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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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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
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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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4103
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Christopher
F.
Parmeter
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Imposing Economic Constraints in Nonparametric Regression: Survey, Implementation and Extension
Economic conditions such as convexity, homogeneity, homotheticity, and monotonicity are all important assumptions or consequences of assumptions of economic functionals to be estimated. Recent ...
(published in: Advances in Econometrics, 2009, 25, 433-469)
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J20, J30, C14
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4102
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Peter
Haan
Victoria
L.
Prowse
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A Structural Approach to Estimating the Effect of Taxation on the Labor Market Dynamics of Older Workers
We estimate a dynamic structural life-cycle model of employment, non-employment and retirement that includes endogenous accumulation of human capital and intertemporal non-separabilities in ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2010, 13 (3), S99 - S125)
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C23, C25, J22, J64
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4101
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Workplace Job Satisfaction in Britain: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
This paper examines the determinants of job satisfaction in Britain using nationally representative linked employer-employee data (WERS2004) and alternative econometric techniques. It uses eight ...
(Published in: Labour, 2015, 29 (3), 225–242 )
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J28, I31
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4100
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Werner
Eichhorst
Paul
Marx
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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions: A Dual Path to Flexibility
Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather passive welfare state, strong employment protection and collective bargaining ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2011, 21(1), 73-87)
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J38, J51, J41
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4099
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Maarten
Lindeboom
Petter
Lundborg
Bas
van der Klaauw
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Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the British NCDS
We study the effect of obesity on wages and employment, using data from the British NCDS. The results show a significant negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes even after ...
(published as 'Assessing the Impact of Obesity on Labor Market Outcome' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2010, 8 (3), 309-319)
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I10, J10
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4098
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Jane
Greve
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Overweight and Obesity and the Demand for Primary Physician Care
The standard economic model for the demand for health care predicts that unhealthy behaviour such as being overweight or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical ...
(published as 'Overweight and obesity and the utilization of primary care physicians' in: Health Economics, 2011, 20 (S1), 53 - 67)
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I12, I18
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4097
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James
Albrecht
Lucas
Navarro
Susan
Vroman
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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation
We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 48-50)
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D8, J6
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4095
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Chris
Ryan
Anastasia
Sartbayeva
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Taking Chances: The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behavior of Young People
We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people's involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (3), 729–755)
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J13, I38, J18
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4094
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Maarten
van Ham
David
Manley
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The Effect of Neighbourhood Housing Tenure Mix on Labour Market Outcomes: A Longitudinal Perspective
This paper investigates the effect of different levels of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on transitions from unemployment to employment and the probability of staying in employment for those with a ...
(published as 'The effect of neighbourhood housing tenure mix on labour market outcomes: a longitudinal investigation of neighbourhood effects' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, 10 (2), 257 - 282)
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I30, J60, R23
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4093
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Emilio
Congregado
Antonio
A.
Golpe
Simon
C.
Parker
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The Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: Hysteresis, Business Cycles and Government Policy
This paper estimates an unobserved components model to explore the macro dynamics of entrepreneurship in Spain and the US. We ask whether entrepreneurship exhibits hysteresis, defined as a macro ...
(published in: Empirical Economics, 2012, 43, 1239 - 1261)
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C32, E32, J24
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4091
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Tapio
K.
Palokangas
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Economic Growth with Political Lobbying and Wage Bargaining
This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through ...
(revised version published in: IFAC Papers on Control Applications of Optimization 7 (2010))
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F15, J50, O40
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4090
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Martin
Huber
Michael
Lechner
Conny
Wunsch
Thomas
Walter
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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?
Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three ...
(published as 'Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare Dependency and Increase Employment?' in: German Economic Review, 2011, 12 (2), 182-204)
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J68
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4089
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Stephen
Gibbons
Olmo
Silva
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Faith Primary Schools: Better Schools or Better Pupils?
We provide estimates for the effect of attending a Faith school on educational achievement using a census of primary school pupils in England. We argue that there are no credible instruments for ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3) , 589-635)
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I20, J24, Z12
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4088
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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The Growth of Participant Direction in Defined Contribution Plans
Since 1990, most pension plans have shifted the responsibility for directing pension assets to the employee. This study summarizes some of the possible explanations for this rapid shift toward ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2010, 49(2), 190–208)
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J32
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4086
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Glenn
C.
