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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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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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5961
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Nina
Smith
Valdemar
Smith
Mette
Verner
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Why Are So Few Females Promoted into CEO and Vice-President Positions? Danish Empirical Evidence 1997-2007
In most OECD countries, only very few women succeed in reaching top executive positions. In this paper, the probability of promotion into VP and CEO positions is estimated based on employer-employee ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 380-408)
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G34, J16, J24, M51
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5960
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Delia
Furtado
Miriam
Marcén
Almudena
Sevilla
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Does Culture Affect Divorce Decisions? Evidence from European Immigrants in the US
This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (3), 1013-1038)
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J12, Z13, J61
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5959
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Dan
A.
Black
Natalia
Kolesnikova
Seth
G.
Sanders
Lowell
J.
Taylor
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Are Children “Normal”?
We examine Becker's (1960) contention that children are "normal." For the cross section of non-Hispanic white married couples in the U.S., we show that when we restrict comparisons to ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 21 - 33)
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J13, J40
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5958
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Simone
Bertoli
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
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Multilateral Resistance to Migration
The rate of migration observed between two countries does not depend solely on their relative attractiveness, but also on the one of alternative destinations. Following the trade literature, we term ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 79-100)
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F22, O15, J61
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5955
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Hani
Mansour
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Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?
While the Internet has been found to reduce trading frictions in a number of other markets, existing research has failed to detect such an effect in the labor market. In this paper, we replicate Kuhn ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (581), 1213–1233)
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J64
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5953
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Aniruddha
Mitra
James
T.
Bang
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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Financial Liberalization and the Brain Drain: A Panel Data Analysis
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an ...
(published as 'Financial Liberalization and the Selection of Emigrants: A Cross-national Analysis' in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 47 (1), 199-226)
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F22, O15, P48
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5952
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Daniele
Fabbri
Chiara
Monfardini
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Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Healthcare Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution
We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private (opt out) or just enlarge their private consumption, without reducing reliance ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 78 (1), 75-93)
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C34, C35, D12, H44, I11
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5951
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Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity
Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly ...
(published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (3), 257-287)
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J24, J31, J44
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5949
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Naci
Mocan
Duha
T.
Altindag
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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament
Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were substantial salary differences between parliamentarians representing different EU ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1130-1167.)
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D73, P16, J22, J45
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5948
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Andrew
McGee
Peter
McGee
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Search, Effort, and Locus of Control
We test the hypothesis that locus of control – one's perception of control over events in life – influences search by affecting beliefs about the efficacy of search effort in a laboratory ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 126 (Part A), 89 - 101)
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J64, D83, C91
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5947
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Alejandra
Mizala
Hugo
R.
Nopo
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Teachers' Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, ...
(published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32)
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J31, J44, J8, O54
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5946
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Vikesh
Amin
Petter
Lundborg
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Mothers Do Matter: New Evidence on the Effect of Parents' Schooling on Children's Schooling Using Swedish Twin Data
Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for ...
(published as 'The intergenerational transmission of schooling: Are mothers really less important than fathers?' in: Economics of Education Review, 2015, 47, 100–117 )
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J0, I0, J1
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5945
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Jeff
E.
Biddle
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Cycles of Wage Discrimination
Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic males and women, Hispanics and ...
(published as 'Wage discrimination over the business cycle' in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2:7)
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E29, J71
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5944
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Giorgio
Brunello
Margherita
Fort
Nicole
Schneeweis
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2016, 25 (3), 314-336)
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J1, I12, I21
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5943
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Stefanie
Schurer
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The Stability of Big-Five Personality Traits
We use a large, nationally-representative sample of working-age adults to demonstrate that personality (as measured by the Big Five) is stable over a four-year period. Average personality changes are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (1), 11-15)
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J24, C18
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5942
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Mirco
Tonin
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Underreporting of Earnings and the Minimum Wage Spike
This paper documents a positive correlation within European labour markets between the proportion of full-time employees with earnings on the minimum wage and the extent of underreporting of earnings ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:2)
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J38, H26
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5941
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
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The Effect of Variable Pay Schemes on Workplace Absenteeism
We estimate the effect of variable pay schemes on workplace absenteeism using two cross sections of British establishments. Private sector establishments that explicitly link pay with individual ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 36, 109-157)
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J22, J33, C21
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5940
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Gabriele
Doblhammer
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Thomas
Fritze
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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries
With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to ...
(revised version published as 'Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Ten European Countries' in: PLoS ONE, 8(9) 2013, e74915)
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I12, I18, J14, N14, N34, J26
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5938
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Alessandra
Cataldi
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Does It Pay to Be Productive? The Case of Age Groups
Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data for the period 1999-2006, we investigate the relationship between age, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (3), 264-283)
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J14, J24, J31
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5937
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Bart
Cockx
Matteo
Picchio
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Scarring Effects of Remaining Unemployed for Long-Term Unemployed School-Leavers
This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2013, 176 (4), 951-980 )
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C33, C41, J62, J64
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5935
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Claudia
Olivetti
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure
The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17 (4), 842-859)
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E24, J16, J31
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5934
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Andrew
Grodner
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
John A.
