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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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5592
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Mateus
Joffily
David
Masclet
Charles
N.
Noussair
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation
We use skin conductance responses and self-reports of hedonic valence to study the emotional basis of cooperation and punishment in a social dilemma. Emotional reaction to free-riding incites ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80(4), 1002-1027.)
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C92, D62, D63, D64, D74
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5591
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Matteo
Picchio
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Retaining through Training: Even for Older Workers
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32 (1), 29-48)
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C33, C35, J21, J24, M53
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5590
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Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (3), 681-730)
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F22, O15, J61
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5589
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Christine
Binzel
Ragui
Assaad
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Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind
Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration provides a leeway for women to enter the labor market and/or to increase their ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S98-S114)
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O15, J22, F22, R23
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5588
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Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
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Labor Market Adjustment: Is Russia Different?
The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force ...
(published in: The Oxford Handbook of the Russian Economy, Oxford, OUP, 2013)
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J8, J21, J31, J62, P20
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5587
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Samuel
Mühlemann
Paul
Ryan
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Monopsony Power, Pay Structure and Training
Although interest in monopsonistic influences on labour market outcomes has revived in recent years, only a few empirical studies provide direct evidence on it. This paper analyses empirically the ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1095-1112)
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J24, J31, J42
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5586
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Raquel
Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: Is R&D the Main Culprit?
The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1342–1371)
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O33
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5584
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Katrin
Boeckh
Christa
Hainz
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (590), 40-74)
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N33, N34, D73, Z10
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5583
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Mariano
Bosch
M. Angeles
Carnero
Lídia
Farré
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Rental Housing Discrimination and the Persistence of Ethnic Enclaves
We conduct a field experiment to show that discrimination in the rental market represents a significant obstacle for the geographical assimilation process by immigrants. We employ the Internet ...
(published in: SERIEs, 2015, 6, 129 - 152)
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J15, J61
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5582
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Pietro
Moncada-Paternň-Castello
Marco
Vivarelli
Peter
Voigt
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Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience
The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national ...
(published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2011(2), 20, 585-603)
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F23, O32
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5581
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Hipólito
Simón
Raul
Ramos
Esteban
Sanromá
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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy: The Spanish Case
We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an ...
(published in: European Journal of Population, 2014, 30 (2), 223-255)
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J15, J24, J61, J62
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5580
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Benjamin
Hansen
Joseph
J.
Sabia
Daniel
I.
Rees
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Cigarette Taxes and the Social Market
Previous researchers have argued that the social market for cigarettes insulates its participants from policies designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, we examine ...
(published as 'Cigarette Taxes and How Youth Obtain Cigarettes' in: National Tax Journal, 2013, 66 (2), 371-394)
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I10, I12
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5579
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Nabamita
Dutta
Saibal
Kar
Sanjukta
Roy
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Informal Sector and Corruption: An Empirical Investigation for India
India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and ...
(published as 'Corruption and Persistent Informality: An Empirical Investigation for Indian States' in: International Review of Economics and Finance, 2013, 27, 357-373)
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C12, C31, D23, J21
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5578
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Josep
M.
Raya
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Is there Discriminatory Mortgage Pricing against Immigrants in the Spanish Lending Market?
In this paper, we investigate whether evidence of discriminatory treatment against immigrants in the Spanish mortgage market exists. More specifically, we test whether, ceteris paribus, immigrant ...
(published as 'Mortgages, immigrants and discrimination: An analysis of the interest rates in Spain' in: Regional Science & Urban Economics, 2014, 45, 22-32)
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R21, G21, J14
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5576
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Cynthia
Bansak
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The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey
This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (3), 443-471.)
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J6
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5575
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Hans-Martin
von
Gaudecker
Arthur
van Soest
Erik
Wengström
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Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences
An ever increasing number of experiments attempts to elicit risk preferences of a population of interest with the aim of calibrating parameters used in economic models. We are concerned with two ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2011, 42 (2), 159–190)
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C90, D81
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5574
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Andrea
Salvatori
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Union Threat and Non-Union Employment: A Natural Experiment on the Use of Temporary Employment in British Firms
This paper presents the first empirical evidence on the effect of the threat of unionisation on the use of a predominantly non-union type of employment, i.e. temporary employment. The identification ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (6), 944–956)
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J51
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5573
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Andreas
Kuhn
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with ...
