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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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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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4445
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Lex
Borghans
Frank
Cörvers
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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document ...
(published in: Charles T. Clotfelter (ed.), American Universities in a Global Market, NBER, 2010)
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O31, I23
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4444
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John
T.
Addison
Chad
Cotti
Christopher
J.
Surfield
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Atypical Work: Who Gets It, and Where Does It Lead? Some U.S. Evidence Using the NLSY79
Atypical work arrangements have long been criticized as offering more precarious and lower paid work than regular open-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the ...
(revised version published as 'Atypical Jobs: Stepping Stones or Dead Ends? Evidence from the NLSY79' in: The Manchester School, 2015, 83(1), 17–55)
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J30, J40, J63
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4443
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Giacomo
De Giorgi
Michele
Pellizzari
William
Gui
Woolston
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Class Size and Class Heterogeneity
We study how class size and composition affect the academic and labor market performances of college students, two crucial policy questions given the secular increase in college enrollment. We rely ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2012, 10 (4), 795 - 830)
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A22, I23, J30
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4442
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Ilias
Livanos
Konstantinos
Pouliakas
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Wage Returns to University Disciplines in Greece: Are Greek Higher Education Degrees Trojan Horses?
This paper examines the wage returns to qualifications and academic disciplines in the Greek labour market. Exploring wage responsiveness across various degree subjects in Greece is interesting, as ...
(published in: Education Economics, 2011, 19 (4), 411 - 445)
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J24, J31, J38
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4441
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Helmut
Fryges
Sandra
Gottschalk
Karsten
Kohn
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The KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel: Design and Research Potential
So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using one-time surveys, but continuously over a number of years. Therefore, the Centre ...
(published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2010, 130 (1), 117-131)
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C80, L20, J20, G30
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4439
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Joop
Hartog
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A Risk Augmented Mincer Earnings Equation? Taking Stock
We survey the literature on the Risk Augmented Mincer equation that seeks to estimate the compensation for uncertainty in the future wage to be earned after completing an education. There is wide ...
(Research in Labor Economics, 2011, 33, 129-173)
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J31, D8
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4438
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Herbert
Brücker
Stefano
Fachin
Alessandra
Venturini
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Do Foreigners Replace Native Immigrants? Evidence from a Panel Cointegration Analysis
This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labour market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 2011, 28 (3), 1078 - 1089)
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F22
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4437
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Georgios
A.
Panos
Konstantinos
Pouliakas
Alexandros
Zangelidis
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The Inter-Related Dynamics of Dual Job Holding, Human Capital and Occupational Choice
The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the ...
(published as 'Multiple jobholding, Skill diversification and Mobility' in: Industrial Relations, 2014, 53 (2), 223-272)
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J22, J24, J62
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4436
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Diane
J.
Macunovich
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The Role of Demographics in Precipitating Crises in Financial Institutions
There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears ...
(published as 'The role of demographics in precipitating economic downturns' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (3), 783-807)
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J1, E3, F3, F4
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4434
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Horst
Raff
Joachim
Wagner
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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the ...
(published in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (8), 1006-1022)
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F12, F15
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4433
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Jonathan
Wadsworth
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Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?
One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of ...
(published in: Fiscal Studies, 2010, 31 (1), 81-120)
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J6
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4432
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Christian
Dustmann
Albrecht
Glitz
Thorsten
Vogel
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Employment, Wages, and the Economic Cycle: Differences between Immigrants and Natives
In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (1), 1-17)
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E32, F22, J31
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4431
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Loren
Brandt
Aloysius
Siow
Jackie
Wang
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Substitution Effects in Parental Investments
The paper estimates how parents adjust bride-prices and land divisions to compensate their sons for differences in their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a ...
(Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 28(2), 423-462 [Winner of Kuznet's Price 2015])
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D13, J12, J13
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4430
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Peter J.
Sloane
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Disability and Skill Mismatch
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2010, 88 (s1), 101 - 114)
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I0, J2, J3, J7, J24, J31
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4429
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Panu
Poutvaara
Andreas
Wagener
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The Political Economy of Conscription
Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid economic, social or military arguments in favor of the draft can be put forward, ...
(published in: Christopher J. Coyne and Rachel L. Mathers (eds.), The Handbook on the Political Economy of War, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)
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H56, D72
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4428
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Frank
Cörvers
Arnaud
Dupuy
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Estimating Employment Dynamics across Occupations and Sectors of Industry
In this paper, we estimate the demand for workers by sector and occupation using system dynamic OLS techniques to account for the employment dynamics dependence across occupations and sectors of ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2010, 32, 17-32)
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J21, J23
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4427
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Larry
L.
Howard
Nishith
Prakash
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Do Means-Tested School Lunch Subsidies Change Children's Weekly Consumption Patterns?
This article examines whether the means-tested component of the National School Lunch Program changes beneficiaries' dietary patterns by taking advantage of variation across public school districts ...
(published as 'Do School Lunch Subsidies Change the Dietary Patterns of Children from Low-Income Households?' in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2012, 30 (3), 362 - 381)
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I38
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4426
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Shuaizhang
Feng
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Jeff
Larrimore
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Recent Trends in Top Income Shares in the USA: Reconciling Estimates from March CPS and IRS Tax Return Data
Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially higher levels of ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (2), 371–388 )
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D31, C81
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4425
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Alan
Barrett
Seamus
McGuinness
Martin
O`Brien
Philip
J.
