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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Robert
Holzmann
Johannes
Koettl
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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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5713
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Francisco
H. G.
Ferreira
Anna
Fruttero
Phillippe
Leite
Leonardo
Lucchetti
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Rising Food Prices and Household Welfare: Evidence from Brazil in 2008
Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and ...
(published in: Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2013, 64 (1), 151-176)
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D31, I38, O15
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5712
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Stefan
Denzler
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Too Far to Go? Does Distance Determine Study Choices?
A number of studies have long shown that the probability of studying at university is influenced by the distance to the next university. This study shows for the first time that distance to ...
(published also in German as "Der Einfluss des lokalen Hochschulangebots auf die Studienwahl" in: Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 2010, 13(4), 683-706)
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I21, I23, R10
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5711
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Saioa
Arando
Monica
Gago
Derek
C.
Jones
Takao
Kato
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Efficiency in Employee-Owned Enterprises: An Econometric Case Study of Mondragon
We provide the first econometric study of efficiency for a member of the Mondragon group of worker cooperatives. Eroski is a retail distribution chain and, most unusually, there are two distinct ...
(resvised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(2), 398-425)
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J54, D21
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5710
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Torben
M.
Andersen
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A Flexicurity Labour Market in the Great Recession: The Case of Denmark
Flexicurity labour markets are characterised by flexible hiring/firing rules, generous social safety net, and active labour market policies. How can such labour markets cope with the consequences of ...
(published in: De Economist, 2012, 160, 117–140)
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J01
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5709
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Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law in a Segmented Labor Market
Family-friendly laws may backfire if not all workers with access to the policies use them. Because these policies are costly to the employer, hiring practices may consequently be affected at the ...
(significantly revised version published as 'Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parents' Right to Request Part-Time Work' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 197, 104407)
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J21, J68, J78
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5708
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Karsten
Kohn
Dirk
Antonczyk
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The Aftermath of Reunification: Sectoral Transition, Gender, and Rising Wage Inequality in East Germany
Using a large administrative data set, this paper studies the evolution of the East German wage structure throughout the transition period 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (1), 73-110)
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J31, C21
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5707
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Regina
Flake
Mathias
Sinning
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Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data
This paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 370-385)
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F22, J31, J64, R23
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5706
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Mehtabul
Azam
Geeta
G.
Kingdon
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Are Girls the Fairer Sex in India? Revisiting Intra-Household Allocation of Education Expenditure
This paper revisits the issue of the intra-household allocation of education expenditure with the recently available India Human Development Survey which refers to 2005 and covers both urban and ...
(published in: World Development, 2013, 42, 143-164)
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I21, J16, J71
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5704
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
Andrew
Coleman
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League-Table Incentives and Price Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets
We study experimental markets in which participants face incentives modeled upon those prevailing in markets for managed funds. Each participant's portfolio is periodically evaluated at market value ...
(revised version published as 'Relative Performance Incentives and Price Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 81 (2), 345-363)
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C92, G12, M52
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5702
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Enrique
Alaniz
T. H.
Gindling
Katherine
Terrell
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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Work and Poverty in Nicaragua
We use an individual-level panel data set to study the impact of changes in legal minimum wages on a host of labor market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S45-S59)
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J3, O17
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5701
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Arnab
K.
Basu
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Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers' Welfare
The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013, 11 (1), 1-34, )
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J3, Q38, Q12
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5700
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Adrian
Beck
Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Matthias
Sutter
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What Drives Taxi Drivers? A Field Experiment on Fraud in a Market for Credence Goods
Credence goods are characterized by informational asymmetries between sellers and consumers that invite fraudulent behavior by sellers. This paper presents the results of a natural field experiment ...
