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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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4023
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Markus
M.
Grabka
Olaf
Groh-Samberg
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The Impact of Home Production on Economic Inequality in Germany
Using representative income and time use-data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate non-monetary income advantages arising from home production and analyse their impact on economic ...
(published in: Empirica, 2012, 43, 1143–1169)
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D31, D13, I32
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4022
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Hans-Martin
von
Gaudecker
Arthur
van Soest
Erik
Wengström
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Heterogeneity in Risky Choice Behaviour in a Broad Population
We analyse risk preferences using an experiment with real incentives in a representative sample of 1,422 Dutch respondents. Our econometric model incorporates four structural parameters that vary ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 664-694)
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C90, D81
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4020
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe
Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eight countries during 1995-2001, I investigate temporary job contract duration and job search effort. ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (1), 113-128)
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J21, J23
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4019
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Alicia
Adsera
Alicia
Menendez
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Fertility Changes in Latin America in the Context of Economic Uncertainty
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and ...
(published as 'Fertility changes in Latin America in periods of economic uncertainty' in: Population Studies, 2011, 65 (1), 37 - 56)
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J13, J16
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4018
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Indraneel
Dasgupta
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Supply Theory sans Profit-Maximization
We utilize the analytical construct of a stochastic supply function to provide an aggregate representation of a finite collection of standard deterministic supply functions. We introduce a ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Contributions to Theoretical Economics, 2009, 9 (1), Article 26)
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D21
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4016
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Franz
Hackl
Martin
Halla
Gerald
J.
Pruckner
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Volunteering and the State
This paper explores the capability of the state to affect the individual's decision to work for free. For this purpose we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with ...
(revised version published in: Public Choice,2012, 151 (3-4), 465 - 495)
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H41, H44, H31, J22, I38, H11, D30, D64
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4015
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Arie
Kapteyn
James
P.
Smith
Arthur
van Soest
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Life Satisfaction
We analyze the determinants of global life satisfaction in two countries (The Netherlands and the U.S.), by using both self-reports and responses to a battery of vignette questions. We find global ...
(published in: E. Diener, J.E. Helliwell and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being, Oxford University Press, 2010, 70-104)
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I31, J28, D31
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4014
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Giuseppe
Moscarini
Fabien
Postel-Vinay
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Large Employers Are More Cyclically Sensitive
We provide new evidence that large firms or establishments are more sensitive than small ones to business cycle conditions. Larger employers shed proportionally more jobs in recessions and create ...
(published as 'The Contribution of Large and Small Employers to Job Creation in Times of High and Low Unemployment' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (6), 2509-39)
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J21, J63, E24, E32
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4013
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Petri
Böckerman
Ulla
Hämäläinen
Roope
Uusitalo
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Labour Market Effects of the Polytechnic Education Reform: The Finnish Experience
This paper evaluates the labour market effects of the introduction of the polytechnic education system in Finland. The polytechnic reform gradually transformed former vocational colleges into ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (6), 672-681)
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I21,I23
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4011
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Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Shuaizhang
Feng
Jeff
Larrimore
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Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2011, 174 (1), 63 - 81)
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D31, C46, C81
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4010
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Andrew
J.
Oswald
Bert
van Landeghem
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Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility
If human beings care about their relative weight, a form of imitative obesity can emerge (in which people subconsciously keep up with the weight of the Joneses). Using Eurobarometer data on 29 ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 528 - 538)
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D1, I12, I31
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4009
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Christine
Valente
Arthur
van Soest
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, ...
(published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2010, 29 (2), 191-204)
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O12, I12, J15, J16, J18
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4008
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Jos
van Ommeren
Giovanni
Russo
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Firm Recruitment Behaviour: Sequential or Non-Sequential Search?
In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 76 (3), 432-455)
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J63
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4007
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Bart
Cockx
Matteo
Picchio
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Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?
This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 646 - 675 )
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C15, C41, J62, J64
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4005
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Rosalind
S.
Hunter
Andrew
J.
Oswald
Bruce
G.
Charlton
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The Elite Brain Drain
We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (538), F231 - F251)
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O3, J6
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4004
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Jan
Eeckhout
Philipp
Kircher
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Identifying Sorting: In Theory
We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (3), 872–906)
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J31, C78
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4002
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David
Card
Jochen
Kluve
Andrea
Weber
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Active Labor Market Policy Evaluations: A Meta-Analysis
This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 ...
(published in: The Economic Journal, 2010, 120, F452-F477)
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J00, J68
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4001
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Flavio
Cunha
James
J.
Heckman
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The Economics and Psychology of Inequality and Human Development
Recent research on the economics of human development deepens understanding of the origins of inequality and excellence. It draws on and contributes to personality psychology and the psychology of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 320 - 364)
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A12
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4000
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Richard
A.
