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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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5531
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Jacopo
Mazza
Hans
van Ophem
Joop
Hartog
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance: Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. ...
(published as 'Unobserved heterogeneity and risk in wage variance: Does more schooling reduce earnings risk?' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 323 - 338 )
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C01, C33, C34, J31
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5530
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Ernst
Fehr
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Matthias
Sutter
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The Development of Egalitarianism, Altruism, Spite and Parochialism in Childhood and Adolescence
We study how the distribution of other-regarding preferences develops with age. Based on a set of allocation choices, we can classify each of 717 subjects, aged 8 to 17 years, as either egalitarian, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 369-383)
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C91, D03
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5529
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José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Commuting Time and Labour Supply: A Causal Effect?
We analyze the causal effect of the length of the worker’s commute on worker's productivity, by examining whether commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish ...
(published as 'Commuting Time and Labor Supply in the Netherlands: A Time Use Study' in: Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 2014, 48(3), 409-426)
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R23, J22, J24
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5528
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Monique
de Haan
Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Scale Economies Can Offset the Benefits of Competition: Evidence from a School Consolidation Reform in a Universal Voucher System
A large school consolidation reform in the Netherlands changed minimum school size rules underlying public funding. The supply of schools decreased by 15 percent, but this varied considerably across ...
(published as 'School Consolidation and Student Achievement' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2016, 32 (4), 816 - 139)
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I21, I22, H75, D40
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5527
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Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Exit Exams and High School Dropout
In this paper, I consider the impact of the expansion of exams students must pass in order to graduate high school on dropout rates. "Exit exams," as these tests are known, have become more common, ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2013, 32 (2), 323-350)
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I2, I28
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5526
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Simon
Chang
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Seonghoon
Kim
Shi-yung
Liu
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Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
We estimate the effects of early childhood malaria exposure on education and health at older ages by exploiting variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria ...
(published in: Econmic Development and Cultural Change, 2014, 62 (3), 519-36.)
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I12, I18, I21, O15, O18
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5525
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Jason
M.
Lindo
Isaac
D.
Swensen
Glen
R.
Waddell
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Alcohol and Student Performance: Estimating the Effect of Legal Access
We consider the effect of legal access to alcohol, which is known to increase drinking behavior, on academic performance. We first estimate the effect using an RD design but argue that this approach ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 32 (1), 22–32)
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I21, I18, K32
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5524
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Matt
Dickson
Sarah
Smith
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What Determines the Return to Education: An Extra Year or a Hurdle Cleared?
The 1973 Raising of the School Leaving Age in England and Wales has been used to identify returns to years’ schooling. However, the reform affected the proportion with qualifications, as well as ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1167-1176)
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I21, I28, J24
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5523
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Edwin
Leuven
Hessel
Oosterbeek
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Overeducation and Mismatch in the Labor Market
This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s ...
(published in: Handbook of the Economics of EducationErik Hanushek, F. Welch (eds.): Handbook of the Economics of Education, Elsevier Science, Vol. 4, 283 - 326)
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I2
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5522
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Nikos
Askitas
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Nowcasting Business Cycles Using Toll Data
Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The ...
(published in: Journal of Forecasting, 2013, 32 (4), 299 - 306.)
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C82, E01, E32, E37, L92
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5520
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Sebastian
Siegloch
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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 156(3-4), 653-676)
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D72, H11, H83, J31, J45
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5519
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Olivier
Charlot
Franck
Malherbet
Cristina
Terra
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Product Market Regulation, Firm Size, Unemployment and Informality in Developing Economies
This paper studies the impact of product and labor market regulations on informality and unemployment in a general framework where formal and informal firms are subject to the same externalities, ...
(published as 'Informality in developing economies: regulation and fiscal policies' in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2015, 51, 1–27)
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E24, E26, J60, L16, O1
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5516
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Alan
Barrett
Corona
Joyce
Bertrand
Maitre
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Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland
Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent to which immigrants can receive welfare payments. In this paper, we compare the ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 142-154)
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I38, J61
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5515
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Alan
Barrett
Bertrand
Maitre
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Immigrant Welfare Receipt across Europe
The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 8-23)
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I38, J61
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5513
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Niclas
Berggren
Henrik
Jordahl
Panu
Poutvaara
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The Right Look: Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward It
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 146, 79–86)
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D72, J45, J70
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5512
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Jungmin
Lee
Sokbae
Lee
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Does It Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited
Blau and Kahn (JOLE, 1997; ILRR, 2006) decomposed trends in the U.S. gender earnings gap into observable and unobservable components using the PSID. They found that the unobservable part contributed ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2012, 65 (1), 148 - 160)
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J3
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5510
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Philippe
Van Kerm
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Trends in Individual Income Growth: Measurement Methods and British Evidence
Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. ...
