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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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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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5406
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Melanie
Khamis
Nishith
Prakash
Zahra
Siddique
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Consumption and Social Identity: Evidence from India
We examine spending on consumption items which have signaling value in social interactions across groups with distinctive social identities in India, where social identities are defined by caste and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (3), 353-371)
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D12, D70, O10
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5405
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Anna
Bohnstedt
Christian
Schwarz
Jens
Suedekum
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2012, 41 (1), 13-23)
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F12, F13
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5404
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Matthias
Sutter
Martin
G.
Kocher
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Stefan
T.
Trautmann
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Impatience and Uncertainty: Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field ...
(extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 510-531)
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C91, C93, D81, D90
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5403
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Daniel
Fernández-Kranz
Aitor
Lacuesta
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Chutes and Ladders: Dual Tracks and the Motherhood Dip
Using rich panel data recently available from Spanish Social Security records, we find that a negative motherhood earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both ...
(published as 'The Motherhood Earnings Dip: Evidence from Administrative Records' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (1), 169-197 )
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J13, J16, J21, J22, J31, J62, C23
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5402
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Timo
Boppart
Josef
Falkinger
Volker
Grossmann
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Protestantism and Education: Reading (the Bible) and Other Skills
During industrialization, Protestants were more literate than Catholics. This paper investigates whether this fact may be led back to the intrinsic motivation of Protestants to read the bible and ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (2), 874-895)
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I20
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5401
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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How Much Do Educational Outcomes Matter in OECD Countries?
Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth ...
(published in: Economic Policy, 2011, 26 (67), 427-491)
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I2, O4
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5400
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Marco
Caliendo
Armin
Falk
Lutz
C.
Kaiser
Hilmar
Schneider
Arne
Uhlendorff
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset: Towards Evidence-Based Labor Policy-Making
The evaluation of labor market policies has become an important issue in many European countries. In recent years, a number of them have opened their administrative databases for evaluation studies. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 731-752)
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J68, H43, C81
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5399
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Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington DC, The AEI Press, 2011. 264-314)
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F22, J61
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5398
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges
The standard approach of analyzing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 31-54)
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J15, J71, J78
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5397
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Martin
Kahanec
Anzelika
Zaiceva
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview
This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 1-30)
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F22, J15, J61, J71
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5396
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we ...
(revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (13), 945-949 )
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F22, J15, J61, J64
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5395
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Simone
Bertoli
Herbert
Brücker
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Selective Immigration Policies, Migrants' Education and Welfare at Origin
Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (1), 19-22)
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F22, J24, H52, O15
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5393
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Anh
T.
Le
Paul
W.
Miller
Wendy
S.
Slutske
Nicholas
G.
Martin
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Attitudes towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap
This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 555-561)
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J31, J71
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5392
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Sonia
Oreffice
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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Matching with a Handicap: The Case of Smoking in the Marriage Market
We develop a matching model on the marriage market, where individuals have preferences over the smoking status of potential mates, and over their socioeconomic quality. Spousal smoking is bad for ...
(revised version published as 'Bidimensional Matching with Heterogeneous Preferences: Education and Smoking in the Marriage Market' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018, 16(1), 161-198.)
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D1, J1
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5391
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Bertrand
Candelon
Arnaud
Dupuy
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Hierarchical Organization and Inequality in an Economy with an Implicit Market for Productive Time
This paper proposes an equilibrium theory of the organization of work in an economy with an implicit market for productive time. In this economy, agents have limited productive time and can choose to ...
(revised version published as 'Hierarchical Organization and Performance Inequality: Evidence from Professional Cycling' in: International Economic Review, 2015, 56 (4), 1207-1236)
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D2, D3, L22
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5390
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission
This paper argues – in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress – that we should now be measuring a nation's emotional ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2010, 48 (4), 651-669)
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I1, I3
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5389
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Jon
E.
Anderson
Stephen
V.
Burks
Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Lorenz
Götte
Karsten
Maurer
Daniele
Nosenzo
Ruth
Potter
Kim
Rocha
Aldo
Rustichini
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Self Selection Does Not Increase Other-Regarding Preferences among Adult Laboratory Subjects, but Student Subjects May Be More Self-Regarding than Adults
We use a sequential prisoner's dilemma game to measure the other-regarding behavior in samples from three related populations in the upper Midwest of the United States: 100 college students, 94 ...
