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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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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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4642
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Denisa
M.
Sologon
Cathal
O'Donoghue
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Equalizing or Disequalizing Lifetime Earnings Differentials? Earnings Mobility in the EU: 1994-2001
Do EU citizens have an increased opportunity to improve their position in the distribution of lifetime earnings? To what extent does earnings mobility work to equalize/disequalize longer-term ...
(published in: John A. Bishop and Rafael Salas (eds.), Inequality, Mobility, and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Research in Economic Inequality, Vol 20), 2012, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 237-283)
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C23, D31, J31, J60
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4641
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Sherrilyn
M.
Billger
Frank
D.
Beck
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The Determinants of High School Closures: Lessons from Longitudinal Data throughout Illinois
Facing substantial financial pressure, many districts close schools in order to preserve solvency and improve student outcomes. Using a new longitudinal data set on all non-Cook County Illinois ...
(published in: Journal of Education Finance, 2012, 38 (2), 83-101)
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I22, I21, J24
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4640
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Olof
Aslund
Lena
Hensvik
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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Seeking Similarity: How Immigrants and Natives Manage at the Labor Market
We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding holds when comparing establishments in the same 5-digit industry and location, ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32(3), 405–442)
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J15, J21, J62, M51
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4639
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Riccardo
Faini
Steinar
Strom
Alessandra
Venturini
Claudia
Villosio
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Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?
The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, ...
(published as 'Wage assimilation of immigrants and internal migrants: the role of linguistic distance' in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52, 1423-1434 )
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J31, J61, C23
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4638
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Aderonke
Osikominu
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Quick Job Entry or Long-Term Human Capital Development? The Dynamic Effects of Alternative Training Schemes
This study evaluates and compares the effectiveness of two alternative training schemes for the unemployed: short, job-search oriented training and long, human capital oriented training. We ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2013, 80 (1), 313-342)
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J64, C41, J68, I28
|
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4637
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Marco
Francesconi
Christian
Ghiglino
Motty
Perry
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On the Origin of the Family
This paper presents an overlapping generations model to explain why humans live in families rather than in other pair groupings. Since most non-human species are not familial, something special must ...
(revised version published as 'An Evolutionary Theory of Monogamy' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 166, 605-628)
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C72, D01, D10, J12, Z13
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4636
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Ilias
Livanos
Konstantinos
Pouliakas
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The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in an Occupationally Segregated EU Country
This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap, and the reasons underlying their ...
(published as 'Educational segregation and the gender wage gap in Greece' in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2012, 39 (5), 554-575)
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J16, J24, J31, J71
|
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4635
|
Alessandro
Cigno
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What's the Use of Marriage?
We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and ...
(published as 'Marriage as a commitment device' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 10 (2), 171-192)
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D13, J12, J13, J16, J24, K30
|
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4634
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Markus
M.
Grabka
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Accounting for Imputed and Capital Income Flows in Income Inequality Analyses
Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed ...
(published in: Douglas J. Besharov and Kenneth Couch (eds.), Counting the Poor: New Thinking About European Poverty Measures and Lessons for the United States, Oxford 2012, 117-142)
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D31, D33, I31
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4633
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Nils
Braakmann
Joachim
Wagner
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Labor Market Adjustments after a Large Import Shock: Evidence from the German Clothing Industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry ...
(published in: Dierk Hirschel, Peter Paic und Markus Zwick (Hrsg.), Daten in der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Forschung, Wiesbaden, Springer Gabler 2013, 201-224)
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F13, F14, F16
|
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4630
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Pierre
Cahuc
Edouard
Challe
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Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency
We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading requires specialized intermediaries and where agents freely choose between ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2012, 53 (4), 1005-1035.)
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E22, E44, G21
|
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4627
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Herwig
Immervoll
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Minimum-Income Benefits in OECD Countries: Policy Design, Effectiveness and Challenges
Almost all OECD countries operate comprehensive minimum-income programmes for working-age individuals, either as last-resort safety nets alongside primary income replacement benefits, or as the ...
(published in: D. J. Besharov and K. A. Couch (eds.), 2012, Counting the Poor, Oxford University Press, 171-209. Also available as OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Paper)
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I38, H53, D31, H31
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4626
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Krishna
Pendakur
Simon
D.
Woodcock
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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2010, 28(1), 181-189)
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J15, J71, J31
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4624
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Mariana
Blanco
Dirk
Engelmann
Alexander
K.
Koch
Hans-Theo
Normann
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Preferences and Beliefs in a Sequential Social Dilemma: A Within-Subjects Analysis
Within-subject data from sequential social dilemma experiments reveal a correlation of first-and second-mover decisions for which two channels may be responsible, that our experiment allows to ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2014, 87, 122–135. )
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C72, C90
|
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4623
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Admasu
Shiferaw
Arjun
S.
Bedi
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The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction: Is Sub-Saharan Africa Different?
This paper analyzes the creation, destruction and reallocation of jobs in order to understand the micro-dynamics of aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of ...
(published as 'The Dynamics of Job Creation and Job Destruction in an African Economy: Evidence from Ethiopia' in: Journal of African Economies, 2013, 22(5), 651-692)
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J20, J23, J49
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4622
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Raquel
Fonseca
Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Titus
Galama
Arie
Kapteyn
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On The Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
We use a calibrated stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and life expectancy ...
(published as 'Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity' in: Journal of the European Economics Association, 2021, 19 (1), 536 - 579)
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I10, I38, J26
|
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4621
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Joan
de Martí
Yves
Zenou
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Social Networks
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics/applied mathematics approaches, showing their similarities and differences. We expose, in ...
(published in: Ian Jarvie and Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (eds.), The SAGE Handbook of the Philosophy of Social Science, London: Sage Publications, 2011.)
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A14, C72, D85, Z13
|
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4620
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration
This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing ...
(published in: M. N. Jovanovic (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Integration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2011, 145 - 168. Revised version published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann, International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 13-36.)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
|
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4619
|
Jens
Suedekum
Katja
Wolf
Uwe
Blien
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Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets
During the last decade there have been marked changes in the composition of the non-native workforce in the German labour market. In particular there has been a notable increase in the diversity of ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (1), 173-191)
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R23, J21, J31
|
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4618
|
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
David
C.
Ribar
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Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles
We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions into adult roles. We find that mothers’ reports of financial stresses and ...
(published as 'Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Australian Youths’ Transitions from Home and School' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2012, 11 (4), 469 - 490.)
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D13, J13
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