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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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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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3957
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Marie
Drolet
Karen
A.
Mumford
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The Gender Pay Gap for Private Sector Employees in Canada and Britain
This paper uses British and Canadian linked employer-employee data to investigate the importance of the workplace for the gender wage gap. Implementing a novel decomposition approach, we find high ...
(revised version published in British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2012, 50 (3), 529-553)
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J16, J0
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3956
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William
Breit
Barry
Hirsch
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Lessons from the Laureates
This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and published in Lives of the Laureates ...
(published in: William Breit and Barry T. Hirsch (eds.), Lives of the Laureates: Twenty-three Nobel Economists, 5th ed., Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009)
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B3, B2, A1
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3955
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Michael
C.
Burda
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 107 (2), 131-133)
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E24, J22, D13
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3954
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Tim
Callan
Claire
Keane
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Non-Cash Benefits and the Distribution of Economic Welfare
Non-cash benefits can have substantial effects on the distribution of economic welfare. Standard approaches to the inclusion of non-cash benefits in broader measures of resources have failed to take ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2009, 40 (1), 49-72)
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D31, H23, I31, I32
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3952
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Gulcin
Gumus
Tracy
L.
Regan
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Self-Employment and the Role of Health Insurance
We investigate the effect of health insurance on labor market transitions in and out of self-employment as well as on the likelihood of being self-employed. We consider the role of individual health ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2015, 30 (3), 357-374)
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J32, J48, I11
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3951
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Delia
Furtado
Nikolaos
Theodoropoulos
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I'll Marry You If You Get Me a Job: Marital Assimilation and Immigrant Employment Rates
Marriage to a native has a theoretically ambiguous impact on immigrant employment rates. Utilizing 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper empirically tests whether and how marriage choice affects the ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 116-126)
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J12, J61
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3950
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Guillermina
Jasso
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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 26-42)
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F22, F24, J15, J24, J61, J68, K42, O15
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3948
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Charles
Bellemare
Patrick
Lepage
Bruce
S.
Shearer
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Peer Pressure, Incentives, and Gender: An Experimental Analysis of Motivation in the Workplace
We present results from a real-effort experiment, simulating actual work-place conditions, comparing the productivity of workers under fixed wages and piece rates. Workers, who were paid to enter ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 276-283)
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M52, C91
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3945
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Raquel
Ortega-Argilés
Mariacristina
Piva
Lesley
Potters
Marco
Vivarelli
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Is Corporate R&D Investment in High-Tech Sectors More Effective? Some Guidelines for European Research Policy
This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The empirical analysis is based on both the European sectoral OECD data and on a unique ...
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2010, 28 (3), 353-365)
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O33
|
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3943
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Alpaslan
Akay
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The Wooldridge Method for the Initial Values Problem Is Simple: What About Performance?
The Wooldridge method is based on a simple and novel strategy to deal with the initial values problem in the nonlinear dynamic random-effects panel data models. This characteristic of the method ...
(revised version published as 'Finite-sample comparison of alternative methods for estimating dynamic panel data models' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 27 (7), 1189-1204 )
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C23, C25
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3940
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Andrew
E.
Clark
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Work, Jobs and Well-Being across the Millennium
This paper uses repeated cross-section data ISSP data from 1989, 1997 and 2005 to consider movements in job quality. It is first underlined that not having a job when you want one is a major source ...
(published in: Ed Diener, John Helliwell, and Danny Kahneman (eds.), International Differences in Well-Being. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
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J21, J28, J3, J6, J81, L26
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3939
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Johannes
Abeler
Armin
Falk
Lorenz
Götte
David
B.
Huffman
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Reference Points and Effort Provision
A key open question for theories of reference-dependent preferences is what determines the reference point. One candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 470-492)
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C91, D01, D84, J22
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3938
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Thierry
Lallemand
François
Rycx
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Are Young and Old Workers Harmful for Firm Productivity?
This paper investigates the effects of the workforce age structure on the productivity of large Belgian firms. More precisely, it examines different scenarios of changes in the proportion of young ...
(published in: De Economist, 2009, 157 (3), 273-292)
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J21, J31, L25
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3937
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Han
Wen-Jui
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
Jane
Waldfogel
Elizabeth
Washbrook
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Public Policies and Women's Employment after Childbearing
This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following childbirth. We examine four types of policies that vary across states and affect the ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2011, 11(1), 1 - 48)
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J13, J18, J22
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3936
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J. David
Brown
Julie
L.
Hotchkiss
Myriam
Quispe-Agnoli
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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment ...
(published as 'Does Employing Undocumented Workers Give Firms a Competitive Advantage?' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 158-170)
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L1, J23, J61
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3935
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Paulo
Guimaraes
Pedro
Portugal
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A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Estimate Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects
In this paper we describe an alternative iterative approach for the estimation of linear regression models with high-dimensional fixed-effects such as large employer-employee data sets. This approach ...
(published as 'A Simple Feasible Alternative Procedure to Fit Models with High-Dimensional Fixed Effects' in: Stata Journal, 2010, 10 (4), 628-649)
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C01, C81
|
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3934
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Vladimir
Gimpelson
Rostislav
Kapeliushnikov
Anna
Lukiyanova
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Stuck Between Surplus and Shortage: Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry
In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial ...
(published in: Labour, 2010, 24(3), 311–332)
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J23, J24
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3933
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David
A.
Benson
Aaron
Lies
Albert
A.
Okunade
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
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Small Business Economics of the Lakota Fund on the Native American Indian Reservation
Poverty rates on Native American Indian reservations are triple the US average. Small business incubation programs, available elsewhere in the US, are sparse on the reservations. Small businesses are ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2011, 36 (2), 157-168)
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L26, M21, O16
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3932
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Maurice
Kugler
Eric
Verhoogen
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in ...
(revised version published as 'Prices, Plant Size, and Product Quality' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2012, 79 (1), 307-339)
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O1, F1, L1
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