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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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4731
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Jozef
Konings
Stijn
Vanormelingen
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The Impact of Training on Productivity and Wages: Firm Level Evidence
This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To this end the strategy proposed by Ackerberg, Caves and Frazer (2006) for ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97 (3), 485-497 )
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J24, J31, L22
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4730
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Bénédicte
Apouey
Andrew
E.
Clark
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Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health
We use British panel data to determine the exogenous impact of income on a number of individual health outcomes: general health status, mental health, physical health problems, and health behaviors ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2015, 24 (5), 516-538)
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D1, I1, I3
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4729
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Peter
Debaere
Holger
Görg
Horst
Raff
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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (1), 78-102)
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F12, L23
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4728
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Francesco
Bogliacino
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Job Creation Effect of R&D Expenditures
In this study we use a unique database covering 25 manufacturing and service sectors for 16 European countries over the period 1996-2005, for a total of 2,295 observations, and apply GMM-SYS panel ...
(published in: Australian Economic Papers, 2012, 51 (2), 96-113)
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O33
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4727
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Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
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Well-being Inequality and Reference Groups: An Agenda for New Research
In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (1), 111-127)
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D31, D62, D63, I31
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4726
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
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Retirement Responses to a Generous Pension Reform: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Eastern Europe
The retirement decision is under researched in developing and emerging countries, despite the topic's close relation to many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and ...
(revised version published as 'Benefit Generosity and the Income Effect on Labour Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence' in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (571), 1059-1084)
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J26, I38, O15
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4725
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Martin
Schlotter
Guido
Schwerdt
Ludger
Woessmann
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Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices: A Non-Technical Guide
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (2), 109-137)
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I20, C01
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4723
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Vincent
Boucher
Yann
Bramoullé
Habiba
Djebbari
Bernard
Fortin
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Do Peers Affect Student Achievement? Evidence from Canada Using Group Size Variation
We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. This approach allows to control for group-level unobservables ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2014, 29 (1), 91-109)
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C31, I20, Z13
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4719
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Stephen
Machin
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform
Among policymakers, educators and economists there remains a strong, sometimes heated, debate on the extent to which good schools matter. This is seen, for instance, in the strong trend towards ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118, 3-24)
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I2
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4717
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Elena
Cottini
Claudio
Lucifora
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Mental Health and Working Conditions in European Countries
Increased pressure for labour market flexibility and increasing demand over workers' performance have fostered the idea that working conditions, in most European countries, have progressively ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2013, 66 (4), 958-988)
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C25, I10, J81, J28
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4716
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Leilanie
Basilio
Thomas
K.
Bauer
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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany
This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using ...
(published in: Labour, 2017, 31 (3), 245 - 264)
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J61, J31, J24
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4715
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Ariel
Kalil
Magne
Mogstad
Mari
Rege
Mark
Votruba
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Divorced Fathers' Proximity and Children's Long Run Outcomes: Evidence from Norwegian Registry Data
This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers' proximity and children's long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to ...
(published in: Demography, 2011, 48 (3), 1005-1027)
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J12, J13
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4714
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Rolf
Aaberge
Magne
Mogstad
Vito
Peragine
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Measuring Long-Term Inequality of Opportunity
In this paper, we introduce and apply a general framework for evaluating long-term income distributions according to the Equality of Opportunity principle. Our framework allows for both an ex-ante ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (3-4), 193-204)
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D71, D91, I32
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4713
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
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Pay Enough, Don't Pay Too Much or Don't Pay at All? The Impact of Bonus Intensity on Job Satisfaction
Using ten waves (1998-2007) of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), this paper investigates the ceteris paribus association between the intensity of incentive pay, the dynamic change in bonus ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (4), 597-626)
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C23, J28, J33, M52, M54
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4712
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Laura
Hospido
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Modelling Heterogeneity and Dynamics in the Volatility of Individual Wages
This paper presents a model for the heterogeneity and dynamics of the conditional mean and the conditional variance of standardized individual wages. In particular, a heteroskedastic autoregressive ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27 (3), 386-414)
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C23, J31
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4711
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Prudence
Magejo
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Is Informality Bad? Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa
The informal sector plays an important role in the functioning of labor markets in emerging economies. To characterize better this highly heterogeneous sector, we conduct a distributional analysis of ...
(published as 'Earnings Structure, Informal Employment and Self-Employment: New Evidence from Brazil, Mexico and South Africa' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57, S100-S122)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, O17
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4710
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Björn
Bartling
Ernst
Fehr
Klaus
M.
