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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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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
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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
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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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5468
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Lena
Edlund
Cecilia
Machado
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Pill Power: The Prequel
Goldin and Katz [2002], in an influential paper, argued that giving unmarried minors access to the contraceptive Pill was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access ...
(published as 'How the other half lived: Marriage and emancipation in the age of the Pill' in: European Economic Review. 2015, 80, 295 - 309)
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J13, J24
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5467
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Matloob
Piracha
Amrita
Saraogi
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Motivations for Remittances: Evidence from Moldova
This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have migrants abroad. Unlike most of the existing literature, we approach our research ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2012, 40 (4), 467-491)
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F22, F24
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5466
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Anders
Björklund
Markus
Jäntti
John
E.
Roemer
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Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden
Equality of opportunity is an ethical goal with almost universal appeal. The interpretation taken here is that a society has achieved equality of opportunity if it is the case that what individuals ...
(revised version published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, 39, 675-696)
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D31, D63, J62, C14
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5465
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Dennis
T.
Yang
Junsen
Zhang
Shaojie
Zhou
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Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?
In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving ...
(published in: Joseph Fan and Randall Morck (eds.), 2012, Capitalizing China. University of Chicago Press, 249-282)
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D91, E21, J10
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5464
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Christian
Grund
Andreas
Schmitt
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Works Councils, Wages, and Job Satisfaction
We investigate the effects of works councils on employees’ wages and job satisfaction in general and for subgroups with respect to sex and occupational status. Making use of a German representative ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (3), 299-310)
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M5, J30, J53
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5462
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Pedro
Goulart
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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The Impact of Interest in School on Educational Success in Portugal
Notwithstanding increased educational expenditure, Portugal continues to record poor educational outcomes. Underlining the weak expenditure-educational success link, a large body of work in ...
(revised version published as 'Interest in School and Educational Success in Portugal' in: Journal of Educational Research, 2017, 110 (6), 589 - 603)
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J24
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5461
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Mirco
Tonin
Michael
Vlassopoulos
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An Experimental Investigation of Intrinsic Motivations for Giving
This paper presents results from a modified dictator experiment aimed at distinguishing and quantifying the two intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2014, 76(1), 47-67)
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C91, D03, D64
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5459
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Frank
M.
Fossen
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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Evidence from the Introduction of a "Fresh Start"
A personal bankruptcy law that allows for a "fresh start" after bankruptcy reduces the individual risk involved in entrepreneurial activity. On the other hand, as risk shifts to creditors who recover ...
(revised version published in: American Law and Economics Review, 2014, 16 (1), 269-312)
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K35, G33, L26
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5457
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Sarah
Brown
Jennifer
Roberts
Karl
Taylor
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The Gender Reservation Wage Gap: Evidence form British Panel Data
Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap. The presence of children, particularly pre-school age children, plays an important role in determining the proportion of this gap ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (1), 88-91)
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J13, J24, J64
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5456
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Gregory
Verdugo
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Public Housing and Residential Segregation of Immigrants in France, 1968-1999
This paper studies the evolution of the residential segregation of immigrants between and within urban areas in France from 1968 to 1999 using census data. During this period, European and ...
(published in: Population, 2011, 66 (1), 169 - 193)
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J61, J18, J15
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5455
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John
H.
Pencavel
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An Essay on Real Wage Index Numbers
Real wage index numbers have been used to measure movements in the standard of living of the typical worker. This paper describes some of these indicators for the United States and England. A new ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 565–570)
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J31
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5454
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Sumedha
Gupta
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The Role of Marriage in the Causal Pathway from Economic Conditions Early in Life to Mortality
This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2015, 40, 141–158)
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I12, J14, E32, N33, N13, C41
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5452
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Leo
Kaas
Philipp
Kircher
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Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market
The introduction of firm size into labor search models raises the question how wages are set when average and marginal product differ. We develop and analyze an alternative to the existing bargaining ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2015, 105(10), 3030-60)
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E24, J64, L11
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5451
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Javier
Ortega
Gregory
Verdugo
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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: A Factor Proportions Approach
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962-1999. Combining large (up to 25%) extracts from six censuses and data from Labor ...
(revised version published as 'The Impact of Immigration on the French Labor Market: Why so different? 'in: Labour Economics, 2014, 29, 14-27)
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J15, J31
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5450
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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Job Search and Job Finding in a Period of Mass Unemployment: Evidence from High-Frequency Longitudinal Data
This paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010. Our main findings are: (1) the amount ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, 42 (1), 1-81)
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J64, J65
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5449
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Jose
Cuesta
Hugo
R.
