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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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5371
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Samantha
Rawlings
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Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries: The Penalty of Gender Inequality?
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational ...
(Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 286-299)
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I10, J11, O57
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5370
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Marco
Caliendo
Frank
M.
Fossen
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity: Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2012, 33 (2), 394-409)
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D81, J23, M13, L26
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5368
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Clair
Brown
Julia
Lane
Timothy
Sturgeon
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Workers' Views of the Impact of Trade on Jobs
Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (1), 1 - 21)
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J21, J08
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5367
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Nicholas
Larsen
Paul
Pieper
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The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
This paper is concerned with the production of PhDs in the United States and Canada in the post-WW II period, overall and by gender and major discipline. The effects of the explanatory variables ...
(published as 'The Awarding of PhDs in the United States and Canada: War, the Draft, and Other Economic Determinants' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (28), 2939 - 2958)
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I21, J24
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5366
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Dean
Jolliffe
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Overweight and Poor? On the Relationship between Income and the Body Mass Index
Contrary to conventional wisdom, NHANES data indicate that the poor have never had a statistically significant higher prevalence of overweight status at any time in the last 35 years. Despite this ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2011, 9 (3), 342-355)
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I1, I18, I32
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5365
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Alexander
Muravyev
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Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009
This paper presents and discusses new data on employment protection legislation (EPL) in the successor states of the former USSR – the CIS and Baltic states – over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use ...
(revised version published in: Europe-Asia Studies, 2014, 66 (8), 1270-1294)
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J68, K31, P20
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5363
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
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Poverty and Survival
A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (2), 145-167)
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I12, J10, O49
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5362
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Pedro
Carneiro
Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life
We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by exploiting a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway. The ...
(substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 5793)
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J13
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5360
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Beatrice
Brunner
Andreas
Kuhn
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The Impact of Labor Market Entry Conditions on Initial Job Assignment, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages
We estimate the effects of labor market entry conditions on wages for male individuals first entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a large negative effect of unfavorable ...
(revised version published as `The impact of labor market entry conditions on initial job assignment and wages' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27(3), 705-738)
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E3, J2, J3, J6, M5
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5359
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Magne
Krogstad
Asphjell
Wilko
Letterie
Řivind
Anti
Nilsen
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Sequentiality versus Simultaneity: Interrelated Factor Demand
A structural model is developed and estimated by a maximum likelihood routine to investigate interrelated factor demand subject to nonconvex adjustment costs. The dataset concerns Norwegian plants ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 986-998)
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D92, E22, E24, J23, L60
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5358
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Ronald
Bachmann
Peggy
David
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The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics
Using administrative data on individual workers' employment history and firms, we investigate the cyclicality of worker flows on the German labour market. Focusing on heterogeneities on both sides of ...
(published in: The Manchester School, 2019, 87(6), 794-820)
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J63, J64, J21, E24
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5357
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W. Bentley
MacLeod
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Great Expectations: Law, Employment Contracts, and Labor Market Performance
This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every jurisdiction in the world has extensive employment law, particularly employment ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 18, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
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J08, J33, J41, J5, K31
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5355
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Herwig
Immervoll
Heikki
Viitamäki
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No Claim, No Pain: Measuring the Non-Take-up of Social Assistance Using Register Data
The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social reintegration, can be seriously compromised if support is difficult to access. While recent ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2012, 10 (3), 375-395)
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D31, H31, H53, I38
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5352
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Lewis
A.
Kornhauser
W. Bentley
MacLeod
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Contracts between Legal Persons
Contract law and the economics of contract have, for the most part, developed independently of each other. In this essay, we briefly review the notion of a contract from the perspective of lawyer, ...
(published in: Robert Gibbons and John Roberts (eds.) Handbook of Organizational Economics, Princeton University Press, 2012)
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K12, J33
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5351
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Tilman
Brück
Fernanda
Llussá
José
Tavares
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Perceptions, Expectations, and Entrepreneurship: The Role of Extreme Events
We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (S1), S78-S88)
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F0
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5350
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Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models
When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 129-138)
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J22, J23, J68
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5347
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Christopher
R.
Bollinger
Barry
Hirsch
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Is Earnings Nonresponse Ignorable?
Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (2), 407-416)
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J31, C81
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5346
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Marco
Gonzalez-Navarro
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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Urban Infrastructure and Economic Development: Experimental Evidence from Street Pavement
We design an infrastructure experiment in Mexico to evaluate the impact of street pavement on housing values and household outcomes. We find that the provision of street pavement raises housing ...
(revised version published as 'Paving the Streets for the Poor: Experimental Analysis of Infrastructure Effects' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2016, 98 (2), 254-267.)
