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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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4317
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
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Understanding the Workweek of Foreign Born Workers in the United States
I analyze the length of the workweek of foreign-born workers in the U.S. I concentrate on workers supplying long hours of work? 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 83-104)
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J22, J61
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4316
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Thierry
Warin
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
Optat
Tengia
Kirsten
Wandschneider
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Southern African Economic Integration: Evidence from an Augmented Gravity Model
This paper investigates the feasibility of creating a common-currency union consisting of 16 countries in Southern Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public ...
(published in: African Finance Journal, 2011, 13 (1), 1- 13)
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F1, F3, F4, O24, O55
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4315
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Giacomo
Corneo
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Symbolic Values, Value Formation and Interpersonal Relations
Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a ...
(published in: International Review of Economics, 2010, 57, 119-141)
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Z1
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4314
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Martin
Halla
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The Effect of Joint Custody on Marriage and Divorce
Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (2), 278–315)
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J12, J13, J18, K36, D13, N32, R2
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4313
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Andrew
J.
Oswald
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A Suggested Method for the Measurement of World-Leading Research (Illustrated with Data on Economics)
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (1), 99 - 113)
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A1, O38
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4310
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Mathias
Dolls
Clemens
Fuest
Andreas
Peichl
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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis: US vs. Europe
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (3-4), 279-294)
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E32, E63, H2, H31
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4307
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Fredrik
Carlsson
Peter
Martinsson
Alpaslan
Akay
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The Effect of Power Outages and Cheap Talk on Willingness to Pay to Reduce Outages
Using an open-ended contingent valuation survey, we analyze how (i) experience of a power outage due to one of the worst storms ever to hit Sweden and (ii) a cheap talk script affect respondents' WTP ...
(revised version published in: Energy Economics, 2011, 33 (5), 790 - 798)
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C25, D12, Q41
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4306
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Timothy
J.
Hatton
Richard
M.
Martin
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Fertility Decline and the Heights of Children in Britain, 1886-1938
In this paper we argue that the fertility decline that began around 1880 had substantial positive effects on the health of children, as the quality-quantity trade-off would suggest. We use microdata ...
(published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2010, 47 (4), 505-519)
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I32, J13, N33, N34
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4305
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Anders
Björklund
Karin
Hederos Eriksson
Markus
Jäntti
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IQ and Family Background: Are Associations Strong or Weak?
For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 2)
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J0, I0, J1
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4304
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James
J.
Heckman
Petra
E.
Todd
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A Note on Adapting Propensity Score Matching and Selection Models to Choice Based Samples
The probability of selection into treatment plays an important role in matching and selection models. However, this probability can often not be consistently estimated, because of choice-based ...
(published in: Econometric Journal, 2009, 12 (Supplement), S230-S234)
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C52
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4303
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Ernesto
Reuben
Arno
Riedl
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Enforcement of Contribution Norms in Public Good Games with Heterogeneous Populations
Economic and social interaction takes place between individuals with heterogeneous characteristics. We investigate experimentally the emergence and informal enforcement of different contribution ...
(published in: Games and Economic Behavior, 2013, 77 (1), 122-137)
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H41, C92, Z13
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4301
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Gabriele
Pellegrino
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
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How Do Young Innovative Companies Innovate?
This paper discusses the determinants of product innovation in young innovative companies (YICs) by looking at in-house and external R&D and at the acquisition of external technology in embodied and ...
(published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2012, 23 (4), 329-340)
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O31
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4300
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Alison
L.
Booth
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Gender and Competition
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (6), 599-606)
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C9, J16, J71
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4299
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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Productivity Growth and the Phillips Curve: A Reassessment of the US Experience
In this paper we analyse a new Phillips curve (NPC) model and demonstrate that (i) frictional growth, i.e. the interplay of wage-staggering and money growth, generates a nonvertical NPC in the ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2012, 64 (3), 344–366)
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E24, E31
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4298
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Eswar
Prasad
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Rebalancing Growth in Asia
Rebalancing growth patterns of Asian economies is an important component of the overall rebalancing effort that will be required in the world economy. In this paper, I provide an empirical ...
