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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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4506
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Jean-Yves
Duclos
Damien
Échevin
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Health and Income: A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (2), 293 - 302)
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I10, I32, I38, D63, D30, H51
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4504
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Tarjei
Havnes
Magne
Mogstad
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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment
The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1455-1465)
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J13, H40, J21
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4503
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Peter
Haan
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (4), 498-512)
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C23, C25, J22, J64
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4502
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John
T.
Addison
Alex
Bryson
Paulino
Teixeira
André
Pahnke
Lutz
Bellmann
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The Extent of Collective Bargaining and Workplace Representation: Transitions between States and their Determinants. A Comparative Analysis of Germany and Great Britain
Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and the Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions ...
(revised version published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (2), 182-209.)
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J50, J53
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4501
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Nicolas
Dromel
Elie
Kolakez
Etienne
Lehmann
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Credit Constraints and the Persistence of Unemployment
In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its persistence. For this purpose, we first develop a theoretical model based on the ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (5), 823-834)
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E24, E44, J08, J64
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4500
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Jochen
Kluve
Marcus
Tamm
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Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career: Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment
Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more ...
(revised version published as 'Parental Leave Regulations, Mothers' Labor Force Attachment and Fathers' Childcare Involvement: Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (3), 983-1005)
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H31, J13, J18
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4499
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Manuela
Angelucci
Giacomo
De Giorgi
Marcos
A.
Rangel
Imran
Rasul
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Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks
This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and inequality of the village of residence. Using the Hispanic naming convention, we ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy . 2009, 9 (1))
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J12, O12, O17
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4498
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Manuela
Angelucci
Giacomo
De Giorgi
Marcos
A.
Rangel
Imran
Rasul
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Extended Family Networks in Rural Mexico: A Descriptive Analysis
We provide descriptive evidence on the characteristics of a household’s extended family network using data from the Progresa social assistance program in rural Mexico. We exploit information on the ...
(published in: Institutional Microeconomics of Development, edited by Timothy Besley and Raji Jayaraman, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2010.)
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J12, O12
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4497
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Manuela
Angelucci
Giacomo
De Giorgi
Marcos
A.
Rangel
Imran
Rasul
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Family Networks and School Enrolment: Evidence from a Randomized Social Experiment
We present evidence on whether and how a household's behavior is influenced by the presence and characteristics of its extended family. Using data from the PROGRESA program in Mexico, we exploit ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 197-221)
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I21, J12, O12
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4496
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Oriana
Bandiera
Valentino
Larcinese
Imran
Rasul
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Heterogeneous Class Size Effects: New Evidence from a Panel of University Students
Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (549), 1365 - 1398)
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A20, D23, I23
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4495
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Pieter
Bevelander
Ravi
Pendakur
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Citizenship, Co-ethnic Populations and Employment Probabilities of Immigrants in Sweden
Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of residency to five for foreign citizens and only two for Nordic citizens. Dual ...
(published in: Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2012, 13, 203 - 222)
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F22, J61, J68
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4494
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Miguel
Fuentes
Pablo
Ibarrarán
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Firm Dynamics and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations: Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence from Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector
In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made ...
(published in: Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, 2012, 21 (3), 409 - 469)
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F36, F41
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4493
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Shuming
Bao
Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
Jack
W.
Hou
Yaohui
Zhao
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The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy: China’s Hukou System
Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools, health care, and attractive employment opportunities are available only to those ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2011, 29 (4), 564 - 579)
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J61
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4492
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René
Böheim
Martina
Zweimüller
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The Employment of Temporary Agency Workers in the UK: With or Against the Trade Unions?
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions ...
(published in: Economica, 2013, 80 (317), 65–95)
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D21, J31, J40
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4489
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Magne
Mogstad
Chiara
D.
Pronzato
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? Evidence from a Workfare Reform in a Generous Welfare State
There is a heated debate in many European countries about a move towards a welfare system that increases the incentives for lone mothers to move off welfare and into work. We analyze the consequences ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1129–1159)
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C23, I32, I38, J00
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4488
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Uwe
Blien
Wolfgang
Dauth
Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
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The Institutional Context of an "Empirical Law": The Wage Curve under Different Regimes of Collective Bargaining
The wage curve identified by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994) postulates that the wage level is a decreasing function of the regional unemployment rate. In testing this hypothesis, most empirical ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013, 51 (1), 59-79)
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J50
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4487
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Kornelius
Kraft
Jörg
Stank
Ralf
Dewenter
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Co-determination and Innovation
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (1), 145 - 172)
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J5, L2, O3
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4484
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Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
Anna
Lukiyanova
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Employment Protection Legislation in Russia: Regional Enforcement and Labour Market Outcomes
Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market ...