O'Connell
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Immigrants and Employer-Provided Training
Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard to earnings, employment and occupational attainment. However, much less ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2013, 34 (1), 52-78)
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J24, J61
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4424
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Sarah
Brown
Mark
N.
Harris
Karl
Taylor
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Modelling Charitable Donations to an Unexpected Natural Disaster: Evidence from the U.S. Panel Study of Income Dynamics
Using household-level data, we explore the relationship between donations to the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and other charitable donations. The empirical evidence suggests that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2012, 84 (1), 97-110)
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D19, H24, H41, H31
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4422
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
This paper examines the way immigrant earnings are determined in Australia. It uses the overeducation/required education/undereducation (ORU) framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition of the ...
(published as "The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons" in: International Migration Review, 2010, 44(4), 869-898)
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F22, I21, J24, J31, J61
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4421
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Nadja
Dwenger
Johanna
Storck
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition fees influence the mobility of university applicants. Based on administrative ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (1), 155-167)
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I22, I28, H75, R23
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4419
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Matt
Dickson
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The Causal Effect of Education on Wages Revisited
This paper estimates the return to education using two alternative instrumental variable estimators: one exploits variation in schooling associated with early smoking behaviour, the other uses the ...
(revised version published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 75 (4), 477–498)
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I20 J30
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4418
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Daron
Acemoglu
Davide
Ticchi
Andrea
Vindigni
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Persistence of Civil Wars
A notable feature of post-World War II civil wars is their very long average duration. We provide a theory of the persistence of civil wars. The civilian government can successfully defeat rebellious ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (2-3), 664-676)
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H2, N10, N40, P16
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4417
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Kenneth
Troske
Alexandru
Voicu
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The Effect of the Timing and Spacing of Births on the Level of Labor Market Involvement of Married Women
We use panel data from NLSY79 to analyze the effects of the timing and spacing of births on the labor supply of married women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and ...
(revised version published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45(1), 483-521)
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C11, C15, J13, J22
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4416
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Jeffrey
V.
Butler
Paola
Giuliano
Luigi
Guiso
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The Right Amount of Trust
A vast literature has investigated the relationship between trust and aggregate economic performance. We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2016, 14 (6), 1155 - 1180)
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A1, A12, D1, O15, Z1
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4415
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Jed
Kolko
David
Neumark
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Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?
We assess a prominent argument for local economic policies that favor locally-owned businesses – namely, that locally-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67(1), 103-15)
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R11, R38, J23
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4414
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Claudia
Senik
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Who Compares to Whom? The Anatomy of Income Comparisons in Europe
This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120 (544), 573-594)
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D31, D63, I3, J31, Z13
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4413
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Junfu
Zhang
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Tipping and Residential Segregation: A Unified Schelling Model
This paper presents a Schelling-type checkerboard model of residential segregation formulated as a spatial game. It shows that although every agent prefers to live in a mixed-race neighborhood, ...
(published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51(1), 167-193)
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C72, C73, D62, R13
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4412
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Giovanni
Russo
Edwin
van Hooft
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Identities, Conflicting Behavioural Norms and the Importance of Job Attributes
The paper empirically expounds the richness of the identity approach to labor market behavior by allowing individuals to experience identity conflict. Specifically, it investigates the relationship ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Psychology, 2011, 32 (1), 103-119)
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J22, J24, Z13
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4410
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Michele
Battisti
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FSU Immigrants in Canada: A Case of Positive Triple Selection?
This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada. The contribution of this paper lies in its use of a natural experiment to detect ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 579-604)
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J61, F22
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4409
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Andreas
Kuhn
Oliver
Ruf
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The Value of a Statistical Injury: New Evidence from the Swiss Labor Market
We study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry x skill-level of the job and capitalizing on the partial ...
(revised version published in: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 149 (1), 57-86)
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J17, J28, J31
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4408
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Leif
Danziger
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Noncompliance and the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Hours and Welfare in Competitive Labor Markets
This paper shows that increases in the minimum wage rate can have ambiguous effects on the working hours and welfare of employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 625-630)
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J38
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4407
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Mevlude
Akbulut-Yuksel
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Children of War: The Long-Run Effects of Large-Scale Physical Destruction and Warfare on Children
During World War II, more than one-half million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about one-third of the total housing stock nationwide. This paper provides ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49 (3), 634-662)
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I21, I12, J24, N34
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4406
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Nancy
H.
Chau
Hideaki
Goto
Ravi
Kanbur
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Middlemen, Non-Profits, and Poverty
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2016, 14, 81 - 108)
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F15, I32, L3
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4405
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Ghazala
Azmat
Libertad
González
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Targeting Fertility and Female Participation Through the Income Tax
We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small children. The reform introduced a tax credit for working mothers with children ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 487-502)
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J22, J13, H31
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4404
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Holger
Görg
Aoife
Hanley
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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An Empirical Investigation
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49(2), 321-333)
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F19, O31
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4403
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Hermann
Gartner
Christian
Merkl
Thomas
Rothe
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They Are Even Larger! More (on) Puzzling Labor Market Volatilities
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the ...
(revised version published as 'Sclerosis and Large Volatilities: Two Sides of the Same Coin' in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (1), 106–109)
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J6, E24, E32
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4402
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Christian
Bayer
Falko
Juessen
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The Life-Cycle and the Business-Cycle of Wage Risk: A Cross-Country Comparison
This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 117 (3), 831-833)
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E20, D31, D91, J31
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