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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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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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5430
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Pierre
Cahuc
Stéphane
Carcillo
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Is Short-Time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?
Short-time work compensation aims at reducing lay-offs by allowing employers to temporarily reduce hours worked while compensating workers for the induced loss of income. These programs are now ...
(published in: Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2011, 1(1),133-165.)
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E24, J22, J65
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5429
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William
P.
Warburton
Rebecca
N.
Warburton
Arthur
Sweetman
Clyde
Hertzman
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The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on their Education, Income Assistance and Incarcerations
Understanding the causal impacts of taking youth on the margins of risk into foster care is an element of the evidence-base on which policy development for this crucial function of government relies. ...
(published as 'The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on Education, Income Assistance, and Convictions' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, 47(1), 35-69.)
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J13, I13, I38
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5428
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Albert
A.
Okunade
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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Alumni Giving of Business Executives to the Alma Mater: Panel Data Evidence at a Large Metropolitan Research University
Charitable giving to public and private institutions of higher learning in the US is a growing major source of financing academic and support programs. The novel contribution of this research is the ...
(published as 'Do Business Executives Give More to Their Alma Mater? Longitudinal Evidence from a Large University' in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2013, 72 (3), 761–778)
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I2, L3
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5426
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Sugata
Marjit
Lei
Yang
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An Evaluation of the Employment Effects of Barriers to Outsourcing
Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs through outsourcing. The objective is to raise domestic employment. Given that ...
(revised version published as 'International Oligopoly, Barriers to Outsourcing and Domestic Employment' in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2014, 47(4), 1372-1386)
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F13
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5424
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Stephen
Kastoryano
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Dynamic Evaluation of Job Search Assistance
This paper evaluates a job search assistance program for unemployment insurance recipients. The assignment to the program is dynamic. We provide a discussion on dynamic treatment effects and ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2022, 37 (2), 227-241)
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C22, J64, J68
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5423
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Annemarie
Künn-Nelen
Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
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Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2013, 66 (5), 1172-1191 )
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J24, L23, L25
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5421
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Zhaopeng (Frank)
Qu
Zhong
Zhao
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Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of ...
(published in: China Agricultural Economic Review, 2014, 6(2), 316 - 334)
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J21, J61, O15
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5420
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance
There are two complementary models of immigrants’ economic and social adjustment – the positive assimilation model of Chiswick (1978, 1979), and the negative assimilation model of Chiswick and Miller ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2012, 6 (1), 35-55)
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J61, J31, F22
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5417
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Aysit
Tansel
Fatma
Bircan
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage ...
(published in: Review of Economic Development, 2012, 16 (1), 107-121)
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J31, J23, J24, I21
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5416
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Ronald
P.
Wolthoff
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Applications and Interviews: A Structural Analysis of Two-Sided Simultaneous Search
A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a ...
(published as "Applications and Interviews: Firms' Recruiting Decisions in a Frictional Labour Market" in: Review of Economic Studies, 2018, 85 (2), 1314 - 1351)
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J64, J31, E24, D83
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5415
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Alexander
Muravyev
Tiziano
Razzolini
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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The Costs of Job Loss in Russia
This paper is the first to analyze the costs of job loss in Russia, using unique new data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey over the years 2003-2008, including a special supplement on ...
(revised version published as 'The Wage and Non-wage Costs of Displacement in Boom Times: Evidence from Russia' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (4), 1184-1201)
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J64, J65, P50
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5414
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Francesco
Drago
Roberto
Galbiati
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Indirect Effects of a Policy Altering Criminal Behaviour: Evidence from the Italian Prison Experiment
We exploit the Collective Clemency Bill passed by the Italian Parliament in July 2006 to evaluate the indirect effects of a policy that randomly commutes actual sentences to expected sentences for 40 ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (2), 199-218)
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K00, C90
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5412
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Lex
Borghans
Anne
C.
Gielen
Erzo
F.P.
Luttmer
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Social Support Substitution and the Earnings Rebound: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity in Disability Insurance Reform
In this paper, we exploit a cohort discontinuity in the stringency of the 1993 Dutch disability reforms to obtain causal estimates of the effects of decreased generosity of disability insurance (DI) ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (4), 34-70)
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H53, J22, I38
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5411
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Alexander
Muravyev
Oleksandr
Talavera
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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?
This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of stricter requirements for proficiency in the state language on linguistic ...
(revised version published as "Can state language policies distort students' demand for education?" in Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44(2), 383–399)
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I28, J15
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5410
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Corrado
Giulietti
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Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?
This paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration. A framework is presented in which inflows of immigrants are a function of the expected wage growth induced by the minimum wage. The ...
(substantially revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (3), 649-674)
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J08, J23, J38, J61
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5409
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Giorgio
Brunello
Elena
Crivellaro
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is ...
(published as 'Lost in Transition? The returns to education acquired under communism in the first decade of the new millennium' in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (4), 637-676)
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J24
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5408
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Umut
Oguzoglu
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Disability and Multi-State Labour Force Choices with State Dependence
I use a dynamic mixed multinomial logit model with unobserved heterogeneity to study the impact of work limiting disabilities on disaggregated labour choices. The first seven waves of the Household ...
(revised version published in: Economic Record, 2016, 92 (296), 28 - 46 )
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J14, J21,C23
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