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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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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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3931
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Delia
Furtado
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Cross-Nativity Marriages and Human Capital Levels of Children
A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 273 - 296)
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J12, J61, Z13
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3930
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Erling
Barth
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Monopsonistic Discrimination, Worker Turnover, and the Gender Wage Gap
Motivated by models of worker flows, we argue in this paper that monopsonistic discrimination may be a substantial factor behind the overall gender wage gap. On matched employer-employee data from ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (5), 589-597)
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J16, J31, J42, J63, J71
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3928
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Kristian
Giesen
Jens
Suedekum
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Zipf's Law for Cities in the Regions and the Country
The salient rank-size rule known as Zipf's law is not only satisfied for Germany's national urban hierarchy, but also for the city size distributions in single German regions. To analyze this ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2011, 11 (4), 667-686)
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R11, O4
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3927
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Eswar
Prasad
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India's Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
In this paper, I analyze India's approach to capital account liberalization through the lens of the new literature on financial globalization. India's authorities have taken a cautious and calibrated ...
(published in: Brookings India Policy Forum, August 2009)
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F3, F4, O2
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3926
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John
Gibson
David
McKenzie
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The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 18-29)
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O15, F22, J61
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3925
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Amy
Finkelstein
Erzo
F.P.
Luttmer
Matthew
J.
Notowidigdo
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Approaches to Estimating the Health State Dependence of the Utility Function
If the marginal utility of consumption depends on health status, this will affect the economic analysis of a number of central problems in public finance, including the optimal structure of health ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2009, 99(2), 116–121)
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D12, I1
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3924
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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Labour Market Dynamics in Australia: What Drives Unemployment?
The debate in Australia on the (constant-output) elasticity of labour demand with respect to wages has wrongly sidelined the role of capital stock as a determinant of employment (Webster, 2003). As ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2010, 86 (273), 185-209)
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E22, E24, J21
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3923
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Daniel
Radowski
Holger
Bonin
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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Services: Direct Evidence from a Firm Survey
The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (3), 227-229)
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J31
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3922
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Matloob
Piracha
Florin
Vadean
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Return Migration and Occupational Choice
This paper explores the impact of return migration on the Albanian economy by analysing the occupational choice of return migrants while explicitly differentiating between self-employment as either ...
(published in: World Development, 2010, 38(8), 1141-1155)
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C35, F22, J24
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3921
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Jennifer
Hunt
Marjolaine
Gauthier-Loiselle
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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?
We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, 2 (2), 31-56)
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J61, D24, O32
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3920
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Tomi
Kyyrä
Pierpaolo
Parrotta
Michael
Rosholm
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The Effect of Receiving Supplementary UI Benefits on Unemployment Duration
We consider the consequences of working part-time on supplementary unemployment insurance benefits in the Danish labour market. Following the "timing-of-events" approach we estimate causal effects of ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 21, 122-133)
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C41, J65
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3918
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John
T.
Addison
Claus
Schnabel
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Worker Directors: A German Product that Didn't Export?
Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2011, 50 (2), 354-374)
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J50
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3917
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Oriana
Bandiera
Iwan
Barankay
Imran
Rasul
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Social Connections and Incentives in the Workplace: Evidence from Personnel Data
We present evidence on the effect of social connections between workers and managers on productivity in the workplace. To evaluate whether the existence of social connections is beneficial to the ...
(published in: Econometrica, 2009, 77 (4), 1047-1094)
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J33, M52, M54
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3915
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Bruce
Headey
Jürgen
Schupp
Ingrid
Tucci
Gert
G.
Wagner
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Authentic Happiness Theory Supported by Impact of Religion on Life Satisfaction: A Longitudinal Analysis with Data for Germany
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is ...
(published in: Journal of Positive Psychology, 2010, 5 (1), 73-82)
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A12, A13, Y80, Z12
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3914
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Simon
Gächter
Daniele
Nosenzo
Elke
Renner
Martin
Sefton
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Who Makes a Good Leader? Social Preferences and Leading-by-Example
We examine the effects of social preferences and beliefs about the social preferences of others in a simple leader-follower voluntary contributions game. We find that groups perform best when led by ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2012, 50 (4), 867–879; 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00295.x)
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A13, C92, D03
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3913
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Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the ...
(published by the European Commission as Economic Paper 363, 2009; and in: Filip Keereman and Istvan Szekely (eds.), Five years of an enlarged EU - a positive-sum game, Springer, Berlin et al., 2010, 63-94)
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F22, J15, J61
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3912
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Michel
Beine
Frédéric
Docquier
Maurice
Schiff
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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (4))
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J13, J61, O11
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3911
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Melanie
Khamis
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Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the Formal Labor Market? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments
This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries: labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on the informal ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (5), 477-495)
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J31, J42
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3910
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Ulf
Rinne
Arne
Uhlendorff
Zhong
Zhao
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Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs: Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany
This paper studies the role of training vouchers and caseworkers in public training programs. Using a rich administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of ...
