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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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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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5140
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
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The Elephant in the Corner: A Cautionary Tale about Measurement Error in Treatment Effects Models
Researchers in economics and other disciplines are often interested in the causal effect of a binary treatment on outcomes. Econometric methods used to estimate such effects are divided into one of ...
(published in: Advances in Econometrics: Missing-Data Methods, 2011, 27 A, 1-39)
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C21, C52
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5139
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Ainoa
Aparicio Fenoll
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High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom
This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the ...
(published as 'Returns to Education and Educational Outcomes: The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom', in: Journal of Human Capital, 2016, 10 (2), 235 - 265)
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J24, J22, I20, L74
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5138
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Shoshana
Grossbard
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Independent Individual Decision-Makers in Household Models and the New Home Economics
Much of the recent literature in household economics has been critical of unitary models of household decision-making. Most alternative models currently used are bargaining models and consensual ...
(published in: J. Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Springer: 2011)
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D11, J00
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5135
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Emilia
Simeonova
William
Copeland
Adrian
Angold
Jane
E.
Costello
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Does More Money Make You Fat? The Effects of Quasi-Experimental Income Transfers on Adolescent and Young Adult Obesity
This paper examines how exogenous income transfers during adolescence affect contemporaneous body mass index (BMI) measures and young adult obesity rates using evidence from the Great Smoky Mountains ...
(published as 'Young Adult Obesity and Household Income: Effects of Unconditional Cash Transfers', American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2013, 5 (2), 1-28)
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I10, I12, I38
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5132
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Mehtabul
Azam
Nishith
Prakash
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A Distributional Analysis of the Public-Private Wage Differential in India
We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the existing literature focuses on average wage differential, we study the differences ...
(substantially revised version published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (4), 394–414)
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J3, J45
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5131
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Nicolas
Petrosky-Nadeau
Etienne
Wasmer
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The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets
Financial frictions are known to raise the volatility of economies to shocks (e.g. Bernanke and
Gertler 1989). We follow this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 5 (1), 193-221)
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E44, J60
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5127
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Fredrik
Carlsson
Haoran
He
Peter
Martinsson
Ping
Qin
Matthias
Sutter
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Household Decision Making in Rural China: Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses
Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (2), 525-536)
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C91, C92, C93, D10
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5126
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Heiko
Stüber
Thomas
Beissinger
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Does Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity Dampen Wage Increases?
Focusing on the compression of wage cuts, many empirical studies find a high degree of downward nominal wage rigidity (DNWR). However, the resulting macroeconomic effects seem to be surprisingly ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 870-887)
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E24, E31, J31
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5125
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David
McKenzie
Dean
Yang
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Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies
The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration ...
(published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269)
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O12, J61, F22, C21
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5124
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
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The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Brain drain has long been a common concern for migrant-sending countries, particularly for small countries where high-skilled emigration rates are highest. However, while economic theory suggests a ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (560), 339 - 375)
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O15, F22, J61
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5123
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Migration and Culture
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring ...
(published in: Epstein, Gil S. and Gang, Ira N. (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald: 2010)
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R23, O15, F22
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5121
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
José
Varejão
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Are Older Workers Worthy of Their Pay? An Empirical Investigation of Age-Productivity and Age-Wage Nexuses
Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas ...
(published in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2), 95-111)
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J14, J24, J31
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5120
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Randall
K. Q.
Akee
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Skin Tone's Decreasing Importance on Employment: Evidence from a Longitudinal Dataset, 1985-2000
We investigate the effect of skin tone on employment probabilities in a longitudinal data set. Using an objective measure of skin tone from a light-spectrometer and a self-reported measure of race we ...
(revised version published as 'The Decreasing Effect of Skin Tone on Women's Full-Time Employment' in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (2), 398-426)
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J15, J16, J71
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5119
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Xiaodong
Gong
Robert
Breunig
Anthony
King
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How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs: New Australian Estimates
The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate. There is a view that the level of responsiveness is very low or negligible, ...
(published as 'Partnered Women's Labour Supply and Child Care Costs in Australia: Measurement Error and the Child-Care Price' in: Economic Record, 2012, 88, 51-69)
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J22, J13
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