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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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5902
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Rita
K.
Almeida
Pedro
Carneiro
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation and Informality
Enforcement of labor regulations in the formal sector may drive workers to informality because they increase the costs of formal labor. But better compliance with mandated benefits makes it ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (3), 64-89)
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J2, J3
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5901
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Anthony
Strittmatter
Uwe
Sunde
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Health and Economic Development: Evidence from the Introduction of Public Health Care
This paper investigates the causal effect of changes in health on economic development using a long panel of European countries. Identification is based on the particular timing of the introduction ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1549-1584)
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I10, J10, O11, N13
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5898
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Tarja
Viitanen
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Parental Divorce and Generalized Trust
This paper examines the effect of parental divorce during childhood on generalized trust later on in life using Australian HILDA panel data. The dependent variable is composed of answers to the ...
(published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 35-53)
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J12, J13, H8, Z13
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5897
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Alastair
Muriel
Jeffrey
A.
Smith
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On Educational Performance Measures
Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32(2), 187-206)
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H52, I2, I28
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5896
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André
Betzer
Markus
Doumet
Ulf
Rinne
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How Policy Changes Affect Shareholder Wealth: The Case of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
This paper analyzes how policy changes affect shareholder wealth in the context of environmental regulation. We exploit the unique and unexpected German reaction to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (8), 799-803 )
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Q48, Q54, G38
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5894
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Larry
L.
Howard
Nishith
Prakash
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Do Employment Quotas Explain the Occupational Choices of Disadvantaged Minorities in India?
This article investigates the effects of a large-scale public sector employment quota policy for disadvantaged minorities (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes) in India on their occupational ...
(published in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2012, 26 (4), 489 - 513)
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J62, J61, J24, O10, O2
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5893
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Filipa
Sa
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Immigration and House Prices in the UK
This article studies the effect of immigration on house prices in the UK. It finds that immigration has a negative effect on house prices and presents evidence that this negative effect is due to the ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2015, 125(587), 1393–1424)
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J61, R21
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5892
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David J.
Cooper
Matthias
Sutter
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Role Selection and Team Performance
Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 59(3), 1547-1569.)
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C91, C92
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5891
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Paola
Manzini
Marco
Mariotti
Christopher J.
Tyson
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Manipulation of Choice Behavior
We introduce and study the problem of manipulation of choice behavior. In a class of two-stage models of decision making, with the agent's choices determined by three "psychological variables," we ...
(revised version published as 'Two-stage threshold representations' in: Theoretical Economics, 2013, 8, 875–882)
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D01, D03, D70
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5890
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman
In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2015, 9 (4), 439-482)
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J16, J22, J24, J61
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5889
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Ambrogio
Cesa-Bianchi
M. Hashem
Pesaran
Alessandro
Rebucci
TengTeng
Xu
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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
The international business cycle is very important for Latin America’s economic performance as the recent global crisis vividly illustrated. This paper investigates how changes in trade linkages ...
(published in: Filippo di Mauro and Hashem Pesaran (eds.), The GVAR Handbook: Structure and Applications of a Macro Model of the Global Economy for Policy Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2013, 195–211 )
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C32, F44, E32, O54
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5888
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Natalia
Nollenberger
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain
Reconciling work and family is high on many governments' agenda, especially in countries, such as Spain, with record-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Full-Time Universal Childcare in a Context of Low Maternal Employment: Modest but Persistent Effects' in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 124 - 136)
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H42, H52, I20, J13, J21, J22
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5887
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Murat
Güray
Kirdar
Meltem
Dayioglu-Tayfur
Ismet
Koc
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2018, 12(4), 640-668.)
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J12, J13, I20, D10
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5884
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Julie
Rosaz
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment
This paper presents the results of a laboratory experiment in which workers perform a real-effort task and supervisors report the workers’ performance to the experimenter. The report is non ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 537-549.)
