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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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5776
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Donald
O.
Parsons
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Mandated Severance Pay and Firing Cost Distortions: A Critical Review of the Evidence
Severance pay mandates are an appealing job displacement insurance strategy in developing countries, which have only modest government administrative capacities, but they carry the threat of adverse ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds.), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 121-157)
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J08, J65, J33
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5775
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Agnieszka
Kanas
Barry
R.
Chiswick
Tanja
van der Lippe
Frank
van Tubergen
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Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we examined the impact of social contacts on immigrant occupational status and income. In addition to general social contacts, we also analyzed the ...
(published in: International Migration Review, 2012, 46 (3), 680-709)
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F22, J61, Z13
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5774
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Simon
Gächter
Esther
Kessler
Manfred
Königstein
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The Roles of Incentives and Voluntary Cooperation for Contractual Compliance
Efficiency under contractual incompleteness often requires voluntary cooperation in situations where self-regarding incentives for contractual compliance are present as well. Here we provide a ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2025, 28 (1), 75-106 )
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C70, C90
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5773
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Ludger
Woessmann
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Knocking on Heaven's Door? Protestantism and Suicide
We model the effect of Protestant vs. Catholic denomination in an economic theory of suicide, accounting for differences in religious-community integration, views about man's impact on God's grace, ...
(published as 'Social Cohesion, Religious Beliefs, and the Effect of Protestantism on Suicide 'in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 100(3), 377-391)
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Z12, N33
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5772
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Erik
Plug
Dinand
Webbink
Nicholas
G.
Martin
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Sexual Orientation, Prejudice and Segregation
This paper examines whether gay and lesbian workers sort into tolerant occupations. With information on sexual orientation, prejudice and occupational choice taken from Australian Twin Registers, we ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (1), 123-159)
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J15, J24, J71
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5771
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Francesca
Francavilla
Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Gabriela
Grotkowska
Mieczyslaw
Socha
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Use of Time and Value of Unpaid Family Care Work: A Comparison between Italy and Poland
This study provides a comparison of the size and value of unpaid family care work in two European member States, Italy and Poland. Using the Italian and Polish time use surveys, both the opportunity ...
(published as 'Dressing a ghost: size and value of unpaid family care' in: Applied Economics, 2019, 51 (28), 3015-3030 (authored by Francesca Francavilla and Gianna Gludia Giannelli))
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E01, E26, J13, J14, J16, J22
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5770
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
Ute
Stephan
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For Benevolence and for Self-Interest: Social and Commercial Entrepreneurial Activity across Nations
We conceptualise social entrepreneurship as a source of social capital which, when present in the environment, enhances commercial entrepreneurship. We also argue that social entrepreneurship should ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship and Practice, 2013, 37 (3), 479-504)
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L26
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5768
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Bernhard
Michel
François
Rycx
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Productivity Gains and Spillovers from Offshoring
Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2014, 22(1), 73-85)
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F0, O0
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5766
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Joachim
Wagner
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Exports, Imports and Profitability: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises
This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new ...
(published in: Open Economies Review, 2012, 23 (5), 747-765)
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F14
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5765
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Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Hillel
Rapoport
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Tradable Immigration Quotas
International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that ...
(Published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 94-108)
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F22, F5, H87, I3, K33, O19
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5764
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Anders
Frederiksen
Takao
Kato
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Human Capital and Career Success: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (613), 1952-1982)
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J24, M5
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5763
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Nicolas
Petrosky-Nadeau
Etienne
Wasmer
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Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Model of Goods, Labor and Credit Market Frictions
Building a model with three imperfect markets – goods, labor and credit – representing a product's life-cycle, we find that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2015, 72, 97-113)
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J6, E12, E13, E3
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5762
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Jasmin
Kantarevic
Boris
Kralj
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Quality and Quantity in Primary Care Mixed Payment Models: Evidence from Family Health Organizations in Ontario
We study the impact of a mixed capitation model known as the Family Health Organization (FHO) on selected quality and quantity outcomes relative to an enhanced fee-for-service model known as the ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 208-238)
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I10, I12, I18
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5761
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Liana
Fox
Han
Wen-Jui
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
Jane
Waldfogel
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Time for Children: Trends in the Employment Patterns of Parents, 1967-2009
Utilizing data from the 1967-2009 years of the March Current Population Surveys, we examine two important resources for children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 25-49)
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J13, J22
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5760
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Olivia
Ekert-Jaffe
Shoshana
Grossbard
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Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure
This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The focus is on couples with two spouses working Full-Time in the labor force in order ...
(published in: Mathematical Population Studies, 2015, 22(2), 80-100)
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J13, J22
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5759
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Luc
Bissonnette
Arthur
van Soest
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The Future of Retirement and the Pension System: How the Public's Expectations Vary over Time and across Socio-Economic Groups
We analyze expectations of the Dutch population of ages 25 and older concerning the future generosity state and occupational pensions, the two main pillars of the Dutch pension system. Since the ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2012, 1:2)
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D84, H55, J26
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5755
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Wolfgang
Höchtl
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Rudi
Stracke
Uwe
Sunde
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Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?