(revised and shortened version published in: German Economic Review, 2013, 14(4), 483-499)
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D31, D63, H50, J31
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5572
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W. Craig
Riddell
Xueda
Song
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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-employment Success: Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals’ transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 453-463)
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I20, J64
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5571
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Catia
Nicodemo
Raul
Ramos
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Wage Differentials between Native and Immigrant Women in Spain: Accounting for Differences in the Supports
The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account differences in their characteristics and the need to control for common support. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2012, 33 (1), 118-136)
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J16, J31, C2, C3
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5570
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 281-287)
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D72, E32, E65, K0, O4, P52, Z13
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5569
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John
Griffin
David
Nickerson
Abigail
Wozniak
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Racial Differences in Inequality Aversion: Evidence from Real World Respondents in the Ultimatum Game
The distinct historical and cultural experiences of American blacks and whites may influence whether members of those groups perceive a particular exchange as fair. We investigate racial differences ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012,. 84(2), 600-617.)
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J15, D03, D63, C72, C91
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5568
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan
Pozo
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Remittances and Income Smoothing
Due to inadequate savings and binding borrowing constraints, income volatility can make households in developing countries particularly susceptible to economic hardship. We examine the role of ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 582-587)
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F22, O15, O54
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5567
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Olga
Nottmeyer
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Couple's Relative Labor Supply in Intermarriage
In this paper the hypothesis that partnerships between immigrants and natives are less specialized – in the sense that spouses provide similar working hours per weekday – than those between ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:3)
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J1, J12
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5566
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Marco
Caliendo
Frank
M.
Fossen
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Personality Characteristics and the Decision to Become and Stay Self-Employed
This paper systematically investigates whether different kinds of personality characteristics influence entrepreneurial development. On the basis of a large, representative household panel survey, we ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2014, 42 (4), 787-814)
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D81, J23, M13
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5564
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Siddhartha
Chib
Liana
Jacobi
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Returns to Compulsory Schooling in Britain: Evidence from a Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis
In this paper we reevaluate the returns to education based on the increase in the compulsory schooling age from 14 to 15 in the UK in 1947. We provide a Bayesian fuzzy regression discontinuity ...
(revised version published as 'Bayesian Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Analysis and Returns to Compulsory Schooling' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31 (6), 1026 - 1047)
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C11, C21, I21
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5563
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Julien
Grenet
Robert
A.
Hart
J. Elizabeth
Roberts
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Above and Beyond the Call: Long-Term Real Earnings Effects of British Male Military Conscription in the Post-War Years
We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 194-204)
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J24, J31, N44
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5562
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Luojia
Hu
Analia
Schlosser
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being: Evidence from India
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1227 - 1261)
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J13, J16, I1, O12
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5561
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Giovanni
Facchini
Max
F.
Steinhardt
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What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, 734-743)
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F22, J61
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5559
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Seo-Young
Cho
Axel
Dreher
Eric
Neumayer
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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and ...
(revised version published as 'Determinants of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 429-454)
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O15, F22, P41
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5558
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Richard
Akresh
Leonardo
Lucchetti
Harsha
Thirumurthy
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Wars and Child Health: Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict’s impact on children's health in both nations. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 330-340.)
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I12, J13, O12
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5557
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Denis
Fougčre
Francis
Kramarz
Roland
Rathelot
Mirna
Safi
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Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France
Our study examines the empirical links between social housing policy and location choices of immigrants in France. More specifically, we characterize the main individual and contextual determinants ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 56-69.)
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J61, I38, R38
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5555
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Matteo
Cervellati
Piergiuseppe
Fortunato
Uwe
Sunde
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Democratization and Civil Liberties: The Role of Violence During the Transition
This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 226-247)
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H10, O20, N10
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5554
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David
M.
Blau
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Pensions, Household Saving, and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis
Empirical analyses of the effects of public and private pensions on household saving impose strong assumptions in order to obtain a tractable empirical model: fixed retirement and pension claiming ...
(revised version published as ' Pensions, household saving, and welfare: A dynamic analysis of crowd out' in Quantitative Economics, 2016, 7 (1), 193 - 224)
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J26
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5553
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Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 111-121)
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J68
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5552
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Alicia
Adsera
Ana
Ferrer
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Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Patterns among Migrants to Canada
This paper explores the fertility decisions of Canadian immigrants using a 20 percent sample of the Canadian Census of Population for the years 1991 through 2006. We focus on those individuals that ...