(revised and extended version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (3), 876-891)
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C93, D82
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5699
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Guillermo
Cruces
Ricardo
Perez Truglia
Martin
Tetaz
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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 98, 100-112 )
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D31, D83, H24, H53, I30
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5698
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Fernanda
Brollo
Tommaso
Nannicini
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Tying Your Enemy’s Hands in Close Races: The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2012, 106 (4), 742-761)
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C21, D72, H77
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5697
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Martin
Nybom
Jan
Stuhler
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Heterogeneous Income Profiles and Life-Cycle Bias in Intergenerational Mobility Estimation
Research on intergenerational income mobility is based on current income since data on lifetime income are typically not available for two generations. However, using snapshots of income over shorter ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51 (1), 239-268 )
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J62, D3, D31
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5694
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Liam
Graham
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Hyperbolic Discounting and Positive Optimal Inflation
The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2013,17 (3), 591-620.)
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E20, E40, E50
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5693
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Yigal
Attali
Zvika
Neeman
Analia
Schlosser
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Rise to the Challenge or Not Give a Damn: Differential Performance in High vs. Low Stakes Tests
This paper studies how different demographic groups respond to incentives by comparing performance in the GRE examination in "high" and "low" stakes situations. The high stakes situation is the real ...
(published as 'Differential Performance in High Versus Low Stakes Tests: Evidence from the Gre Test" in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129 (623), 2916–2948)
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J16, J24, I24, M52
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5691
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Ann-Kathrine
Ejsing
Ulrich
Kaiser
Hans Christian
Kongsted
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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation
We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of ...
(new version 'The Role of University Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation' published as: IZA DP 7470; published as 'Experience Matters: The Role of Academic Scientist Mobility for Industrial Innovation' in: Strategic Management Journal, 2018, 39(7), 1935-1958)
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O33, O34, C23
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5690
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Joshua
Angrist
Susan
Dynarski
Thomas J.
Kane
Parag A.
Pathak
Christopher R.
Walters
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Who Benefits from KIPP?
The nation's largest charter management organization is the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP). KIPP schools are emblematic of the No Excuses approach to public education, a highly standardized and ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012, 31 (4), 837 - 860)
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I21, I24, I28
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5689
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Stephen
L.
Cheung
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New Insights into Conditional Cooperation and Punishment from a Strategy Method Experiment
This paper introduces new experimental designs to enrich understanding of conditional cooperation and punishment in public good games. The key to these methods is to elicit complete contribution or ...
(revised version published in: Experimental Economics, 2014, 17 (1), 129-153)
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C72, C91, D70, H41
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5688
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Jan
Boone
Jan
C.
van Ours
Jean-Philippe
Wuellrich
Josef
Zweimüller
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Recessions Are Bad for Workplace Safety
Workplace accidents are an important economic phenomenon. Yet, the pro-cyclical fluctuations in workplace accidents are not well understood. They could be related to fluctuations in effort and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (4), 764-773)
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I10, J60, J81
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5687
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Laura
V
Zimmermann
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Reconsidering Gender Bias in Intra-Household Allocation in India
Detecting gender discrimination among children in the intra-household allocation of goods from household surveys has often proven to be difficult. This paper uses some of the commonly used techniques ...
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (1), 151-163)
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I24, I25, J16, O15
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5686
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David
C.
Maré
Richard
Fabling
Steven
Stillman
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Immigration and Innovation
We combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills, and the ...
(published as 'Innovation and the Local Workforce' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2014, 93(1), 183–201)
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O31, R30
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5685
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Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Kjell
Erik
Lommerud
Shelly
Lundberg
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Your Place or Mine? On the Residence Choice of Young Couples in Norway
Norwegian registry data is used to investigate the location decisions of a full population cohort of young adults as they complete their education, establish separate households and form their own ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (1), 285-310)
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J12, J16, J61
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5683
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Guglielmo
Maria
Caporale
Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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Europe Agreements and Trade Balance: Evidence form Four New EU Members
This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2012, 21 (6), 839-863)
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E61, F13, F15, C25
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5682
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Sarah
Bohn
Magnus
Lofstrom
Steven
Raphael
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Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population?