This paper studies the performance of promotion tournaments with heterogeneous participants in two dimensions: incentive provision and selection. Our theoretical analysis reveals a trade-off for the ...
(revised version published in: Managerial and Decision Economics, 2015, 36(5), 275–285)
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M52, J33
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5753
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Peter
Kooreman
Erik
W.
Baars
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Patients Whose GP Knows Complementary Medicine Tend to Have Lower Costs and Live Longer
Health economists have largely ignored complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) as an area of research, although both clinical experiences and several empirical studies suggest cost-effectiveness ...
(published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2012, 13(6), 769-776)
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I11, I12
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5752
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Barbara
Hanel
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012, 232 (2), 146-176)
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J21, J13, J18
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5750
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Kate
H.
Choi
Marta
Tienda
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Mathias
Sinning
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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social ...
(published in: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2012, 30 (1), 49-62)
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F22, I24
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5749
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Silke
Anger
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills During Adolescence and Young Adulthood
This study examines cognitive and non-cognitive skills and their transmission from parents to children as one potential candidate to explain the intergenerational link of socio-economic status. Using ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills' in: John Ermisch, Markus Jäntti, and Timothy Smeeding (eds.), From Parents to Children: The Intergenerational Transmission of Advantage, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2012, 393 - 421 )
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J10, J24, I20
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5748
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Govert
Bijwaard
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Unobserved Heterogeneity in Multiple-Spell Multiple-States Duration Models
In survival analysis a large literature using frailty models, or models with unobserved heterogeneity, exist. In the growing literate on multiple spell multiple states duration models, or multistate ...
(revised version published as 'Multistate event history analysis with frailty' in: Demographic Research, 2014, 30, 1591-1620)
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C41, J61
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5747
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Stefan
Bauernschuster
Oliver
Falck
Ludger
Woessmann
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 117, 73-89)
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Z13, J24
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5746
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Alessandra
Catozzella
Marco
Vivarelli
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Beyond Additionality: Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?
Building on a standard policy evaluation literature mainly aimed at estimating the additional effect of subsidies on either firms' innovative expenditures or innovative outputs only, this paper tries ...
(short version published as ' The possible adverse impact of innovation subsidies: some evidence from a bivariate switching model' in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32 (1), 648-661)
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O32, O38
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5745
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Richard
Blundell
Andrew
Shephard
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Employment, Hours of Work and the Optimal Taxation of Low Income Families
The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the detailed ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79(2), 481-510)
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J22, I38
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5744
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Stefan
Bender
Alfredo
R.
Paloyo
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2014,124 (3), 513–515)
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I28, J24
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5742
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Pablo
Agnese
Pablo
F.
Salvador
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More Alike than Different: The Spanish and Irish Labour Markets Before and After the Crisis
This paper analyses the labour markets of Spain and Ireland, which have experienced a severe downturn in the recent global crisis as reflected by the largest increases in their unemployment rates ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, December 2012, 1:9)
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E24, J21, E22, C32
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5741
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Thong
Le
Pham
Peter
Kooreman
Ruud
H.
Koning
Doede
Wiersma
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Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 303-322)
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C13, C31, C35, C41, I12
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5740
|
Björn
Bartling
Ernst
Fehr
Daniel
Schunk
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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete
The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's ...
(published online in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15(1), 58-70)
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C90, I10, J24
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5739
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Katherine
Grace
Carman
Peter
Kooreman
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Flu Shots, Mammograms, and the Perception of Probabilities
We study individuals' decisions to decline or accept preventive health care interventions such as flu shots and mammograms. In particular, we analyze the role of perceptions of the effectiveness of ...
(published as 'Probability Perceptions and Preventive Health Care' in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2014, 49(1), 43-71)
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I10
|
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5738
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Oluwarotimi
Owolabi
Sarmistha
Pal
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The Value of Business Networks in Emerging Economies: An Analysis of Firms' External Financing Opportunities
The paper argues that networked firms are likely to have an advantage in securing external finance in countries with weak legal and judicial institutions since it helps financial institutions to ...
(published as 'Does business networking boost firms' external financing opportunities? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe' in: Applied Financial Economics, 2013, 23 (5), 415-432)
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G21, G30, L14, M20, P21
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5737
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Almas
Heshmati
Ilham
Haouas
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Economies of Scale in the Tunisian Industries
To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and ...
(published in: International Journal of Economics and Finance, 2013, 5(1), 48-64. )
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C32, C52, D24, F12, L00
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5736
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
Nancy
Daza
Johanna
Ramos
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Gender Earnings Gaps in the World
This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (5), 464-513)
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C14, D31, J16, O57
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5735
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional ...
