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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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4617
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Susan
Pozo
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New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households
Using Mexico's 2002 wave of the Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH), we find that international remittances raise health care expenditures. Approximately 6 pesos of every ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 69-98.)
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F24, I1
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4616
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Catalina
Amuedo-Dorantes
Thitima
Puttitanun
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Gender Differences in Native Preferences towards Undocumented and Legal Immigration: Evidence from San Diego
The literature has noted that native views about legal as opposed to undocumented immigration in the U.S. differ. Furthermore, native views about immigration are known to vary by gender. Yet, most ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2011, 29 (1), 31-45)
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J61, F22
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4614
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Melanie
Khamis
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Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis
Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the Argentine labor market at the outset of the 2001 economic crisis. This paper tests ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2012, 16 (4), 579–593)
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J42, J48, O17
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4613
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Roberto
Leombruni
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Local Human Capital Externalities and Wages at the Firm Level: The Case of Italian Manufacturing
We use a unique firm-level data set merging administrative information on average wages paid by firms by skill level (blue collars and white collars), Population Census information on the local stock ...
(revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2014, 41, 161-175)
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J24, J31, I20
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4611
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Alexander
Mosthaf
Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
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Low-Wage Employment versus Unemployment: Which One Provides Better Prospects for Women?
This study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. We estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and find that having ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:21)
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J30, J60, C33
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4610
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Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
Gerard
A.
Pfann
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Markets for Reputation: Evidence on Quality and Quantity in Academe
We develop a theory of the market for individual reputation, an indicator of regard by one’s peers and others. The central questions are: 1) Does the quantity of exposures raise reputation ...
(published as 'Reputation and Earnings: The Roles of Quality and Quantity in Academe' in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (1), 1 - 16)
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L14, J31
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4608
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Ron
Leung
Marco
Stampini
Désiré
Vencatachellum
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Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth ...
(substantially revised version published in: South African Journal of Economics, 2014, 82(1), 99-116)
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J2, E3
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4607
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
Katja
Sonderhof
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The Effects of a Sick Pay Reform on Absence and on Health-Related Outcomes
We evaluate the effects of a reduction in sick pay from 100 to 80% of the wage. Unlike previous literature, apart from absence from work, we also consider effects on doctor/hospital visits and ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 285-302)
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I18, J58, J83
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4606
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Xavier
D'Haultfoeuille
Arnaud
Maurel
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Inference on a Generalized Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France
This paper considers the identification and estimation of an extension of Roy's model (1951) of occupational choice, which includes a non-pecuniary component in the decision equation and allows for ...
(published as 'Inference on an Extended Roy Model, with an Application to Schooling Decisions in France' in: Journal of Econometrics, 2013, 174 (2), 95–106)
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C14, C25, J24
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4605
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Joachim
Wagner
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Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2011, 147 (2), 217-247)
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F23
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4604
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Spiros
Bougheas
Indraneel
Dasgupta
Oliver
Morrissey
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Repayment versus Investment Conditions and Exclusivity in Lending Contracts
Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2011, 167 (2), 247-265.)
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G21, F34
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4603
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Olivier
Donni
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Non-unitary Models of Household Behavior: A Survey of the Literature
This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households consist of a number of different members with preferences that are different from each ...
(published in: Alberto Molina (ed.), Household Economic Behaviors, Berlin: Springer, 2011, 1 - 40.)
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D11, D13, J22
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4601
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Beatrice
Brunner
Andreas
Kuhn
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To Shape the Future: How Labor Market Entry Conditions Affect Individuals' Long-Run Wage Profiles
We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative ...
(completely revised version published as IZA DP No. 5360)
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E3, J2, J3, J6, M5
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4600
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
Stephen
Wu
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Well-being across America
This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (4), 1118-1134)
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D1, I3
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4599
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Cahit
Guven
Claudia
Senik
Holger
Stichnoth
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You Can't Be Happier than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 82 (1), 110-130)
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J12, D13, D63, D64, H31, I31, Z13
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4598
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Rolf
Aaberge
Ugo
Colombino
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Accounting for Family Background when Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 741-761)
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D19, D63, H21, H24, H31
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4597
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Ahmad
Saleh
Vitaliy
S.