We test for an effect of Arizona’s 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state population characterized as foreign-born, as non-citizen, and as non-citizen Hispanic. We use ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(2), 258-269)
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J8, J11, J15, J18, J48, J61
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5681
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Yoon
Y.
Cho
David
Newhouse
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How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries
This paper examines how different types of workers in 17 middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Impacts on different types of workers varied by ...
(published in: World Development, 2013, Vol (41), 31-50)
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E24, E32, J21, O15
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5679
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Joop
Hartog
Xiaohao
Ding
Juan
Liao
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Is Earnings Uncertainty Relevant for Educational Choice? An Empirical Analysis for China
We use the method of Dominitz and Manski (1996) to solicit anticipated wage distributions for continuing to a Master degree or going to work after completing the Bachelor degree. The means of the ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2014 , 22 (5), 471-483)
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D8, I21, J24
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5678
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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Fixed Effects and Variance Components Estimation in Three-Level Meta-Analysis
Meta-analytic methods have been widely applied to education, medicine, and the social sciences. Much of meta-analytic data are hierarchically structured since effect size estimates are nested within ...
(published in: Research Synthesis Methods, 2011, 2 (1), 61- 76)
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C00
|
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5677
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Henri
Fraisse
Francis
Kramarz
Corinne
Prost
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Labor Disputes and Labor Flows
About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using a data set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003, we examine ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2015, 68 (5), 1043-1077)
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J32, J53, J63, K31
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5676
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Ceren
Ozgen
Peter
Nijkamp
Jacques
Poot
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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In ...
(published in: P. Nijkamp, J. Poot J and M. Sahin (eds.) Migration Impact Assessment: New Horizons, Edward Elgar, 2012)
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J61, O31, R23
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5675
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Manudeep
Bhuller
Tarjei
Havnes
Edwin
Leuven
Magne
Mogstad
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Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?
Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (4), 1237-1266)
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J13, H40, I28, D31
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5674
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David
N.F.
Bell
David
G.
Blanchflower
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Young People and the Great Recession
This article reviews the effects of the Great Recession on youth labour markets. We argue that young people aged 16-24 have suffered disproportionately during the recession. Using the USA and UK as ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2011, 27 (2), 241 - 267)
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J01, J11, J21, J23, J38, J64
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5673
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David
N.F.
Bell
David
G.
Blanchflower
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Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States
This paper focuses particularly on youth unemployment, why we should be concerned about it, why it is increasing again, how the present difficulties of young people entering the labour market differ ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2011, 1, 11-37)
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J31, J64
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5672
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Christian
Pfeifer
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The Heterogeneous Economic Consequences of Works Council Relations
I use a question about works council relations from the 2006 wave of the IAB Establishment panel to analyze the heterogeneous effects of works councils on productivity, wages, and profits. The ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2011, 131 (1), 59-71)
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J53, M54
|
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5671
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Christian
Pfeifer
Simon
Janssen
Philip
Yang
Uschi
Backes-Gellner
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Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market
We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of ...
(published as 'Effects of training on employee suggestions and promotions' in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 65(3), 270-287.)
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J24, M53
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5670
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Horst
Entorf
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Crime, Prosecutors, and the Certainty of Conviction
This paper tests predictions of a structural, augmented supply-of-offenders model regarding the relative effects of police, public prosecution and courts, respectively, on crime. Using detailed data ...
(published in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2015, 39 (1), 167–201 (jointly with Hannes Spengler))
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K14, K41, C23
|
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5669
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 145 - 159)
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J24, M51, C41, C33, C35, J6, L1
|
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5668
|
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
Maharouf
Oyolola
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The Role of Race and Birth Place in Welfare Usage among Comparable Women: Evidence from the U.S.
There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. ...
(published in: The Review of Black Political Economy, 2012, 39 (3), 285-297)
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J2, J10, J24, J38, I21, O12, O15
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5666
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I. Semih
Akçomak
Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
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Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands
This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in the structure of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (4), 435-482)
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J23, J24, O33
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