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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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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
Baçăo
Joăo
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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5229
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Hassan
Arvin-Rad
Arnab
K.
Basu
Maria
Willumsen
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Economic Reform, Informal-Formal Sector Linkages and Intervention in the Informal Sector in Developing Countries: A Paradox
Within a general equilibrium framework of a developing economy with a foreign owned factor of production, this paper questions whether the informal-formal sector relationship is pro-cyclical/ ...
(published in: International Review of Economics and Finance, 2010, 19, 662-670)
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J8, R13, R23
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5228
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Hermann
Gartner
Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
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Wage Cyclicality under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations
Since there is scant evidence on the role of industrial relations in wage cyclicality, this paper analyzes the effect of collective wage contracts and of works councils on real wage growth. Using ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2013, 52 (2), 516-540)
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J31, E32, J53
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5227
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Georges
Bresson
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Lag and Spatial Errors: An Application to Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris
This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and spatial error components. We study the general case where spatial effects are ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 69 (1), 24-42)
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C31, C33, R21
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5226
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
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Back to the Future: Decomposition Analysis of Distributive Policies Using Behavioural Simulations
For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from changes in the environment in which policies operate. When actual reforms are ...
(published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, 19 (5), 708-731)
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H23, H53, I32
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5225
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Kerry
L.
Papps
Alex
Bryson
Rafael
Gomez
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Heterogeneous Worker Ability and Team-Based Production: Evidence from Major League Baseball, 1920-2009
A detailed longitudinal dataset is assembled containing annual performance and biographical data for every player over the entire history of professional major league baseball. The data are then ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 310-319)
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L23, L25, L83, M51
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5224
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Eugenio
Giolito
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On Population Structure and Marriage Dynamics
I develop an equilibrium, two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth to study the interaction between fertility, the age structure of the population and the age at first ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Advances in Macroeconomics, 2010, 10 (1), Article 33)
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J12, D83
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5222
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Laszlo
Goerke
Markus
Pannenberg
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage. Therefore, prima facie, there are strong incentives to free-ride on the benefits ...
(revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 810-821)
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C23, H41, J51, J63
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5221
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Claire
Keane
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Tax-Benefit Revealed Redistributive Preferences Over Time: Ireland 1987-2005
By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 141–167)
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C63, C81, D31, D63, H11, H21, H23, H31
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5220
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Herwig
Immervoll
Andreas
Peichl
Sebastian
Siegloch
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-Based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is possible to speculate about which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed ...
(revised version published as 'Distributional consequences of labor-demand shocks: the 2008–2009 recession in Germany' in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2012, 19 (1), 118-138)
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D58, J23, H24, H60
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5219
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Guido
Heineck
Bernd
Süssmuth
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy: Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
What are the long-term effects of Communism on economically relevant notions such as social trust? To answer this question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (3), 789-803)
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P51, Z31
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5218
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Alan
Barrett
Elish
Kelly
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The Impact of Ireland's Recession on the Labour Market Outcomes of its Immigrants
In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but also in response to its decision to allow full access to its labour market when EU ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Population, 2012, 28 (1), 91-111)
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J61
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5215
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Donka
M.
Mirtcheva
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Religion and Child Health
This paper examines the determinants of the health of children ages 6 to 19, as reported in the Child Development Supplements (CDS) to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The primary focus is ...
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34 (1), 120-140)
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I1, I18, I12, Z12
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5213
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Jason
M.
Lindo
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Parental Job Loss and Infant Health
Although there exists a large literature documenting various consequences of job loss, this paper is the first to explore the extent to which the health effects of job displacement extend to the ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 869 - 897)
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I10, J13, J63
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5212
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Timothy
Bates
Magnus
Lofstrom
Lisa
Servon
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Why Have Lending Programs Targeting Disadvantaged Small-Business Borrowers Achieved So Little Success in the United States?
Small business lending programs designed to move disadvantaged low-income people into business ownership have been difficult to implement successfully in the U.S. context. Based in part on the ...
(published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2011, 25 (3), 255 - 266)
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J15, L26
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5211
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Jacques
Poot
Steven
Stillman
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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5 (18), 1-23)
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F22, J21, J61
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5210
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Anita
Staneva
Reza
Arabsheibani
Philip
D.
Murphy
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Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries: Quantile Regression Approach
This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the conditional wage distribution in four transition countries. We correct for sample ...
(published in: S. Mendolina, M. O'Brien, A. R. Paloya, O. Yearkhin (eds.), Critical Perspectives of Economics of Education, 2022, Chapter 9 )
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C14, I2, J24
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5209
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Gautam
Hazarika
Vejoya
Viren
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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 34, 146-161)
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I21, O12, O15
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5208
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Mark
M.
Pitt
Nidhiya
Menon
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Spatial Decentralization and Program Evaluation: Theory and an Example from Indonesia
This paper proposes a novel instrumental variable method for program evaluation that only requires a single cross-section of data on the spatial intensity of programs and outcomes. The instruments ...
(published as 'Spatial Decentralization and Programme Evaluation: Theory and an Example' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81 (3), 511 - 539)
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C21, H44, O12, C50
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5207
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Daniela
Borodak
Matloob
Piracha
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Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova
This paper analyses the occupational choice of return migrants. Using the CBSAXA data on different aspects of migration in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to ...
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (4), 24-46)
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C35, F22, J24
|
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5206
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David
Masclet
Charles
N.
Noussair
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Threat and Punishment in Public Good Experiments
Experimental studies of social dilemmas have shown that while the existence of a sanctioning institution improves cooperation within groups, it also has a detrimental impact on group earnings in the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1421-1441)
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C92, H41, D63
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