Kuzeyev
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Dynamic Ethnic Fractionalization and Economic Growth in the Transition Economies from 1989 to 2007
In their survey of the literature on ethnic fractionalization and economic performance, Alesina and La Ferrara (JEL 2005) identify two main directions for future research. One is to improve the ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (2),129-152 )
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O11, Z12, O55, H1
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4596
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
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Contraction Consistent Stochastic Choice Correspondence
We model a general choice environment via probabilistic choice correspondences, with (possibly) incomplete domain and infinite universal set of alternatives. We offer a consistency restriction ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2011, 37 (4), 643-658)
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D11, D71
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4594
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Pierre-André
Chiappori
Sonia
Oreffice
Climent
Quintana-Domeque
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Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market
We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) ...
(revised version published as 'Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Matching on the Marriage Market' in: Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 120 (4), 659-695. )
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D1, J1
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4593
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Olena
Y.
Nizalova
Maria
Vyshnya
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Evaluation of the Impact of the Mother and Infant Health Project in Ukraine
This paper exploits a unique opportunity to evaluate the impact of the quality change in the labor and delivery services on maternal and infant health. Since basic medical care has been universally ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, Volume 19 (Supplement 1), 107–125)
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I12, I18
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4592
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Mario
Centeno
Alvaro
A.
Novo
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When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal
Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (23) )
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J3, D3, O3
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4591
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Gianna
Claudia
Giannelli
Ursula
Jaenichen
Claudia
Villosio
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Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy
According to the aims of the labour market reforms of the 90s implemented in many European countries, workers may stay at their first job for a shorter time, but should be able to switch jobs easily. ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2012, 33, 143 - 172 )
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J62, J64, J68, K31, C41
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4590
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
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The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals
This paper tracks the economic status of American Jewry over the past three centuries. It relies on qualitative material in the early period and quantitative data since 1890. The primary focus is on ...
(published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645)
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J15, J24, J31, J61, J62, N31, N32, Z12
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4589
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Sue
Bridgewater
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
Amanda
H.
Goodall
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Substitution between Managers and Subordinates: Evidence from British Football
We use data on British football managers and teams over the 1994-2007 period to study substitution and complementarity between leaders and subordinates. We find for the Premier League (the highest ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(3), 275-286)
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J24, M51
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4588
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Jay
Stewart
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Tobit or Not Tobit?
Time-use surveys collect very detailed information about individuals' activities over a short period of time, typically one day. As a result, a large fraction of observations have values of zero for ...
(published in: Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 2013, 38(3), 263-290)
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C24, J22
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4587
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Elena
Cottini
Takao
Kato
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Adverse Workplace Conditions, High-Involvement Work Practices and Labor Turnover: Evidence from Danish Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (6), 872-880)
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M5, J63, J81, J28, J5
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4585
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Petter
Lundborg
Anders
Stenberg
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Nature, Nurture and Egalitarian Policy: What Can We Learn from Molecular Genetics?
This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 320-330)
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J62, H50
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4584
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Sumon
K.
Bhaumik
Howard
J.
Wall
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Biofuel Subsidies: An Open-Economy Analysis
We present a general equilibrium analysis of biofuel subsidies in an open-economy context. In the small-country case, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2013, 25 (2), 181-199)
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F1, H2, O1
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4583
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Corrado
Andini
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How Fast Do Wages Adjust to Human-Capital Productivity? Dynamic Panel-Data Evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland
The standard human-capital model is based on the assumption that the observed wage of an individual is equal to the monetary value of the individual net human-capital productivity, the so-called net ...
(shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (3), 482-484)
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I21, J31
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4581
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Alari
Paulus
Holly
Sutherland
Panos
Tsakloglou
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The Distributional Impact of In Kind Public Benefits in European Countries
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2010, 29(2), 243–266)
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I38
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4580
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Bernhard
Boockmann
Stephan
L.
Thomsen
Thomas
Walter
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Intensifying the Use of Benefit Sanctions: An Effective Tool to Shorten Welfare Receipt and Speed Up Transitions to Employment?
Benefit sanctions imposed on non-compliant welfare recipients are a new element in the German welfare system. In practice, the sanction policy and the application of sanctions vary considerably ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2014, 3:21, https://doi.org/10.1186/2193-9004-3-21 )
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I38, J64, C31
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4579
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Raul
Ramos
Jordi
Surinach
Manuel
Artís
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Human Capital Spillovers, Productivity and Regional Convergence in Spain
This paper analyses the differential impact of human capital, in terms of different levels of schooling, on regional productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers ...
(published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89 (2), 435-447)
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O18, O47, R23
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4578
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Eric
Bartelsman
John
C.
