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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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4791
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Anders
Frederiksen
Odile
Poulsen
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Increasing Income Inequality: Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an ...
(published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239)
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J3, J6, M5
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4790
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed: Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Turning unemployment into self-employment has become an increasingly important part of active labor market policies (ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 311-331)
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J68, C14, H43
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4789
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John
Micklewright
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
Chris
Skinner
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Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with ...
(revised version published as 'Non-response biases in surveys of schoolchildren: the case of the English Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) samples' in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (4), 915-938)
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C83, I21
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4788
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Christer
Gerdes
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Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program
Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration ...
(published in: The Annals of Regional Science, 2013, 50, 645-666)
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H7, I28, J15, J78, R5
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4787
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Nicolas
R.
Ziebarth
Joachim
R.
Frick
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Revisiting the Income-Health Nexus: The Importance of Choosing the
We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health ...
(revised version published as 'Welfare-Related Health Inequality: Does the Choice of Measure Matter?' in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2013, 14 (3), 431-442)
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D31, I10, I12
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4786
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Monika
Schnitzer
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Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11(5), 1115-1152)
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O3, O16, F1, G3
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4785
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective
Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 479-494; cited in The Economist, February 2011)
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A10, I20
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4784
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Almas
Heshmati
Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth: The Case of Chinese Provinces
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In ...
(published in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2011, 78 (4), 575-590)
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C33, C43, D24, O18, O47
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4783
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Matteo
Picchio
Chiara
Mussida
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Gender Wage Gap: A Semi-Parametric Approach with Sample Selection Correction
Sizeable gender differences in employment rates are observed in many countries. Sample selection into the workforce might therefore be a relevant issue when estimating gender wage gaps. This paper ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 564-578)
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C21, C41, J16, J31, J71
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4782
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Robert
Dur
Arjan
Non
Hein
Roelfsema
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Reciprocity and Incentive Pay in the Workplace
We study optimal incentive contracts for workers who are reciprocal to management attention. When neither worker's effort nor manager's attention can be contracted, a double moral-hazard problem ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 676-686)
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D86, J41, M51, M52, M54, M55
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4781
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Ugo
Colombino
Marilena
Locatelli
Edlira
Narazani
Cathal
O'Donoghue
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Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms: An Evaluation Exercise with a Microeconometric Model
We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in four European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Portugal and ...
(published in: Basic Income Studies, 2010, 5 (1))
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C25, H24, H31, I38
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4780
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Dorly
J. H.
Deeg
Maarten
Lindeboom
France
Portrait
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The Role of Early-Life Conditions in the Cognitive Decline due to Adverse Events Later in Life
Cognitive functioning of elderly individuals may be affected by events such as the loss of a (grand)child or partner or the onset of a serious chronic condition, and by negative economic shocks such ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (548), F411-F428)
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I12, I10, J14, E32
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4779
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Arno
Tausch
Almas
Heshmati
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Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"
The current paper investigates the cross-national relevance of Latin American "dependencia theory" for five dimensions of development (democracy and human rights, environment, human development and ...
(published in: Alternatives, Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2010, 9(4), 3-90.)
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J01, O52, O54, P50
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4777
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Simonetta
Longhi
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Job Competition and the Wage Curve
The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (5), 611-620)
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J31, R23
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4775
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Petter
Lundborg
Paul
Nystedt
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique ...
(published as 'Body Size, Skills, and Income: Evidence From 150,000 Teenage Siblings' in: Demography, 2014, 51, 1573-1596)
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I10, J10, J70
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4774
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David
W.
Johnston
Michael
E. R.
Nicholls
Manisha
Shah
Michael A.
Shields
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Handedness, Health and Cognitive Development: Evidence from Children in the NLSY
Using data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and fitting family fixed-effects models of child health and cognitive development, we test if left-handed children do significantly worse ...
(published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2013, 176 (4), 841-860)
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I12, J10
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4773
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Conny
Wunsch
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Optimal Use of Labor Market Policies: The Role of Job Search Assistance
This paper studies the role of job search assistance programs in optimal welfare-to-work programs. The analysis is based on a framework, that allows for endogenous choice of benefit types and levels, ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (3), 1030-1045)
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J64, J65, J68, D82, D86
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4772
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Jonathan
Haskel
Gavin
Wallis
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Public Support for Innovation, Intangible Investment and Productivity Growth in the UK Market Sector
Pressure on public finances has increased scrutiny of public support for innovation. We examine two particular issues. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (2), 195-198)
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O47, E22
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4771
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Olaf
Hübler
Lukas
Menkhoff
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Do Women Manage Smaller Funds?