(published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (2), 469-530)
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D03, J16, N30
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5732
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Nick
Drydakis
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Roma Women in Athenian Firms: Do They Face Wage Bias?
In the current study, we analyze the effect of having a Roma background on women's wages. By utilizing the Athens Area Study random sample (2007-08) drawn from 16 multiethnic municipalities in which ...
(published in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2012, 35 (12), 2054-2074)
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J31, J71, J15, C13, C81
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5731
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Robert
Holzmann
Yann
Pouget
Milan
Vodopivec
Michael
Weber
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Severance Pay Programs around the World: History, Rationale, Status, and Reforms
The paper examines severance pay programs around the world by providing the first ever overview of existing programs, examining their historic development, assessing their economic rationale and ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec (eds), Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective,Washington, D.C.: The World Bank., 2012)
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J33, J65, K31
|
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5730
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
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Eight Questions about Brain Drain
High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 107-128)
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F22, O15, J61
|
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5728
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John
Cawley
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This ...
(published in: Mark V. Pauly, Thomas G. McGuire, and Pedro P. Barros (eds.), Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 2. New York: Elsevier, 2012, 95-199 95-199)
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I1, I20, I18, D01, H2, D1, D6, D03, D87, D83, J1, Q18, I24
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5727
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Johannes
Abeler
Steffen
Altmann
Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Sebastian
Kube
Matthias
Wibral
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Equity and Efficiency in Multi-Worker Firms: Insights from Experimental Economics
In this paper, we discuss recent evidence from economic experiments that study the impact of social preferences on workplace behavior. We focus on situations in which a single employer interacts with ...
(published in: Analyse & Kritik, 2011, 33(1), 325-347)
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J33, D63, M52, C92, J41
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5726
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Aaron
K.
Chatterji
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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
The economic expansion of the late 1990s created many opportunities for business creation in Silicon Valley, but the opportunity cost of starting a business was also high during this period because ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 365-389)
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J26
|
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5725
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions, and the Great Recession
The "Great Recession" resulted in many business closings and foreclosures, but what effect did it have on business formation? On the one hand, recessions decrease potential business income and ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (2), 207-231)
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L26
|
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5724
|
Mariya
Aleksynska
Barry
R.
Chiswick
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Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures
This paper examines differences in religious behaviors of the native born and immigrants in Europe, measured as self-reported religiosity, frequency of praying, and frequency of church attendance. ...
(published as 'The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (4), 563-598; reprinted in: The Economics of Cultural Diversity, 2015, edited by Peter Nijkamp et al. )
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F22, J61, N3, Z12
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5723
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Oriana
Bandiera
Iwan
Barankay
Imran
Rasul
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Field Experiments with Firms
We discuss how the use of field experiments sheds light on long standing research questions relating to firm behavior. We present insights from two classes of experiments: within and across firms, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 63-82)
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C9, M5
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5722
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Govert
Bijwaard
Christian
Schluter
Jackline
Wahba
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The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants
Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the causal effects of labour dynamics on their return decisions. Specifically, the ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics & Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 483-494)
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J61, J64, C41
|
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5721
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Karin
Jacobsen
Kari
H.
Eika
Leif
Helland
Jo
Thori
Lind
Karine
Nyborg
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Are Nurses More Altruistic than Real Estate Brokers?
We report results from a dictator game experiment with nurse students and real estate broker students as dictators, and Amnesty International as the recipient. Although brokers contributed ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (5), 818-831)
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D10, D64
|
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5719
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Mikael
Carlsson
Julián
Messina
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks
We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (595), 1739–1773)
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J31, J23, J33
|
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5718
|
Jörgen
Hansen
Xingfei
Liu
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Estimating Labor Supply Responses and Welfare Participation: Using a Natural Experiment to Validate a Structural Labor Supply Model
In this paper, we formulate and estimate an economic model of labor supply and welfare participation. The model is estimated on data on single men from Quebec drawn from the 1986 Canadian Census. ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2015, 48 (5), 1831-54.)
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J22
|
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5717
|
Jason
Loughrey
Cathal
O'Donoghue
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The Welfare Impact of Price Changes on Household Welfare and Inequality 1999-2010
This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland between 1999 and 2010. This measure combines an efficiency component using a ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2012, 43 (1), 31-66)
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D12, D31, D63, E31, P46
|
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5716
|
Niaz
Asadullah
Nazmul
Chaudhury
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Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water Wells and Children's Educational Achievement in Rural Bangladesh
Bangladesh has experienced the largest mass poisoning of a population in history owing to contamination of groundwater with naturally occurring inorganic arsenic. Prolonged drinking of such water ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 873-888)
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I21, Z12, O12, O15
|
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5715
|
Robert
Holzmann
Johannes
Koettl
|
Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues
Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (2), 377– 415,)
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D91, F22, F53, G23, J61
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