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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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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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5118
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Christian
Bredemeier
Falko
Juessen
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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply
This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 603-631)
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E24, J22, J16, D13
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5117
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Christian
Merkl
Dennis
Wesselbaum
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Extensive vs. Intensive Margin in Germany and the United States: Any Differences?
This paper analyzes the role of the extensive vis-à-vis the intensive margin of labor adjustment in Germany and in the United States. The contribution is twofold. First, we provide an update of older ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2011, 18 (9), 805-808)
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C10, E32, J21
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5116
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Eileen
Trzcinski
Elke
Holst
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2012, 107 (3), 449-463)
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J16, J29, J69
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5115
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Maarten
van Ham
Lee
Williamson
Peteke
Feijten
Paul
Boyle
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Right to Buy… Time to Move? Investigating the Effect of the Right to Buy on Moving Behaviour in the UK
One of the goals of the Right to Buy (RTB) was to stimulate labour migration by removing the debilitating effect of social housing on geographical mobility. This is the first study to examine ...
(published in: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2013, 28 (1), 129-146)
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J60, J61, R23
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5113
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Juliane
Parys
Gregor
Schwerhoff
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Efficient Intra-Household Allocation of Parental Leave
We propose a model of how parents resolve conflicts about sharing the negative short and long-term consequences from parenthood-related career interruptions on earnings. We introduce childcare ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2018, 51 (1), 236 - 27)
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D13, J12, J13
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5112
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David
Powell
Joachim
Wagner
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The Exporter Productivity Premium along the Productivity Distribution: First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2014, 150 (4), 763-785)
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F14, C21, C23
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5111
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Takao
Kato
Ju Ho
Lee
Jang-Soo
Ryu
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The Productivity Effects of Profit Sharing, Employee Ownership, Stock Option and Team Incentive Plans: Evidence from Korean Panel Data
We report the first results for Korean firms on the incidence, diffusion, scope and effects of diverse employee financial participation schemes, such as Profit Sharing Plans (PSPs), Employee Stock ...
(published in: Tor Eriksson (ed.), Advances in the Economic Analysis of Participatory and Labor-Managed Firms Volume 11, Bingley: Emerald, 2010)
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M52, J33, J24, J53, O53
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5110
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Simon
Fietze
Elke
Holst
Verena
Tobsch
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Germany's Next Top Manager: Does Personality Explain the Gender Career Gap?
The higher the hierarchical level, the fewer women are represented in management positions. Many studies have focused on the influence of human capital and other "objective" factors on career ...
(published in: management revue - The international Review of Management Studies, 2011, 22 (3), 240-273 )
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J16, J44, J71, M12, M14
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5109
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Ludwig
Ensthaler
Olga
Nottmeyer
Georg
Weizsäcker
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Hidden Skewness
We provide laboratory evidence that people neglect skewness resulting from compound shocks.
(published in: Management Science, 2018, 64 (4), 1693-1706. )
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C91, D03
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5108
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Martin
Kahanec
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia
In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia using a unique 2004 UNDP dataset. Treating the collapse ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 415-443)
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I21, I12, J24, N34
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5105
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Boris
Maciejovsky
Matthias
Sutter
David
V.
Budescu
Patrick
Bernau
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Teams Make You Smarter: Learning and Knowledge Transfer in Auctions and Markets by Teams and Individuals
We study the impact of team decision making on market behavior and its consequences for subsequent individual performance in the Wason selection task, the single-most studied reasoning task. We ...
(revised version published as 'Teams make you smarter: How exposure to teams improves individual decisions in probability and reasoning tasks' in: Management Science, 2013, 59 (6), 1255-1270)
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C91, C92, D03
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5103
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Robin
M.
Hogarth
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Intermittent Reinforcement and the Persistence of Behavior: Experimental Evidence
Whereas economists have made extensive studies of the impact of levels of incentives on behavior, they have paid little attention to the effects of regularity and frequency of incentives. We ...
(revised version published as 'Ambiguous Incentives and the Persistence of Effort: Experimental Evidence' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 100, 1-19)
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C92, M54, J28, J31
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5102
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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The Impact of Child Care Subsidies on Child Well-Being: Evidence from Geographic Variation in the Distance to Social Service Agencies
In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2016, 35 (1), 94 - 116)
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I18, I2, J13
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5101
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Ludger
Woessmann
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (3), 404-418)
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I20, J33
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5100
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Labor Market Policy: A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility
I review theories and evidence on wage-setting institutions and labor market policies in an international comparative context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2012, 31 (1), 94-110)
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J68
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5099
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Jordi
Galí
Thijs
van Rens
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The Vanishing Procyclicality of Labor Productivity
We document three changes in postwar US macroeconomic dynamics: (i) the procyclicality of labor productivity has vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (633), 302 - 326)
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E24, E32
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5098
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Sabrina
Di Addario
Daniela
Vuri
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size: The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000 inhabitant-increase ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 848-858)
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R12, J24, J21
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5096
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Javier
Ordóñez
Hector
Sala
José
I.
Silva
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Oil Price Shocks and Labor Market Fluctuations
We examine the impact of real oil price shocks on labor market flows in the U.S. We first use smooth transition regression (STR) models to investigate to what extent oil prices can be considered as a ...
(published in: Energy Journal, 2011, 32 (3), 89-118)
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E22, E32, J63, J64
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5095
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James
J.
Heckman
Seong
Hyeok
Moon
Rodrigo
Pinto
Peter
A.