Bishop
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Social Interactions in the Labor Market
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366 )
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D11, J22, Z13 D31, D63
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5933
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Donald
J.
Lacombe
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Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach
The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92 (2), 407-417)
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J08, J21, J38, J48, C31
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5932
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Chiara
Mussida
Matteo
Picchio
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The Trend over Time of the Gender Wage Gap in Italy
We analyse gender wage inequalities in Italy in the mid-1990s and in the mid-2000s. In this period important labour market developments occurred: institutional changes have loosened the use of ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46 (3), 1081-1110)
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C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
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5929
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Syeda Shahanara
Begum
Deng
Quheng
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
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Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh and China
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. ...
(published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2012, 23 (1), 73 - 85)
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I32, J13, J15
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5928
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Briggs
Depew
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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Elasticity of Supply to the Firm and the Business Cycle
A body of recent empirical work has found strong evidence that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite, implying that firms may have wage setting power. However, these studies capture ...
(published as 'The elasticity of labor supply to the firm over the business cycle' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 196-204)
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J42, J31, J64
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5927
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Alassane
Drabo
Linguère
Mously
Mbaye
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Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries
The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by examining migration rates and levels of education in developing countries. Many ...
(revised version published as 'Natural Disasters, Migration and Education: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries' in: Environment and Development Economics, 2015, 20 (6), 767-796.)
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O15, Q54
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5926
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
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Multidimensional Affluence: Theory and Applications to Germany and the US
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (32), 4591-4601)
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D31, D63, I31
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5925
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Franziska
Barmettler
Ernst
Fehr
Christian
Zehnder
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Big Experimenter Is Watching You! Anonymity and Prosocial Behavior in the Laboratory
Social preference research has received considerable attention in recent years. Researchers have demonstrated that the presence of people with social preferences has important implications in many ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 75 (1), 17-34)
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C91, D03
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5924
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Joachim
Wagner
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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2013, 149 (1), 113-130)
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F14
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5923
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Ariaster B.
Chimeli
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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The Use of Violence in Illegal Markets: Evidence from Mahogany Trade in the Brazilian Amazon
Agents operating in illegal markets cannot resort to the justice system to guarantee property rights, to enforce contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9 (4), 30-57)
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K42, O13, O17, Q58
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5922
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Edwin
Leuven
Marte
Rønning
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Classroom Grade Composition and Pupil Achievement
This paper exploits discontinuous grade mixing rules in Norwegian junior high schools to estimate how classroom grade composition affects pupil achievement. Pupils in mixed grade classrooms are found ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 1164-1192 )
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I2
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5921
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Andrew
I.
Friedson
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Losers and Losers: Some Demographics of Medical Malpractice Tort Reforms
Our research examines individual differences in the effects of medical malpractice tort reforms on pre-trial settlement speed and settlement amounts by age and most likely settlement size. Findings ...
(published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2012, 45 (2), 115-133 )
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C21, I18
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5920
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Guido
Friebel
Juan Miguel
Gallego
Mariapia
Mendola
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Xenophobic Attacks, Migration Intentions and Networks: Evidence from the South of Africa
We investigate how emigration flows from a developing region are affected by xenophobic violence at destination. Our empirical analysis is based on a unique survey among more than 1000 households, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 555-591)
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O1, R2, J6, D1
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5919
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Ernst
Fehr
Karla
Hoff
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture: The Influence of Society on Preferences
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (556), 396-412)
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A12, A13, D01, K0
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5918
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Ylenia
Brilli
Daniela
Del Boca
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy: Does Rationing Play a Role?
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual ...
(published as 'Does Child Care Availability Play a Role in Maternal Employment and Children's Development? Evidence from Italy' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016 ,14(1), 27-51)
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J13, D1, H75
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5917
|
Guilherme
Lichand
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57 (2), 459-499)
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K1, K41, K42, H41, O12, O17, O54
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5916
|
Joachim
Wagner
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International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006
The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2012, 148 (2), 235-267)
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F14
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5915
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David
Card
Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Can Compulsory Military Service Raise Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal
Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 57-93)
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J31, J24
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5914
|
Niaz
Asadullah
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Intergenerational Wealth Mobility in Rural Bangladesh
Unique residential history data with retrospective information on parental assets are used to study household wealth mobility in 141 villages in rural Bangladesh. Regression estimates of father-son ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48(9), 1193-1208 )
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D63, O53
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