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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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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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4235
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Kaisa
Kotakorpi
Panu
Poutvaara
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Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection: An Empirical Analysis
In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on who wants to be a politician. We take advantage of a considerable 35 percent salary increase of Finnish MPs in the year 2000, intended ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (7-8), 877 - 885)
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D72, J3, J45
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4233
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
Dmitriy
Stolyarov
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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia: Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and ...
(revised version published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13 (1), 209 - 237)
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E20, J30, I30, O15, P20
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4232
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Taryn Ann
Galloway
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Peder
J.
Pedersen
Torun
Österberg
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Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study
Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent ...
(revised version published in: Thesia I Garner and Kathleen S Short (eds.): Measures of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility (Research on Economic Inequality, 23), 2015, 185 - 219)
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F22, I32, J15
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4231
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Boris
Hirsch
Marion
König
Joachim
Möller
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Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap
In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are ...
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 60 (4), 412-439)
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J16, J42, J71
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4230
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Martin
Kahanec
Anzelika
Zaiceva
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement
The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between ...
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2009, 3-45)
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F22, J61
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4229
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Adriana
Barone
Niall
O'Higgins
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Fat and Out in Salerno and Province: Adolescent Obesity and Early School Leaving in Southern Italy
In this paper, we focus on the causes and consequences of adolescent obesity from an economic perspective. The paper examines the determinants of obesity and its role in influencing early school ...
(revised version published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (1), 44-57)
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I12, I21, J13
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4228
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Klara
Sabirianova
Peter
Steve
Buttrick
Denvil
Duncan
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Global Reform of Personal Income Taxation, 1981-2005: Evidence from 189 Countries
In this paper we use a panel of 189 countries to describe the salient trends that have emerged in national personal income tax systems spanning the twenty five year period from 1981 to 2005. Using ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2010, 63 (3), 447-478)
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C8, E62, H2, H87, N10, O1
|
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4227
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Sandra
Cavaco
Denis
Fougère
Julien
Pouget
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Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program on the Re-Employment Rate of Displaced Workers
In this paper we estimate by matching techniques the effects of a French retraining program on the reemployment rate of displaced workers. This program, called "Conventions de conversion", was ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (1), 261-287.)
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C41, J24, J64, J68
|
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4226
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Roger
Bandick
Holger
Görg
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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth
This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2010, 43(2), 547-573)
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F23, L23
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4225
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Alpaslan
Akay
Peter
Martinsson
Haileselassie
Medhin
Stefan
T.
Trautmann
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Attitudes toward Uncertainty among the Poor: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
We looked at risk and ambiguity attitudes among Ethiopian peasants in one of the poorest regions of the world and compared their attitudes to a standard Western university student sample elicited by ...
(revised version published in: Theory and Decision, 2012, 73 (3), 453-464 )
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D81, C93, O12
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4224
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Riccardo
Rovelli
Anzelika
Zaiceva
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Transition Fatigue? Cross-Country Evidence from Micro Data
The transition process has had different distributional impacts across different interest groups and countries. These have led to differences in the support for transition. In this paper, we study ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Did Support for Economic and Political Reforms Increase During the Post-Communist Transition, and If So, Why?' in: The Economics of Transition, 2013, 21 (2), 193-240.)
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O57, A13, P26, P36
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