(published in: Comparative Economic Studies, 2010, 52 (4), 611-636)
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J21, J23, J52, K31, R23
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4483
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Ansgar
H.
Belke
Ingo
Bordon
Inna
Melnykovska
Rainer
Schweickert
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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 667-692)
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F15, F20, F50, P20, P30, O19
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4482
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
Hui
He
Hao
Zhang
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Health Investment over the Life-Cycle
We study the evolution of health investment over the life-cycle by calibrating a model of endogenous health accumulation. The model is able to produce the decline in labor supply with age as well as ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019, 23 (1), 178-215. )
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I12
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4481
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Vincent
A.
Hildebrand
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Portfolio Allocation in the Face of a Means-Tested Public Pension
Is there evidence that households adjust their asset portfolios just prior to retirement in response to a means-tested public pension? We address this question by estimating a system of asset ...
(pubished in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (3), 536 - 560)
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H30, H31, D31
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4480
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Francesco
Pastore
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The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia
Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 188-207)
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I21, J13, J24, J31, J62, P30, R23
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4478
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Bruno
S.
Frey
Simon
Luechinger
Alois
Stutzer
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The Life Satisfaction Approach to Environmental Valuation
In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this ...
(published in: Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2010, 2, 139-160)
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Q51, I31, D61, Q53
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4477
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Salvador
Barrios
Holger
Görg
Eric
Strobl
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Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals: Measurement Matters!
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (6), 862-875)
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F23, L22
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4476
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Helena
Holmlund
Olmo
Silva
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Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes: Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention
A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people's cognitive outcomes at school. However, little evidence exists about the effects of ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2014, 8 (2), 126-160)
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C20, I20, H75
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4475
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Manuela
Angelucci
Orazio
Attanasio
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Oportunidades: Program Effect on Consumption, Low Participation, and Methodological Issues
In this paper we estimate the effect of the Mexican conditional cash transfer program, Oportunidades, on consumption, and we explore some issues related to participation to the program and to the ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57 (3), 479-506)
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D12, O12
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4474
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Rita
K.
Almeida
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Openness and Technological Innovation in East Asia: Have They Increased the Demand for Skills?
This paper asks whether the increased openness and technological innovation in East Asia have contributed to an increased demand for skills in the region. We explore a unique firm level data set ...
(published in: Asia-Pacific Development Journal, 2010, 17 (1), 63-96)
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J23, J24, J31, O33
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4472
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Alan
Barrett
Adele
Bergin
Elish
Kelly
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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2011, 42 (1), 1-26)
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J11, J21, J61
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4471
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Motivational Goal Bracketing
It is a puzzle why people often evaluate consequences of choices separately (narrow bracketing) rather than jointly (broad bracketing). We study the hypothesis that a present-biased individual, who ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2021, 94, 101740)
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A12, C70, D91
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4470
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David
J.
Bjerk
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Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty
This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (3), 231 - 246)
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K42, I38
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4469
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Devah
Pager
Bruce
Western
Bart
Bonikowski
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Discrimination in a Low-Wage Labor Market: A Field Experiment
Decades of racial progress have led some researchers and policymakers to doubt that discrimination remains an important cause of economic inequality. To study contemporary discrimination we conducted ...
(published in: American Sociological Review, 2009, 74 (5), 77-799 )
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J7
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4468
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Endogenous Indoctrination: Occupational Choice, the Evolution of Beliefs, and the Political Economy of Reform
Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 325 - 353)
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E02, E24, I21, I28, J22, J23, J24, J45
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4467
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Hartmut
Lehmann
Jonathan
Wadsworth
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The Impact of Chernobyl on Health and Labour Market Performance in the Ukraine
Using longitudinal data from the Ukraine we examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the adult ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (5), 843-857)
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H00, J00
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4466
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Philipp
C.
Bauer
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Kindergarten Enrollment and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children enroll in kindergarten. Taking advantage of heterogeneity across cantons we find that ...
