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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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4926
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Sample Selectivity and the Validity of International Student Achievement Tests in Economic Research
Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110 (2), 79-82)
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C83, H4, I20, O40
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4925
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country ...
(published in: E.A. Hanushek, S. Machin, L. Woessmann (eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Education, Vol. 3, pp. 89-200, Amsterdam: North Holland, 2011)
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I20, O40, O15, H40, H52, J24, J31, P50
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4924
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Christian
Merkl
Tom
Schmitz
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Macroeconomic Volatilities and the Labor Market: First Results from the Euro Experiment
This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone offers an unprecedented experiment for this exercise: since 1999, no national ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (1), 44-60)
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E24, E32, J20
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4923
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Ramón
López
Maurice
Schiff
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Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources: Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics
Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led to increased pressure on common-property renewable natural resources (NR). The ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, 1-15 )
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F22, O13, O15, Q17, Q27
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4921
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Jason
Abrevaya
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Charity and Favoritism in the Field: Are Female Economists Nicer (To Each Other)?
Using a very large sample of matched author-referee pairs, we examine how the gender of referees and authors affects the former's recommendations. Relying on changing matches of authors and referees, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 202-207)
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J71
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4920
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Dan
Andrews
Christopher
Jencks
Andrew
Leigh
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Do Rising Top Incomes Lift All Boats?
Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11, article 6)
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D31, N10, O57
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4919
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Xin
Meng
Kailing
Shen
Sen
Xue
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Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007
In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41 (1), 227–244)
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J31, P2, P3
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4918
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Martin
Halla
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Tax Morale and Compliance Behavior: First Evidence on a Causal Link
Recent literature on tax evasion emphasizes the importance of moral considerations to explain compliance behavior. As a consequence scholars aim to identify factors that shape this so-called tax ...
(revised version published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2012, 12 (1), 1-27)
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A13, O17, H26, Z13, C81
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4917
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Mathias
Dolls
Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
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Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis and Income Distribution in Europe
This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economic downturns like the ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 32, 227-256)
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E32, E63, H2, H31
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4916
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Alison
L.
Booth
Hiau
Joo
Kee
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A Long-Run View of the University Gender Gap in Australia
The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, ...
(published in: Australian Economic History Review, 2011, 51 (3), 254-276)
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I23, J1, N3
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4915
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Orley
Ashenfelter
Henry
S
Farber
Michael
R.
Ransom
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Modern Models of Monopsony in Labor Markets: A Brief Survey
This brief survey contains a review of several new empirical papers that attempt to measure the extent of monopsony in labor markets. As noted originally by Joan Robinson, monopsonistic exploitation ...
(published as 'Labor Market Monopsony' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 203 - 210)
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J31
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4913
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Kathrin
Breuer
Petra
Nieken
Dirk
Sliwka
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Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations: An Empirical Investigation
We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and ...
(published in: Review of Managerial Science, 2013, 7 (2), 141-157)
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D03, M52
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4912
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David
M.
Blau
Wilbert
van der Klaauw
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What Determines Family Structure?
We estimate the effects of policy and labor market variables on the fertility, union formation and dissolution, type of union (cohabiting versus married), and partner choices of the NLSY79 cohort of ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (1), 579–604)
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J12
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4911
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Dirk
Antonczyk
Bernd
Fitzenberger
Katrin
Sommerfeld
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Rising Wage Inequality, the Decline of Collective Bargaining, and the Gender Wage Gap
This paper investigates the increase in wage inequality, the decline in collective bargaining, and the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany between 2001 and 2006. Based on detailed ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 835-847)
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J31, J51, J52, C21
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4910
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Anzelika
Zaiceva
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Do Ethnic Minorities "Stretch" Their Time? Evidence from the UK Time Use Survey
This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, ...
(revised version published as "Do Ethnic Minorities 'Stretch' Their Time? UK Household Evidence on Multitasking" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 181-206)
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J22, J15
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4909
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Natália
Pimenta
Monteiro
Miguel
Portela
Odd
Rune
Straume
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Firm Ownership and Rent Sharing
We analyse – theoretically and empirically – how private versus public ownership of firms affects the degree of rent sharing between firms and their workers. Using a particularly rich linked ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2011, 32 (3), 210 - 236)
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J45, D21, C23
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4906
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Mark
Skidmore
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
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Property Value Assessment Growth Limits, Tax Base Erosion and Regional In-Migration
In 1994 a limit on the growth of property values for tax purposes was imposed in Michigan. One consequence of the newly imposed assessment growth cap was an emerging differential in tax prices ...