Blomquist
Paul
A.
Coomes
Christopher
Jepsen
Brandon
C.
Koford
Kenneth
Troske
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Estimating the Social Value of Higher Education: Willingness to Pay for Community and Technical Colleges
Much is known about private returns to education in the form of higher earnings. Less is known about social value, over and above the private, market value. Associations between education and ...
(revision published in: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2014, 5 (1), 3-42)
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I2, H4, H23
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4085
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Anton
Hemerijck
Werner
Eichhorst
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Whatever Happened to the Bismarckian Welfare State? From Labor Shedding to Employment-Friendly Reforms
The paper challenges the widespread view that Bismarckian countries with a strong role of social insurance and labor market regulation are less successful than other employment regimes and hard to ...
(published in: Bruno Palier (ed.), A long good-bye to Bismarck, Amsterdam: AUP, 2010, 301-332)
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J26, J68
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4082
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William
E.
Even
David
A.
Macpherson
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Is Bigger Still Better? The Decline of the Wage Premium at Large Firms
This study shows that the wage premium paid by large firms fell over the past 20 years and that the decline in the size premium has been most pronounced among the least educated work force. Empirical ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78(4), 1181-1201)
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J31, J32, J33
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4081
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Denis
Conniffe
Donal
O'Neill
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Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for ...
(published in: D. Drukker (ed.): Advances in Econometrics, Vol. 27A, Missing Data Methods, 2011, 213-249.)
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C25, G11
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4080
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Martin
G.
Kocher
Ganna
Pogrebna
Matthias
Sutter
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Other-Regarding Preferences and Leadership Styles
We use a laboratory experiment to examine whether and to what extent other-regarding preferences of team leaders influence their leadership style in choice under risk. We find that leaders who prefer ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2013, 88, 109-132)
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C91, C92, D70, D81
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4079
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Brian
Krogh
Graversen
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How a Mandatory Activation Program Reduces Unemployment Durations: The Effects of Distance
In an experimental setting some Danish unemployed workers were assigned to an activation program while others were not. Unemployed who were assigned to the activation program found a job more ...
(published as 'An Activation Program as a Stick to Job Finding' in: Labour, 2011, 25 (2), 167 - 181)
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C41, H55, J64, J65
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4078
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Le
Wang
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Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?
Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship ? particularly on child health ? is ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 60 (1), 155-195)
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C14, D10, I12, O12
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4077
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Getinet
Astatike
Haile
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Unhappy Working with Men? Workplace Gender Diversity and Employee Job-Related Well-Being in Britain: A WERS2004 Based Analysis
This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well-being. Using nationally representative linked employer-employee data for ...
(Published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 329-350)
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J16, J82, J7, I31
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4076
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Sourafel
Girma
Holger
Görg
Joachim
Wagner
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Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55 (3), 179-195)
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F13, F14, H29
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4073
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Alberto
Abadie
Guido
W.
Imbens
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A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators
Matching estimators are widely used in statistical data analysis. However, the distribution of matching estimators has been derived only for particular cases (Abadie and Imbens, 2006). This article ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2012, 107 (498), 833-843 )
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C13, C14, C21
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4072
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Pernilla
Andersson Joona
Lena
Nekby
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TIPping the Scales towards Greater Employment Chances? Evaluation of a Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for Newly-Arrived Immigrants Based on Random Program Assignment
A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June 2008 in order to meet the main criticisms directed at existing introduction ...
(updated version published as 'Intensive Coaching of New Immigrants: An Evaluation Based on Random Program Assignment' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (2), 576-600)
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J15, J64, J68, J61, C41
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4071
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Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
Sébastien
Ménard
Thepthida
Sopraseuth
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance for Older Workers
This paper shows that optimal unemployment insurance contracts are age-dependent. Older workers have only a few years left on the labor market prior to retirement. This short horizon implies a more ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 509-519)
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C61, J64, J65
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4070
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Denis
Fougère
Erwan
Gautier
Hervé
Le Bihan
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Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage
We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. We contribute to both the study of economic impact of the minimum wage and to the micro patterns of price stickiness. For that purpose, ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42 (7), 1199-1234)
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E31, D43, L11
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4069
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Jürg
Schweri
Joop
Hartog
Stefan
C.
