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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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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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4156
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Christopher
Kilby
Axel
Dreher
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The Impact of Aid on Growth Revisited: Do Donor Motives Matter?
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (3), 338-340)
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F35, O40
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4155
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Christoph
Wunder
Andrea
Wiencierz
Johannes
Schwarze
Helmut
Küchenhoff
Sara
Kleyer
Philipp
Bleninger
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Well-Being over the Life Span: Semiparametric Evidence from British and German Longitudinal Data
This paper applies semiparametric regression models using penalized splines to investigate the profile of well-being over the life span. Splines have the advantage that they do not require a priori ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 154–167. )
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C14, C23, D10, I31
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4154
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Peter
Haan
Michal
Myck
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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamics of Health and Labour Market Risks' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2009, 28 (6), 1116-1125)
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C33, J21, J14
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4153
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Gil
S.
Epstein
Ira
N.
Gang
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Why Pay Taxes When No One Else Does?
In this paper we try to understand the phenomena whereby a large proportion of the population evades tax payments. We present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information ...
(published in: Review of Development Economics, 2010, 14 (2), 374-385)
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H26, H31, D82
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4152
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Thomas
C.
Buchmueller
John
DiNardo
Robert
G.
Valletta
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The Effect of an Employer Health Insurance Mandate on Health Insurance Coverage and the Demand for Labor: Evidence from Hawaii
Over the past few decades, policy makers have considered employer mandates as a strategy for stemming the tide of declining health insurance coverage. In this paper we examine the long term effects ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2011, 3 (4), 25-51)
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J32, I18, J23
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4151
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Denisa
M.
Sologon
Cathal
O'Donoghue
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Policy, Institutional Factors and Earnings Mobility
This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross-national differences in the dynamic structure of earnings: in permanent ...
(published in: The European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2011, 8(2), pp. 175-202)
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C23, D31, J31, J60, J50, J08
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4150
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
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Family Ties and Political Participation
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 817-839)
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Z10, Z13
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4148
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Margaret
Maurer-Fazio
James
W.
Hughes
Dandan
Zhang
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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2010, 31 (2), 138-162)
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J1, J2, J7, O1, O5, P2
|
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4147
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Martin
Salm
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Does Job Loss Cause Ill Health?
This study estimates the effect of job loss on health for near elderly employees based on longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study. Previous studies find a strong negative correlation ...
(revised version published in: Health Economics, 2009, 18(9), 1075-1089)
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I12, J63
|
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4146
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Molly
Dahl
Thomas
DeLeire
Jonathan
Schwabish
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Stepping Stone or Dead End? The Effect of the EITC on Earnings Growth
While many studies have found that the EITC increases the employment rates of single mothers, no study to date has examined whether the jobs taken by single mothers as a result of the EITC incentives ...
(published in: National Tax Journal, 2009, 62 (2), 329–346)
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J3, H2
|
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4145
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Alessio
J. G.
Brown
Christian
Merkl
Dennis
J.
Snower
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms ...
(published in: Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19 (3), 643-668)
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E24, E32, J63, J64
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4142
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Barbara
Dietz
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Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe: A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries
This paper investigates patterns and determinants of temporary labour migration in Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Labour Migration from Eastern Europe and the EU’s Quest for Talents' in: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2014, 52 (2), 183-199)
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F22, J61, I31, P23
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4140
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Petter
Lundborg
Paul
Nystedt
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings
We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For this we use data on families migrating into Sweden from countries that are ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2014, 12 (6), 1521-1557.)
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I10, I12, I18, F22, I20, I30, J10, N30
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4139
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Fredrik
Carlsson
Peter
Martinsson
Ping
Qin
Matthias
Sutter
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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We ...
(revised version published as 'The Influence of Spouses on Household Decision Making Under Risk: An Experiment in Rural China' in: Experimental Economics, 2013, 16(3), 383-403)
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C91, C92, C93, D10
|
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4137
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Erling
Barth
Bernt
Bratsberg
Torbjørn
Haegeland
Oddbjørn
Raaum
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Performance Pay and Within-Firm Wage Inequality
This paper examines the impact of performance-related pay on wage differentials within firms. Our theoretical framework predicts that, compared to a fixed pay system, pay schemes based on individual ...
(published as 'Performance Pay, Union Bargaining and Within-Firm Wage Inequality' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (3), 327 - 362)
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J31, J33
|
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4136
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Devashish
Mitra
Priya
Ranjan
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Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility
In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral ...
(published in: Journal of International Economics, 2010, 81 (2), 219-229)
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F11, F16, J64
|
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4134
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Guy
Lacroix
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Assessing the Impact of a Wage Subsidy for Single Parents on Social Assistance in Canada
In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last ...
(published - as joint work with Dany Brouillette - in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2011, 44 (4), 1195–1221)
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I38, J31, J64
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4133
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M. Ayhan
Kose
Eswar
Prasad
Ashley
D.
Taylor
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Thresholds in the Process of International Financial Integration
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has ...
(published in: Journal of International Money and Finance, 2011, 30(1), 147-179)
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F3, F4, O4
|
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4131
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Josh
Ederington
Jenny
Minier
Kenneth
Troske
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Where the Girls Are: Trade and Labor Market Segregation in Colombia
Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor market. We use the Colombian trade liberalization episode over the period 1984–91 to ...
(published as 'Trade and labor market segregation in Colombia' in: Review of International Economics, 2024, 32 (4), 645-1670)
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J7
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