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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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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
Fougčre
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
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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
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Johan
Almenberg
Christer
Gerdes
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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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5809
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Paul
L.
Latreille
Peter J.
Sloane
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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance
This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2016, 54 (4), 742 - 767)
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I0, J28, J81, J20
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5808
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Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
Aldo
Rustichini
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Which Measures of Time Preference Best Predict Outcomes? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Economists and psychologists have devised numerous instruments to measure time preferences and have generated a rich literature examining the extent to which time preferences predict important ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 308-320)
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C93, D90
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5807
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Daniel
Borowczyk-Martins
Grégory
Jolivet
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
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Accounting For Endogenous Search Behavior in Matching Function Estimation
We show that equilibrium matching models imply that standard estimates of the matching function elasticities are exposed to an endogeneity bias, which arises from the search behavior of agents on ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2013, 16, 440–451)
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J63, J64
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5805
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Corrado
Giulietti
Guangjie
Ning
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (1), 96-117.)
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J23, J61, O15
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5804
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Petter
Lundborg
Anton
Nilsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins
We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health ...
(published as 'Adolescent health and adult labor market outcomes' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 25-40)
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I1, J24, J31
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5803
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Petter
Lundborg
Anton
Nilsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?
A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under the assumption that educational attainment is random within twin pairs. This ...
(published as 'The health-schooling relationship: evidence from Swedish twins' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, 1191-1215)
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I1, I2
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5802
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Goals and Psychological Accounting
We model how people formulate and evaluate goals to overcome self-control problems. People often attempt to regulate their behavior by evaluating goal-related outcomes separately (in narrow ...
(revised version published as 'Goals and Bracketing under Mental Accounting' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 305–351.)
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A12, C70, D81, D91
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5800
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Michael
C.
Burda
Jennifer
Hunt
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What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, Spring 2011, 273 - 319)
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E24, E32, J6
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5799
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Laura
Angelescu McVey
Maggie
Switek
Onnicha
Sawangfa
Jacqueline
Smith
Zweig
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The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited
The striking thing about the happiness-income paradox is that over the long-term – usually a period of 10 y or more – happiness does not increase as a country's income rises. Heretofore the evidence ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, 107 (52), 22463-22468)
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I31, O10, O5, D60
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5798
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Erkki
Koskela
Jan
König
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The Role of Profit Sharing in Dual Labour Markets with Flexible Outsourcing
We combine profit sharing for high-skilled workers and outsourcing of low-skilled tasks in partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, when the wage rate for low-skilled worker is set by a labor ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (4), 351-370)
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J31, J33, J51
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5797
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Alexandru
Minea
Christophe
Rault
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External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2011, 28 (5), 2271-2281)
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E42, E52
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5796
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to the Falling Labour Share
This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2012, 43 (3), 343-376)
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D30, E25, E24
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5795
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Marco
Caliendo
Wang-Sheng
Lee
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Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment
This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job applicants in Germany get treated or behave differently from non-obese applicants. ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2013, 11 (2), 121-133)
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I10, I12, J23, J70
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5794
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Ben
Kriechel
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Workforce Reorganization and the Worker
In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1719-1729)
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J63, J65, L23, L60, L93, M51
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5793
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Pedro
Carneiro
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children
We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123(2), 365-412)
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J13, J18
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5792
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Rafael
Lalive
Analia
Schlosser
Andreas
Steinhauer
Josef
Zweimüller
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Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes ...
(published in: Review of Economics Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 219 - 265,)
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J13, J18, J22
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5791
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Benoît
Mahy
François
Rycx
Mélanie
Volral
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Does Wage Dispersion Make All Firms Productive?