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C92, C93, H41, O12, O15
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5345
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Shoshana
Grossbard
José Ignacio
Gimenez-Nadal
José Alberto
Molina
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Racial Discrimination and Household Chores
We make the novel argument that time spent on household chores can possibly reflect racial discrimination based on color. Our model, based on Becker's theory of allocation of time and his theory of ...
(published as 'Racial intermarriage and household production' in: Review of Behavioral Economics, 2014, 1 (4), 295-347)
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D13, I21, J12, J22
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5343
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Simen
Markussen
Arnstein
Mykletun
Knut
Rřed
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The Case for Presenteeism
Can activation requirements control moral hazard problems in public sickness absence insurance and accelerate recovery? Based on empirical analysis of Norwegian data, we show that it can. Activation ...
(revised version published as 'The Case for Presenteeism - Evidence from Norway's Sickness Insurance Program' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (11-12), 959-972)
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C26, I18, I38, J48
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5342
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Barry
Hirsch
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Unions, Dynamism, and Economic Performance
This paper explores the relationship between economic performance and US unionism, focusing first on what we do and do not know based on empirical research handicapped by limited data on ...
(published in: Cynthia Estlund and Michael Wachter (eds.), Research Handbook on the Economics of Labor and Employment Law, Edward Elgar, 2012, pp. 107-145)
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J50, J20, J30
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5341
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Pia
M.
Orrenius
Madeline
Zavodny
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The Minimum Wage and Latino Workers
Latinos comprise a large and growing share of the low-skilled labor force in the U.S. and may be disproportionately affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage ...
(published in: David Leal and Stephen Trejo (eds)., Latinos and the Economy: Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond, New York: Springer, 2011, 169-191)
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J23, J38, J15
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5340
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Samuel
Bentolila
Pierre
Cahuc
Juan
J.
Dolado
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain
This paper analyzes the strikingly different response of unemployment to the Great Recession in France and Spain. Their labor market institutions are similar and their unemployment rates just before ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122, 155-187)
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H29, J23, J38, J41, J64
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5338
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Meritxell
Solé
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Marisol
Rodriguez Martinez
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Work, Risk and Health: Differences between Immigrants and Natives in Spain
We analyze the impact of working and contractual conditions, particularly exposure to job risks, on the probability of acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by ...
(published as 'Disparities in Work, Risk, and Health between Immigrants and Native-Born' in: Social Science and Medicine, 179-187)
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J28, J61, J81
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5337
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Bart
Cockx
Muriel
Dejemeppe
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The Threat of Monitoring Job Search: A Discontinuity Design
Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the discontinuity in the treatment assignment at the age of 30 to evaluate the ...
(revised version published in :Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (5), 729-737 )
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J64, J65, J68, H43
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5336
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Mariana
Blanco
Florencia
López Bóo
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ICT Skills and Employment: A Randomized Experiment
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills has on the labor market of two Latin-American cities: Buenos Aires and ...
(published in: Chong Alberto(ed.), Measuring the Impact of Information Technologies in Latin America, World Bank, 2016)
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J23, J24
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5335
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Marco
Leonardi
Giovanni
Pica
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Who Pays for It? The Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Employment Protection Legislation
Theory predicts that the wage effects of government-mandated severance payments depend on workers' and firms' relative bargaining power. This paper estimates the effect of employment protection ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123, 1236-1278. )
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E24, J3, J65
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5334
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Ralitza
Dimova
Ahmad
Saleh
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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising ...
(published as 'Corruption and Economic Growth: An Econometric Survey of the Evidence' in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2016, 172 (3), 521-543)
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O1
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5333
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Elke
J.
Jahn
Jan
Bentzen
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What Drives the Demand for Temporary Agency Workers?
Temporary agency employment has grown steadily in most European countries over the past three decades as part of the general trend towards increased employment flexibility. Yet to this day, it ...
(published in: LABOUR, 2012, 26 (3), 341-355)
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C41, J23, J40, J48, K31
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5332
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Jens
Großer
Ernesto
Reuben
Agnieszka
Tymula
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Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study
We experimentally study the common wisdom that money buys political influence. In the game, one lobbyist has the opportunity to influence redistributive tax policies in her favor by transferring ...
(published in: American Journal of Political Science, 2013, 57 (3), 582-597)
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D72, H10, K42
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5331
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Marcos
Chamon
Kai
Liu
Eswar
Prasad
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Income Uncertainty and Household Savings in China
China's household saving rate has increased markedly since the mid-1990s and the age-saving profile has become U-shaped. Using a panel of urban Chinese households covering 1989-2006, we document a ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 105, 164-177)
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D91, J3, E21
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5330
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Tom
McKenzie
Dirk
Sliwka
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Universities as Stakeholders in their Students' Careers: On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education
We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (4), 726-742)
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H42, H52, I22, M52
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5329
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Arcangelo
Dimico
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 70, 197-209)
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E02, D02, H52, J15, O11
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5328
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
Michael
D.