Schmidt
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Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (2), 834-864)
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C91, D86
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4708
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Jesús
Fernández-Villaverde
Jeremy
Greenwood
Nezih
Guner
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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: An Economic Model of the Rise in Premarital Sex and its De-Stigmatization
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (1), 25-61)
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D1, J11, J12, J13, E1
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4707
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Erkki
Koskela
Jan
König
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Profit Sharing, Wage Formation and Flexible Outsourcing under Labor Market Imperfection
We combine profit sharing and outsourcing, if the wage for worker is decided by a labor union to analyze how does the implementation of profit sharing affect individual effort and the bargained wage ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2012, 20 (1), 18-28)
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E23, E24, J23, J33, J82
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4706
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Fernanda
Brollo
Tommaso
Nannicini
Roberto
Perotti
Guido
Tabellini
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The Political Resource Curse
The paper studies the effect of additional government revenues on political corruption and on the quality of politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (5), 1759-1796)
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D72, D73, H40, H77
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4704
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Harley
Frazis
Jay
Stewart
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Why Do BLS Hours Series Tell Different Stories About Trends in Hours Worked?
Hours worked is an important economic indicator. In addition to being a measure of labor utilization, average weekly hours are inputs into measures of productivity and hourly wages, which are two key ...
(published in: Katharine G. Abraham, Michael J. Harper, and James R. Spletzer (eds.), Labor in the New Economy, NBER Studies in Income and Wealth, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 343-372)
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C81, J22
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4703
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Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Xavier
Ramos
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Inequality Aversion and Risk Attitudes
Using self reported measures of life satisfaction and risk attitudes, we empirically test whether there is a relationship between individuals inequality and risk aversion. The empirical analysis uses ...
(substantially revised version published as "Distaste for Inequality? The Role of Risk Aversion" in: M. Rojas (ed.), The Economics of Happiness, Springer, 2019.)
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D3, D63, I31
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4702
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
Susanne
Schennach
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Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation
This paper formulates and estimates multistage production functions for children's cognitive and noncognitive skills. Skills are determined by parental environments and investments at different ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2010, 78 (3), 883-931)
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C31, J13
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4701
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Susanne
Ek Spector
Bertil
Holmlund
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Family Job Search, Wage Bargaining, and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
The paper develops an equilibrium search and matching model where two-person families as well as singles participate in the labor market. We show that equilibrium entails wage dispersion among ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1))
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J31, J64, J65
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4700
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Marc
Ferracci
Grégory
Jolivet
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Treatment Evaluation in the Case of Interactions within Markets
We extend the standard evaluation framework to allow for interactions between individuals within segmented markets. An individual's outcome depends not only on the assigned treatment status but also ...
(published as 'Evidence of Treatment Spillovers within Markets', 2014, 96 (5), 812 - 823)
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C13, C14, C21, C31, J64
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4698
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Julie
Zissimopoulos
James
P.
Smith
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Unequal Giving: Monetary Gifts to Children Across Countries and Over Time
Money parents give their adult children may be important for the financing of a child's education or a first home, relaxing binding credit constraints or responding to a transitory income shock. ...
(published in: Timothy Smeeding, Robert Erikson, and Markus Jantti (eds.), Persistence, Privilege, Policy and Parenting: The Comparative Study of Intergenerational Mobility. Russell Sage Foundation, 2011)
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J10
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4696
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Alexander
Mosthaf
Claus
Schnabel
Jens
Stephani
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Low-Wage Careers: Are There Dead-End Firms and Dead-End Jobs?
Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung /Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43 (3), 231-249)
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J30, J60
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4695
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Stephen
Wu
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Objective Confirmation of Subjective Measures of Human Well-being: Evidence from the USA
A huge research literature, across the behavioral and social sciences, uses information on individuals' subjective well-being. These are responses to questions – asked by survey interviewers or ...
(published in: Science, 2010, 327 (5965), 576-579)
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I31
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4694
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Sean
Holly
M. Hashem
Pesaran
Takashi
Yamagata
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Spatial and Temporal Diffusion of House Prices in the UK
This paper provides a method for the analysis of the spatial and temporal diffusion of shocks in a dynamic system. We use changes in real house prices within the UK economy at the level of regions to ...
(published as 'The spatial and temporal diffusion of house prices in the UK ' in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2011, 69 (1), 2-23)
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C21, C23
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4693
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Luis
Diaz-Serrano
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Do Legal Immigrants and Natives Compete in the Labour Market? Evidence from Catalonia
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare ...
(published as 'Immigrants, Natives and Job Quality: Evidence from Spain' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (7), 753-775)
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J28, J61, J81
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4692
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Florencia
López Bóo
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In School or at Work? Evidence from a Crisis
This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schooling-employment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. The ...
(published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2012, 40 (3), 381-404)
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I21, J31
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4691
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Jan
C.
van Ours
Sander
Tuit
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How Changes in Unemployment Benefit Duration Affect the Inflow into Unemployment
We study how changes in the maximum benefit duration affect the inflow into unemployment in the Netherlands. Until August 2003, workers who became unemployed after age 57.5 were entitled to ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 105-107)
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H55, J64, J65
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4690
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Alison
L.
