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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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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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5205
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James
J.
Heckman
Daniel
Schmierer
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Tests of Hypotheses Arising in the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
This paper examines the correlated random coefficient model. It extends the analysis of Swamy (1971, 1974), who pioneered the uncorrelated random coefficient model in economics. We develop the ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 27 (6), Special Issue: P.A.V.B Swamy, 1355-1367)
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C31
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5204
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Martin
G.
Kocher
Louis
Putterman
Matthias
Sutter
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Equality, Equity and Incentives: An Experiment
We devise a new experimental game by nesting a voluntary contributions mechanism in a broader spectrum of incentive schemes. With it, we study tensions between egalitarianism, equity concerns, ...
(revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 32-51)
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C91, C92, D31, D63, H41
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5203
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Kanika
Kapur
Susan
Gates
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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier to Entrepreneurship?
The focus on employer-provided health insurance in the United States may restrict business creation. We address the limited research on the topic of "entrepreneurship lock" by using recent panel data ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (1), 146-162)
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L26, I1
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5202
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Markus
Poschke
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Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology
In contrast to the very large literature on skill-biased technical change among workers, there is hardly any work on the importance of skills for the entrepreneurs who employ those workers, and in ...
(superseded by DP 7991.)
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E24, J24, L11, L26, O30
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5200
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Tor
Eriksson
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Respect as an Incentive
Assuming that people care not only about what others do but also on what others think, we study respect as a non-monetary source of motivation in a context where the length of the employment ...
(revised version published as 'Respect and relational contracts' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 81 (1), 286–298)
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C91, J32, J64, M52
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5199
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Martyna
Marczak
Thomas
Beissinger
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Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany
This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany. As detrending methods we apply the deterministic trend model, the ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (2), 469-490)
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E32, C22, C32, J30
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5198
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Danny
Cohen-Zada
William
Sander
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Religious Participation versus Shopping: What Makes People Happier?
In this paper, we first explore how an exogenous increase in the opportunity cost of religious participation affects individuals' religious participation and reported happiness using data from the ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2011, 54 (4), 889-906)
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K10, J16
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5197
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Guido
Heineck
Oliver
Wölfel
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Parental Risk Attitudes and Children's Secondary School Track Choice
It is well known that individuals' risk attitudes are related to behavioral outcomes such as smoking, portfolio decisions, and also educational attainment, but there is barely any evidence on whether ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (5), 727–743)
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I21, J24
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5195
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Kailing
Shen
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Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence
We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to ...
(published in: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (1), 287-336)
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J71
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5194
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Seonghoon
Kim
Deng
Quheng
Belton
M.
Fleisher
Shi
Li
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The Lasting Impact of Mothers' Fetal Malnutrition on Their Offspring: Evidence from the China Great Leap Forward Famine
We find that second-generation effects of in utero and early childhood malnutrition on the school participation of the offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The ...
(published in: Word Development, 2014, 54, 232-242)
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I12, J16, P36
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5193
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Lina
Bergström
Maarten
van Ham
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Understanding Neighbourhood Effects: Selection Bias and Residential Mobility
The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most ...
(published in: Van Ham M., Manley D., Bailey N., Simpson L., Maclennan D. (eds.), [Neighbourhood Effects Research: New Perspectives] (Chapter 4), Springer Dordrecht, 2012, 79-99)
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I30, J60, R23
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5192
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Olena
Y.
Nizalova
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The Wage Elasticity of Informal Care Supply: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
This paper focuses on the relationship between wages and supply of informal care to elderly parents. Unlike most of the previous research estimating wage elasticities of informal care supply, this ...
(published in: Southern Economics Journal, 2012, 79 (2), 350-366)
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J22, J18, J14
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5190
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Married with Children: A Collective Labor Supply Model with Detailed Time Use and Intrahousehold Expenditure Information
We propose a collective labor supply model with household production that generalizes an original model of Blundell, Chiappori and Meghir (2005). In our model, adults' individual preferences do not ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (17), 3377-3405)
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D11, D12, D13
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5189
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Lorenz
Götte
David
B.
Huffman
Stephan
Meier
Matthias
Sutter
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Group Membership, Competition, and Altruistic versus Antisocial Punishment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Army Groups
We investigate how group boundaries, and the economic environment surrounding groups, affect altruistic cooperation and punishment behavior. Our study uses experiments conducted with 525 officers in ...
(revised version published as 'Competition Between Organizational Groups: Its Impact on Altruistic and Anti-Social Motivations' in: Management Science, 2012, 58 (5), 948-960)
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C72, C91, C93
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5187
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Gerald
Roland
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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation ...