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C91, D82, M52
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5882
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Olivier
Godart
Holger
Görg
Aoife
Hanley
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Surviving the Crisis: Foreign Multinationals vs Domestic Firms in Ireland
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the ...
(published in: The World Economy, 2012, 35 (10), 1305-1321)
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F3, J2, L2
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5881
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Todd
A.
Sorensen
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On Input Market Frictions and Estimation of Factors Demand
In this paper we explore the impact of imperfectly competitive input markets on production function estimation. First order profit maximizing conditions are altered when frictions in input markets ...
(published as 'On input market frictions and estimation of factors' demand' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80 (3), 772-782. )
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D2, J42, J23
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5880
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Ohyun
Kwon
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Deng
Quheng
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Evolution of the Industrial Wage Structure in China Since 1980
Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in differences of average wages among major industry groups parallels increases in ...
(substantially revised version published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2015, 20(1), 17–44 (co-authored by Simon Chang))
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J31, D22, D33, L16, O53
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5879
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Peter
Fredriksson
Björn
Öckert
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Long-Term Effects of Class Size
This paper evaluates the long-term effects of class size in primary school. We use rich administrative data from Sweden and exploit variation in class size created by a maximum class size rule. ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (1), 249-285)
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I21, I28, J24, C31
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5878
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Mihails
Hazans
Kaia
Philips
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The Post-Enlargement Migration Experience in the Baltic Labor Markets
We use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with several other surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EU accession with that ...
(published in: Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds), EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration, Berlin - Heidelberg: Springer, 2010, 255-304)
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J61, J15
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5877
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Stephen
Drinkwater
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Informal Caring and Labour Market Outcomes Within England and Wales
This paper focuses on the links between informal care provision and labour market activity at the sub-national level. Within-country analysis of this issue has been very limited to date despite the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2015, 49 (2), 273-286)
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J22, R23
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5875
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Boris
Hirsch
Claus
Schnabel
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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously: The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009
Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength ...
(substantially revised version published as 'What Can We Learn from Bargaining Models about Union Power? The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009' in: Manchester School, 2014, 82 (3), 347-362)
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J50, J51
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5874
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David
W.
Johnston
Carol
Propper
Stephen
Pudney
Michael A.
Shields
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Child Mental Health and Educational Attainment: Multiple Observers and the Measurement Error Problem
We examine the effect of survey measurement error on the empirical relationship between child mental health and personal and family characteristics, and between child mental health and educational ...
(published in: BJIR, 2014, 29 (6), 880-900)
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C30, I10, I21, J24
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5873
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Feasibility and Importance of Adding Measures of Actual Experience to Cross-Sectional Data Collection
We use Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data and data from a 2008 telephone survey of adults conducted by Westat for the Princeton Data Improvement Initiative (PDII) to explore the importance ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (2, Part 2), 17-58)
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C81, J16, J24
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5872
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Mihails
Hazans
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What Explains Prevalence of Informal Employment in European Countries: The Role of Labor Institutions, Governance, Immigrants, and Growth
European Social Survey data on 30 countries, covering years 2004-2009, are used to look into joint institutional [and other macro] determinants of the rates of dependent employment without a ...
(published as: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5917, 2011/12)
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J08, J21, J51, J61, K31
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5871
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Mihails
Hazans
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Informal Workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 Countries
The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main job in 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However, dependent work ...
(extended version published as 'Informal workers across Europe: Evidence from 30 European countries', as World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 5912, 2011/12)
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J21, J24, J61, J71, O17, O52
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5870
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Mariapia
Mendola
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Parental Health and Child Schooling
Evidence on the role of parental health on child schooling is surprisingly thin. We explore this issue by estimating the short-run effects of parents’ illness on child school enrollment. Our analysis ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 35, 94-108)
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I21, O15
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5868
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Aekapol
Chongvilaivan
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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And I Will Try to Fix You: A Study of Heterogeneity in Job Satisfaction with Implications for Flexible Employment Contracts
This paper is an empirical study of slope heterogeneity in job satisfaction. It provides evidence from the generalized ordered probit models that different job characteristics tend to have different ...