(published in: Public Finance Review, 2011, 39 (2), 256-287)
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H71, H73, J61
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4905
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Enrico
Moretti
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Local Labor Markets
I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers ...
(published in: O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4B, Chapter 14, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2011)
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J00
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4903
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment: Evidence from Rural El Salvador
We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (6), 1001-1019)
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J22 J61
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4902
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Paul
Frijters
Juan
D.
Barón
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The Cult of Theoi: Economic Uncertainty and Religion
Sacrifices to deities occur in nearly all known religions. In this paper, we report on our attempts to elicit this type of religious behaviour towards "Theoi" in the laboratory. The theory we test is ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2012, 88, 116-136)
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D8, Z12
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4901
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Michal
Bauer
Julie
Chytilová
Jonathan
Morduch
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Behavioral Foundations of Microcredit: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Rural India
Microcredit is an innovative financial tool designed to reduce poverty and fix credit market imperfections. We use experimental measures of time discounting and risk aversion for villagers in south ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 1118-1139)
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C93, D91, O12
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4900
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
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The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2010, 24 (5), 941–969)
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F22, N30, J61
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4899
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Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants' Migration Duration and Saving Decisions
This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:8)
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F22, J61
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4898
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
Mary
J.
Lopez
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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border ...
(published in: Feminist Economics, 2013, 19 (1), 76-110)
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J1, J2, J3, J6
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4897
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Bernt
Bratsberg
Elisabeth
Fevang
Knut
Røed
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Disability in the Welfare State: An Unemployment Problem in Disguise?
Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative ...
(revised version published as 'Job Loss and Disability Insurance' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 24, 137–150)
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H55, I12, I38, J63, J65
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4896
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Eva
Deuchert
Conny
Wunsch
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Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions When Standard Before-After Doesn't Work: Malawi's ITN Distribution Program
Nationwide health interventions are difficult to evaluate as contemporaneous control groups do not exist and before-after approaches are usually infeasible. We propose an alternative semi-parametric ...
(published as 'Evaluating Nationwide Health Interventions: Malawi's Insecticide Treated Net Distribution Program' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2014, 177 (2), 523-552)
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C14, C21, I18
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4895
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Eric
Bartelsman
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Joris
De Wind
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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2018, 57 (3), 787 - 825)
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J65, O38
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4894
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Murat
Güray
Kirdar
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Estimating the Impact of Immigrants on the Host Country Social Security System When Return Migration is an Endogenous Choice
In this paper, I estimate the fiscal impact of immigrants on the German pension insurance (PI) and unemployment insurance (UI) systems when return migration is an endogenous choice. For this purpose, ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (2), 453-486)
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J61, D91, H55, J65, J68
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4893
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Markus
Poschke
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"Entrepreneurs out of Necessity": A Snapshot
"Entrepreneurs out of necessity" identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey are a sizeable group across countries. They tend to have low education, run smaller firms, expect their firms ...
(published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2013, 20 (7), 658-663)
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L26, O40
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4892
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Anabela
Carneiro
Natércia
Fortuna
José
Varejão
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Immigrants at New Destinations: How They Fare and Why
Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labor market. Results previously reported for countries with a long tradition of hosting ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (3), 1165-1185)
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J15, J24, J61
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4891
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Fernando
Alexandre
Pedro
Bação
João
Cerejeira
Miguel
Portela
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Employment, Exchange Rates and Labour Market Rigidity
There is increasing evidence that the interaction between shocks and labour market institutions is crucial to understanding the dynamics of employment. In this paper, we show that the inclusion of ...
(published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (5), 993 - 1011)
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J23, F16, F41
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4890
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Tito
Boeri
Pietro
Garibaldi
Marta
Ribeiro
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Behind the Lighthouse Effect
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike. This phenomenon was so far ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (s1), 54-78)
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J30
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4889
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Victoria
L.
Prowse
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Modeling Employment Dynamics with State Dependence and Unobserved Heterogeneity
This paper extends existing work on labor force participation dynamics by distinguishing between full-time and part-time employment and allowing unobserved heterogeneity in the effects of previous ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2012, 30 (2), 411-431)
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C15, C25, J6, J22
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4888
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Lucia
Mangiavacchi
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Children's Schooling and Parental Migration: Empirical Evidence on the
This article investigates the long-term effects of parental migration abroad on the schooling of children left behind in Albania. Although parents' migration usually benefits children economically, ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24 (s1), 76 - 92)
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J13, J18, O15, P36
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4887
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T. H.
