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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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5076
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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5065
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Oliver
Falck
Michael
Fritsch
Stephan
Heblich
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The Phantom of the Opera: Cultural Amenities, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 755-766)
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H41, R11, J24
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5064
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Raj
Arunachalam
Manisha
Shah
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The Prostitute's Allure: Examining Returns to Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination
We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12 (1))
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J01, J71
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5062
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Martin
Biewen
Andos
Juhasz
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Understanding Rising Income Inequality in Germany
We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (4), 622-647)
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D31, C14, I30
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5061
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Deniz
Gevrek
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Migration and Loving
This paper explores the relationship between anti-miscegenation laws, interracial marriage and black males' geographical distribution in the U.S. during and after the Great Migration. The U.S. ...
(revised version published as 'Interracial Marriage, Migration and Loving' in: Review of Black Political Economy, 2014, 41 (1), 25-60)
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J12, J15
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5059
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics
Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 325-339)
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F22, J0
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5058
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James
B.
Rebitzer
Lowell
J.
Taylor
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Extrinsic Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to Agency and Labor Markets
Employers structure pay and employment relationships to mitigate agency problems. A large literature in economics documents how the resolution of these problems shapes personnel policies and labor ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4A, Chapter 8, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
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D2, J0, M5
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5057
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Shuaizhang
Feng
Yingyao
Hu
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Misclassification Errors and the Underestimation of U.S. Unemployment Rates
Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (2), 1054-70)
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J21, J64, C14
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5056
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Odelia
Heizler (Cohen)
Ayal
Kimhi
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Who Will Be Idol? The Importance of Social Networks for Winning on Reality Shows
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop ...
(published in: Journal of Socio-Economics, 2012, 41 (1), 18-25)
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J15, D71, P16
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5055
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Bas
van der Klaauw
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Carrot and Stick: How Reemployment Bonuses and Benefit Sanctions Affect Job Finding Rates
To increase their transition from welfare to work, benefit recipients in the municipality of Rotterdam were exposed to various financial incentives, including both carrots to sticks. Once their ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (2), 275–296)
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J64, C21, C41
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5054
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Lisa
B.
Kahn
Fabian
Lange
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Employer Learning, Productivity and the Earnings Distribution: Evidence from Performance Measures
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The ...
(Published in Review of Economic Studies, 2014, 81 (4), 1575-1613.)
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D21, D83, J24, J33
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5053
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Shadow Economy and Entrepreneurial Entry
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of the shadow economy on entrepreneurial entry, utilising 1998-2005 individual-level Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data merged with macro level ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 559-578)
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O17, D2, L26, P14
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5052
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Ruta
Aidis
Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Size Matters: Entrepreneurial Entry and Government
We explore the country-specific institutional characteristics likely to influence an individual's decision to become an entrepreneur. We focus on the size of the government, on freedom from ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2012, 39 (1), 119-139)
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L26, P14, P51, P37
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5051
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Yosef
Mealem
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Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order ...
(published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 193-203)
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D74, F23, I20, J61, L14
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5050
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
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Investing in Our Young People
This paper reviews the recent literature on the production of skills of young persons. The literature features the multiplicity of skills that explain success in a variety of life outcomes. ...
(published in: Arthur Reynolds, Arthur Rolnick, Michelle M. Englund, and Judy A. Temple (eds.), Cost-Effective Programs in Children's First Decade: A Human Capital Integration, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 381-414)
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J13, J24, D91
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5049
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Simon
Czermak
Francesco
Feri
Daniela
Glätzle-Rützler
Matthias
Sutter
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Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents: Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games
We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 128, 265-285.)
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C72, C91
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5048
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Catia
Batista
Aitor
Lacuesta
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 32-45)
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F22, J24, O12, O15
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5047
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Glen
R.
Waddell
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Adolescent Drug Use and the Deterrent Effect of School-Imposed Penalties
Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are biased if both are determined by unobservable school or individual attributes. ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31, 961- 969)
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I2, K42
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5046
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Lucia
Mangiavacchi
Luca
Piccoli
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GDP and the Value of Family Caretaking: How Much Does Europe Care?
