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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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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
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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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5665
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René
Böheim
Mario
Lackner
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Returns to Education in Professional Football
After three years in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), collegiate football players face a trade-off between spending more time in the NCAA and pursuing a career in the National ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (3), 326-328)
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J31
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5664
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Christian
Pfeifer
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Physical Attractiveness, Employment, and Earnings
Survey data is used to estimate the impact of physical attractiveness rated by the interviewer as well as by the respondent on employment probability and labor income of men and women. In addition to ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2012, 19 (6), 505-510)
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J31, J71, J10
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5663
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Alessandro
Cigno
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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 26 (1), 61-67)
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D82, H21, H31, I28, J24
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5662
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Solomon
Polachek
Le
Wang
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Heterogeneity in Schooling Rates of Return
This paper relaxes the assumption of homogeneous rates of return to schooling by employing nonparametric kernel regression. This approach allows us to examine the differences in rates of return to ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1202-1214)
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C14, J24
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5661
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Ron
P.
Smith
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Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket
Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising ...
(published in: Manchester School, 2011, 79 (s2), 5 - 16)
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C1, E1
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5660
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Mirco
Tonin
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Minimum Wage and Tax Evasion: Theory and Evidence
This paper examines the interaction between minimum wage legislation and tax evasion by employed labor. I develop a model in which firms and workers may agree to report less than the true amount of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1635-1651)
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J38, H24, H26, H32
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5658
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Alessandra
Venturini
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The Impact of Worker Effort on Public Sentiment Towards Temporary Migrants
Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 239-261)
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J0, H0
|
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5657
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
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Network Effects on Migrants' Remittances
This paper explores the existence of network effects in migrants’ remittance behavior. In this study, networks are defined as groups of immigrants from the same country that live in the same ...
(published as 'Immigrant Networks and Remittances: Cheaper Together?' in: World Development, 2018 111 (C), 225-245)
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J61, F22, O15, A14, E21
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5656
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Peter
Dolton
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Total Reward in the UK in the Public and Private Sectors
Recent controversy has surrounded the relative value of public and private sector remuneration. We define a comprehensive measure of Total Reward (TR) which includes not just pay, but pensions and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (4), 584-594)
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J33, J45, H55, J31
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5655
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Elisabeth
Fevang
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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The Sick Pay Trap
In most countries, employers are financially responsible for sick pay during an initial period of a worker's absence spell, after which the public insurance system covers the bill. Based on a ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (2), 305-336)
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C14, C41, H55, I18, J23
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5654
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Ulrich
Kaiser
Hans Christian
Kongsted
Thomas
Rønde
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Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects, and Innovative Activity
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2015, 110, 91–105 )
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O33, O34, C23
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5653
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Thomas
Hintermaier
Winfried
Koeniger
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Debt Portfolios
We provide a model with endogenous portfolios of secured and unsecured household debt. Secured debt is collateralized by owner-occupied housing whereas unsecured debt can be discharged according to ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016, 8 (4), 103-141)
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E21, D91
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5652
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Arnaud
Chevalier
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Subject Choice and Earnings of UK Graduates
Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labour market attainment of recent graduates by subject of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1187-1201)
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I22, J31
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5650
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Bienvenue
N.
Tien
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
Jingzhou
Meng
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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few ...
(published in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2013, 22 (79), 109-130.)
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F22, J24, N35, O15, O24, O53
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5649
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Andrea
Ichino
Elly-Ann
Lindström
Eliana
Viviano
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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why ...
(published in: Economic Letters, 2014, 123 (3), 274–278)
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E24, J13, J22, J23
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5647
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Andrés
Rodríguez-Pose
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Decentralization, Happiness and the Perception of Institutions
This paper analyses whether the different powers and resources at the disposal of local and regional governments across Europe deliver greater satisfaction with political institutions and lead to ...
