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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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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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5280
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Decio
Coviello
Andrea
Ichino
Nicola
Persico
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Don't Spread Yourself Too Thin: The Impact of Task Juggling on Workers' Speed of Job Completion
We show that task juggling, i.e., the spreading of effort across too many active projects, decreases the performance of workers, raising the chances of low throughput, long duration of projects and ...
(published as 'Time Allocation and Task Juggling' in: American Economic Review, 2014, 104 (2), 609-623 (theoretical model), and as 'The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 5 (19), 906 - 947 (empirical part))
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J0, K0, M5
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5278
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Peter
Dolton
Chiara
Rosazza-Bondibene
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term
This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (1), 78-106)
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J0, J2, J3
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5277
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Rory
Coulter
Maarten
van Ham
Peteke
Feijten
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Moving Desires, Expectations and Actual Moving Behaviour
Many theories of residential mobility contend that individuals express a sequence of moving desires, intentions and expectations prior to moving. Much research has investigated how individuals form ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2011, 43 (11), 2742-2760)
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J61, R21, R23
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5276
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David
de la Croix
Olivier
Pierrard
Henri
R.
Sneessens
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Aging and Pensions in General Equilibrium: Labor Market Imperfections Matter
This paper re-examines the effects of population aging and pension reforms in an OLG model with labor market frictions. The most important feature brought about by labor market frictions is the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (1), 104-124)
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E24, H55, J26, J64
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5275
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Pedro
Carneiro
James
J.
Heckman
Edward
Vytlacil
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Estimating Marginal Returns to Education
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 110 (6), 2754-2781)
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J31
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5273
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Gustavo
J.
Canavire Bacarreza
Fernando
Rios-Avila
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Domestic Violence and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from a Mixed-Race Developing Country
This study investigates the heterogeneous effects of domestic violence over labor markets in an ethnically fragmented country such as Bolivia. Among developing countries, Bolivia “excels” in having ...
(published as 'The effect of intimate partner violence on labor market decisions: Evidence from a multi-ethnic country' in: International Journal of Social Economics, 2017, 44 (1), 75 - 92 )
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J15, J71
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5272
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Kristin
J.
Kleinjans
Arthur
van Soest
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Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions
We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for ...
(published as 'Rounding, Focal Point Answers and Nonresponse to Subjective Probability Questions' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (4), 567 - 585)
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C81, D84
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5271
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David
Manley
Maarten
van Ham
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Neighbourhood Effects, Housing Tenure, and Individual Employment Outcomes
This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less likely to enter work if they are unemployed and more likely to lose their job if ...
(published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives, Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 147-173 )
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I30, J60, R23
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5270
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Rodrigo
R.
Soares
Igor
Viveiros
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Organization and Information in the Fight against Crime: An Evaluation of the Integration of Police Forces in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil
This paper explores the experience of information sharing, coordination, and integration of actions of the Civil and Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP ...
(published in: Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2017, 17 (2), 29-63)
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H11, K00, K42
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5268
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Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
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How to Control for Many Covariates? Reliable Estimators Based on the Propensity Score
We investigate the finite sample properties of a large number of estimators for the average treatment effect on the treated that are suitable when adjustment for observable covariates is required, ...
(published as 'The Performance of Estimators Based on the Propensity Score' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 175 (1), 1-21)
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C21
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5267
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Steffen
Huck
Imran
Rasul
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Matched Fundraising: Evidence from a Natural Field Experiment
We present evidence from a natural field experiment designed to shed light on the efficacy of fundraising schemes in which donations are matched by a lead donor. In conjunction with the Bavarian ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (5-6), 351-362)
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C93, D12, D64
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5264
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Steffen
Huck
Dorothea
Kübler
Jörgen
W.
Weibull
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Social Norms and Economic Incentives in Firms
This paper studies the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in firms. We introduce a general framework to model social norms arguing that norms stem from agents’ desire for, or peer ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 83 (2), 173-185)
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D23
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5263
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David
Neumark
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using ...