This study estimates the size and value of unpaid family caretaking activities at a European level. While at a country level several studies are available, a comprehensive evaluation for Europe as a ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (16), 2111 - 2131)
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D19, J16, R20
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5045
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Werner
Eichhorst
Michael
Feil
Paul
Marx
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Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets
The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly Supplement, 2010, 56 (61), 29-64)
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J23, J21, J58
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5044
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Alexandros
Polycarpou
Konstantinos
Vrachimis
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The Gender Wage Gaps, 'Sticky Floors' and 'Glass Ceilings' of the European Union
We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 86-102)
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J16, J31, J50, C21
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5043
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Patrick
Emmenegger
Paul
Marx
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Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German ...
(revised version published as 'Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations: The Case of Germany' in: Socio-Economic Review, 2011, 9 (4), 729-756)
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K31, N34, N44
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5042
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Douglas
Gollin
Christian
Zimmermann
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Global Climate Change and the Resurgence of Tropical Disease: An Economic Approach
We study the impact of global climate change on the prevalence of tropical diseases using a heterogeneous agent dynamic general equilibrium model. In our framework, households can take actions (e.g., ...
(published in: Mathematical Population Studies, 2012, 19 (1), 51-62)
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I1, O11, E13, E21, Q54
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5041
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Guglielmo
Maria
Caporale
Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania: A Multilevel Analysis
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at ...
(published as 'Improving Environmental Performance: A Challenge for Romania' in: Environmental and Resource Economics, 2014, 57 (3), 431-452)
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Q52, C29, C40
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5040
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Michael
Kosfeld
Susanne
Neckermann
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Getting More Work for Nothing? Symbolic Awards and Worker Performance
We study the impact of status and social recognition on worker performance in a field experiment. In collaboration with an international non-governmental organization we hired students to work on a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 86-99)
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C93, M52
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5039
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Alessandro
Barattieri
Susanto
Basu
Peter
T.
Gottschalk
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Some Evidence on the Importance of Sticky Wages
Nominal wage stickiness is an important component of recent medium-scale structural macroeconomic models, but to date there has been little microeconomic evidence supporting the assumption of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2014, 6 (1), 70-101)
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E24, E32, J30
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5038
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Arthur
van Soest
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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Does Income Taxation Affect Partners' Household Chores?
We study the impact of income taxation on both partners' allocation of time to market work and unpaid house work in households with two adults. We estimate a structural household utility model in ...
(revised version published as 'Income taxation, labour supply and housework: A discrete choice model for French couples' in: Labour Economics, 2014, 27, 30-43)
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J22, H31, C35
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5037
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M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Predictability of Asset Returns and the Efficient Market Hypothesis
This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different ...
(published in: Aman Ullah and David E. Giles (eds.), Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance, Taylor & Francis. 2010)
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G12, G14
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5036
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Clive
Bell
Hans
Gersbach
Maik
T.
Schneider
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Raising Juveniles
This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2012, 74 (1), 32-51)
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D13, J13, J22, J24
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5035
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Werner
Eichhorst
Paul
Marx
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Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States
The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, ...
(published in: P.Emmenegger et al. (eds.): The Age of Dualization, Oxford: 2012, 73-99)
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J38, J41, J21, J58
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5034
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Gary
Charness
David
Masclet
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Competitive Preferences and Status as an Incentive: Experimental Evidence
In this paper, we investigate individuals' investment in status in an environment where no monetary return can possibly be derived from reaching a better relative position. We use a real-effort ...
(revised version published as 'The dark side of competition for status' in: Management Science, 2014, 60 (1), 38–55)
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C91, C92, M54, D63, J28, J31
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5032
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Sara
de la Rica
Juan
J.
