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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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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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5309
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Tor
Eriksson
Nicolai
Kristensen
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Wages or Fringes? Some Evidence on Trade-offs and Sorting
The two key predictions of hedonic wage theory are that there is a trade-off between wages and nonmonetary rewards and that the latter can be used as a sorting device by firms to attract and retain ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (4), 899-928)
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J32, J33, M52
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5307
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Jeffrey
P.
Carpenter
Shachar
Kariv
Andrew
Schotter
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Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments
Recent experiments show that public goods can be provided at high levels when mutual monitoring and costly punishment are allowed. All these experiments, however, study monitoring and punishment in a ...
(published in: Review of Economic Design, 2012, 16, 93 - 118)
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D82, D83, C92
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5306
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Harley
Frazis
Jay
Stewart
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How to Think About Time-Use Data: What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?
Time-use researchers are typically interested in the time use of individuals, but time use data are samples of person-days. Given day-to-day variation in how people spend their time, this distinction ...
(published in: Annales d’Economie et Statistique, 2012, 105/106, 231-246)
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C81, D13, C83
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5305
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Christian
Schwarz
Jens
Suedekum
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm’s headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Economics, 2014, 93 (1), 123-139)
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F12, D23, L23
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5304
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Eunho
Choi
Almas
Heshmati
Yongsung
Cho
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An Empirical Study of the Relationships between CO2 Emissions, Economic Growth and Openness
This paper investigates the existence of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) for carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and its causal relationships with economic growth and openness by using time series ...
(published in: Korean Journal of Environmental Policy 2011, 10(4), 3-37.)
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C32, F18, F43, N55, O13, Q56
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5303
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Sonja
C.
de New
Mathias
Sinning
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Distributional Changes in the Gender Wage Gap
This paper analyzes changes in wage differentials between white men and white women over the period 1993-2006 across the entire wage distribution using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. We ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, 67 (2), 335-361)
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C21, J16, J31
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5302
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Matloob
Piracha
Massimiliano
Tani
Florin
Vadean
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Immigrant Over- and Under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience
The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1, Article 3)
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C34, J24, J61
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5300
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Ernesto
Reuben
Pedro
Rey-Biel
Paola
Sapienza
Luigi
Zingales
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The Emergence of Male Leadership in Competitive Environments
We present evidence from an experiment in which groups select a leader to compete against the leaders of other groups in a real-effort task that they have all performed in the past. We find that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 83 (1), 111-117)
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J71, D03, C92
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5299
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Sebastian
Fehrler
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Charity as a Signal of Trustworthiness
Being perceived as trustworthy comes with substantial economic benefits in many situations. Making other people think you are a trustworthy person may, therefore, be an important motive for charity ...
(preliminary study that led to IZA DP No. 7148)
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C72, C92, H41
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5297
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
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The First World War and Working-Class Food Consumption in Britain
In this paper we reassess the food consumption and dietary impact of the regimes of food and food price control and eventually, food rationing, that were introduced in Britain during the First World ...
(published in: European Review of Economic History, 2013, 17 (1), 71-94)
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N34, N44
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5296
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Robert
Holzmann
Alain
Jousten
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Addressing the Legacy Costs in an NDC Reform: Conceptualization, Measurement, Financing
The paper provides a framework for the conceptualization, definition and estimation of legacy costs that need to be addressed in a reform that transforms an unfunded defined contribution (NDB) scheme ...
(published in: Edward Palmer, Robert Holzmann and David Robalino, Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World: Volume 2, Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability, World Bank, 2013, 277-304)
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H55, H68, J21, J26
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5295
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Pedro
Carneiro
Sokbae
Lee
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Trends in Quality-Adjusted Skill Premia in the United States, 1960-2000
This paper presents new evidence that increases in college enrollment lead to a decline in the average quality of college graduates between 1960 and 2000, resulting in a decrease of 6 percentage ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2309-2349)
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J0
|
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5294
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Carlos
Bozzoli
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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The Weight of the Crisis: Evidence from Newborns in Argentina
Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden economic collapse that generated statistics reminiscent of those from the Great ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (3), 550-562.)
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I1, J1
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5293
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Michael
P.
Devereux
Giorgia
Maffini
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The Direct Incidence of Corporate Income Tax on Wages
We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 1038-1054)
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H22, H25, J50
|
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5290
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Federica
Origo
Claudio
Lucifora
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The Effect of Comprehensive Smoking Bans in European Workplaces
In recent years many countries of the European Union (EU) have implemented comprehensive smoking bans to reduce exposure to tobacco smoke in public places and all indoor workplaces. Despite the ...
(published in: Forum for Health Economics and Policy, BE Press, 2013, 16(1), 1-27)
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I18, J28
|
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5289
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Rémi
Piatek
Pia
Pinger
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Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Assessing the Impact of Locus of Control on Education Decisions and Wages
This paper demonstrates that locus of control, i.e. whether individuals believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, is an important ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Maintaining (Locus of) Control? Data Combination for the Identification and Inference of Factor Structure Models' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31(3), 734-755)
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C31, J24, J31
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5285
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Werner
Eichhorst
Regina
Konle-Seidl
Alison
Koslowski
Paul
Marx
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Quantity over Quality? A European Comparison of the Changing Nature of Transitions between Non-Employment and Employment
This paper explores the empirical evidence for the claim that non-employed men and women in post-industrial labour markets are more likely to make the transition into employment than has previously ...
(published in: Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg (eds.), Regulating the Risk of Unemployment. National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2011, 281-296)
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J41, J62
|
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5284
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Christian
Grund
Matthias
Kräkel
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Bonus Payments, Hierarchy Levels and Tenure: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical approaches that focus on bonuses as part of a long term wage policy of a firm. ...
(revised version published in: Schmalenbach Business Review, 2012, 64, 101-124)
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M52, J33
|
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5283
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Pedro
S.
Martins
Yong
Yang
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Globalised Labour Markets? International Rent Sharing across 47 Countries
We present evidence about the role of rent sharing in fostering the interdependence of labour markets around the world. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 2,000 multinationals and ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 664–691)
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J31, J41, J50
|
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5282
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Helen
Baker-Henningham
Florencia
López Bóo
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Early Childhood Stimulation Interventions in Developing Countries: A Comprehensive Literature Review
This report reviews the effectiveness of early childhood stimulation interventions in developing countries. The report aims to answer the questions: What works in terms of early stimulation for young ...
(published as 'Intervenciones de estimulación infantil temprana en los países en vías de desarrollo: lo que funciona, por qué y para quién' in: Económica, 2014, 60, 120-186)
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J13, J18, J24
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