(published in: JHR Journal of Human Resources, 2012, 47 (4), 1128 - 1157)
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J7
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5261
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Jens
Arnold
Andrea
Bassanini
Stefano
Scarpetta
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Solow or Lucas? Testing Speed of Convergence on a Panel of OECD Countries
We test whether the growth experience of a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past three decades is more consistent with the augmented Solow model or the Uzawa-Lucas model, by exploiting the ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2011, 65 (2), 110-123)
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O11, O15, O41
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5260
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Sherrilyn
M.
Billger
Carlos
Lamarche
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Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States: New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis
In this paper we use a relatively new panel data quantile regression technique to examine native-immigrant earnings differentials 1) throughout the conditional wage distribution, and 2) controlling ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2015, 49, 705-750.)
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J31, J61, C21, C23
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5259
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Alexander
Hijzen
Pedro
S.
Martins
Thorsten
Schank
Richard
Upward
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Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis
This paper analyses to what extent working conditions in foreign-owned firms differ from those in their domestic counterparts. It makes three main contributions. First, we replicate the consensus in ...
(published as 'Foreign-owned firms around the world: A comparative analysis of wages and employment at the micro-level' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 170-188)
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F14, F16, F23
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5258
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Benoit
Dostie
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Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training
In this paper, we estimate returns to classroom and on-the-job firm-sponsored training in terms of value-added per worker using longitudinal linked employee-employer Canadian data from 1999 to 2006. ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2013, 7 (2), 161-189)
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C23, D24, J31, J63
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5257
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Lutz
Bellmann
Christian
Hohendanner
Reinhard
Hujer
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Determinants of Employer-Provided Further Training: A Multi-Level Approach
We analyse the influence of regional determinants on the decision of employers to provide within-firm further training. We estimate the effects of the regional population density, the unemployment ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2011, 131 (4), 581-598)
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J24, I21, C33, R12
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5256
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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What Do Unions Do to Pension Performance?
This study argues that the promotion of union goals could have positive, negative, or neutral effects on risk adjusted return performance. Moreover, the union's ability and incentive to use pension ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (3), 1173-1189)
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J32, J51
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5255
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: What Do We Know About Them?
This paper reviews recent studies on the effectiveness of services and incentives offered to disadvantaged youth. We focus our analysis on three types of interventions: mentoring, educational ...
(substantially revised version published in: Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012, 35 (4), 481-490)
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C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
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5254
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Ian
Walker
Yu
Zhu
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Differences by Degree: Evidence of the Net Financial Rates of Return to Undergraduate Study for England and Wales
This paper provides estimates of the impact of higher education qualifications on the earnings of graduates in the UK by subject studied. We use data from the recent UK Labour Force Surveys which ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1177-1186)
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I23, I28
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5253
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Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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Her Time, His Time, or the Maid's Time: An Analysis of the Demand for Domestic Work
This paper analyzes households' demand for time inputs to domestic services, modeling simultaneously the decision to purchase services in the market and the time spent on weekend and weekday days by ...
(published as 'Maids, Appliances and Couples' Housework: The Demand for Inputs to Domestic Production' in: Economica, 2014, 81 (323), 445-467)
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J22, J16
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5252
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Roger
Bandick
Holger
Görg
Patrik
Karpaty
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Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (4), 1091-1115)
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F23
|
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5251
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Fernando
Alexandre
Pedro
Bação
João
Cerejeira
Miguel
Portela
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Manufacturing Employment and Exchange Rates in the Portuguese Economy: The Role of Openness, Technology and Labour Market Rigidity
In this paper, we explore empirically the role of openness, technology and labour market rigidity in the determination of the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Portugal. We develop an ...
(published in: Open Economies Review, 2011, 22 (5), 969-984)
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J23, F16, F41
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5250
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Ana
Lamo
Julián
Messina
Etienne
Wasmer
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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?
This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 240-256)
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J4, J24
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5248
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Dayanand
Manoli
Andrea
Weber
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Intertemporal Substitution in Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Policy Discontinuities
This paper presents new empirical evidence on intertemporal labor supply elasticities. We use administrative data on the census of private sector employees in Austria and variation from mandated ...