Steinberger
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Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration
In this chapter we provide a brief overview of the main empirical tools used by economists to study international migration. We begin by exploring the three broad research areas that economists ...
(published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva et al. (eds.) Handbook on Research Methods on Migration, Edward Elgar, 2012)
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F22
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5327
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Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Labour Market Flows: Facts from the United Kingdom
This paper documents a number of facts about worker gross flows in the United Kingdom for the period between 1993 and 2010. Using Labour Force Survey data, I examine the size and cyclicality of the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 165-175.)
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E24, J60
|
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5326
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Richard
Akresh
Emilie
Bagby
Damien
de Walque
Harounan
Kazianga
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Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61 (1), 157-186)
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O15, J12, I21, J13
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5325
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Wendelin
Schnedler
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Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this ...
(improved version is available here)
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D86, M52, J33, D82, M41
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5324
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Tsunao
Okumura
Emiko
Usui
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Do Parents' Social Skills Influence Their Children's Sociability?
This paper examines the effect of parents' social skills on children's sociability, using the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79). This survey, like some other national surveys, ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2014, 14 (3), 1081-1116)
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J24, J62
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5323
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Julien
Prat
Boyan
Jovanovic
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Dynamic Incentive Contracts under Parameter Uncertainty
We analyze a long-term contracting problem involving common uncertainty about a parameter capturing the productivity of the relationship, and featuring a hidden action for the agent. We develop an ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamic Contracts When the Agent's Quality is Unknown' in: Theoretical Economics, 2014, 9 (3), 865-914)
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D82, D83, E24, J41
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5322
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António
Afonso
Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2014, 39, 97-112.)
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E24, E62, H50
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5321
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Pedro
Maia
Gomes
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Fiscal Policy and the Labour Market: The Effects of Public Sector Employment and Wages
I build a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with search and matching frictions and two sectors in order to study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public ...
(published as 'Optimal public sector wages' in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125 (587), 1425-1451.)
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E24, E32, E62, J31, J45
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5320
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Werner
Eichhorst
Veronica
Escudero
Paul
Marx
Steven
Tobin
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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions
The paper takes a comparative perspective on the labour market impact on G20 and EU countries of the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline ...
(also available as: International Institute for Labour Studies Discussion Paper 202. Geneva.)
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J58, J65, J21
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5319
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Andreas
Kuhn
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The Public Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation: An International Comparison
This paper describes individuals' perceptions and normative valuations of executive compensation using comparable survey data for fifteen OECD member countries. An overwhelming majority of ...
(revised version, using updated and expanded data, published as `International Evidence on the Perception and Normative Valuation of Executive Compensation' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2017, 55(1), 112-136)
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D31, D63, J31
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5318
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James
P.
Smith
Yan
Shen
John
Strauss
Yang
Zhe
Yaohui
Zhao
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The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2012, 61(1), 127-156)
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H00
|
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5316
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Manan
Roy
Daniel
L.
Millimet
Rusty
Tchernis
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Federal Nutrition Programs and Childhood Obesity: Inside the Black Box
In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, particularly among low income individuals, federal nutrition assistance programs have come under scrutiny. However, the vast majority of this ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (1), 1-38)
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C31, H51, I18, I28
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5315
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Christian
Grund
Johannes
Martin
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Determinants of Further Training: Evidence for Germany
Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2012, 23 (17), 3536-3558)
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M53
|
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5314
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Anna
Dreber Almenberg
Christer
Gerdes
Patrik
Gränsmark
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Beauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess
We explore the relationship between attractiveness and risk taking in chess. We use a large international panel dataset on chess competitions which includes a control for the players' skill in chess. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 90, 1-18)
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D03, J16
|
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5312
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Yves
Zenou
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (2), 174 - 187)
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D83, J61, O18, R14
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5311
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Steffen
Habermalz
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Rational Inattention and Employer Learning
Research on employer learning has provided important insights into the dynamic process that determines individual wages, especially during the early part of a worker's career. However, the recent ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2014, 66 (2), 605-626)
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D21, D22, J21, J24
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5310
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Luc
Behaghel
David
M.
Blau
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Framing Social Security Reform: Behavioral Responses to Changes in the Full Retirement Age
We use a US Social Security reform as a quasi-experiment to provide evidence on framing effects in retirement behavior. The reform increased the full retirement age (FRA) from 65 to 66 in two month ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4 (4), 41-67)
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J26
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