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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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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
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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
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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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5838
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Roberto
Bande
Marika
Karanassou
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The NRU and the Evolution of Regional Disparities in Spanish Unemployment
On both theoretical and empirical grounds, this paper provides evidence that refutes the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) hypothesis as an explanation of the evolution of regional disparities in ...
(published in: Urban Studies, 2013, 50 (10), 2044–2062)
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R23, J64
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5837
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Elke
J.
Jahn
Dario
Pozzoli
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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?
It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers have to accept high pay penalties. However, remarkably little is known about the remuneration of workers who are frequently employed in this ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 48-57)
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J30, J31, J42, J41
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5836
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Roberto
Golinelli
Riccardo
Rovelli
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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?
How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 30, 112-137)
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O11, O57, P2, P36, P52
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5835
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Sanvi
Avouyi-Dovi
Denis
Fougère
Erwan
Gautier
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Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data
Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both industry and firm levels in France, we document stylized facts on wage stickiness and the impact of wage-setting institutions on wage ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (4), 1337-1351)
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J31, J50, E30
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5834
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Judith
Niehues
Andreas
Peichl
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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality: Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual ...
(revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 43 (1), 73-99)
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D31, D63, H24, J62
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5833
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Martin
Halla
Martina
Zweimüller
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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents
This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 23-38)
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I10, J22, D31, J31, J24, J26, J64, J28
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5832
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Mary
C.
Daly
Bart
Hobijn
Robert
G.
Valletta
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The Recent Evolution of the Natural Rate of Unemployment
The U.S. economy is recovering from the financial crisis and ensuing deep recession, but the unemployment rate has remained stubbornly high. Some have argued that the persistent elevation of ...
(published as 'A Search and Matching Approach to Labor Markets: Did the Natural Rate of Unemployment Rise?' in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 26 (3), 3-26 )
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E24, J3, J6
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5831
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Eric
Helland
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Bias in the Legal Profession: Self-Assessed versus Statistical Measures of Discrimination
Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers' perceptions of discriminatory behavior that are important for understanding many ...
(published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2014, 43(2), 323-357)
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J71, J15, J16, J44
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5830
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Amanda
H.
Goodall
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Physician-Leaders and Hospital Performance: Is There an Association?
Although it has long been conjectured that having physicians in leadership positions is valuable for hospital performance, there is no published empirical work on the hypothesis. This cross-sectional ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (4), 535 - 539)
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I19, M12, M51
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5829
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Oliver
Falck
Stephan
Heblich
Susanne
Link
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The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?
Armed conflicts, natural disasters and infrastructure projects continue to force millions into migration. This is especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic ...
(published as 'Forced Migration and the Effects of an Integration Policy in Post-WWII Germany' in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2012, 12(1))
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N30, J61, D04
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5828
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Giovanni
Russo
Wolter
Hassink
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Multiple Glass Ceilings
Both vertical (between job levels) and horizontal (within job levels) mobility can be sources of wage growth. We find that the glass ceiling operates at both margins. The unexplained part of the wage ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2012, 51 (4), 892–915)
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J31, J24, J22
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5827
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Simonetta
Longhi
Mark
P.
Taylor
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Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers: Are They Substitutes?
The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is no evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are ...
(published as 'Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers and the Business Cycle' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (4), 463-483 )
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J29, J60
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5825
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Brindusa
Anghel
Sara
de la Rica
Juan
J.
Dolado
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The Effect of Public Sector Employment on Women's Labour Market Outcomes
This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different OECD labour markets in explaining: (i) gender differences regarding choices to work in either PS or private ...
(published in: I. Sanchez de Madariaga, S. de la Rica and J. Dolado (Eds.), Libro Blanco sobre la Situación de la Mujer en la Ciencia Espaniola. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Madrid, 2011)
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J45, J16, J31
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5822
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John
Cawley
J. Catherine
Maclean
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Unfit for Service: The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by examining a previously underappreciated consequence of the rise in obesity in the ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21 (11), 1348-1366)
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I1, H56, J11, J18, J2, J45, N32
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5820
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Kristian
Orsini
Andreas
Peichl
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Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US
Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, ...
(revised version available as IZA Discussion Paper No. 6735; published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(3), 723-838)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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5819
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Paul
Frijters
David
W.
Johnston
Michael A.
Shields
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Destined for (Un)Happiness: Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction?
In this paper we address the question of how much of adult life satisfaction is predicted by childhood traits, parental characteristics and family socioeconomic status. Given the current focus of ...
(published as 'Does Childhood Predict Adult Life Satisfaction? Evidence from British Cohort Surveys' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F688-F719)
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I1, J1
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5818
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Erin
L.
Krupka
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A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry
This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral ...
(revised version published in: Management Science, 2012, 1 (58), 203-217)
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C93, D23, M14
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5815
|
Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Marie
Elina
Paul
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Part-Time Work, Fixed-Term Contracts, and the Returns to Experience
Using data from Spanish Social Security records, we investigate the returns to experience in different flexible work arrangements, including part-time and full-time work, and permanent and fixed-term ...
(substantially revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77 (4), 512 - 541 )
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J16, J24, J31, J41, C11, C33
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5814
|
Johan
Almenberg
Christer
Gerdes
|
Exponential Growth Bias and Financial Literacy
The tendency to underestimate the future value of a variable growing at a constant rate, an example of exponential growth bias, has been linked to household financial decision making. We show that ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (17), 1693-1696)
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D12, D14
|
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5813
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William
T.
Harbaugh
Naci
Mocan
Michael
S.
Visser
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Theft and Deterrence
We report results from economic experiments of decisions that are best described as petty larceny, with high school and college students who can anonymously steal real money from each other. Our ...
(published in Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34(4), 389-407)
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K4
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