Wolter
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Do Students Expect Compensation for Wage Risk?
We use a unique data set about the wage distribution that Swiss students expect for themselves ex ante, deriving parametric and non-parametric measures to capture expected wage risk. These wage risk ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2011, 30 (2), 215-227)
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D8, I2, J2, J3
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4067
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Evelyn
L.
Lehrer
Vivian
L.
Lehrer
Ramona
Krauss
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Religion and Intimate Partner Violence in Chile: Macro- and Micro-Level Influences
The Catholic Church has had a strong influence on the Chilean legal and social landscape in ways that have adversely affected victims of intimate partner violence; e.g., it succeeded until just five ...
(published in: Social Science Research, 2009, 38(3), 635-643 )
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Z12, J12, J16
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4065
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John
T.
Addison
Christopher
J.
Surfield
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Atypical Work and Employment Continuity
Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (4), 655-683)
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J40, J60, J63, M50
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4061
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Martin
Gassebner
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International Terrorism, Political Instability and the Escalation Effect
What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9/11 remain elusive. The careful investigation of the relative roles of economic and ...
(published in: Economics & Politics, 2013, 25 (1), 27-47)
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C25, D72, F59, H56, P48
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4060
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Laura
Angelescu McVey
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Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately ? 17 ...
(published in: R.A. Easterlin, Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle, Chapter 5, Oxford University Press, 2011)
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I31, D60, O10, P27
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4059
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Gregory
De Walque
Olivier
Pierrard
Henri
R.
Sneessens
Raf
Wouters
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Sequential Bargaining in a New-Keynesian Model with Frictional Unemployment and Staggered Wage Negotiation
We consider a model with frictional unemployment and staggered wage bargaining where hours worked are negotiated every period. The workers' bargaining power in the hours negotiation affects both ...
(published in: Annales d’économie et de statistique, 2009, 95-96, 221-250)
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E31, E32, E52, J64
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4058
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
Roope
Uusitalo
Sari
Pekkala Kerr
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School Tracking and Development of Cognitive Skills
The Finnish comprehensive school reform replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of heterogeneity in the Finnish ...
(published in Journal of Labor Economics, 2013, 31 (3), 577-603.)
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H52, I21
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4057
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Michal
Bauer
Julie
Chytilová
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The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2010, 58 (4), 643–669)
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C93, D91, O12
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4056
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Alberto
Alesina
Paola
Giuliano
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Preferences for Redistribution
This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied ...
(published in: Jess Benhabib, Alberto Bisin, Matthew O. Jackson (eds.): Handbook of Social Economics, Vol. 1A, The Netherlands: North-Holland 2010, 93-131)
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H1
|
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4055
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Karl
Brenke
Mutlu
Yuksel
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times ...
(published as 'The Effects of EU Enlargement and the Temporary Measures on the German Labor Market ' in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2009, 111-129)
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J61, F22, E24
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4054
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Michael
P.
Keane
Robert
M.
Sauer
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A Computationally Practical Simulation Estimation Algorithm for Dynamic Panel Data Models with Unobserved Endogenous State Variables
This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables. The new approach can easily deal ...
(published in: International Economic Review, 2010, 51(4), 925-958)
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C15, C23, C25, J13, J21
|
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4053
|
Wencke
Gwozdz
Alfonso
Sousa-Poza
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Ageing, Health and Life Satisfaction of the Oldest Old: An Analysis for Germany
This analysis uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) and the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to assess the effect of ageing and health on the life ...
(published in: Social Indicators Research, 2010, 97(3), 325-339)
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I18, I19, J28
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4051
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Pedro
S.
Martins
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Individual Teacher Incentives, Student Achievement and Grade Inflation
How do teacher incentives affect student achievement? We contribute to this question by examining the effects of the recent introduction of teacher performance-related pay and tournaments in ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice, 2025, 204, 457–481)
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I21, M52, I28
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