Haltiwanger
Stefano
Scarpetta
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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection
This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 305-334)
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E02, L11, L16, L2, L25, O4, O57
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4577
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Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Do Institutions Have a Greater Effect on Female Entrepreneurs?
This paper compares the impact of institutions on individual decisions to become entrepreneurs in the form of new business start ups by males and females across 44 developed and developing economies ...
(published as 'Institutions and female entrepreneurship' in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 37 (4), 397-415)
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L26, J16, H11, O16, O17, P43
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4576
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 99 (2), 497-512)
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H4, I2, O4, N16
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4575
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Do Better Schools Lead to More Growth? Cognitive Skills, Economic Outcomes, and Causation
We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2012, 17 (4), 267-321)
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H4, I2, J3, J61, O1, O4
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4574
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George
W.
Hammond
Mehmet
S.
Tosun
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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our findings suggest that government organization matters for local economic growth, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2010, 20 (10), 1-18)
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E62, H7, R11
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4572
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Sarmistha
Pal
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Public Infrastructure, Location of Private Schools and Primary School Attainment in an Emerging Economy
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (5), 783-794)
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I20, I30, O15, P36
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4571
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Maarten
C.M.
Vendrik
Christiane
Schwieren
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Identification, Screening and Stereotyping in Labour Market Discrimination
According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping ...
(published in Journal of Economics, 2010, 99 (2), 141-171)
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J7, M51
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4570
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Roland
Benabou
Jean
Tirole
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Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility
Society's demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent ...
(published in Economica, 2010, 77 (305) , 1-19.)
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D64, D78, H41, L31
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4569
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Carolyn
J.
Heinrich
Peter
R.
Mueser
Kenneth
Troske
Kyung-Seong
Jeon
Daver
C.
Kahvecioglu
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New Estimates of Public Employment and Training Program Net Impacts: A Nonexperimental Evaluation of the Workforce Investment Act Program
This paper presents nonexperimental net impact estimates for the Adult and Dislocated Worker programs under the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), the primary federal job training program in the U.S, ...
(published as "Do Public Employment and Training Programs Work?" in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2013, 2:6 )
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J24, J48
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4568
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Andrea
Weber
Christine
Zulehner
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Female Hires and the Success of Start-up Firms
In this paper we investigate the relationship between females among the first hires of start-up companies and business success. Our results show that firms with female first hires have a higher share ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (2), 358-361)
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J16, J71, L25
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4567
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
Robert
Slonim
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Will There Be Blood? Incentives and Substitution Effects in Pro-social Behavior
We examine how economic incentives affect pro-social behavior through the analysis of a unique dataset with information on more than 14,000 American Red Cross blood drives. Our findings are ...
(published as 'Will There be Blood? Incentives and Displacement Effects in Pro-Social Behavior' in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2012, 4 (1), 186-223 )
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D12, D64, I18
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4566
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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How Consistent Are Class Size Effects?
Evidence from Project STAR has suggested that on average small classes increase student achievement. However, thus far researchers have focused on computing mean differences in student achievement ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2011, 35 (1), 71 - 92)
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I20
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4565
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Zahra
Siddique
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Partially Identified Treatment Effects under Imperfect Compliance: The Case of Domestic Violence
During the 1980s a set of randomized experiments were carried out to determine the usefulness of a mandatory arrest policy for domestic assault offenders. The first of these was the Minneapolis ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2013, 108 (502), 504-513)
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C9, C14, K42
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4564
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Fabio
Mariani
Agustín
Pérez-Barahona
Natacha
Raffin
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, 34 (4), 798-815)
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J24, O11, O40, Q56
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4561
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Tarjei
Havnes
Magne
Mogstad
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No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children’s Long-Run Outcomes
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (2), 97-129)
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J13, H40, I28
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4560
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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Low-Skilled Immigrant Entrepreneurship
More than half of the foreign born workforce in the U.S. have no schooling beyond high school and about 20 percent of the low-skilled workforce are immigrants. More than 10 percent of these ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 25-44)
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J15, J16, J31, L26
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4559
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Alexandre
Janiak
Paulo
Santos
Monteiro
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Inflation and Welfare in Long-Run Equilibrium with Firm Dynamics
We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2011, 43 (5), 795 - 834)
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E40, E50, L16, O40
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4558
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Francesco
Giavazzi
Fabio
Schiantarelli
Michel
Serafinelli
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Culture, Policies and Labor Market Outcomes
We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (6), 1256-1289)
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J16, J22, J23, Z1
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