Gindling
Sara
Z.
Poggio
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The Effect of Family Separation and Reunification on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in the United States
For many immigrants, especially those from Central America and Mexico, it is common for a mother or father (or both) to migrate to the United States and leave their children behind. Then, after the ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2012, 38 (7),1155-1173)
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I2, J13, J61
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4885
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Christian
Dustmann
Francesca
Fabbri
Ian
Preston
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Racial Harassment, Ethnic Concentration and Economic Conditions
In this paper, we analyse the association between spatial concentration of ethnic minorities, and racial harassment. Ethnic concentration relates to racial harassment through at least three channels: ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (3), 689-711)
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J15, R23
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4884
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Erik
Snowberg
Justin
Wolfers
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Explaining the Favorite-Longshot Bias: Is it Risk-Love or Misperceptions?
The favorite-longshot bias describes the longstanding empirical regularity that betting odds provide biased estimates of the probability of a horse winning – longshots are overbet, while favorites ...
(published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 118 (4), 723-746)
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D03, D49, G12, L83
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4882
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María
Cervini-Plá
Xavier
Ramos
José
I.
Silva
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Wage Effects of Non-Wage Labour Costs
We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two ...
(substantially revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2014, 72, 113-137. Winner of the 2015 Spanish Association for Labour Economics Best Paper Award.)
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C23, D31, J31
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4881
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Torun
Österberg
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Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden
This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of ...
(published in: Peter Saunders and Roy Sainsbury (eds.), Social Security, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich and Poorer Countries. International Studies on Social Security volume 16, Intersentia Publishing, 2010 )
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I32, J13, R23
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4880
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Glen
R.
Waddell
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Gender and the Influence of Peer Alcohol Consumption on Adolescent Sexual Activity
I consider the alcohol consumption of opposite-gender peers as explanatory to adolescent sexual intercourse and demonstrate that female sexual activity is higher where there is higher alcohol ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 50 (1), 248-263)
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J13, I12
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4879
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Marcela
Umana-Aponte
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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries
This paper investigates cyclicality in women's labour supply motivated by the hypothesis that it contributes to smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We ...
(revised version available)
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J22, J13
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4878
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Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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Family Location and Caregiving Patterns from an International Perspective
This paper conducts a cross-national econometric analysis of intra-family location and caregiving patterns. First, we assess, from an international perspective, the relationship between family ...
(revised version published in: Population and Development Review, 2012, 38 (2), 337-351)
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D19, J14
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4877
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Albert
Park
Dewen
Wang
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Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China
Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also ...
(published in: China Economic Journal, 2010, 3 (1), 40 - 67)
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J61, O15
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4876
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Miles
Corak
Patrizio
Piraino
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and the Inheritance of Employers
Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the ...
(revised version published as: 'The Inheritance of Employers and Nonlinearities in Intergenerational Earnings Mobility.' in: Kaushik Basu and Joseph Stiglitz (editors). Inequality and Growth: Patterns and Policy. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016, 1 - 34)
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J62, J64, J24
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4875
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Fabio
Mariani
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The Economic Value of Virtue
Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a woman's chances of marrying a high-status ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 323-356)
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D1, J12, Z13
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4874
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Stephane
Mahuteau
Matloob
Piracha
Massimiliano
Tani
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Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of ...
(revised as DP 10927)
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F22, F24, J61
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4873
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Silke
Anger
Michael
Kvasnicka
Thomas
Siedler
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One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (3), 591-601)
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I12, K32, I18, C33
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4870
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Lex
Borghans
Margo
Romans
Jan
Sauermann
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What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists
Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 868-874)
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A11, J44, C25
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4869
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David
Card
Gordon
B.
Dahl
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Family Violence and Football: The Effect of Unexpected Emotional Cues on Violent Behavior
We study the link between family violence and the emotional cues associated with wins and losses by local professional football teams. We hypothesize that the risk of violence is affected by the ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2011, 126 (1), 103-143)
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D03, J12
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4868
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Carmel
U.
Chiswick
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Economics and Religion
This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of economic incentives in the religious marketplace on consumers’ demand for ...
(published in: Rhona C. Free (ed.), 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook, Sage Publications: 2010)
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Z12
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