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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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4982
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Ana
Lamo
Julián
Messina
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Formal Education, Mismatch and Wages after Transition: Assessing the Impact of Unobserved Heterogeneity Using Matching Estimators
This paper studies the incidence and consequences of the mismatch between formal education and the educational requirements of jobs in Estonia during the years 1997-2003. We find large wage penalties ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1089-1099)
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J0
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4980
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Ronen
Bar-El
Teresa
García-Muńoz
Shoshana
Neuman
Yossef
Tobol
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The Evolution of Secularization: Cultural Transmission, Religion and Fertility Theory, Simulations and Evidence
This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (3), 1129-1174)
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C15, C25, D13, J11, J13, Z12
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4979
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Chunbing
Xing
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Migration, Self-Selection, and Income Distributions: Evidence from Rural and Urban China
As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2014, 22 (3), 539–576)
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O15
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4978
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Tarjei
Havnes
Magne
Mogstad
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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field? Evidence from Non-Linear Difference-in-Differences
Advocates of a universal child care system offer a two-fold argument: Child care facilitates children's long-run development, and levels the playing field by benefiting in particular disadvantaged ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2015, 127, 100–114)
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J13, H40, I28, D31
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4977
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Robert
A.
Hart
J. Elizabeth
Roberts
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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression: What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?
Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great ...
(published as 'Real wage cyclicality in the Great Depression: evidence from British engineering and metal working firms' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2013, 65 (2), 197-218)
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E32, J31, J33, N64
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4976
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Henrik
Ohlsson
Per
Broomé
Pieter
Bevelander
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The Self-Employment of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the "market" for self-employment or entrepreneurs consists of a supply and demand side as ...
(published in: Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 2012, 24 (5-6), 405-423)
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J15, J21, L26
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4975
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James
J.
Heckman
John
Eric
Humphries
Nicholas
S.
Mader
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The GED
The General Educational Development (GED) credential is issued on the basis of an eight hour subject-based test. The test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school ...
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin and S. Woessman (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011, Chapter 9, 423-483)
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I21, J24, J31
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4974
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Shi
Li
Chunbing
Xing
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China's Higher Education Expansion and its Labor Market Consequences
Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in 1999 affects the education opportunities of various population groups and how this ...
(published with S. Li and J. Whalley as'`China’s Higher Education Expansion and Unemployment of College Graduates' in: China Economic Review, 2014, 30: 567–582)
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I2, J2
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4973
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Elke
J.
Jahn
Michael
Rosholm
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Looking Beyond the Bridge: How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes
We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 65 (1) 108-125)
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C41, J64, J30, J40
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4972
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Laura
E.
Hill
Joseph
Hayes
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Did Employer Sanctions Lose Their Bite? Labor Market Effects of Immigrant Legalization
Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking ...
(revised version published as 'Wage and Mobility Effects of Legalization: Evidence from the New Immigrant Survey' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 171–197)
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J8, J15, J18, J31, J61
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4971
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Katrine
Vellesen
Loken
Magne
Mogstad
Matthew
Wiswall
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What Linear Estimators Miss: Re-Examining the Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes
This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes. Motivated by theoretical predictions and OLS results that suggest a nonlinear ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (2), 1–35)
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J13, C21, C23
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4970
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Martin
A.
van Tuijl
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Country-Specific Goal-Scoring in the "Dying Seconds" of International Football Matches
This paper investigates whether there are country-specific characteristics in goal-scoring in the final stage of important international football matches. We examine goal-scoring from 1960 onwards in ...
(published in: International Journal of Sport Finance, 2011, 6 (2), 138-154)
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J44
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4969
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Pierre
Koning
Karen
van der Wiel
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School Responsiveness to Quality Rankings: An Empirical Analysis of Secondary Education in the Netherlands
This paper analyzes the response of secondary schools to changes in their quality ratings. The current analysis is the first to address the impact of quality scores that have been published by a ...
(revised version published in: De Economist, 2012, 160 (4), 339-355)
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H75, I20, D83
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4968
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term impacts of an after-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States' in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4 (4), 121 - 139)
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C93, I21, I22, I28, J24
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4967
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Donald
O.
Parsons
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The Firing Cost Implications of Alternative Severance Pay Designs
Economists have concerns about the firing cost implications of mandated severance plans. Analysis reveals that predicted severance plan consequences depend critically on the precise structure of the ...
(published in: Robert Holzmann and Milan Vodopivec, eds., Reforming Severance Pay: An International Perspective, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012, 159-176)
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J65, J41, J33
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4966
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
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Immigrant Selection and Short-Term Labour Market Outcomes by Visa Category
This paper studies the efficacy of immigrant selection based on skill requirements in the Canadian context. The point system results in a much higher skill level than would otherwise be achieved by ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 451-475)
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J61, J68
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4964
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Vincenzo
Verardi
Joachim
Wagner
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Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond: First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export ...