(published as "Nonparametric Evidence on the Effects of Financial Incentives on Retirement Decisions" in: American Economic Journal Economic Policy, 2016)
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J22, J26, E24
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5247
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Simon
Commander
Zlatko
Nikoloski
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Institutions and Economic Performance: What Can Be Explained?
Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2012, 2 (2), Article 3)
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D24, L21, O12, P48
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5246
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Mayssun
El-Attar
Markus
Poschke
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Trust and the Choice Between Housing and Financial Assets: Evidence from Spanish Households
Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets. We extend the analysis of the effect of trust on portfolio choice to include the ...
(published in: Review of Finance, 2011, 15 (4), 727-756)
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D1, D8, Z1
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5245
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Jan
Stuhler
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Empirical Strategies to Eliminate Life-Cycle Bias in the Intergenerational Elasticity of Earnings Literature
I argue that the empirical strategies for estimation of the intergenerational elasticity of lifetime earnings that are currently employed in the literature might not eliminate bias arising from ...
(substantially revised version appeared as IZA DP No. 5697)
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J62, C23
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5244
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Joachim
Wagner
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Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries
Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is important to guide theorists and policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2011, 57 (2), 107-143 and 145-160)
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F14
|
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5242
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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The British Household Panel Survey and its Income Data
This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS ...
(published as: Chapter 4 , in: S.P. Jenkins: Changing Fortunes: Income Mobility and Poverty Dynamics in Britain, Oxford University Press, 2011)
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C81, D31, I32
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5240
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Friends' Networks and Job Finding Rates
We investigate the effect of social interactions on labor market outcomes using a direct measure of social contacts based on information about individuals’ three best friends and their ...
(substantially revised version published as 'With a Little Help from My Friend? Quality of Social Networks, Job Finding and Job Match Quality' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 78, 55-75)
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J64
|
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5239
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Dennis
T.
Yang
Xiaodong
Zhu
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Modernization of Agriculture and Long-Term Growth
This paper develops a two-sector model that illuminates the role played by agricultural modernization in the transition from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2013, 60 (3), 367–382)
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O41, O33, N13
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5238
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Lina
Bergström
Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
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Neighbourhood Choice and Neighbourhood Reproduction
Although we know a lot about why households choose certain dwellings, we know relatively little about the mechanisms behind neighbourhood choice. Most studies of neighbourhood choice only focus on ...
(published in: Environment and Planning A, 2011, 43 (6), 1381-1399)
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I30, J60, R23
|
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5237
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Kusum
Mundra
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Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 357-373)
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F22, F11, J10
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5235
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Tito
Boeri
Vincenzo
Galasso
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Is Social Security Secure with NDC?
The introduction of NDC public pension scheme in few European countries, such as Latvia, Sweden, Italy, and Poland, in the nineties was motivated, among other things, by the need (i) to ensure the ...
(published in: R. Holzmann, E. Palmer and D. Robalino (eds.), 2012, NDC Pension Schemes in a Changing Pension World, Volume 2: Gender, Politics, and Financial Stability, Chapter 6. Financial Stability, Chapter 5. Washington D.C.: The World Bank & Swedish Social Insurance Agency)
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J26, J68
|
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5234
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Alberto
Bisin
Eleonora
Patacchini
Thierry
Verdier
Yves
Zenou
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Bend It Like Beckham: Ethnic Identity and Integration
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2016, 90, 146-164.)
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A14, J15
|
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5233
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Eswar
Prasad
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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets: An Overview
This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These ...
(published in: Masahiro Kawai and Eswar Prasad (eds.), Financial Sector Reforms and Regulation in Emerging Markets, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011, 3-24)
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G1, G2, E58, F36
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5232
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John
Gibson
Steven
Stillman
David
McKenzie
Halahingano
Rohorua
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Natural Experiment Evidence on the Effect of Migration on Blood Pressure and Hypertension
Over 200 million people live outside their country of birth and experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2013, 22 (6), 655-672)
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C21, I12, J61
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5230
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Daniel
W.
Sacks
Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We ...
(published in: The World Bank (ed.). Development Challenges in a Post-Crisis World, 2012)
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O11, I31, I32
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