(published as 'Do Different Work Characteristics Have Different Distributional Impacts on Job Satisfaction? A Study of Slope Heterogeneity in Workers’ Well-Being' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2014, 52 (3), 426-444)
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J53, D61
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5864
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Alireza
Naghavi
Chiara
Strozzi
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing ...
(revised and updated version published as 'Intellectual Property Rights, Diasporas, and Domestic Innovation' in: Journal of International Economics, 2015, 96(1), 150–161)
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O34, F22, O33, J24, J61
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5863
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Stefan
Staubli
Josef
Zweimüller
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Does Raising the Retirement Age Increase Employment of Older Workers?
This paper studies how an increase in the minimum retirement age affects the labor market behavior of older workers. Between 2000 and 2006 the Austrian government gradually increased the early ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 108, 17-32)
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J14, J26
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5861
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William A.V.
Clark
Maarten
van Ham
Rory
Coulter
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Socio-Spatial Mobility in British Society
The research reported in this paper examines the nature and extent of socio-spatial mobility in the United Kingdom. In contrast with previous studies, we do not only investigate who moves out of ...
(published as 'Spatial mobility and social outcomes' in: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2014, 29 (4), 699-727)
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J61, R23
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5858
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Peter
Haan
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
How can public pension systems be reformed to ensure fiscal stability in the face of increasing life expectancy? To address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178 (3), 582-601)
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D91, J11, J22, J26, J64
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5857
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Anne
E.
Winkler
Wolfgang
Glänzel
Sharon
Levin
Paula
Stephan
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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders
This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an ...
(published in: Revue Economique, 2015, 66 (1), 115 - 142)
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A14, I23, O33
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5856
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Graziella
Bertocchi
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but ...
(revised version published in: Olivier de la Grandville (ed.), Economic Growth and Development, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 11, Bingley, 2011, 25 - 41)
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O43, N17, H11
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5855
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Sebastian
Till
Braun
Michael
Kvasnicka
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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post-War Germany
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 998-1024)
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J61, O15, R23
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5854
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John
Gibson
Bonggeun
Kim
Steven
Stillman
Geua
Boe-Gibson
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Time to Vote?
Despite the centrality of voting costs to the paradox of voting, little effort has been made to accurately measure these costs outside of a few spatially limited case studies. In this paper, we apply ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2013, 156(3), 517-536)
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D7, R4
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5853
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Ekrame
Boubtane
Dramane
Coulibaly
Christophe
Rault
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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2013, 33, 261-269)
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E20, F22, J61
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5852
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Liam
Delaney
Alan
Fernihough
James
P.
Smith
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Exporting Poor Health: The Irish in England
The Irish-born population in England is in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in Ireland, a reversal of the commonly observed healthy migrant effect. Recent ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (6), 2013-2035)
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J60
|
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5851
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Gustave
Goldmann
Arthur
Sweetman
Casey
Warman
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The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital: Language, Education and Occupational Matching
The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and post-immigration occupational matching – for earnings are explored for new ...
(published as: 'The Portability of New Immigrants’ Human Capital: Language, Education, and Occupational Skills' in: Canadian Public Policy , 2015, 41 (S1), 64-79.)
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J24, J61, J62
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5850
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Mutlu
Yuksel
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The Long-Term Direct and External Effects of Jewish Expulsions in Nazi Germany
This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015, 7 (3), 58-85)
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I21, I12, J24, N34
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5849
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Nick
Drydakis
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Health Impaired Employees' Job Satisfaction: New Evidence from Athens, Greece
By utilizing the 2008 Athens Area Study (AAS) data set, this study investigates four aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, respect received from one’s supervisor, and total ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters,2012, 19 (8), 789-793 )
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J10, J28
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5848
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Marianne
Simonsen
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Where to Put the Kids? Effects of Type of Non-parental Child Care on Pre-teen Skills and Risky Behavior
This paper investigates pre-teenage effects of the choice of type of non-parental child care at age three (preschool relative to more informal family day care). We exploit a Danish panel data child ...