(published in: Economica, 2016, 83 (332), 679 - 703. )
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D31, D63, I32
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5509
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Mirco
Tonin
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Too Low to Be True: The Use of Minimum Thresholds to Fight Tax Evasion
The enforcement of compliance with tax regulation is a complex task. This is particularly the case when the administrative capacity of the tax authority is low, as it often happens in developing and ...
(published in: Clemens Fuest and George R. Zodrow (eds.), Critical Issues in Taxation and Development, Cambridge (MA), MIT press, 2013)
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H26, K35, K42, P37
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5507
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Yves
Zenou
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Spatial versus Social Mismatch: The Strength of Weak Ties
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2013, 74,113-132.)
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A14, J15, R14, Z13
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5506
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Robert
W.
Helsley
Yves
Zenou
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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities
We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2014, 150, 426-466)
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D85, R14, Z13
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5505
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Morris
M.
Kleiner
Alan
B.
Krueger
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Analyzing the Extent and Influence of Occupational Licensing on the Labor Market
This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational ...
(published in: Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (S1, Part 2), S173–S202)
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J08, J44, J58, J80, K23, K31, L38, L5, L51
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5504
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Maria
Bytchkova
Saul
Estrin
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Institutions and Entry: A Cross-Regional Analysis in Russia
We analyse a micro-panel data set to investigate the effect of regional institutional environment and economic factors on Russian new firm entry rates across time, industries and regions. The paper ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (5), 1740-1749 )
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D22, L26, P31
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5502
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
Nathan
Nunn
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Fertility and the Plough
The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We argue, and provide ethnographic evidence, that the finding is explained by the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 499-503)
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J13, O13
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5501
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Esteban
F.
Klor
Sebastian
Kube
Eyal
Winter
Ro'i
Zultan
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Can Higher Bonuses Lead to Less Effort? Incentive Reversal in Teams
Conventional wisdom suggests that an increase in monetary incentives should induce agents to exert higher effort. In this paper, however, we demonstrate that this may not hold in team settings. In ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014, 97, 72-83)
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C92, D23, J31, J33, J41, M12, M52
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5500
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Mathilde
Almlund
Angela
Lee
Duckworth
James
J.
Heckman
Tim
Kautz
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Personality Psychology and Economics
This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a ...
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds). Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier. 2011)
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I2, J24
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5499
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
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Labor Supply and Consumption Smoothing When Income Shocks Are Non-Insurable
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits ...
(revised version published as 'Can Secondary Jobs Smooth Consumption? Evidence from Unanticipated Wage Arrears' in: Economic Development and Cultural Changes, 2019, 67 (3), 571-594. )
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J22, J33, P36, O17
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5497
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Jürgen
Meckl
Benjamin
Weigert
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (3), 549-558)
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F12, F16, J24
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5496
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Frédéric
Docquier
Elisabetta
Lodigiani
Hillel
Rapoport
Maurice
Schiff
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Emigration and Democracy
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel ...
(strongly revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 209-223)
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O1, F22
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5495
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James
J.
Heckman
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The American Family in Black and White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality
In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality ...
(published in: Daedalus, 2011, 140 (2): 70-89)
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J15, J24
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5494
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Luc
Behaghel
Eve
Caroli
Emmanuelle
Walkowiak
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading: The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2012, 64 (3), 490-517.)
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J23, J24, J41
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5493
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Nattavudh
Powdthavee
Bernard
van den Berg
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Putting Different Price Tags on the Same Health Condition: Re-evaluating the Well-Being Valuation Approach
Many recent writings in health policy have proposed that health be valued directly and in monetary terms using the new well-being valuation method. Yet there is currently no clear consensus on what ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 1032 - 1043 )
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H8, I18, I31
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5490
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Werner
Eichhorst
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The Transition from Work to Retirement
The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical ...