This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage of access to detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Controlling ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 455-489)
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J31, J24, M5
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5790
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality: New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
What makes the entrepreneurial personality is the key question we seek to answer in the special issue of the Journal of Economic Psychology on "Personality and Entrepreneurship". The contributions ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 319-324)
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D81, J23, L26, M13
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5789
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Giulio
Bosio
Marco
Leonardi
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The Impact of Bologna Process on the Graduate Labour Market: Demand and Supply
The Bologna process inspired the Italian 3+2 reform of the university system which constitutes a big increase in the supply of college graduates. This paper is a preliminary attempt to identify the ...
(published as 'The impact of Bologna process on the graduate': in: Giornale degli economisti, 2010, 69 (3), 29-66)
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I23, I28, J24
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5787
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Eleonora
Patacchini
Yves
Zenou
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Social Networks and Parental Behavior in the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion
We analyze the intergenerational transmission of the strength of religion focusing on the interplay between family and peer effects. We develop a theoretical model suggesting that both peer quality ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7, 969-995.)
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A14, D85, Z12
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5786
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Vianney
Dequiedt
Yves
Zenou
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International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain
We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 62-78.)
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D82, J61, F22, O12
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5785
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Antidepressants and Age
Antidepressants as a commodity have been remarkably little-studied by economists. This study shows in new data for 27 European countries that 8% of people (and 10% of those middle-aged) take ...
(published as 'Antidepressants and age: A new form of evidence for U-shaped well-being through life' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2016, 127, 46-58)
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I1, I12, I3, I31
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5784
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Michael
Elsby
Jennifer
C.
Smith
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment
Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market states act as key determinants of this. We examine how the structure of ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011, 27 (2), 338-363)
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E24, J6
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5783
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Matilde
P.
Machado
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
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Coverage of Infertility Treatment and Fertility Outcomes: Do Women Catch Up?
The ageing of first-time mothers and the changes in women's labor market conditions have been accompanied by the introduction and subsequent increase in the use of assisted reproductive therapies ...
(published in: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2015, 6 (4), 407-439.)
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I18, J13
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5782
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Ruth
Ben-Yashar
Leif
Danziger
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2011, 47 (5), 440-447)
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D70, D71, D72
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5781
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Daniel
I.
Rees
Joseph
J.
Sabia
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The Kid's Speech: The Effect of Stuttering on Human Capital Acquisition
A number of studies have shown that childhood speech impairments such as stuttering are associated with lower test scores and educational attainment. However, it is unclear whether this result is ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 38, 76-88)
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I1, I2
|
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5780
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Karl
Brenke
Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Short-Time Work: The German Answer to the Great Recession
Short-time work was the "German answer" to the economic crisis. The number of short-time workers strongly increased in the recession and peaked at more than 1.5 million. Without the extensive use of ...
(revised version published in: International Labour Review, 2013, 152 (2), 287-305 / spanish version published as 'Desempleo parcial, la respuesta alemana a la Gran Recesión' in: Revista Internacional del Trabajo, 2013, 132 (2), 325-344 / french version published as 'Le chômage partiel: réponse de l'Allemagne face ŕ la grande récession' in: Revue internationale du Travail, 2013, 152 (2), 311-330 )
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J65, J68
|
|
5779
|
John
C.
Ham
Serkan
Ozbeklik
Lara
Shore-Sheppard
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Estimating Heterogeneous Take-up and Crowd-Out Responses to Marginal and Non-Marginal Medicaid Expansions
We use a linear probability model with interactions and a switching probit model (SPM) to estimate heterogeneous effects of Medicaid expansions on Medicaid take-up, private insurance coverage and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (4), 872-905)
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I18, C21
|
|
5778
|
Julián
Messina
Anna
Sanz-de-Galdeano
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Wage Rigidity and Disinflation in Emerging Countries
This paper examines the consequences of rapid disinflation for downward wage rigidities in two emerging countries, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 102-133)
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J30, E24
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5777
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Christian
Dustmann
Albrecht
Glitz
Uta
Schönberg
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Referral-based Job Search Networks
This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2016, 83 (2), 514-546)
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J61, J63, J31
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