Savelyev
Adam
Yavitz
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Analyzing Social Experiments as Implemented: A Reexamination of the Evidence from the HighScope Perry Preschool Program
Social experiments are powerful sources of information about the effectiveness of interventions. In practice, initial randomization plans are almost always compromised. Multiple hypotheses are ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2010, 1 (1), 1-46)
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I21, C93, J15, V16
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5093
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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Do Non-Cognitive Skills Help Explain the Occupational Segregation of Young People?
This paper investigates the role of non-cognitive skills in the occupational segregation of young workers entering the U.S. labor market. We find entry into male-dominated fields of study and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 59-73)
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J24, J16, J31
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5092
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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The Wage-Productivity Gap Revisited: Is the Labour Share Neutral to Employment?
This paper challenges the prevailing view of the neutrality of the labour income share to labour demand, and investigates its impact on the evolution of employment. Whilst maintaining the assumption ...
(published as 'The Role of the Wage-Productivity Gap in Economic Activity' in: International Review of Applied Economics, 2014, 28 (4), 436-459)
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E24, E25, O47
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5091
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Erik
Biorn
Simen
Gaure
Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
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The Rise in Absenteeism: Disentangling the Impacts of Cohort, Age and Time
We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (4), 1585-1608)
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C23, C25, I38, J22
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5089
|
Heather
Antecol
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The Opt-Out Revolution: A Descriptive Analysis
Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Census, I find little support for the opt-out revolution – highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 45-83)
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J13, J15, J16, J22
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5088
|
Laura
Hospido
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Job Changes and Individual-Job Specific Wage Dynamics
This paper develops an error components model that is used to examine the impact of job changes on the dynamics and variance of individual log earnings. I use data on work histories drawn from the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 33, 81-93 )
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C23, J31
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5086
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Hugo
R.
Nopo
Alejandro
Hoyos
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Evolution of Gender Wage Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to
This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries ...
(published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', Latin American Development Forum;. © Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, 2012 )
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C14, D31, J16, O54
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5085
|
Hugo
R.
Nopo
Juan
Pablo
Atal
Natalia
Winder
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New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) ...
(published also as 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', Latin American Development Forum;. © Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, 2012)
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C14, D31, J16, O54
|
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5083
|
Kostas
Mavromaras
Seamus
McGuinness
Nigel
C.
O'Leary
Peter J.
Sloane
Zhang
Wei
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Job Mismatches and Labour Market Outcomes: Panel Evidence on Australian University Graduates
The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2013, Vol 89, No 286, 382-395)
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J24, J31
|
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5082
|
Francesco
Pastore
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Assessing the Impact of Incomes Policy: The Italian Experience
The Saint Valentine's decree (1984) and the ensuing hard fought referendum (1985), which reduced the automatisms of scala mobile, started a process of redefinition of wage fixing in Italy, which ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (7), 793-817)
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C22, E12, E25, E64, E65
|
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5081
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Toshie
Ikenaga
Daiji
Kawaguchi
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Labor-Market Attachment and Training Participation
This paper examines how expected attachment to the labor market and expected tenure at a specific firm affect training participation. The results, based on cross-sectional data from Japan, indicate ...
(published in: Japanese Economic Review, 2013, 64 (1), 73–97)
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J16, J24, J61, J63
|
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5080
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Delia
Furtado
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
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Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks
Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor market success of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 101)
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J61, J12, J21
|
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5079
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Emin
Karagozoglu
Arno
Riedl
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Information, Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining
More often than not production processes are the joint endeavor of people having different abilities and productivities. Such production processes and the associated surplus production are often not ...
(pubished as: 'Performance Information, Production Uncertainty, and Subjective Entitlements in Bargaining' in: Management Science, 2015, 61 (11), 2611 - 2626)
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C79, C92, D01, D29, D63, D89, M59
|
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5078
|
Gesine
Stephan
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Wages, Employment and Tenure of Temporarily Subsidized Workers: Does the Industry Matter?
This paper explores whether wage, employment and tenure outcomes of workers taking up a job subsidized by the German Federal Employment Agency differ by industry. The analysis utilizes administrative ...
(revised version published as 'Hétérogénéité sectorielle des effets d'un dispositif de subvention salariale sur les salaires et l'emploi en Allemagne' in: Travail et Emploi, 2014, 139, 61-74)
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J31, J38, J58
|
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5077
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John
T.
Addison
José
Machado
Pedro
Portugal
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The Reservation Wage Unemployment Duration Nexus
A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (6), 980-987)
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J64, J65
|
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5076
|
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
John
D.
Leeth
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Hedonic Wage Equilibrium: Theory, Evidence and Policy
We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 5 (4), 229-299)
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J2, J3
|
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5075
|
Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 67-103)
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I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
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5073
|
Alejandro
Hoyos
Hugo
R.
Nopo
Ximena
Peña
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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different ...
(published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', World Bank Publications, 2012)
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C14, D31, J16, O54
|
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5071
|
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
Willie
Belton
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Black-White Gap in Self-Employment in the U.S.: Do Cohort and Within Race Differences Exist?
In this paper we ask three questions: First, is there evidence of a Black-White gap in self-employment between 1994-2002 and could the inclusion of the White immigrant population be driving this ...
(revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 25-39)
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J10, J11, J15, L26
|
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5070
|
Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Jack
W.
Hou
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The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA DP No. 8351)
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J61, J11
|
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5068
|
Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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How Economics Helped Shape American Judaism
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. ...
(published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 646-662)
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Z12, N32, J12
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5067
|
Tilman
Brück
Patricia
Justino
Philip
Verwimp
Alexandra
Avdeenko
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by ...
(revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 31 (1), 29-58.)
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C81, D74, F52, O12
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