(published in: German Policy Studies, 2011, 7 (1), 107-133)
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J14, J26
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5489
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Silke
Anger
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The Cyclicality of Effective Wages within Employer-Employee Matches in a Rigid Labor Market
This study analyzes real wage cyclicality for male full-time workers within employer-employee matches in Germany over the period 1984-2004. Five different wage measures are compared: the standard ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 786-797)
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E32, J31
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5488
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Blair
L.
Cleave
Nikos
Nikiforakis
Robert
Slonim
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Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences
Laboratory experiments are frequently used to examine the nature of individual preferences and inform economic theory. However, it is unknown whether the preferences of volunteer participants are ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (3) 372-382)
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C90, D03
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5486
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
Anders
Stenberg
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The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59 (2), 196-223)
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O4, D3, J6
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5485
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Annette
Bergemann
Marco
Caliendo
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The Threat Effect of Participation in Active Labor Market Programs on Job Search Behavior of Migrants in Germany
Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 777-795)
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J64, J61, C21, D83, D84
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5484
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Robert
Dur
Joël
van der Weele
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Status-Seeking in Criminal Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance
This paper offers a new argument for why a more aggressive enforcement of minor offenses ('zero-tolerance') may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both minor offenses and more severe crime. ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2013, 15 (1), 77-93)
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K14, K42
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5483
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Mabel
Andalón
Gary
S.
Fields
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A Labor Market Approach to the Crisis of Health Care Professionals in Africa
This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production ...
(published in: Agnes Soucat and Richard Sheffler (eds.): The Labor Market for Health Workers in Africa: A New Look at the Crisis, The World Bank, 2013, 33-48)
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I11, J01, J08
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5482
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G.
Brant
Morefield
David
C.
Ribar
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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Occupational Status and Health Transitions
We use longitudinal data from the 1984 through 2007 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to examine how occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11 (3), Article 8)
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I12, J24
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5481
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Saul
Estrin
Julia
Korosteleva
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2013, 28 (4), 564–580)
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L26, D23, D84, J24, P11
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5480
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Alpaslan
Akay
Olivier
B.
Bargain
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81, 421-441)
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C90, D63
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5479
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Giorgio
Brunello
Lorenzo
Rocco
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The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores
We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 234-246)
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J15, I28
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5478
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
Alexander
Chudik
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
This paper considers the problem of aggregation in the case of large linear dynamic panels, where each micro unit is potentially related to all other micro units, and where micro innovations are ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2014, 178, Part 2, 273-285)
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C43, E31
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5477
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Coen
Teulings
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Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions
We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) ...
(published in: Journal of the European Association, 2015, 13 (6), 1136 - 1166 )
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E24, J62, J63, J64
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5475
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Armin
Falk
Stephan
Meier
Christian
Zehnder
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Did We Overestimate the Role of Social Preferences? The Case of Self-Selected Student Samples
Social preference research has received considerable attention among economists in recent years. However, the empirical foundation of social preferences is largely based on laboratory experiments ...
(revised version published as 'Do Lab Experiments Misrepresent Social Preferences? The case of self-selected student samples' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 839–852)
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C90, D03
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5474
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Barbara
Mueller
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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The Consequences of Being Different: Statistical Discrimination and the School-to-Work Transition
When information about the true abilities of job-seekers and applicants are hard to get, statistical discrimination by employers can be an efficient strategy in the hiring and wage setting process. ...
(published as 'The Role of Hard-to-Obtain Information on Ability for the School-to-Work Transition' in: Empirical Economics, 2014, 46(4), 1447-1471)
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I2, J24, J71
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5473
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Mirco
Tonin
Ann-Sofie
Kolm
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In-Work Benefits and Unemployment
In-work benefits are becoming an increasingly relevant labour market policy, gradually expanding in scope and geographical coverage. This paper investigates the equilibrium impact of in-work benefits ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2011, 18 (1), 74-92)
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J21, J38, H24
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5472
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Elke
Holst
Andrea
Schäfer
Mechthild
Schrooten
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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that ...
(published as "Gender and Remittances: Evidence from Germany" in: Feminist Economics, 2012, 18 (2), 201-229)
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F22, J16, D13
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5471
|
Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Ralitza
Dimova
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Good and Bad Institutions: Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2014, 38(1), 109-126)
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D02, D23, D24
|
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5470
|
Stephan
Kampelmann
François
Rycx
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration: The Case of Occupations
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also ...
(published as 'The Dynamics of Task-biased Technological Change: The Case of Occupations' in: Brussels Economic Review, 2013, 56 (2))
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J21, J24, J31
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