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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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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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5158
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
Shmuel
Nitzan
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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Many economic and political decisions are the outcome of strategic contests for a given prize. The nature of such contests can be determined by a designer who is driven by political considerations ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (1-2), 88-93)
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H0
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5157
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Redzo
Mujcic
Paul
Frijters
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Economic Choices and Status: Measuring Preferences for Income Rank
In this paper we report on the trade-offs that 1,068 Australian university students make between absolute income and the rank of that income in hypothetical income distributions. We find that income ...
(published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, vol. 65(1), 47-73)
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D03, C91, J61
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5156
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Andrew
Dillon
Elena
Bardasi
Kathleen
Beegle
Pieter
Serneels
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Explaining Variation in Child Labor Statistics
Child labor statistics are critical for assessing the extent and nature of child labor activities in developing countries. In practice, widespread variation exists in how child labor is measured. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 98 (1),136-147 )
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J21, C81, C93
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5155
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Daniela
Del Boca
Christopher
Flinn
Matthew
Wiswall
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Household Choices and Child Development
The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (1), 137-185)
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J13, D1
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5154
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Boris
Hirsch
Claus
Schnabel
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Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender
Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33 (4), 417-442)
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J62, J63, J16
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5153
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Paul
Frijters
David
W.
Johnston
Manisha
Shah
Michael A.
Shields
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Intra-household Resource Allocation: Do Parents Reduce or Reinforce Child Cognitive Ability Gaps?
Do parents invest more or less in their high ability children? We provide new evidence on this question by comparing observed ability differences and observed investment differences between siblings ...
(published in: Demography, 2013, 50 (6), 2187-2208)
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D13, J1
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5152
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John
Strauss
Xiaoyan
Lei
Albert
Park
Yan
Shen
James
P.
Smith
Zhe
Yang
Yaohui
Zhao
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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot
We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China, and examining the relationships between different dimensions of health status ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing 3(3-4):111-142, 2010)
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I10
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5151
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Peng
Sun
Almas
Heshmati
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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China
International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its ...
(published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2012, 1(2), 35-60.)
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C23, D24, F10, O24, R58
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5150
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Michael
C.
Burda
Mark
Weder
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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles
Payroll taxes represent a major distortionary influence of governments on labor markets. This paper examines the role of payroll taxation and the social safety net for cyclical fluctuations in a ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2016, 14 (2), 436 - 467)
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E24, J64, E32
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5149
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Hongbin
Li
Junjian
Yi
Junsen
Zhang
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Estimating the Effect of the One-Child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China: Identification Based on the Difference-in-Differences
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han Chinese but not to minorities, this unique affirmative policy allows us to ...
(published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (4), 1535-1557)
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J13, J15, J18, O10
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5148
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Guangjie
Ning
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Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality in China? Evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 Data
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected ...
(published in: Economic Systems, 2010, 34 (4), 397-412)
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I20, J31, O15
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5147
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Yama
Temouri
Alexander
Vogel
Joachim
Wagner
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 25 (2), 146-158)
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F14, D21, L80
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5146
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Niaz
Asadullah
Gaston
Yalonetzky
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Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States
This paper documents the extent of inequality of educational opportunity in India spanning the period 1983-2004 using National Sample Survey (NSS) data. We build on recent developments in the ...
(published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (6), 1151–1163)
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D63, O53
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5144
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Martin
Ryan
Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
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Micro-Level Determinants of Lecture Attendance and Additional Study-Hours
This paper uses novel measures of individual differences that produce new insights about student inputs into the (higher) education production function. The inputs examined are lecture attendance and ...
(published as "The Role of Noncognitive Traits in Undergraduate Study Behaviours" in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 32, 181-195)
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I21, J2, D90
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5142
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Arnab
K.
Basu
Nancy
H.
Chau
Melanie
Khamis
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Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis
Ethnic conflicts and their links to international human trafficking have recently received a surge in international attention. It appears that ethnic conflicts exacerbate the internal displacement of ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing: 2010)
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R23, D74, O11, Z12
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5141
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Aslan
Zorlu
Clara
H.
Mulder
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Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers: Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?
We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the ...
(published in: Advances in Life Course Research, 2010, 15 (2-3), 109 - 120)
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J15, J61
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