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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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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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4183
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Ken
Clark
Nick
Kanellopoulos
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Low Pay Persistence in European Countries
Using panel data for twelve European countries over the period 1994-2001 we estimate the extent of state dependence in low pay. Controlling for observable and unobservable heterogeneity as well as ...
(revised version published in Labour Economics 2013, 23, 122-134.)
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C23, C25, J31, J69
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4181
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Nava
Kahana
Yosef
Mealem
Shmuel
Nitzan
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The Efficient and Fair Approval of "Multiple-Cost - Single-Benefit" Projects under Unilateral Information
This paper focuses on indivisible multiple-cost–single-benefit projects that must be approved by the government. A simple mechanism is proposed that ensures an efficient and fair implementation of ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2009, 11 (6), 947 - 960)
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D61, D62, D78
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4180
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Michael
Fertig
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
Mathias
Sinning
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The Impact of Demographic Change on Human Capital Accumulation
This paper investigates whether and to what extent demographic change has an impact on human capital accumulation. The effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009 (6), 16, 659-668)
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J11, J24, C25
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4179
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Alessandro
Cigno
Annalisa
Luporini
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Optimal Family Policy in the Presence of Moral Hazard, When the Quantity and Quality of Children Are Stochastic
We examine the second-best family policy under the assumption that both the number and the future earning capacities of the children born to a couple are random variables with probability ...
(published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2011, 57 (2), 349-364)
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D13, D78, D82. H31, J13
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4178
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Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
Willie
Belton
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Coming to America: Does Immigrant's Home Country Economic Status Impact the Probability of Self-Employment in the U.S.?
This paper examines the impact of home country economic status on immigrant self-employment probability in the U.S. We estimate a probability model and find that, consistent across race, immigrants ...
(revised version published in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 538-542)
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J21, E24, J61, J40
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4177
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Falko
Juessen
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A Distribution Dynamics Approach to Regional GDP Convergence in Unified Germany
This paper uses nonparametric techniques to study GDP convergence across German labor market regions and counties during the period 1992-2004. The main result is that regional convergence in unified ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2009, 37 (3), 627 - 652)
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O47, R11, C14
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4176
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Simon
W.
Bowmaker
Patrick
M.
Emerson
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Still Waiting for Mister Right? Asymmetric Information, Abortion Laws and the Timing of Marriage
Previous studies have suggested that more liberal abortion laws should lead to a decrease in marriage rates among young women as 'shotgun weddings' are no longer necessary. Empirical evidence from ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (22), 3151-3169)
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J12, J13, K0
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4174
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Anabela
Carneiro
Paulo
Guimaraes
Pedro
Portugal
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Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
Using a longitudinal matched employer-employee data set for Portugal over the 1986-2005 period, this study analyzes the heterogeneity in wages responses to aggregate labor market conditions for newly ...
(published as 'Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker, Firm and Job-Title Heterogeneity' in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(2))
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J31, E24, E32
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4173
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Leo
Kaas
Jun
Lu
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Equal-Treatment Policy in a Random Search Model with Taste Discrimination
We consider a search model of the labor market with two types of equally productive workers and two types of firms, discriminators and non-discriminators. Without policy intervention, there is wage ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (4), 699-709)
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J41, J71, J78
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4172
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Peter
Rupert
Etienne
Wasmer
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Housing and the Labor Market: Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment
The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, Carnegie-NYU-Rochester Conference Issue, 2012, 59 (1), 24-36)
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J30, J60, R20
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4171
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John
Hudson
John
G.
Sessions
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The Impact of Parental Education on Earnings: New Wine in an Old Bottle?
We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of factors suggest that parental education will affect the ability of an individual ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (2), 112-115)
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J30, J31, J33
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4170
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Thomas
Dohmen
Armin
Falk
David
B.
Huffman
Felix
Marklein
Uwe
Sunde
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Biased Probability Judgment: Evidence of Incidence and Relationship to Economic Outcomes from a Representative Sample
Many economic decisions involve a substantial amount of uncertainty, and therefore crucially depend on how individuals process probabilistic information. In this paper, we investigate the capability ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 72 (3), 903-915)
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C90, D00, D10, D80, D81, H00
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4169
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Alfonso
Flores-Lagunes
Audrey
Light
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Interpreting Degree Effects in the Returns to Education
Researchers often identify degree effects by including degree attainment (D) and years of schooling (S) in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these measures is not well ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (2), 439-467)
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I21, J24, J31
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4168
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Seamus
McGuinness
Peter J.
Sloane
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Labour Market Mismatch Among UK Graduates: An Analysis Using REFLEX Data
There is much disagreement in the literature over the extent to which graduates are mismatched in the labour market and the reasons for this. In this paper we utilise the Flexible Professional in the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (1), 130-145)
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J24, J31
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4165
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Martin
Halla
Mario
Lackner
Friedrich
Schneider
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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State: The Case of Benefit Morale
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is ...
(revised version published in: Kyklos, 2010, 63 (1), 55-74 )
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A13, I30, I38, J65, J68, H20, Z13
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4164
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Bernhard
Michel
François
Rycx
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Does Offshoring of Materials and Business Services Affect Employment? Evidence from a Small Open Economy
The fear of massive job losses has prompted a fast-growing literature on offshoring and its impact on employment in advanced economies. This paper examines the situation for Belgium. It improves the ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2012, 44 (2), 229 - 251)
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F15, J22
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4161
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Mehmet
S.
Tosun
Claudia
R.
Williamson
Pavel
Yakovlev
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Population Aging, Elderly Migration and Education Spending: Intergenerational Conflict Revisited
Elderly have been increasingly targeted as a group to enhance economic development and the tax base in communities. While recent literature on elderly migration tends to focus on how elderly ...
(published in: Public Budgeting and Finance, 2012, 32 (2), 25-39)
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H75, R23
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4160
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Matteo
Cervellati
Uwe
Sunde
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Life Expectancy and Economic Growth: The Role of the Demographic Transition
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2011, 16 (2), 99-133)
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E10, J10, J13, N30, O10, O40
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4159
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Todd
E.
Elder
John
H.
Goddeeris
Steven
J.
Haider
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Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 284-290)
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J31, J24, J15, J16
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4158
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Federico
Cingano
Marco
Leonardi
Julián
Messina
Giovanni
Pica
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The Effect of Employment Protection Legislation and Financial Market Imperfections on Investment: Evidence from a Firm-Level Panel of EU Countries
This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In ...
(substantially revised version published in: Economic Policy, 2010, 25 (61). 117 - 163)
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J21
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4157
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Esteban
Sanromá
Raul
Ramos
Hipólito
Simón
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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market: Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2015, 18 (1), 149-172)
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J15, J24, J31, J61
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