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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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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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4258
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Almut
Balleer
Thijs
van Rens
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Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this ...
(published as 'Skill-Biased Technological Change and the Business Cycle' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95(4), 1222-1237)
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E24, E32, J24, J31
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4257
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Denvil
Duncan
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
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Does Labor Supply Respond to a Flat Tax? Evidence from the Russian Tax Reform
We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted ...
(revised version published as 'Does Labour Supply Respond to a Flat Tax?" in: Economics of Transition, 2010, 18 (2), 365 - 404)
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H3, J2, J3, P2
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4256
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Marcela
Eslava
John
C.
Haltiwanger
Adriana
Kugler
Maurice
Kugler
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Trade Reforms and Market Selection: Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia
We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2013, 16 (1), 135-158. )
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F43, L25, O47
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4255
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity
Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (3), 349 - 378)
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I12, I18, J13
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4253
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Stefanie
Behncke
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How Does Retirement Affect Health?
This paper investigates the effects of retirement on various health outcomes. Data stem from the first three waves of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). With this informative data, ...
(published as 'Does retirement trigger ill health?' in: Health Economics, 2012, 21 (3), 282 - 300)
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I10, J14, J26
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4252
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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The US Inflation-Unemployment Tradeoff: Methodological Issues and Further Evidence
This paper addresses the various methodological issues surrounding vector autoregressions, simultaneous equations, and chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run ...
(published as 'The US Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off Revisited: New Evidence for Policy Making' in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2010, 32 (6), 758-777)
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E24, E31, E51
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4251
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Orazio
Attanasio
Adriana
Kugler
Costas
Meghir
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Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Developing Countries: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (3), 188-220)
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C21, I38, J24
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4250
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Helge
Berglann
Espen
R.
Moen
Knut
Røed
Jens
Fredrik
Skogstrøm
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Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns
We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (2), 180-193)
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L26, M13
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4249
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Christopher
R.
Bollinger
James
P.
Ziliak
Kenneth
Troske
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Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia
Despite evidence that skilled labor is increasingly concentrated in cities, whether regional wage inequality is predominantly due to differences in skill levels or returns is unknown. We compare ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (4), 819-857)
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J31, J4
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4247
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Francisco
Alvarez-Cuadrado
Markus
Poschke
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Structural Change out of Agriculture: Labor Push versus Labor Pull
The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2011, 3 (3), 127-158)
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O11, O41
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4246
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James
Albrecht
Anders
Björklund
Susan
Vroman
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Unionization and the Evolution of the Wage Distribution in Sweden: 1968 to 2000
We examine the evolution of the Swedish wage distribution over the periods 1968-1981 and 1981-2000. The first period was the heyday of the Swedish solidarity wage policy with strongly equalization ...
(revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64(5), 1039-1057)
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J31, J51
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4245
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Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Who Values the Status of the Entrepreneur?
Parker and Van Praag (2009) showed, based on theory, that the group status of the profession 'entrepreneurship' shapes people's occupational preferences and thus their choice behavior. The current ...
(published in: Handbook of Research on Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishers, 2011)
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J22, J24, L26, M13, M59
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4244
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Qian
Liu
Oskar
Nordström Skans
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The Duration of Paid Parental Leave and Children's Scholastic Performance
We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish ...
(Published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 3)
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I21, J13, J24
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4243
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Loren
Brandt
Aloysius
Siow
Carl
Vogel
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Large Demographic Shocks and Small Changes in the Marriage Market
This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine affected cohorts in rural areas of Sichuan and Anhui. The reduced form estimates ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Assocation, 2016, 14 (6), 1437 - 1468)
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J12
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4242
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Badi
H.
Baltagi
Georges
Bresson
Alain
Pirotte
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Forecasting with Spatial Panel Data
This paper compares various forecasts using panel data with spatial error correlation. The true data generating process is assumed to be a simple error component regression model with spatial ...
(published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 2012, 56 (11), 3381–3397)
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C33
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4241
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Michal
Bauer
Julie
Chytilová
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Women, Children and Patience: Experimental Evidence from Indian Villages
In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of ...
(revised version published in: Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17 (4), 662-675)
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C93, D13, D91, O12
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4240
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Simen
Markussen
Knut
Røed
Ole
J.
Røgeberg
Simen
Gaure
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The Anatomy of Absenteeism
Based on comprehensive administrative register data from Norway, we examine the determinants of sickness absence behavior; in terms of employee characteristics workplace characteristics, panel doctor ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2011, 30 (2), 277-292)
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C14, C41, H55, I18, J22
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4239
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Nikolaus
Graf
Helmut
Hofer
Rudolf
Winter-Ebmer
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Labour Supply Effects of a Subsidised Old-Age Part-Time Scheme in Austria
In this paper we evaluate the impact of the old-age part-time scheme (OAPT) on the Austrian labour market which was a policy to allow flexible retirement options for the elderly with an aim to ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung/Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 44 (3), 217-229)
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C31, J14, J26
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4238
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Nicole
Bosch
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Analyzing Female Labor Supply: Evidence from a Dutch Tax Reform
Among OECD countries, the Netherlands has average female labor force participation, but by far the highest rate of part-time work. This paper investigates the extent to which married women respond to ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 271-280)
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H24, J22, J38
|
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4236
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Long-Term Impact of Youth Minimum Wages: Evidence from Two Decades of Individual Longitudinal Data
This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2019, 121 (4), 1337 - 1380)
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J08, J31, J24, J38
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