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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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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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4222
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Stefanie
Behncke
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How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?
This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 107/108, 155 - 173)
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C15, C21, C93, I20
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4221
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Susanne
Prantl
Alexandra
Spitz-Oener
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How Does Entry Regulation Influence Entry into Self-Employment and Occupational Mobility?
We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affects entry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification as a natural ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 769-802)
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J24, J62, K20, L11, L51, M13
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4219
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Jay
Stewart
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The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children
I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day that mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2010, 64(1), 181-200)
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J22, J13
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4218
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Yuanyuan
Chen
Shuaizhang
Feng
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Parental Education and Wages: Evidence from China
Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in ...
(published in: Frontiers of Economics in China, 2011, 6 (4), 568-591)
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J30, J62
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4217
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Fernando
A.
Lozano
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The Flexibility of the Workweek in the United States: Evidence from the FIFA World Cup
In this paper I explore the flexibility of the work week in the United States, using the FIFA Soccer World Cup as a natural experiment. My empirical strategy exploits the exogenous variation that ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2011, 49(2), 512-529)
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J22, L83
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4215
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Ken
Burdett
Carlos
Carrillo-Tudela
Melvyn
Coles
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Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium
We analyse an equilibrium labour market with on-the-job search and experience effects (where workers learn-by-doing). The analysis yields a standard Mincer wage equation with worker fixed effects and ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2011, 52 (3), 657 - 677)
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J24, J42, J64
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4214
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabrizio
Zilibotti
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Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?
In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2010, 15(1), 1-31)
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J20, J88, O10
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4213
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Bruno
Cesar
Araújo
Francesco
Bogliacino
Marco
Vivarelli
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The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in the volumes of exports and imports since the year 2000. Over the same period, ...
(published in: CEPAL Review, 2012, 105, 157-171)
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O33, O54, F16
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4212
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Giorgio
Di Pietro
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Military Conscription and University Enrolment: Evidence from Italy
Given that a growing number of countries have abolished or are considering the abolition of military conscription, understanding the consequences of this measure is of increased importance. In this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 619-644)
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I20, J24
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4210
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Andreas
Knabe
Steffen
Rätzel
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Boon or Bane? Others' Unemployment, Well-being and Job Insecurity
The social norm of unemployment suggests that aggregate unemployment reduces the well-being of the employed, but has a far smaller effect on the unemployed. We use German panel data to reproduce this ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 52-61)
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I31, D84, J60
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4209
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Ian
Gazeley
Andrew
T.
Newell
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No Room to Live: Urban Overcrowding in Edwardian Britain
We study the extent of overcrowding amongst British urban working families in the early 1900s and find major regional differences. In particular, a much greater proportion of households in urban ...
(published as 'Why was urban over-crowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey’ in: European Review of Economic History, 2011, 15 (1), 127-151)
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I10, N33, R12
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4208
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Niall
O'Higgins
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"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma": Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe
This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify ...
(revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31(2) 163-187)
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C35, J15, J24, P23
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4207
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Luca
Marchiori
I-Ling
Shen
Frédéric
Docquier
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Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2013, 51 (2), 1582–1602)
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F22, J24, O15
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4206
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Naihobe
Gonzales
Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?
There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (6), 1348-1369)
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J2, J24, J38, I21, O12, O15
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4205
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Christine
Harbring
Bernd
Irlenbusch
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Sabotage in Tournaments: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Although relative performance schemes are pervasive in organizations reliable empirical data on induced sabotage behavior is almost non-existent. We study sabotage in tournaments in a controlled ...
(revised and extended version published in: Management Science, 2011, 57, 611 - 627)
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M52, J33, J41, L23, C72, C91
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4204
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Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
Rachel
Connelly
Chen
Lan
Lixin
Tang
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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982 - 2000
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2011, 46 (2), 261 - 294)
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J11, J12, J13, J16, J22, O15, P23, R23
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4201
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Nikos
Askitas
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
The current economic crisis requires fast information to predict economic behavior early, which is difficult at times of structural changes. This paper suggests an innovative new method of using data ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55 (2), 107-120)
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C22, C82, E17, E24, E37
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4200
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Betsey
Stevenson
Justin
Wolfers
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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness
By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2009, 1(2), 190–225)
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D6, I32, J1, J7, K1
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4199
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Donghyun
Oh
Almas
Heshmati
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A Sequential Malmquist-Luenberger Productivity Index
This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The rationale of this methodology is to consider the features of technology appropriately ...
(published as 'A sequential Malmquist–Luenberger productivity index: Environmentally sensitive productivity growth considering the progressive nature of technology ' in: Energy Economics, 2011, 32 (6), 1345 - 1355)
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D24, D61, D57, C43, Q56
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