(published as 'Factors Influencing the Fertility Choices of Child Immigrants in Canada' in: Population Studies: A Journal of Demography, 2014, 68(1), 65-79)
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J13, J15, J61
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5550
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Alain
Cohn
Ernst
Fehr
Benedikt
Herrmann
Frédéric
Schneider
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Social Comparison in the Workplace: Evidence from a Field Experiment
We conducted a randomized field experiment to examine how workers respond to wage cuts, and whether their response depends on the wages paid to coworkers. Workers were assigned to teams of two, ...
(revised version published as 'Social Comparison an Effort Provision' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (4), 877-898)
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C93, J33, M53
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5549
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Nezih
Guner
Remzi
Kaygusuz
Gustavo
Ventura
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Income Taxation of U.S. Households: Basic Facts
We use micro data from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to document how households' tax liabilities vary with income, marital status and the number of dependents. We report facts on the ...
(published in Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, 17(4), 559–581)
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E62, H31, J12, J22
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5547
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Ozkan
Eren
Daniel
J.
Henderson
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Are We Wasting Our Children's Time by Giving Them More Homework?
Following an identification strategy that allows us to largely eliminate unobserved student and teacher traits, we examine the effect of homework on math, science, English and history test scores for ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (5), 950-961)
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C23, I21, I28
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5546
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Assaf
Razin
Jackline
Wahba
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Free vs. Restricted Immigration: Bilateral Country Study
This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed ...
(revised version published as 'Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity' in: Journal of Scandinavian Economics, 2015, 177 (2), 369 - 402)
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J61, J48
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5545
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Francesco
Moscone
Elisa
Tosetti
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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 42 (2), 395-411)
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C31, C33, H51
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5544
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Luc
Behaghel
Eve
Caroli
Muriel
Roger
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late ...
(published in: Economica, 2014, 81(322), 368-389)
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J14, J24, J26, O30
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5541
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Stephan
Russek
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Business Conditions and Default Risks across Countries
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade ...
(revised version published in: Open Economies Review, 2013, 24 (5), 963-976)
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F12, F13, F15, L25
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5540
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Susanne
Ek Spector
Bertil
Holmlund
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Part-Time Unemployment and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
A significant fraction of the labor force consists of employed workers who are part-time unemployed (underemployed) in the sense that they are unable to work as much as they prefer. This paper ...
(published in International Tax and Public Finance, 2015, 22(2), 201-223)
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J64, J65
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5539
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Szilvia
Hámori
János
Köllő
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Whose Children Gain from Starting School Later? Evidence from Hungary
We look at the effect of school starting age on standardized test scores using data covering all grade four and grade eight students in Hungary. Instrumental variables estimates of the local average ...
(published in: Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012, 18 (5), 459-488)
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I21, I28, J24
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5538
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Patrick
Kampkötter
Dirk
Sliwka
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Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees: Theory and Evidence
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 31, 45–60)
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J31, J44, J62
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5536
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Eric
Bonsang
Tobias
J.
Klein
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Retirement and Subjective Well-Being
We provide an explanation for the common finding that the effect of retirement on life satisfaction is negligible. For this we use subjective well-being measures for life and domains of life ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 311-329)
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J26, J14
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5535
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Hani
Mansour
Daniel
I.
Rees
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The Effect of Prenatal Stress on Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada
No previous study has attempted to estimate the effect of intrauterine exposure to armed conflict, a potential source of stress, on pregnancy outcomes. Drawing on data from the 2004 Palestinian ...
(published as 'Armed Conflict and Birth Weight: Evidence from the al-Aqsa Intifada' in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (1),190-199)
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I10, I12
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5534
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Gabriele
Doblhammer
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Lambert
H.
Lumey
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Long-term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy: A Re-analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868
Famines are extreme cases of environmental stress, and have been used by a series of studies to explore the long-term consequences of the fetal or childhood environment. Results are inconsistent and ...
(published as 'A re-analysis of the long-term effects on life expectancy of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-86', in: Population Studies, 67(3) 2013, 309-322)
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I12, J11, C41
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5532
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Bruce
Chapman
Mathias
Sinning
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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees
It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2014, 22 (6), 569-588)
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H52, I22, I28
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