of the most significant developments in the U.S. labor market have been: (1) rising inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration ...
(published as 'The Employment of Low-Skilled Immigrant Men in the United States' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 549-554)
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J61, J62, J68
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5963
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Dhritiman
Bhattacharya
Nezih
Guner
Gustavo
Ventura
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Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences
We develop a span-of-control model where managerial skills are endogenous and the outcome of investments over the life cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2103, 16(1), 11-25.)
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O40, E23
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5962
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Nezih
Guner
Remzi
Kaygusuz
Gustavo
Ventura
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Taxing Women: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Based on well-known evidence on labor supply elasticities, several authors have concluded that women should be taxed at lower rates than men. We evaluate the quantitative implications of taxing women ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2012, 59 (5), 111–128.)
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E62, H31, J12, J22
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