(published in: International Finance, 2011, 14 (1), 27 - 66)
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E2, F3, F4
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4297
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Christian
Grund
Christine
Harbring
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Trust and Control at the Workplace: Evidence from Representative Samples of Employees in Europe
Based on two representative samples of employees, the German Socio Economic Panel and the European Social Survey, we explore the relation between certain measures of control in employment ...
(published in: Journal of Economics and Statistics - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233(5+6), 619-637)
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D03, J81, M12, M5
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4296
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
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The Distributional Effects of Tax-Benefit Policies under New Labour: A Shapley Decomposition
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (6), 856–874)
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H23, H53, I32
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4295
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
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The End of Destitution
The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use ...
(published as' The end of destitution: evidence from urban British working households, 1904-37' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2012, 64 (1), 80-102)
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N3, O12
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4294
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Werner
Eichhorst
Eric
Thode
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Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf: Wie konsistent sind die Reformen?
Wenn institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf behindern, wird die Wahl zwischen Erwerbstätigkeit und Familiengründung zu einer echten Entweder-oder-Entscheidung. In ...
(published in: Regards sur l'Economie Allemande, 2010, 96, 13-21)
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J13, J16
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4293
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Michel
Beine
Frédéric
Docquier
Hillel
Rapoport
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On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates
Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2010, 97/98, 143 - 166)
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F22
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4292
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Alexander
S.
Kritikos
Christoph
Kneiding
Claas
Christian
Germelmann
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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany
In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (5), 523-543)
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G21, D12, M31
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4291
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Karina
Doorley
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Caught in the Trap? The Disincentive Effect of Social Assistance
While financial incentives usually have a significant effect on the labor supply of married women and single mothers, the evidence about the participation elasticity of childless singles, and single ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (9-10), 1096-1110)
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H52, J21
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4290
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
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Inequality and Specialization: The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the ...
(see IZA DP No. 7068 for a substantially updated version)
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E24, J24, J31, J62, O33
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4289
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Michelle
Tan
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Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages
This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (1), 1-13)
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J16, J24, J31
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4288
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Guillermina
Jasso
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Linking Individuals and Societies
How do individuals shape societies? How do societies shape individuals? This paper develops a framework for studying the connections between micro and macro phenomena. The framework builds on two ...
(published in: Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2010, 34 (1), 1-51 )
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C02, C16, D31, D6, D7, D8, J71
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4287
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Florin
Vadean
Matloob
Piracha
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Circular Migration or Permanent Return: What Determines Different Forms of Migration?
This paper addresses the following questions: To what extent do the socio-economic characteristics of circular/repeat migrants differ from migrants who return permanently to the home country after ...
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 467-495)
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C35, F22, J61
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4286
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
Prudence
Magejo
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The Informal Sector Wage Gap: New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data
Most emerging economies are characterized by the presence of informal salary employment, often argued to be caused by stringent labor market regulation and to result in wage penalties compared to the ...
(revised version published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2015, 63 (1), 117-153)
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J21, J23, J24, J31, C14, O17
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4285
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Bruce
A.
Weinberg
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A Model of Overconfidence
People use information about their ability to choose tasks. If more challenging tasks provide more accurate information about ability, people who care about and who are risk averse over their ...
(published in: Pacific Economic Review, 2009, 14(4), 502-515)
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D03, D08
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4282
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Vincenzo
Galasso
Tommaso
Nannicini
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Competing on Good Politicians
Is electoral competition good for political selection? To address this issue, we introduce a theoretical model in which ideological parties select candidates between party loyalists and experts, and ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2011, 105 (1), 79-99)
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D72, H00
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4281
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Olivier
B.
Bargain
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Flexible Labor Supply Models
Discrete-choice models of labor supply have become very popular for ex ante evaluations of policy reforms as they easily account for non-convex budget sets. We test the constraints imposed in ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 105 (1), 103-105)
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H31, J22
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4280
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Paul
W.
Miller
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Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?