Booth
Andrew
Leigh
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Do Employers Discriminate by Gender? A Field Experiment in Female-Dominated Occupations
We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely to receive a callback, with the difference being largest in occupations that are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 236-238)
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J71, C93
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4689
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Magne
Mogstad
Matthew
Wiswall
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Instrumental Variables Estimation with Partially Missing Instruments
We examine instrumental variables estimation in situations where the instrument is only observed for a sub-sample, which is fairly common in empirical research. Typically, researchers simply limit ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 114 (2), 186-189)
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C31, C34
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4688
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Catia
Batista
Pedro
C.
Vicente
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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this question, ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 77-104)
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F22, O12, O15, O43, P16
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4687
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Simon
Gächter
Christian
Thöni
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Social Comparison and Performance: Experimental Evidence on the Fair Wage-Effort Hypothesis
We investigate the impact of wage comparisons for worker productivity. We present three studies which all use three-person gift-exchange experiments. Consistent with Akerlof and Yellen's (1990) fair ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (3), 531-543)
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J31, J71, C91, C92
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4686
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Alison
L.
Booth
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Part-Time Jobs: What Women Want?
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (1), 263-283)
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J22, I31, J16
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4685
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Andrea
Salvatori
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Labour Contract Regulations and Workers' Wellbeing: International Longitudinal Evidence
All industrialized countries have Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for permanent workers and Restrictions on the use of Temporary Employment (RTE). The (ambiguous) effects of these on the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 667-678)
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J28
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4684
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Work Out or Out of Work: The Labor Market Return to Physical Fitness and Leisure Sport Activities
This study is the first to present evidence of the return to leisure sports in the job hiring process by sending fictitious applications to real job openings in the Swedish labor market. In the field ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 399-409)
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J21, J64, J71
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4683
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Catia
Batista
Jacques
Potin
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International Specialization and the Return to Capital
How does factor accumulation affect the pattern of international specialization and returns to capital? We provide a new integrated treatment to this question using a panel of 44 developing and ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 2015, 15 (2), 467-508)
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F11, F21, O40
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4682
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Dennis
Coates
T. H.
Gindling
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Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America's Small Towns?
In the 1990s, rural areas and small towns in the United States, which had been losing population, became the destinations for an increasing number of Hispanic immigrants and their families, slowing ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2013, 31 (4), 649-668)
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R11, R23, O4
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4681
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Gonzalo
Reyes Hartley
Jan
C.
van Ours
Milan
Vodopivec
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Incentive Effects of Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts: Evidence from Chile
This study examines the determinants of job-finding rates of unemployment benefit recipients under the Chilean program. This is a unique, innovative program that combines social insurance through a ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 798-809)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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4680
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James
J.
Heckman
Bas
Jacobs
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Policies to Create and Destroy Human Capital in Europe
Trends in skill bias and greater turbulence in modern labor markets put wages and employment prospects of unskilled workers under pressure. Weak incentives to utilize and maintain skills over the ...
(published in: Hans-Werner Sinn and Edmund Phelps (eds.), Perspectives on the Performance of the Continental Economies, MIT Press, 2011, 253-322)
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H2, H5, I2, I3, J2, J3
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4679
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Danny
Cohen-Zada
Mark
Gradstein
Ehud
Reuven
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Class Size and the Regression Discontinuity Design: The Case of Public Schools
Using a rich individual-level dataset on secondary public schools in Israel, we find strong evidence for discontinuities in the relationship between enrollment and household characteristics at cutoff ...
(published as 'Allocation of students in public schools: Theory and new evidence' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 34, 96-106)
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I20
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4676
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Melanie
Khamis
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A Note on Informality in the Labor Market
This paper provides a detailed analysis of various dimensions of informality in the Mexican labor market. To understand the nature of informality in terms of regulations and compliance, the ...
(published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (7), 894-908)
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J40, O17
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4675
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Olga
Nottmeyer
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Cultural Integration in Germany
This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are ...
(published in: Yann Algan, Alberto Bisin, Alan Manning and Thierry Verdier (eds.): Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2012, Chapter 3, 69-124)
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F22, J15, J61, Z13
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4673
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Alexander
Muravyev
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How Important Are Labor Market Institutions for Labor Market Performance in Transition Countries?
This paper offers a first comprehensive study of the relationship between labor market institutions and policies and labor market performance in the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (2), 235-269 )
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E24, J21, P20
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4672
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Olivier
Donni
Monnet
Benoit Patrick
Gbakou
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The Measurement of Child Costs: Evidence from Ireland
We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2010, 41 (1), 1-20)
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D11, D12, C30, D36, I31, J12
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4671
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James
Albrecht
Pieter
A.
Gautier
Susan
Vroman
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Directed Search in the Housing Market
In this paper, we present a directed search model of the housing market. The pricing mechanism we analyze reflects the way houses are bought and sold in the United States. Our model is consistent ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016, 19, 218-231)
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D83, R31
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4670
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Marco
Caliendo
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
Arne
Uhlendorff
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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality: A Regression-Discontinuity Approach
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2013, 28 (4), 604-627)
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C41, J64
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