(published as 'Decentralization, Subjective Well-Being and the Perception of Institutions' in: Kyklos, 2012, 65 (2), 179-193)
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H11, H77
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5646
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Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
Cathy
Redmond
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Parental Education, Grade Attainment and Earnings Expectations among University Students
While there is an extensive literature on intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes (education, health and income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1136-1152)
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I21, J62, C81
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5645
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Pablo
Casas-Arce
Albert
Saiz
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Women and Power: Unwilling, Ineffective, or Held Back?
We develop a model that nests previous explanations for women under-representation in positions of power. Focusing on democratic electoral dynamics, our framework delineates the three types of ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2015, 123 (3), 641–669)
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J16, J71
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5644
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Ekkehart
Schlicht
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Consistency in Organization (updated)
Internal organization relies heavily on psychological consistency requirements. This thought has been emphasized in modern compensation theory, but has not been extended to organization theory. The ...
(earlier version published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2004, 160 (2), 232-42)
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B52, D02, L2
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5643
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Democratization, Violent Social Conflicts, and Growth
This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Civil Conflict, Democratization, and Growth: Violent Democratization as Critical Juncture' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 482-505)
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O43, N10, N40
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5642
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Laurence
Jacquet
Etienne
Lehmann
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Optimal Redistributive Taxation with Both Labor Supply and Labor Demand Responses
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework with endogenous (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment. The optimal ...
(revised version published as 'Optimal Income Taxation with Kalai Wage Bargaining and Endogenous Participation' in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 42(2), 381-402)
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D82, H21, J64
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5641
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Ralitza
Dimova
Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 735-747. )
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D62, F22, I30, J13, J20, J24, O15
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5640
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Erik
Snowberg
Justin
Wolfers
Eric
Zitzewitz
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How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies
This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a ...
(published in: Leighton Vaughn Williams (ed), Prediction Markets, Routledge, 2011.)
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A2, C58, D72, H50, G14
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5639
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Dominique
Goux
Eric
Maurin
Barbara
Petrongolo
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Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labour Supply
We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that ...
(published in American Economic Review, 2014,104, 252-276.)
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J22
|
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5638
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Gary
Koop
M. Hashem
Pesaran
Ron
P.
Smith
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On Identification of Bayesian DSGE Models
In recent years there has been increasing concern about the identification of parameters in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Given the structure of DSGE models it may be ...
(published in: Journal of Business & Economic Studies, 2013, 31 (3), 300 - 314)
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C11, C15, E17
|
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5636
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Chris
van Klaveren
Henriette
Maassen van den Brink
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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Intra-Household Work Timing: The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By ...
(published in: European Sociological Review, 2013, 29 (1), 1 - 18)
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D13, I31, J12, J22
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5635
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Tito
Boeri
Herbert
Brücker
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Short-Time Work Benefits Revisited: Some Lessons from the Great Recession
The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (68), 697-766.)
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J63, J65
|
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5634
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David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
Joe
Doherty
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Social Mixing as a Cure for Negative Neighbourhood Effects: Evidence Based Policy or Urban Myth?
In this paper, we review the evidence base for social mixing in neighbourhoods, which is used as a strategy to tackle assumed negative neighbourhood effects. We discuss in detail the theoretical ...
(published in: Bridge, G., Butler, T. & Lees, L. (eds.), Mixed Communities: Gentrification by Stealth, Policy Press, Bristol, 2011)
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I30, J60, R23
|
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5633
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Yusuf
Soner
Baskaya
Timur
Hulagu
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The Turkish Wage Curve: Evidence from the Household Labor Force Survey
This paper examines the Turkish wage curve using individual data from the Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) including 26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008. When the local unemployment rate ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (1), 128-131.)
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C26, J30, J60
|
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5632
|
Eskil
Heinesen
Leif
Husted
Michael
Rosholm
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The Effects of Active Labour Market Policies for Immigrants Receiving Social Assistance in Denmark
We estimate the effect of active labour market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:15)
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J64, J24, J68, J61, C41
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