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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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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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4669
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Alexander
Muravyev
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Investor Protection and the Value of Shares: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders' Class Rights in Russia
This paper uses a quasi-experimental framework provided by recent changes in Russian corporate law to study the effect of investor protection on the value of shares. The legal change analyzed ...
(revised version published as 'Investor Protection and the Value of Shares: Evidence from Statutory Rules Governing Variations of Shareholders’ Class Rights in an Emerging Market ' in: Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 2013, 29(6), 1344-1383)
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G30, G38, K22
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4667
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Giorgio
Brunello
Daniele
Fabbri
Margherita
Fort
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Years of Schooling, Human Capital and the Body Mass Index of European Females
We use the compulsory school reforms implemented in European countries after the II World War to investigate the causal effect of education on the Body Mass Index (BMI) and the incidence of ...
(published as 'The Causal effect of education on body mass: evidence from Europe' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31(1), 195-223 )
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I12, I21
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4666
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Charlene
M.
Kalenkoski
Sabrina
Wulff
Pabilonia
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Time to Work or Time to Play: The Effect of Student Employment on Homework, Sleep, and Screen Time
We use detailed time-diary information on high school students' daily activities from the 2003-2008 American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 211-221)
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J13, J22, J24
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4665
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Marco
Caliendo
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Income Support Systems, Labor Market Policies and Labor Supply: The German Experience
In view of the demographic trends, most EU countries face the problem of a declining work force in the future. Understanding the interaction between income support systems (such as unemployment ...
(substantially revised and extended version available as IZA DP No. 6810)
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J26, J38, J68
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4664
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Ronald
G.
Ehrenberg
George
H.
Jakubson
Mirinda
L.
Martin
Joyce
B.
Main
Thomas
Eisenberg
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Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities- trustees, presidents/chancellors, and provosts/academic vice presidents - plays in ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 9-18)
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J16, J44, I21
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4661
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Marco
Caliendo
Alexander
S.
Kritikos
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"I Want to, But I Also Need to": Start-Ups Resulting from Opportunity and Necessity
When unemployed persons go into business, they often are characterized as necessity entrepreneurs, because push factors, namely their unemployment, likely prompted their decision. In contrast to ...
(published in: Erik Lehmann and M. Keilbach, M. (eds.), From Industrial Organization to Entrepreneurship: A Tribute to David B. Audretsch, Springer, New York, 2019, 247-265)
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D81, J23, M13
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4660
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Martin
Kahanec
Ulf
Rinne
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 753-776 )
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F22, J15, J61, J64
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4659
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Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
Maharouf
Oyolola
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Welfare Usage in the U.S.: Does Immigrant Birthplace and Immigration Status Matter?
The study of welfare participation in the U.S. prior to the 1996 welfare reform act and even afterward has focused on comparisons between native born and immigrant households. Analyses that have gone ...
(revised version published as 'Do Immigrant Groups Differ in Welfare Usage? Evidence from the U.S.A' in: Atlantic Economic Journal, 2011, 39 (3), 231-247)
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J2, J24, J38, I21, O12, O15
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4658
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Marcos
Chamon
João
M. P.
de Mello
Sergio
Firpo
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Electoral Rules, Political Competition and Fiscal Expenditures: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (1),19-38)
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H72, D72, C14, P1
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4657
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Subal
C.
Kumbhakar
Raquel
Ortega-Argilés
Lesley
Potters
Marco
Vivarelli
Peter
Voigt
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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is ...
(published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2012, 37, 125-140)
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L2, O3
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4656
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Astrid
Kunze
Kenneth
Troske
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Life-Cycle Patterns in Male/Female Differences in Job Search
We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (2), 176-185)
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J31, J63, J64, J71
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4655
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Alpaslan
Akay
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Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data
We analyse the dynamics of employment assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden using a high-quality, register-based panel data set. It is discussed that when there are significant ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Dynamics of Employment Assimilation' in IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 15:3)
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C33, J15, J61
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4654
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Olivier
Donni
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The Measurement of Child Costs: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the ...
(published as 'Expenditure on Children: A Rothbarth-Type Method Consistent with Scale Economies and Parents' Bargaining' in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 792-813)
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D11, D12, C30, D36, I31, J12
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4652
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Diane
J.
Macunovich
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Older Men: Pushed into Retirement by the Baby Boomers?
The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working ...
(published in: Monthly Labor Review, 2012, 135 (5), 3-18.)
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J14, J21, J22, J26
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4650
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Marianne
Simonsen
Lars
Skipper
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The Family Gap in Wages: What Wombmates Reveal
We shed new light on the effects of having children on hourly wages by exploiting access to data on the entire population of employed same-sex twins in Denmark. Our second contribution is the use of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 102-112)
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J13, J24, J31, J71
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4648
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Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Deborah
Roberts
Eudokia
Balamou
Demetrios
Psaltopoulos
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Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and the Wage Distribution: A CGE Analysis of Three EU Regions
The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(2), 318-338)
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D33, D58, R13, R23
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4647
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Rudolf
Kerschbamer
Matthias
Sutter
Uwe
Dulleck
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The Impact of Distributional Preferences on (Experimental) Markets for Expert Services
Credence goods markets suffer from inefficiencies arising from informational asymmetries between expert sellers and customers. While standard theory predicts that inefficiencies disappear if ...
(published with new title "How social preferences shape incentives in (experimental) markets for credence goods" in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127, 393-416.)
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C72, C91, D82
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4645
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Eugenio
Proto
Daniel
Sgroi
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Happiness and Productivity
The paper provides evidence that happiness raises productivity. In Experiment 1, a randomized trial is designed. Some subjects have their happiness levels increased, while those in a control group do ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 789-822)
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D03, J24, C91
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4644
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Karina
Doorley
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In-Work Transfers in Good Times and Bad: Simulations for Ireland
In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and efficiency, as they alleviate poverty among low-wage households while increasing financial incentives to work. The ...
(published in: Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos (eds.), 2011, Research in Labor Economics (Research in Labor Economics, Volume 33), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 307-339)
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C25, C52, H31, J22
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4643
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Özgür
Gürerk
Bernd
Irlenbusch
Bettina
Rockenbach
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Voting with Feet: Community Choice in Social Dilemmas
Economic and social interactions often take place in open communities but the dynamics of the community choice process and its impact on cooperation of its members are yet not well understood. We ...
(completely revised version published as 'On Cooperation in Open Communities' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120, 220–230)
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C72, C92, H41
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