(published as 'Institutional Determinants of Intergenerational Education Transmission - Comparing Alternative Mechanisms for Natives and Immigrants' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 110–122)
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I2, I21, J24, D30
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4465
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Karen
van der Wiel
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Better Protected, Better Paid: Evidence on How Employment Protection Affects Wages
This paper empirically establishes the effect of the employer's term of notice on the wage level of employees. The term of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 16-26)
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C23, J31, J38, J63
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4464
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Mathias
Sinning
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Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2011, 41 (1), 214-226)
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F22, D31
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4463
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David
Wildasin
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Fiscal Competition for Imperfectly-Mobile Labor and Capital: A Comparative Dynamic Analysis
Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1312-1321)
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H22, H71, H87, J61, R58
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4462
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Raymond
Montizaan
Frank
Cörvers
Andries
de Grip
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The Effects of Pension Rights and Retirement Age on Training Participation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
This paper uses a natural experiment approach to identify the effects of an exogenous change in future pension benefits on workers' training participation. We use unique matched survey and ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 240-247)
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J14, J24, J26
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4461
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Raul
Ramos
Juan
Carlos
Duque
Jordi
Surinach
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Is the Wage Curve Formal or Informal? Evidence for Colombia
The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to the differences between formal and informal workers, an issue that has been ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 109 (2), 63-65)
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J30, J60, O17
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4460
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Samuel
Mühlemann
Stefan
C.
Wolter
Adrian
Wüest
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Apprenticeship Training and the Business Cycle
Dual apprenticeship training is a market-driven form of education at the upper secondary level, taking place in firms as well as in vocational schools. So far, little is known about the impact of the ...
(published in: Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2009, 1(2), 173-186)
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E24, I21, J18, J44
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4458
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
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Do All Material Incentives for Prosocial Activities Backfire? The Response to Cash and Non-Cash Incentives for Blood Donations
Experimental studies document that financial rewards discourage the performance of altruistic activities, because they destroy intrinsic altruistic motivations. We set up a randomized-controlled ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2010, 31 (4), 738-748)
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D12, D64, I18
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4457
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Britain
We analyze the dynamics of social assistance benefit (SA) receipt among working-age adults in Britain between 1991 and 2005. The decline in the annual SA receipt rate was driven by a decline in the ...
(revised version published in Research in Labor Economics, Volume 39: Safety Nets and Benefit Dependence, 2014, 39 - 77)
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I38, C33, C35
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4456
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Gilles
Saint-Paul
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of ...
(published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2015, 81 (4), 331-377)
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D1, D13, D3, E24, I2, J12, J13, J16, K36, O15, O43
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4455
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David
N.F.
Bell
David
G.
Blanchflower
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What Should Be Done About Rising Unemployment in the OECD?
There is a growing belief that the recession has run its course and that the goods market has started a period of slow, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, ...
(published as 'Recession and unemployment in the OECD' in: CESifo Forum, 2010, 1, 14 - 22)
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J64
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4453
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Raul
Ramos
Jordi
Surinach
Manuel
Artís
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Regional Economic Growth and Human Capital: The Role of Overeducation
The paper analyses the link between human capital and regional economic growth in the European Union. Using various indicators of human capital calculated from census microdata, we conclude that the ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1389-1400)
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O18, O47, R23
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4452
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Andrea
Bassanini
Pascal
Marianna
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Looking Inside the Perpetual-Motion Machine: Job and Worker Flows in OECD Countries
There is an increasing interest in the process of job creation and destruction as well of hirings and separations. Many studies suggest that idiosyncratic firm-level characteristics shape both job ...
(reduced version published as 'Inside the Perpetual-motion Machine: Cross-country Comparable Evidence on Job and Worker Flows at the Industry and Firm Level"' in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2010, 19 (6), 2097-2134)
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J23, J24, J63
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4451
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Carlos
A.
Flores
Oscar
A.
Mitnik
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Evaluating Nonexperimental Estimators for Multiple Treatments: Evidence from Experimental Data
This paper assesses the effectiveness of unconfoundedness-based estimators of mean effects for multiple or multivalued treatments in eliminating biases arising from nonrandom treatment assignment. We ...
(revised version published as 'Comparing Treatments across Labor Markets: An Assessment of Nonexperimental Multiple-Treatment Strategies' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(5), 1691-1707)
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C13, C14, C21
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4449
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Andreas
Kuhn
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Demand for Redistribution, Support for the Welfare State, and Party Identification in Austria
This paper describes subjective wage inequality and the demand for redistribution in Austria using individuals' estimates of occupational wages from the International Social Survey Program. Although ...
(revised version published in: Empirica, 2010, 37(2), 215-236)
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D31, D63, H50
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4448
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market
This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are ...
(published in: Ted McDonald et al. (eds.): Canadian Immigration - Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2010, 41-75)
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I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
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4446
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Wolfgang
Frimmel
Martin
Halla
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Assortative Mating and Divorce: Evidence from Austrian Register Data
This paper documents that changes in assortative mating patterns over the last four decades along the dimensions of age, ethnicity and religion are not responsible for the increasing marital ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 2013, 176(4), 907–929)
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J12, J11, J15, Z12, D1, R2
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