Based on a sample of 467 asset managers from four countries we robustly find that women manage smaller funds than men, despite tough competition in this industry. Interestingly, the gender gap exists ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (1), 107-126)
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J16, J44, G23
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4770
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Hilmar
Schneider
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 118-141)
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D31, D63, J11
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4769
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Rolf
Aaberge
Magne
Mogstad
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Robust Inequality Comparisons
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 353-371)
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D31, D63
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4768
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Anh
T.
Le
Paul
W.
Miller
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The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities
This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children on this specialization. It then examines the links between the time allocations ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 108 (2), 237-241)
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J13, J16, J22
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4767
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Andrea
Ichino
Loukas
Karabarbounis
Enrico
Moretti
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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
The intergenerational elasticity of income is considered one of the best measures of the degree to which a society gives equal opportunity to its members. While much research has been devoted to ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49 (1), 47-69)
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E24, J62, J68, P16
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4766
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Josse
Delfgaauw
Robert
Dur
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Managerial Talent, Motivation, and Self-Selection into Public Management
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 654-660)
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H83, J24, J3, J45
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4765
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Lenny
Stoeldraijer
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Age, Wage and Productivity
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and ...
(published as 'Age, Wage and Productivity in Dutch Manufacturing' in: De Economist, 2011, 159 (2) , 113-137)
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J23, J31
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4762
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Solomon
Polachek
Daria
Sevastianova
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Does Conflict Disrupt Growth? Evidence of the Relationship between Political Instability and National Economic Performance
Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 361 - 388)
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C2, O1, O47, O57, P47, P52
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4761
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Gulcin
Gumus
Jungmin
Lee
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The ART of Life: IVF or Child Adoption?
This paper analyzes the effects of child adoption on the utilization of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the US. Using state-level longitudinal data for 1999-2006, we show that ART use is ...
(revised version published as 'Alternative Paths to Parenthood: IVF or Child Adoption?' in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (3), 802-820)
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I11, J13, J18
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4760
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John
T.
Addison
Alex
Bryson
Paulino
Teixeira
André
Pahnke
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Slip Sliding Away: Further Union Decline in Germany and Britain
This paper presents the first comparative analysis of the decline in collective bargaining in two European countries where that decline has been most pronounced. Using workplace-level data and a ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 58 (4), 490-518)
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J50, J51
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4757
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Pedro
S.
Martins
Gary
Solon
Jonathan
P.
Thomas
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Measuring What Employers Really Do about Entry Wages over the Business Cycle
In models recently published by several influential macroeconomic theorists, rigidity in the real wages that firms pay newly hired workers plays a crucial role in generating realistically large ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4 (4), 36-55)
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E24, J31, E32
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4756
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Stephan
Meier
Charles
Sprenger
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Stability of Time Preferences
Individuals frequently face intertemporal decisions. For the purposes of economic analysis, the preference parameters assumed to govern these decisions are generally considered to be stable economic ...
(revised version published as 'Temporal Stability of Time Preferences' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(2), 273-286)
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C93, D01, D03, D11, D91
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4755
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Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
We live in a high-divorce age. It is now common for university faculty to have students who are touched by a recent divorce. It is likely that parents themselves worry about effects on their ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 1-23)
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D03, J24, C91
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4754
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Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
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Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an after-school program, the Quantum Opportunity Program, that ...
(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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4752
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Emmanuel
Saez
Manos
Matsaganis
Panos
Tsakloglou
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Earnings Determination and Taxes: Evidence from a Cohort Based Payroll Tax Reform in Greece
This paper analyzes the response of earnings to payroll tax rates using a cohort-based reform in Greece. All individuals who started working on or after 1993 face permanently a much higher earnings ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2012, 127 (1), 493-533)
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J31, J22, H22
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4751
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Achim
Schmillen
Joachim
Möller
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Determinants of Lifetime Unemployment: A Micro Data Analysis with Censored Quantile Regressions
The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In contrast, we use a large German administrative micro data set for the time span ...
