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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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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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4198
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Stephan
Meier
Charles
Sprenger
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Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing
Some individuals borrow extensively on their credit cards. This paper tests whether present-biased time preferences correlate with credit card borrowing. In a field study, we elicit individual time ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2010, 2 (1), 193-210)
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D12, D14, D91, C93
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4197
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Andreas
Peichl
Nico
Pestel
Hilmar
Schneider
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Demografie und Ungleichheit: Der Einfluss von Veränderungen der Haushaltsstruktur auf die Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland
In Germany, two observations can be tracked over the past 15 to 20 years: First, income inequality has constantly increased while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. ...
(substantially revised version available as IZA Standpunkt No. 18, published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2011, 43(4), 327-338)
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D31, D63, I30, J11
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4194
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Arnaud
Dupuy
Wendy
Smits
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How Large Is the Compensating Wage Differential for R&D Workers?
The aim of this paper is to measure the extent to which lower wages in R&D functions reflect a preference effect. In contrast to the bulk of the literature on compensating wage differentials that ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2010, 19 (5), 423-436)
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J3
|
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4193
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Roger
Ham
Pramod
N. (Raja)
Junankar
Robert
Wells
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Antagonistic Managers, Careless Workers and Extraverted Salespeople: An Examination of Personality in Occupational Choice
This paper is an econometric investigation of the choice of individuals between a number of occupation groupings utilising an extensive array of conditioning variables measuring a variety of aspects ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 48 (7), 636-651)
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J24, J62, C25
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4192
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Cathal
O'Donoghue
David
Meredith
Eamon
O'Shea
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Postponing Maternity in Ireland
As in many other developed countries, Ireland in recent decades has experienced a postponement of maternity. In this paper we consider the main trends in this phenomenon, considering changes in first ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (1), 59 - 84)
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J13
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4191
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Fernando
Alexandre
Pedro
Bação
João
Cerejeira
Miguel
Portela
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Employment and Exchange Rates: The Role of Openness and Technology
Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the ...
(published in: Open Economies Review 2011, ,22 (5), 969 - 984)
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J23, F16, F41
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4190
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Oriana
Bandiera
Iwan
Barankay
Imran
Rasul
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Social Incentives in the Workplace
We present evidence on social incentives in the workplace, namely on whether workers’ behavior is affected by the presence of those they are socially tied to, even in settings where there are no ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2010, 77 (2), 417-458)
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L2, M5
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4189
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Relational Contracts, Taxation and the Household
This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a repeated non-cooperative game, Pareto efficient outcomes can be supported by ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 245-258)
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D11, D13, H21, H24, H31, J12, J16, K36, N30
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4188
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Inmaculada
García-Mainar
José Alberto
Molina
Víctor
M.
Montuenga
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Intra-Household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children
This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are ...
(published as 'Gender Differences in Childcare: Time Allocation in Five European Countries' in: Feminist Economics, 2011, 17 (1), 119-150)
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D13, J22, C33
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4184
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Gabriel
Felbermayr
Julien
Prat
Hans-Jörg
Schmerer
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Trade and Unemployment: What Do the Data Say?
This paper documents a robust empirical regularity: in the long-run, higher trade openness is causally associated to a lower structural rate of unemployment. We establish this fact using: (i) panel ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (6), 741-758)
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F16, E24, J6
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