(short version published as 'The effects of type of non-parental child care on pre-teen skills and risky behavior' in: Economics Letters 2012, 116, 622-625)
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J13
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5847
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Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Arvid
Raknerud
Terje
Skjerpen
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Using the Helmert-Transformation to Reduce Dimensionality in a Mixed Model: Application to a Wage Equation with Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
A model for matched data with two types of unobserved heterogeneity is considered – one related to the observation unit, the other to units to which the observation units are matched. One or both of ...
(revised version published as 'Estimation of a model for matched panel data with high-dimensional two-way unobserved heterogeneity' in: Empirical Economics, 2017, 53, 1657–1680)
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C23, C81, J31
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5846
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Hong
Liu
Zhong
Zhao
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Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health: Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China
Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state-owned enterprises (SOEs), which resulted in massive layoff of the SOEs' workers and a ...
(revised version published in: China Economic Review, 2014, 31, 303-319 )
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I12, J63, N35, J13
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5845
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Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Ravi
Kanbur
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Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality
Two stylized representations are often found in the academic and policy literature on informality and formality in developing countries. The first is that the informal (or unregulated) sector is more ...
(revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 1534 - 1573)
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J3, J6, O17
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5844
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Maria
Bigoni
Margherita
Fort
Mattia
Nardotto
Tommaso
G.
Reggiani
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Teams or Tournaments? A Field Experiment on Cooperation and Competition among University Students
This paper assesses the effect of two stylized and antithetic non-monetary incentive schemes on students’ effort. We collect data from a field experiment where incentives are exogenously imposed, ...
(revised version published as 'Cooperation or Competition? A Field Experiment on Non-Monetary Learning Incentives' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, 15 (4), 1753-1792 )
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A22, C93, I20
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5843
|
Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Kristin
J.
Kleinjans
Mona
Larsen
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The Effect of an Acute Health Shock on Work Behavior: Evidence from Different Health Care Regimes
We study how severe acute health shocks affect the probability of not working in the U. S. versus in Denmark. The results not only provide insight into how relative disease risk affects labor force ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2015, 136-137,44-51)
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I12, I18, J26
|
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5842
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Andrea
Bassanini
Eve
Caroli
Antoine
Rebérioux
Thomas
Breda
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Working in Family Firms: Less Paid but More Secure? Evidence from French Matched Employer-Employee Data
We study compensation packages in family and non-family firms. Using matched employer-employee data for a representative sample of French establishments, we first show that family firms pay on ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 433-466)
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G34, J31, J33, J63, L26
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5841
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David
W.
Johnston
Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Explaining the Female Black-White Obesity Gap: A Decomposition Analysis of Proximal Causes
There exists remarkably large differences in body weights and obesity prevalence between black and white women in the US, and crucially these differences are a significant contributor to black-white ...
(published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1429-1450)
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I1, J11
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5840
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Armin
Falk
Florian
Zimmermann
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Preferences for Consistency
This paper studies how a preference for consistency can affect economic decision-making. We propose a two-period model where people have a preference for consistency because consistent behavior ...
(published as 'A Taste for Consistency and Survey Response Behavior' in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2013, 59 (1), 181–193)
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C91, D03, D64
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5839
|
Lorraine
Dearden
John
Micklewright
Anna
Vignoles
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The Effectiveness of English Secondary Schools for Pupils of Different Ability Levels
'League table' information on school effectiveness in England generally relies on either a comparison of the average outcomes of pupils by school, e.g. mean exam scores, or on estimates of the ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2011, 32(2), 225-244)
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I2
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