(published as "Distribution and determinants of lifetime unemployment" in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 33-47)
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J64, J24
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4750
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Marco
Caliendo
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Locus of Control and Job Search Strategies
Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 88-103, Supplementary Appendix available)
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J64
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4749
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Elliott
Fan
Xin
Meng
Zhichao
Wei
Guochang
Zhao
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Rates of Return to University Education: The Regression Discontinuity Design
Estimating the rate of return to a university degree has always been difficult due to the problem of omitted variable biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics 2018, 120 (4), 1011-1042.)
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I21, I28, J24
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4748
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Wang-Sheng
Lee
Sandy
Suardi
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Minimum Wages and Employment: Reconsidering the Use of a Time-Series Approach as an Evaluation Tool
The time-series approach used in the minimum wage literature essentially aims to estimate a treatment effect of increasing the minimum wage. In this paper, we employ a novel approach based on ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49, s376 - s401)
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C22, J3
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4747
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Alberto
Alesina
Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
Paola
Giuliano
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Family Values and the Regulation of Labor
Flexible labor markets require geographically mobile workers to be efficient. Otherwise, firms can take advantage of the immobility of workers and extract monopsony rents. In cultures with strong ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (4), 599-630)
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E0, P16, Z10, Z13
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4746
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Danila
Serra
Pieter
Serneels
Abigail
Barr
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Intrinsic Motivations and the Non-Profit Health Sector: Evidence from Ethiopia
Economists have traditionally assumed that individual behavior is motivated exclusively by extrinsic incentives. Social psychologists, in contrast, stress that intrinsic motivations are also ...
(published in: Personality and Individual Differences, 2011, 51 (3), 309-314)
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C93, I11, J24
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4745
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Jennifer
Hunt
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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 417-457)
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J61, J24
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4743
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Oliver
Falck
Stephan
Heblich
Alfred
Lameli
Jens
Suedekum
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Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 225-239)
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R23, Z10, J61
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4742
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Firat
Yaman
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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany
Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse ...
(revised version published as 'Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131(A), 151-165)
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J61, R23, F22
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4741
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Leo
Kaas
Christian
Manger
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Ethnic Discrimination in Germany's Labour Market: A Field Experiment
This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2012, 13 (1), 1-20)
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C93, J71
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4738
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Peter
Arcidiacono
V. Joseph
Hotz
Songman
Kang
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Modeling College Major Choices Using Elicited Measures of Expectations and Counterfactuals
The choice of a college major plays a critical role in determining the future earnings of college graduates. Students make their college major decisions in part due to the future earnings streams ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2012, 166 (1), 3-16)
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I2, C81
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4737
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Simone
Bertoli
Jesús
Fernández-Huertas Moraga
Francesc
Ortega
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Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 57-76)
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O15, J61, D31
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4736
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Alan
Barrett
Jean
Goggin
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Returning to the Question of a Wage Premium for Returning Migrants
Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2010, 213 (1), R43-R51)
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J61, O15
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4735
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Martin
Kahanec
Michael
P.
Shields
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The Working Hours of Immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus Permanent
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating human capital specific to the host country. Instead, they work more hours in ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:14)
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J22, J61, F22
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4734
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Ioannis
Theodossiou
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An Inquiry into the Theory, Causes and Consequences of Monitoring Indicators of Health and Safety at Work
This paper engages in an interdisciplinary survey of the current state of knowledge related to the theory, determinants and consequences of occupational safety and health (OSH). First, it synthesizes ...
(revised version published as 'The Economics of Health and Safety at Work: An Interdisciplinary Review of the Theory and Policy' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013, 27 (1), 167 - 208)
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J17, J28, J81, K32
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4733
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Elena
Bardasi
Kathleen
Beegle
Andrew
Dillon
Pieter
Serneels
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Do Labor Statistics Depend on How and to Whom the Questions Are Asked? Results from a Survey Experiment in Tanzania
Labor market statistics are critical for assessing and understanding economic development. In practice, widespread variation exists in how labor statistics are measured in household surveys in ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2012, 25 (3), 418-447)
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J21, C83, C93
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4732
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Matthias
Sutter
Simon
Czermak
Francesco
Feri
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Strategic Sophistication of Individuals and Teams in Experimental Normal-Form Games
We present an experiment on strategic thinking and behavior of individuals and teams in one-shot normal-form games. Besides making choices, decision makers have to state their first- and second-order ...
(revised version published as 'Strategic sophistication of individuals and teams. Experimental evidence' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 64, 395-410)
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C72, C91, C92
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