This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male ...
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2010, 111-154)
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I21, J24, J31, J61, F22
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4279
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
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Religion, Human Capital Investments and the Family in the United States
This paper critically reviews what is known, based on analyses of micro-level U.S. data, about the role of religion in various interrelated decisions that people make over the life cycle, including ...
(published in: Oxford Handbook of the Economics of Religion, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010)
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J1, J2
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4278
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Sven
Jung
Claus
Schnabel
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Paying More than Necessary? The Wage Cushion in Germany
Using a representative establishment data set for Germany, we show that more than 40 percent of plants covered by collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which ...
(published in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 182-197)
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J30, J31
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4277
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George
S
Naufal
Ali
Termos
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The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC
We investigate the responsiveness of remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to the changes in the price of crude oil. Most of the GCC countries rank in the top 20 remitting ...
(published in: OPEC Energy Review, 2009, 33 (3/4), 184-197 )
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F24, P22, N15
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4276
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Joana
Naritomi
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
Juliano
J.
Assunção
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Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil
This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72 (2), 393-422)
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N26, O17, O40
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4275
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states – assimilation, integration, ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 3-30)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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4274
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James
P.
Smith
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The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 478 - 489)
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I10, J00
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4273
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Tito
Boeri
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Immigration to the Land of Redistribution
Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by concerns that foreigners are a net fiscal burden. Paradoxically instruments of ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (308), 651-687)
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J38, J5
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4272
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Jan
Boone
Karen
van der Wiel
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might: A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply
It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3 (11).)
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D11, D12, D13
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4271
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Michael
R.
Ransom
David
P.
Sims
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Estimating the Firm's Labor Supply Curve in a "New Monopsony" Framework: School Teachers in Missouri
In the context of certain dynamic models, it is possible to infer the elasticity of labor supply to the firm from the elasticity of the quit rate with respect to the wage. Using this property, we ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (2), 331 - 335)
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J42, J63
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4269
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John
J.
McArdle
James
P.
Smith
Robert
Willis
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Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey
Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous ...
(published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, pp. 209-236, 2010)
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G10
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4268
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Andries
de Grip
Didier
Fouarge
Jan
Sauermann
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What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?
Using a dataset of science and engineering graduates from 12 European countries, we analyse the determinants of labour migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2010, 19(5), 407-421)
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F22, J61
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4266
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Petter
Lundborg
Paul
Nystedt
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
The association between stature and favorable labor market outcomes has been extensively documented. Recent studies have attributed this height premium to cognitive and social skills. We offer an ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(1), 141-166.)
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J10, J70
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4265
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Lídia
Farré
Libertad
González
Francesc
Ortega
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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions, 2011, 11 (1), Article 34)
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J61, J22, J13
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4264
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Jan
C.
van Ours
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Will You Still Need Me – When I'm 64?
For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at ...
(published in: De Economist, 2009, 157(4), 441-460 )
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J14, J24, J31
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4263
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Olof
Aslund
Anders
Böhlmark
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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Age at Migration and Social Integration
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 135–144)
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J12, J15, J13, J01
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4262
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Johannes
Abeler
Steffen
Altmann
Sebastian
Kube
Matthias
Wibral
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Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair
We study how different payment modes influence the effectiveness of gift exchange as a contract enforcement device. In particular, we analyze how horizontal fairness concerns affect performance and ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8(6), 1299-1324)
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J33, D63, M52, C92, J41
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4261
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Benoit
Dostie
Rajshri
Jayaraman
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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our ...
(published as 'Do Higher Costs Spur Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives? Evidence from a Natural Experiment' in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2013, 22 (3), 529–550)
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L20, O31, M52, J33
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4260
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Alan
Barrett
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EU Enlargement and Ireland's Labour Market
Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession countries when the EU enlarged in May 2004. Given the limited number of countries that ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin et al. 2009, 145-161)
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J61, F22
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4259
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Axel
Dreher
Justina
A.V.
Fischer
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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51 (4), 981 - 1002)
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D74, H70, H40
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