(published in: The World Economy, 2012, 35 (6), 694-712)
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F14, C23, C81, C87
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4963
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Michalis
Drouvelis
Robert
Metcalfe
Nattavudh
Powdthavee
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Priming Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games
Research on public goods mainly focuses its attention on the ability of incentives, beliefs and group structure to affect behaviour in social dilemma interactions. This paper investigates the pure ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2015, 79, 479-492)
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C92, D01, H41
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4961
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Brighita
Negrusa
Sonia
Oreffice
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Sexual Orientation and Household Savings: Do Homosexual Couples Save More?
We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and lesbian couples own significantly more retirement income than heterosexuals, while ...
(published as 'Sexual orientation and household financial decisions: evidence from couples in the United States' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (4), 445-463)
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D1, D12, J15, J16
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4960
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Andrew
Leigh
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Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms
How are hourly wages affected by the Earned Income Tax Credit? Using variation in state EITC supplements, I find that a 10 percent increase in the generosity of the EITC is associated with a 5 ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Advances in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 45)
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H22, H23, J22, J30
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4959
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Libertad
González
Claire
Keane
Berkay
Özcan
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Female Labor Supply and Divorce: New Evidence from Ireland
If participation in the labor market helps to secure women's outside options in the case of divorce/separation, an increase in the perceived risk of marital dissolution may accelerate the increase in ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (8), 1675–1691)
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J12, J22, D10, D13, K36
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4958
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Andrey
Launov
Klaus
Wälde
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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits
The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits displays a time-varying exit rate. Building on Semi-Markov processes, we ...
(revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2013, 54 (4), 1159-1198)
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E24, J64, J68, C13
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4957
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Simone
Bertoli
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Francesc
Ortega
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Crossing the Border: Self-Selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions
Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101, 75-91)
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F22, O15, J61, D33
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4956
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Kiu-Sik
Bae
Hiroyuki
Chuma
Takao
Kato
Dong-Bae
Kim
Isao
Ohashi
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High Performance Work Practices and Employee Voice: A Comparison of Japanese and Korean Workers
Using a unique new cross-national survey of Japanese and Korean workers, we report the first systematic evidence on the effects on employee voice of High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) from the ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (1), 1-29)
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J53, M54, M52
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4955
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Loukas
Balafoutas
Matthias
Sutter
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Gender, Competition and the Efficiency of Policy Interventions
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, ...
(shortened version published as 'Affirmative action policies promote women and do not harm efficiency in the lab' in: Science, 2012, 335 (6068), 579-582)
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C91, D03
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4954
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Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Manisha
Chakrabarty
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Mother or Motherland: Can a Government Have an Impact on Educational Attainment of the Population? Preliminary Evidence from India
In this paper, using data from the 61st round of the (Indian) National Sample Survey, we examine the relative impacts of personal-household and state-level characteristics (including government ...
(published as 'Educational Attainment in India: What Drives Transition' in: ICRA's Bulletin: Money & Finance, February 2013, 95 -112)
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I21, I28
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4952
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Aedin
Doris
Donal
O'Neill
Olive
Sweetman
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Identification of the Covariance Structure of Earnings Using the GMM Estimator
In this paper we study the performance of the GMM estimator in the context of the covariance structure of earnings. Using analytical and Monte Carlo techniques we examine the sensitivity of parameter ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2013, 11 (3), 343-372)
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J31, D31
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4951
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Takao
Kato
Chad
Sparber
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Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad
In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 109-126)
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F22, I20, O15, I28, J61
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4950
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Peter
J.
Kuhn
Peter
Kooreman
Adriaan
R.
Soetevent
Arie
Kapteyn
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The Effects of Lottery Prizes on Winners and their Neighbors: Evidence from the Dutch Postcode Lottery
Each week, the Dutch Postcode Lottery (PCL) randomly selects a postal code, and distributes cash and a new BMW to lottery participants in that code. We study the effects of these shocks on lottery ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (5), 2226-2247)
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D12, C21
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4949
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Ryo
Kambayashi
Daiji
Kawaguchi
Ken
Yamada
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The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy: The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003
The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally since 1999 because of a severe recession. We use large micro-data sets from two ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 264-276)
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J23, J31, J38
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4948
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Tim
Callan
Brian
Nolan
John
R.
Walsh
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The Economic Crisis, Public Sector Pay, and the Income Distribution
An important aspect of the impact of the economic crisis is how pay in the public sector responds – in the face not only of the evolution of pay in the private sector, but also extreme pressure on ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 32, 207-225)
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D63, J38, J45
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4947
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Alison
L.