(published in : Review of Economics and Statistics , 2017, 99(3), 402-416)
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O1, O3, O4, O5
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5184
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Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
Dmitri
Romanov
Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
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Happiness and Financial Satisfaction in Israel: Effects of Religiosity, Ethnicity, and War
We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (6), 1008-1020)
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H56, I31, N35, N45, R23, Z12
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5183
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Joachim
Wagner
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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries
This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. ...
(published in: International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2012, 19 (2), 169-193)
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F14
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5181
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Olivier
L'Haridon
Franck
Malherbet
Sébastien
Pérez-Duarte
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Does Bargaining Matter in the Small Firm Matching Model?
In this article, we use a stylized model of the labor market to investigate the effects of three alternative and well-known bargaining solutions. We apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 42-58)
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C71, C78, J20, J60
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5180
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Didier
Fouarge
Trudie
Schils
Andries
de Grip
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Why Do Low-Educated Workers Invest Less in Further Training?
Several studies document the fact that low-educated workers participate less often in further training than high-educated workers. The economic literature suggests that there is no significant ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (18), 2587-2601)
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J24, J31, C21
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5179
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Weiwei
Ren
Paul
W.
Miller
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Gender Differentials in the Payoff to Schooling in China
This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately for rural and urban areas, and are based on a framework provided by the over ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2012, 48 (1), 133-150)
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J31, J62, J70
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5177
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Heléne
Lundqvist
Matz
Dahlberg
Eva
Mörk
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Stimulating Local Public Employment: Do General Grants Work?
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists’ minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6 (1) 167 - 192)
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C33, H11, H70, J45
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5176
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Sabien
Dobbelaere
Jacques
Mairesse
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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections
Consistent with two models of imperfect competition in the labor market, the efficient bargaining model and the monopsony model, we provide two extensions of a microeconomic version of Hall's ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (1), 1-46)
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C23, D21, J51, L13
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5175
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Joachim
Wagner
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From Estimation Results to Stylized Facts: Twelve Recommendations for Empirical Research in International Activities of Heterogeneous Firms
Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of micro-econometric studies is to ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (4), 389-412)
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F14, C21, C23
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5173
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James
Banks
Richard
Blundell
Zoë
Oldfield
James
P.
Smith
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House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact ...
(published in D. Wise (ed), Insights in the Economics of Ageing, Chapter 3, University of Chicago Press, 2017.)
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D12, D91
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5172
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Jason
M.
Lindo
Charles
Stoecker
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Drawn into Violence: Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries
Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52 (1), 239-258)
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K42, H56
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5171
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Christer
Gerdes
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Using "Shares" vs. "Log of Shares" in Fixed-Effect Estimations
This paper looks at potential implications emerging from including "shares" as a control variable in fixed effect estimations. By shares I refer to the ratio of a sum of units over another, such as ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 2011, 54 (1), 1–7)
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C23, C29, J10
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5168
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James
Banks
Richard
Blundell
Zoë
Oldfield
James
P.
Smith
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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (313), 1-26)
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D12, D91
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5167
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Alison
L.
Booth
Pamela
Katic
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Estimating the Wage Elasticity of Labour Supply to a Firm: What Evidence Is There for Monopsony?
In this paper we estimate the elasticity of the labour supply to a firm, using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2011, 87 (278), 359 - 369)
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J42, J21, J71
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5166
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
Belgi
Turan
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Left Behind: Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in the Midst of HIV/AIDS
This paper provides evidence on how adverse health conditions affect the transfer of human capital from one generation to the next. We explore the differential exposure to HIV/AIDS epidemic in ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1523-1547)
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O12, I1, I2
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5165
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Marco
Caliendo
Ricarda
Schmidl
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Social Networks, Job Search Methods and Reservation Wages: Evidence for Germany
In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 796-824)
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J64
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5163
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Anders
Frederiksen
Timothy
J.
Halliday
Alexander
K.
Koch
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Within- and Cross-Firm Mobility and Earnings Growth
While it is well established that both promotions within firms and mobility across firms lead to significant earnings progression, little is known about the interaction between these types of ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2016, 69 (2), 320-353)
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C33, J6, M51
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5162
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John
T.
Addison
Orgul
Demet
Ozturk
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Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis
This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (4), 779-809)
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J20, J38, J48, J58, J88
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5161
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James
Banks
Alastair
Muriel
James
P.
Smith
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Attrition and Health in Ageing Studies: Evidence from ELSA and HRS
In this paper we present results of an investigation into observable characteristics associated with attrition in ELSA and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically ...
(published in: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 2(2):101-126, 2011)
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I0
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5160
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Andreas
Kuhn
Jean-Philippe
Wuellrich
Josef
Zweimüller
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Fatal Attraction? Access to Early Retirement and Mortality
We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules ...
(revised and updated version published as IZA DP Nr. 11851, together with Stefan Staubli)
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I1, J14, J26
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