Dolado
Raquel
Vegas
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Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain
This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Gaps in Performance Pay: New Evidence from Spain' in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 117-118, 41-59)
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J31, J33, J42, J71
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5031
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Jesse
Bricker
Chris
Rohlfs
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The Role of Specific Subjects in Education Production Functions: Evidence from Morning Classes in Chicago Public High Schools
Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day. This study exploits this empirical regularity and the essentially random variation ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), 2012, 12(1): 1935-1682)
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I20, I21, J13
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5029
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Guglielmo
Maria
Caporale
Christophe
Rault
Robert
Sova
Anamaria
Sova
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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness: Evidence from Romania
According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase ...
(published in: Ecological Economics, 2012, 81, 130-139)
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F14, Q28
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5028
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Jose
C.
Galdo
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The Long-Run Labor-Market Consequences of Civil War: Evidence from the Shining Path in Peru
This study exploits district-level variation in the timing and intensity of civil war violence to investigate whether early-life exposure to civil wars affects labor-market outcomes later in life. In ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2013, 61 (4), 789-823)
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I12, J13, O12, O15
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5027
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Florian
Englmaier
Gerd
Muehlheusser
Andreas
Roider
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Optimal Incentive Contracts under Moral Hazard When the Agent Is Free to Leave
We characterize optimal incentive contracts in a moral hazard framework extended in two directions. First, after effort provision, the agent is free to leave and pursue some ex-post outside option. ...
(revised version published as 'Optimal Incentive Contracts for Knowledge Workers' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 67, 82-106)
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D86, D82, K31, M52
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5026
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Kalena
E.
Cortes
Andrew
I.
Friedson
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Ranking Up by Moving Out: The Effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on Property Values
Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic admission to their state university of choice for all high school seniors who ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2014, 67 (1), 51-76)
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H31, H41, H73, I20
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5025
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Daniele
Checchi
Vito
Peragine
Laura
Serlenga
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Fair and Unfair Income Inequalities in Europe
This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality, ...
(revised version published as “Inequality of Opportunity in Europe: is there a role for institutions ?” in Inequality: Causes and Consequences - Research in Labor Economics, Volume 43/2015, pp.1-44)
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D31, D63, J62
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5024
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Oliver
Falck
Ludger
Woessmann
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School Competition and Students' Entrepreneurial Intentions: International Evidence Using Historical Catholic Roots of Private Schooling
School choice research mostly focuses on academic outcomes. Policymakers increasingly view entrepreneurial traits as a non-cognitive outcome important for economic growth. We use international ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2013, 40 (2), 459-478)
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I20, L33, L26, Z12
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5023
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Leif
Danziger
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Uniform and Nonuniform Staggering of Wage Contracts
This paper provides a model that can account for the almost uniform staggering of wage contracts in some countries as well as for the markedly nonuniform staggering in others. In the model, short and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (6), 1038-1049)
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E31, E32, J41
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5022
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David
Gill
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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Gender Differences and Dynamics in Competition: The Role of Luck
We present experimental evidence which sheds new light on why women may be less competitive than men. Specifically, we observe striking differences in how men and women respond to good and bad luck ...
(published in: Quantitative Economics, 2014, 5 (2), 351-376)
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C91, D03, J16
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5021
|
Kalena
E.
Cortes
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Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan
In light of the recent bans on affirmative action in higher education, this paper provides new evidence on the effects of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29(6): 1110-1124)
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I21, I23, J15, J24
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5020
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Johannes
Berger
Christine
Harbring
Dirk
Sliwka
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Performance Appraisals and the Impact of Forced Distribution: An Experimental Investigation
A real effort experiment is investigated in which supervisors have to rate the performance of individual workers who in turn receive a bonus payment based on these ratings. We compare a baseline ...
(published in: Management Science, 2013, 59 (1), 54-68)
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C91, D83, J33, M52
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5018
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Francis
Green
Stephen
Machin
Richard
J.
Murphy
Yu
Zhu
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The Changing Economic Advantage from Private School
Despite its relatively small size, the private school sector plays a prominent role in British society. This paper focuses on changing wage and education differentials between privately educated and ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (316), 658–679)
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I22, I29, J31
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