Booth
Andrew
Leigh
Elena
Varganova
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Does Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Vary Across Minority Groups? Evidence from a Field Experiment
We conduct a large-scale audit discrimination study to measure labor market discrimination across different minority groups in Australia – a country where one quarter of the population was born ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (4), 547-573)
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J71, C93
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4946
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults
A variety of public campaigns, including the "Just Say No" campaign of the 1980s and 1990s that encouraged teenagers to "Just Say No to Drugs", are based on the premise that teenagers are very ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 31 (1) 2013, 119-153)
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I2
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4945
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Shelly
Lundberg
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Personality and Marital Surplus
This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the relationship between psychological traits, in particular personality, and the formation and dissolution of marital and ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 1:3)
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J12
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4944
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Olivier
Donni
Eleonora
Matteazzi
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On the Importance of Household Production in Collective Models: Evidence from U.S. Data
The present paper develops a theoretical model of labor supply with domestic production. It is shown that the structural components of the model can be identified without a distribution factor, ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 105/106, 99-126)
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D13, J21, J22
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4943
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Maurice
Schiff
Yanling
Wang
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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion: Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of ...
(published in: El Trimestre Economico, 2012, 79 (2), 289-311 )
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F15, O19, O33
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4942
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Erkki
Koskela
Jan
König
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Does International Outsourcing Really Lower Workers' Income?
We analyze the impact of international outsourcing on income, if the domestic labor market is imperfect. We distinguish in our analysis between the case where the parties negotiate over the wage only ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2011, 32 (1), 21-38)
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E23, E24, J23, J33, J82
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4941
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Gary
Charness
Peter
J.
Kuhn
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Lab Labor: What Can Labor Economists Learn from the Lab?
This paper surveys the contributions of laboratory experiments to labor economics. We begin with a discussion of methodological issues: why (and when) is a lab experiment the best approach; how do ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
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C9, J0
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4940
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Pierre
Koning
Dinand
Webbink
Suncica
Vujic
Nicholas
G.
Martin
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The Effect of Childhood Conduct Disorder on Human Capital
This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics , 2012, 21(8), 928-945.)
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I1, I2, K42
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4939
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Decio
Coviello
Stefano
Gagliarducci
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Building Political Collusion: Evidence from Procurement Auctions
We investigate the relationship between the time politicians stay in office and the functioning of public procurement. To this purpose, we collect a data set on the Italian municipal governments and ...
(published as "Tenure in Office and Public Procurement" in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9 (3), 59-105)
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D44, D72, D73, H57, H70
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4938
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Maurice
Schiff
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Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade
This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage ...
(published as 'Small States, Micro States, and their International Negotiation and Migration' in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2014, 29 (3), 430-449)
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F15, F16, F22
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4937
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Tony
Atkinson
Andrew
Leigh
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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual ...
(published as 'The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Long Run' in: Economic Record, 2013, 89 (51), 31 - 74)
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D31, H23, N30
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4936
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Carol
McAusland
Peter
J.
Kuhn
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Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 77-87)
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F22, J6, O34
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4935
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Lídia
Farré
Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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A Parametric Control Function Approach to Estimating the Returns to Schooling in the Absence of Exclusion Restrictions: An Application to the NLSY
An innovation which bypasses the need for instruments when estimating endogenous treatment effects is identification via conditional second moments. The most general of these approaches is Klein and ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 111-133)
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J31, C31
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4934
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Sher
Verick
Iyanatul
Islam
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The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and Policy Responses
Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through ...
(published in: Iyanatul Islam and Sher Verick (eds.), From the Great Recession to Labour Market Recovery: Issues, Evidence and Policy Options, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; ILO/Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
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E24, E60, G01, J08, J60
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4932
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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Infant Mortality and the Health of Survivors: Britain 1910-1950
The first half of the twentieth century saw rapid improvements in the health and height of British children. Average height and health can be related to infant mortality through a positive selection ...
(published as 'Infant mortality and the health of survivors: Britain, 1910–50' in: Economic History Review, 2011, 64 (3), 951-972)
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I12, J13, N34
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4931
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Kristiina
Huttunen
Jukka
Pirttilä
Roope
Uusitalo
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The Employment Effects of Low-Wage Subsidies
Low-wage subsidies are often proposed as a solution to the unemployment problem among the low skilled. Yet the empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2013, 97, 49–60)
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H24, J23, J68
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4930
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Duha
T.
Altindag
Naci
Mocan
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Joblessness and Perceptions about the Effectiveness of Democracy
Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2010, 31 (2), 99-123)
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J2, O1, P1
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4928
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Vincenzo
Verardi
Joachim
Wagner
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Robust Estimation of Linear Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with an Application to the Exporter Productivity Premium
In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2011, 231 (4), 546-557)
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C23, C81, C87, F14
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4927
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Susi
Störmer
René
Fahr
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Individual Determinants of Work Attendance: Evidence on the Role of Personality
We investigate the influence of personality as measured by the Big Five personality scale on absenteeism using representative data for Germany. In particular, the 2005 wave of the German ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (19), 2863-2875)
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J20, M12, M51
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