Nopo
Georgina
Pizzolitto
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (2), 224-246)
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D3, I3, O1
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5447
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Sarah
Brown
Jolian
McHardy
Robert
McNabb
Karl
Taylor
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Workplace Performance, Worker Commitment and Loyalty
Using matched employer-employee level data drawn from the 2004 UK Workplace and Employee Relations Survey, we explore the determinants of a measure of worker commitment and loyalty (CLI) and whether ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2011, 20 (3), 925-955)
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J20, J50
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5446
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Junfu
Zhang
Zhong
Zhao
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Social-Family Network and Self-Employment: Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China
We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2015, 4:4 )
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J23, J61, D85
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5445
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Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
Marc
Sangnier
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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, ...
(revised version published as 'Trust and the Welfare State: the Twin Peaks Curve' in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (593), 861 - 883)
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H1, Z1
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5444
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Kristen
Monaco
Steffen
Habermalz
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Wage Inequality of U.S. Truck Drivers
Using CPS data for the period 1979-2009, the wage dispersion of truck drivers (and subsets of the truck driving sample) is compared to the trends in wage dispersion of males economy-wide. We find ...
(published in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 268–285)
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J31, L92
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5443
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Gregori
Baetschmann
Kevin
E.
Staub
Rainer
Winkelmann
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Consistent Estimation of the Fixed Effects Ordered Logit Model
The paper re-examines existing estimators for the panel data fixed effects ordered logit model, proposes a new one, and studies the sampling properties of these estimators in a series of Monte Carlo ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, 2015, 178, 685–703.)
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C23, C25, J28, J64
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5442
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Hans
Bloemen
Stefan
Hochguertel
Marloes
Lammers
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Job Search Requirements for Older Unemployed: Transitions to Employment, Early Retirement and Disability Benefits
In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 58, 31-57)
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C31, J26, J64, J68
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5440
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Mathias
Dolls
Dirk
Neumann
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US: Between Equity and Efficiency
Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate ...
(revised version pubished in 2 parts - as 'Comparing inequality aversion across countries when labor supply responses differ' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2014, 21, 845 - 873 (also available as IZA DP 7215) and as 'Tax-Benefit Revealed Social Preferences in Europe and the US' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 113/114, 257 -28)
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H11, H21, D63, C63
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5439
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Pierre
Cahuc
Stéphane
Carcillo
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The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment
In October 2007 France introduced an exemption on the income tax and social security contributions that applied to wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (2), 361-400.)
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H24, H25, J22, J30
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5437
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Laura
Giuliano
Michael
R.
Ransom
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Manager Ethnicity and Employment Segregation
Using nine years of personnel records from a regional grocery store chain in the United States, this study examines the effect of manager ethnicity on the ethnic composition of employment at the ...
(published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (2), 346-379.)
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J71
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5436
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Massimiliano
Tani
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Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
This paper contributes to existing work on innovation by studying the determinants of various types of interaction between a firm and its external environment. In particular, it focuses on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 293-324)
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F2, J6
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5434
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Horst
Entorf
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Turning 18: What a Difference Application of Adult Criminal Law Makes
This paper contributes to the literature on specific deterrence by addressing the issue of selecting adolescents into adult and juvenile law systems. In Germany, different from the U.S. and most ...
(published as 'Expected Recidivism among Young Offenders: Comparing Specific Deterrence under Juvenile and Adult Criminal Law' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 28 (4), 414-429)
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K14, C52, K42, H11
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5433
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Wolter
Hassink
Bernard
van den Berg
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Time-Bound Opportunity Costs of Informal Care: Consequences for Access to Professional Care, Caregiver Support, and Labour Supply Estimates
Patterns of informal care are documented throughout the day with Dutch time use diary data. The diary data enable us to identify a, so far overlooked, source of opportunity costs of informal care, ...
(published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2011, 73 (10), 1508-1516)
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J2, I3
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5432
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Aaron
Sojourner
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Identification of Peer Effects with Missing Peer Data: Evidence from Project STAR
This paper studies peer effects on student achievement among first graders randomly assigned to classrooms in Tennessee’s Project STAR. The analysis uses previously unexploited pre-assignment ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (569), 574-605.)
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C2, I21, J13
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5431
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Guido
Schwerdt
Dolores
Messer
Ludger
Woessmann
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Effects of Adult Education Vouchers on the Labor Market: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Lifelong learning is often promoted in ageing societies, but little is known about its returns or governments' ability to advance it. This paper evaluates the effects of a large-scale randomized ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (7-8), 569-583)
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I22, J24, H43, C93, M53
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