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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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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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4129
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Simona
Iammarino
Mariacristina
Piva
Marco
Vivarelli
Nick
Von Tunzelmann
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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms: A Regional Investigation
This paper focuses on the relationship between firms' technological capabilities and different forms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the ...
(published as 'Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Innovative Cooperation of Firms in the UK Regions' in: Regional Studies, 2012, 46 (10), 1283-1301)
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O30, R12
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4128
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Stefano
Gagliarducci
M. Daniele
Paserman
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Gender Interactions within Hierarchies: Evidence from the Political Arena
This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of Italian municipal governments elected between 1993 and 2003. A municipal government ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 1021-1052)
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D74, J16, H72, M54
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4127
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Magali
Beffy
Denis
Fougère
Arnaud
Maurel
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Choosing the Field of Study in Post-Secondary Education: Do Expected Earnings Matter?
This paper examines the determinants of the choice of the major when the length of studies is uncertain, by using a framework in which students entering post-secondary education are assumed to ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 94 (1), 334–347)
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J24, C35, D84
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4126
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Boris
Hirsch
Thorsten
Schank
Claus
Schnabel
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Works Councils and Separations: Voice, Monopoly, and Insurance Effects
Using a large linked employer-employee data set for Germany, we find that the existence of a works council is associated with a lower separation rate to employment, in particular for men and workers ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49 (4), 566-592)
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J53, J63
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4125
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Ferdinand
von Siemens
Michael
Kosfeld
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Negative Externalities and Equilibrium Existence in Competitive Markets with Adverse Selection
Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976) show that there need not exist a competitive equilibrium in markets with adverse selection. Building on their framework we demonstrate that externalities between agents ...
(revised version published as 'Team production in competitive labor markets with adverse selection' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 68, 181–198)
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D82, D86
|
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4124
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Santiago
Budría
Luis
Diaz-Serrano
Ada
Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Joop
Hartog
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Risk Attitude and Wage Growth: Replication and Reconstruction
We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for ...
(published as "Risk-Aversion and Income Growth: Replicating Shaw (1996)" in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 44 (2), 981-1004)
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J24, J30
|
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4123
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Ruta
Aidis
Saul
Estrin
Tomasz
Mickiewicz
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Entrepreneurial Entry: Which Institutions Matter?
In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of ...
(published in: Grzegorz Kolodko and Jacek Tomkiewicz (eds.), 20 Years of Transformation: Achievements, Problems and Perspectives, New York: Nova, 2011 )
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L26, P14, P51, P37
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4122
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Coralio
Ballester
Antoni
Calvó-Armengol
Yves
Zenou
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Delinquent Networks
Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010, 8 (1), 34-61)
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A14, C72, K42, L14
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4121
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Kai
A.
Konrad
Salmai
Qari
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The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Patriotism and Tax Compliance
We study the effects of patriotism on tax compliance. In particular, we assume that individuals feel a (random draw of) warm glow from honestly paying their taxes. A higher expected warm glow reduces ...
(published in: Economica, 2012, 79 (315), 516-53)
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H26, K42
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4120
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Salmai
Qari
Kai
A.
Konrad
Benny
Geys
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Patriotism, Taxation and International Mobility
For patriotic citizens, living in their native country is intrinsically preferable compared to living in the diaspora. In this paper, we analyze the implications of such a patriotic lock-in in a ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2012, 151 (3-4), 695 - 717)
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H20, H73
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4119
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Romero
Rocha
Rodrigo
R.
Soares
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Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
This paper analyzes the direct and indirect impacts of Brazil's Family Health Program. We estimate the effects of the program on mortality and on household behavior related to child labor and ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (S1), 126-158)
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I12, I18, J10, J13, J24, O54
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4117
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Adam
S.
Booij
Bernard
M. S.
van Praag
Gijs
van de Kuilen
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A Parametric Analysis of Prospect Theory's Functionals for the General Population
This paper presents the results of an experiment that completely measures the utility function and probability weighting function for different positive and negative monetary outcomes, using a ...
(published in: Theory and Decision, 2010, 68, 115–148 )
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D81, C91, C93
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4115
|
Sara
de la Rica
Francesc
Ortega
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Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain
This paper compares the economic and cultural gaps of the largest foreign-born ethnic minorities in Spain: Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus ...
(published as 'Cultural Integration in Spain' in: Algan, Bisin, Manning and Verdier (eds), Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2012, 148-171)
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J15, J61, F22
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4114
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Véronique
Genre
Karsten
Kohn
Daphne
Momferatou
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Understanding Inter-Industry Wage Structures in the Euro Area
This paper focuses on the euro area wage structure and its potential determinants from a sectoral viewpoint. Merging information from the OECD Structural Analysis database with data from the EU ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2011, 43 (11), 1299 - 1313)
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J31, J24, J51
|
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4113
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Yuriy
Gorodnichenko
Enrique
G.
Mendoza
Linda
L.
Tesar
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The Finnish Great Depression: From Russia with Love
During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of ...
(published in: American Economic Review 2012, 102(4), 1619-1643)
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E32, F41, P2
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4112
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Ernesto
Reuben
Jean-Robert
Tyran
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Everyone is a Winner: Promoting Cooperation through All-Can-Win Intergroup Competition
We test if cooperation is promoted by rank-order competition between groups in which all groups can be ranked first, i.e. when everyone can be a winner. This type of rank-order competition has the ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2010, 26 (1), 25-35)
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H41, M52, C92
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4110
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Douglas
S.
Noonan
Douglas
J.
Krupka
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Making – or Picking – Winners: Evidence of Internal and External Price Effects in Historic Preservation Policies
Much has been written identifying property price effects of historic preservation policies. Little attention has been paid to the possible policy endogeneity in hedonic price models. This paper ...
(published in: Real Estate Economics, 2011, 39 (2), 379-407)
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R21, R31, R52, Z1
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4109
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Ferran
Martínez i Coma
Robert
Duval Hernández
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Hostility Toward Immigration in Spain
This paper provides new evidence regarding public opinion on immigration by studying the Spanish case, and by analyzing not only respondents' preferences regarding immigration levels, but also ...
(published in: Jorge Durand and Jorge A. Schiavon (eds.), Perspectivas migratorias: Un análisis interdisciplinario de la migración internacional, Mexico: CIDE, 2010.)
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F22, J61
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4107
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Ernesto
Reuben
Sigrid
Suetens
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Revisiting Strategic versus Non-Strategic Cooperation
We use a novel experimental design to disentangle strategically- and non-strategically-motivated cooperation. By using contingent responses in a repeated sequential prisoners' dilemma with a known ...
(published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 24-43)
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C91, D01, D74
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4104
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Sara
de la Rica
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The Effect of the 2004 and 2007 EU Enlargement on the Spanish Labour Market
The 2004 and 2007 EU enlargement has led to a significant increase in the immigration flow to Spain. Individuals from the new-EU-12 countries accounted for no more than 10% of the whole Spanish ...
(published as 'The Experience of Spain with the Inflows of New Labor Migration' in: M.Kahanec; Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.): EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Berlin et al., 2009, 131 - 144)
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J61
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