Easterlin
Onnicha
Sawangfa
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Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, ...
(published in: E. Diener, J. Helliwell, and D. Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2010)
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I31, D60, O5, O10
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3999
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing ...
(published in: E. Nowotny, P. Mooslechner and D. Ritzberger-Grünwald (eds.), The Integration of European Labour Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009, 9-23)
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F22, J15, J61
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3998
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Matias
Busso
John
DiNardo
Justin
McCrary
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New Evidence on the Finite Sample Properties of Propensity Score Matching and Reweighting Estimators
Currently available asymptotic results in the literature suggest that matching estimators have higher variance than reweighting estimators. The extant literature comparing the finite sample ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96 (5), 885-897)
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C14, C21, C52
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3997
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Magnus
Lofstrom
Timothy
Bates
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Latina Entrepreneurship
We utilize individual panel data from the 1996 and 2001 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the relative success of self-employed female Hispanics. To allow for a meaningful ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 33 (4), 427-439)
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J15, J16, J31, L26
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3995
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Guido
W.
Imbens
Karthik
Kalyanaraman
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Optimal Bandwidth Choice for the Regression Discontinuity Estimator
We investigate the problem of optimal choice of the smoothing parameter (bandwidth) for the regression discontinuity estimator. We focus on estimation by local linear regression, which was shown to ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (3), 933-959)
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C14
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3994
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Florencia
López Bóo
Lucia
Madrigal
Carmen
Pagés
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Part-Time Work, Gender and Job Satisfaction: Evidence from a Developing Country
This paper investigates the relationship between part-time work and job satisfaction using a recent household survey from Honduras. In contrast to previous work for developed countries, this paper ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2010, 46 (9), 1543-1571)
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C13, J16, J28
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3992
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Guillaume
Horny
Rute
Mendes
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Job Durations with Worker and Firm Specific Effects: MCMC Estimation with Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data
We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for worker-specific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statisticsc, 30(3) 2012, 468-480)
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C11, C15, C41, J20, J41, J62
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3991
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Per
Engström
Patrik
Hesselius
Bertil
Holmlund
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Vacancy Referrals, Job Search, and the Duration of Unemployment: A Randomized Experiment
One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the ...
(published in: Labour, 2012, 26 (4), 419–435)
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C99, J64, J68
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3989
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Nicolai
Kristensen
Dario
Pozzoli
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External Validation of the Use of Vignettes in Cross-Country Health Studies
Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments are rendered difficult if not impossible because of sub-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2010, 27 (4), 854-865)
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C25, I10
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3987
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Lawrence
M.
Kahn
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The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball
This Chapter reviews evidence on discrimination in basketball, primarily examining studies on race but with some discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention ...
(published in: The Oxford Handbook of Sports Economics, Oxford, OUP, 2012)
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J71, L83
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3986
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Sarah
Brown
Steven
McIntosh
Karl
Taylor
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Following in Your Parents' Footsteps? Empirical Analysis of Matched Parent-Offspring Test Scores
In this paper, we explore whether an intergenerational relationship exists between the reading and mathematics test scores, taken at age 7, of a cohort of individuals born in 1958 and the equivalent ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 73 (1), 40-58)
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J13, J24
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3985
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Lex
Borghans
Bart
H.H.
Golsteyn
James
J.
Heckman
Huub
Meijers
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Gender Differences in Risk Aversion and Ambiguity Aversion
This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing literature relating economic preference parameters to psychological measures by ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 649-658)
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J24, D03, D80
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3982
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Annette
Bergemann
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits: The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended ...
(published in: Applied Economic Letters, 2011, 18 (1), 17 - 20)
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J13, J21
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3981
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Sarah
Brown
Karl
Taylor
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Reservation Wages, Expected Wages and the Duration of Unemployment: Evidence from British Panel Data
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 119 (3), 276-279)
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J13, J24, J64
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3980
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James
J.
Heckman
Sergio
Urzua
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Comparing IV with Structural Models: What Simple IV Can and Cannot Identify
This paper compares the economic questions addressed by instrumental variables estimators with those addressed by structural approaches. We discuss Marschak's Maxim: estimators should be selected on ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2010, 156 (1), 27-37)
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C31
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3977
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Philipp
C.