(revised version published as 'Self-Selection and Variations in the Laboratory Measurement of Other-Regarding Preferences Across Subject Pools: Evidence From One College Student and Two Adult Samples' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16 (2), 170-189)
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C90, D03
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5388
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Erwin
Ooghe
Andreas
Peichl
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Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control: Theory and Evidence
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. Such ...
(revised version published as 'Fair and Efficient Taxation under Partial Control' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (589), 2024 - 2051)
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D6, H2, I3
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5387
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Stephan
Russek
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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries
This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure ...
(published in revised form in: Review of International Economics, 2014, 22 (1), 170-188)
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F12, F13, F15, L25
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5386
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
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Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the U.S.
Evidence about job mobility outside the U.S. is scarce and difficult to compare cross-nationally because of non-uniform data. We document job mobility patterns of college graduates in their first ...
(published as 'Job Mobility in Europe, Japan and the United States' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 436-456)
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J24, J31, I2
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5385
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Uwe
Blien
Joachim
Möller
Michael
Moritz
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Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI: Recent Advances and Research Gaps
This paper pursues three aims. First, we provide a review of current theoretical advances which pertain to the relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not ...
(published in revised form in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 86-116)
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F16, F23, R12, J60
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5384
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Bernard
Fortin
Guy
Lacroix
Dominique
Pinard
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Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach
The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’s underground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Our approach is based on a method ...
(published in: International Economic Journal, 2010, 24 (4), 463-479)
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D12, E26, H26
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5383
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Shi
Li
Ludmila
Nivorozhkina
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Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (5), 897-920)
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D31, P25, P52
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5382
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Alain
de Janvry
Frederico
S.
Finan
Elisabeth
Sadoulet
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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (3), 672 - 685 )
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D78, H43, I28, O15
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5380
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Annabelle
Krause-Pilatus
Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?
In this paper we study the economic effects of risk attitudes, time preferences, trust and reciprocity while we compare natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 825-851)
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F22, J15, J61, J64
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5379
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Marco
Caliendo
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Determinanten des Suchverhaltens von Arbeitslosen: Ausgewählte Erkenntnisse basierend auf dem IZA Evaluationsdatensatz
The transition process from unemployment to employment is determined by the reservation wage and the search effort of the unemployed worker. The optimal search strategy depends on labour market ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 44 (1-2), 119-125)
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J64, J65, J68, D84
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5378
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Philipp
Doerrenberg
Andreas
Peichl
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Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale
As the link between tax compliance and tax morale is found to be robust, finding the determinants of tax morale can help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice, 2013, 155 (3), 293-316)
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H26, H24, D7, D31
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5377
|
Suqin
Ge
Dennis
T.
Yang
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Labor Market Developments in China: A Neoclassical View
This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China: the classical view featuring a Lewis turning point in wage growth versus a ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2011, 22 (4), 611-625)
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J31, J21, O11
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5376
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Aysit
Tansel
P?nar
Ya?ar
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Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances on Output Growth: Evidence from Turkey
This study estimates a Keynesian simultaneous, dynamic macroeconometric model to investigate the impact of remittances on key macro variables such as consumption, investment, imports and income in ...
(published in: Migration Letters, 2010, 7 (2), 132-143)
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F22, F21, C52
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5375
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Lina
Dunnzlaff
Dirk
Neumann
Judith
Niehues
Andreas
Peichl
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Equality of Opportunity and Redistribution in Europe
The concept of equality of opportunity (EOp) goes back to Roemer (1993, 1998) who argues that a society shall guarantee its members equal access to advantage regardless of their circumstances, while ...
(revised version published in: Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement (Research on Economic Inequality, 19), Bingley, 2011, 99-129)
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D31, H24, I38
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5374
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Joël
van der Weele
Julija
Kulisa
Michael
Kosfeld
Guido
Friebel
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Resisting Moral Wiggle Room: How Robust is Reciprocity?
Several studies have shown that dictator-game giving declines substantially if the dictator can exploit situational "excuses" for not being generous. In this experimental study we investigate if this ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2014, 6 (3), 256-264)
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C72, C9
|
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5373
|
Knut
Røed
Jens
Fredrik
Skogstrøm
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Creative Unemployment
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. ...
(revised version published as 'Job loss and Entrepreneurship' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (5), 727-744)
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L26, J65, M13
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5372
|
Massimiliano
Bratti
Alfonso
Miranda
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Endogenous Treatment Effects for Count Data Models with Sample Selection or Endogenous Participation
In this paper we propose an estimator for models in which an endogenous dichotomous treatment affects a count outcome in the presence of either sample selection or endogenous participation using ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (9), 1090-1109)
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C35, I12, I21
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