Bauer
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Age at School Entry and Intergenerational Educational Mobility
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2009, 103 (2), 87-90)
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I2, I21, J24, D30
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3976
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Horst
Entorf
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Crime and the Labour Market: Evidence from a Survey of Inmates
In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2009, 229 (2+3), 254-269)
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C83, J38, J68, K42
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3975
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Graziella
Bertocchi
Marianna
Brunetti
Costanza
Torricelli
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Marriage and Other Risky Assets: A Portfolio Approach
We study the joint impact of gender and marital status on financial decisions. First, we test the hypothesis that marriage represents - in a portfolio framework - a sort of safe asset, and that this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2011, 24 (11), 2902 - 2915)
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G11, E21, J12, J21
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3974
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Christopher
Dawson
Andrew
Henley
Paul
L.
Latreille
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Why Do Individuals Choose Self-Employment?
This paper undertakes an analysis of the motivating factors cited by the self-employed in the UK as reasons for choosing self-employment. Very limited previous research has addressed the question of ...
(published as 'Individual Motives for Choosing Self-employment in the UK: Does Region Matter?' in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48(5), 804-822)
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L26, J24
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3973
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Mehtabul
Azam
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A Distributional Analysis of Social Group Inequality in Rural India
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that ...
(revised version published in: Journal of International Development, 2012, 24 (4), 415–432)
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C15, D63, O53
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3972
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Today there is a variation within the EU to what extent nations allow for situation test results to constitute mass of evidence in court in order to prevent ethnic discrimination. In the UK The ...
(published as 'The Power of Media and Changes in Discriminatory Behavior Among Employers' in: Journal of Media Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 98-108)
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J64, J71
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3971
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Daniel
A.
Powers
Myeong-Su
Yun
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Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models
We develop a regression decomposition technique for hazard rate models, where the difference in observed rates is decomposed into components attributable to group differences in characteristics and ...
(published in: Sociological Methodology, 2009, 39(1), 233-263)
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C20, C41, J13
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3970
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David
Autor
David
Dorn
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This Job Is 'Getting Old:' Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the ...
(published in: American Economic Review, Papers & Proceedings, 2009, 99 (2), 45-51)
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E24, J11, J21, J24
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3968
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Mehtabul
Azam
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India's Increasing Skill Premium: Role of Demand and Supply
The tertiary-secondary (college-high school) wage premium has been increasing in India over the past decade, but the increase differs across age groups. The increase in wage premium has been driven ...
(revised version published in: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. Volume 10, Issue 1, ISSN (Online) 1935-1682, October 2010)
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J20, J23, J31
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3967
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Lídia
Farré
Roger
Klein
Francis
Vella
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Does Increasing Parents' Schooling Raise the Schooling of the Next Generation? Evidence Based on Conditional Second Moments
This paper investigates the degree of intergenerational transmission of education for individuals from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Rather than identifying the causal effect of ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (5), 676–690)
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C31, J62
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3966
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Xavier
de Luna
Per
Johansson
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Non-Parametric Inference for the Effect of a Treatment on Survival Times with Application in the Health and Social Sciences
In this paper we perform inference on the effect of a treatment on survival times in studies where the treatment assignment is not randomized and the assignment time is not known in advance. Two such ...
(published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2010, 140 (7), 2122-2137)
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C12, C13, C14
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3965
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Herwig
Immervoll
Henrik
Jacobsen
Kleven
Claus
Thustrup
Kreiner
Nicolaj
Verdelin
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An Evaluation of the Tax-Transfer Treatment of Married Couples in European Countries
This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD microsimulation model. First, we show that many tax-transfer schemes in Europe ...
(completely different version published as 'Optimal tax and transfer programs for couples with extensive labor supply responses' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1485-1500)
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H20
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3964
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Fabrice
Murtin
Martina
Viarengo
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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the ...
(published in: Cliometrica, 2010, 4(2), 113-139)
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I2, J24, N70, O1
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3963
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Mehtabul
Azam
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Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India 1983-2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition
This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. ...
(revised version published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (6), 1135-1150)
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J30, J31, C15
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3960
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Patrik
Hesselius
Per
Johansson
Peter
Nilsson
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Sick of Your Colleagues' Absence?
We utilize a large-scale randomized social experiment to identify how coworkers affect each other's effort as measured by work absence. The experiment altered the work absence incentives for half of ...
(published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2–3), 1–12)
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J24
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3959
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Sebastian
J.
Goerg
Sebastian
Kube
Ro'i
Zultan
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Treating Equals Unequally: Incentives in Teams, Workers' Motivation and Production Technology
The importance of fair and equal treatment of workers is at the heart of the debate in organizational management. In this regard, we study how reward mechanisms and production technologies affect ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (4), 747 - 772)
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C92, D23, D63, J31, J33, J41, M12, M52
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3958
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Scott
Gehlbach
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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness
Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic ...
(published in: American Political Science Review, 2009, 103(2), 264-283)
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H11, L33, P23, P26, P37, P48
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