(revised version published as 'Vouchers and Caseworkers in Training Programs for the Unemployed' in: Empirical Economics, 2013, 45 (3), 1089-1127 )
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J64, J68, H43
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3909
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Pascal
Courty
Do Han
Kim
Gerald
Marschke
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Curbing Cream-Skimming: Evidence on Enrolment Incentives
Can enrolment incentives reduce the incidence of cream-skimming in the delivery of public sector services (e.g. education, health, job training)? In the context of a large government job training ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (5), 643-655)
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H72, J33, L14
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3908
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Francesca
Bassi
Alessandra
Padoan
Ugo
Trivellato
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Inconsistencies in Reported Employment Characteristics among Employed Stayers
The paper deals with measurement error, and its potentially distorting role, in information on industry and professional status collected by labour force surveys. The focus of our analyses is on ...
(published in: Statistica, 2012, 72 (1), 103-109)
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C12, C13, C83, J21
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3907
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Massimiliano
Bratti
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe
This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European countries, which differ in terms of their institutional environments. We show that the ...
(revised version published as 'The Effect of Delaying Motherhood on the Second Childbirth in Europe' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 25 (1), 291-321)
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C41, J13
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3906
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Niels-Hugo
Blunch
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Multidimensional Human Capital, Wages and Endogenous Employment Status in Ghana
Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the impact of formal schooling only and, as a consequence, have seldom considered ...
(published in: Ravi Kanbur and Jan Svejnar (eds.), Labor Markets and Economic Development, London and New York: Routledge, 2009)
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I31, J24, O15
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3904
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Juan
D.
Barón
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Nisvan
Erkal
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Cultural Transmission of Work-Welfare Attitudes and the Intergenerational Correlation in Welfare Receipt
This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual responsibility to explain the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt. ...
(published as 'Welfare Receipt and the Intergenerational Transmission of Work-Welfare Norms' in: Southern Economics Journal, 2015, 82 (1), 208–234)
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I38, H31, Z1
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3902
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Johannes
Becker
Andreas
Peichl
Johannes
Rincke
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an ...
(published in: Public Choice, 2009, 140 (3-4), 379 - 394)
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D72, J45
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3901
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Ernst
Fehr
Lorenz
Götte
Christian
Zehnder
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A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market: The Role of Fairness Concerns
In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the ...
(published in: Annual Review of Economics, 2009, 1, 355 - 384)
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C7, D00, D2, D8, J2, L2
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3899
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Christopher A.
Parsons
Johan
Sulaeman
Michael
C.
Yates
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
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Strike Three: Umpires' Demand for Discrimination
We explore how umpires' racial/ethnic preferences are expressed in their evaluation of Major League Baseball pitchers. Controlling for umpire, pitcher, batter and catcher fixed effects and many other ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1410-1435)
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J44, J71
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3898
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Paulo
Guimaraes
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA
This paper analyzes the early research performance of PhD graduates in labor economics, addressing the following questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American ...
(published in: Scientometrics, 2010, 84 (3), 621-637)
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A23, J44, A11, A14, A10
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3896
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Timothy
J.
Halliday
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Mismeasured Household Size and Its Implications for the Identification of Economies of Scale
We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2010, 72 (2), 246-262)
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J12, C14
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3895
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Ernst
Fehr
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On the Economics and Biology of Trust
In recent years, many social scientists have claimed that trust plays an important role in economic and social transactions. Despite its proposed importance, the measurement and the definition of ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 235-266)
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C7, D00, D2, D7, D8
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3894
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Christopher J.
Boyce
Andrew
J.
Oswald
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Do People Become Healthier after Being Promoted?
This paper uses longitudinal data to explore whether greater job status makes a person healthier. Taking the evidence as a whole, promotees do not exhibit a health improvement after promotion. ...
(published in: Health Economics, 2012, 21, 580-596)
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I1
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3893
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Alexander
K.
Koch
Julia
Nafziger
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Self-Regulation through Goal Setting
Goals are an important source of motivation. But little is known about why and how people set them. We address these questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, 113 (1), 212-227;)
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A12, C70, D91
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3891
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Marco
Francesconi
Helmut
Rainer
Wilbert
van der Klaauw
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform: The Case of Divorced Parents
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial ...
(published as 'Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform for Children with Single Parents: A Theoretical Analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2015, 13(3), 709-733)
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D13, H31, J22
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3890
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Martin
Kahanec
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure
International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration ...
(published in: German Data Forum (RatSWD): Buildung on Progress: Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciencs, Vol. 2, Opladen and Farmington Hills, MI, 2010, 689 - 701)
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J15, J18, J61, J68
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3889
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Ernst
Fehr
Oliver
Hart
Christian
Zehnder
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Contracts as Reference Points: Experimental Evidence
In a recent paper, Hart and Moore (2008) introduce new behavioral assumptions that can explain long term contracts and important aspects of the employment relation. However, so far there exists no ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (2), 493-525)
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C7, D00, D2, D8, K00
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3888
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David
Neumark
Brandon
Wall
Junfu
Zhang
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Do Small Businesses Create More Jobs? New Evidence for the United States from the National Establishment Time Series
We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 16-29)
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J20, L25, L53
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3887
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Elena
Meschi
Erol
Taymaz
Marco
Vivarelli
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Trade Openness and the Demand for Skills: Evidence from Turkish Microdata
In this paper we report evidence on the relationship between trade openness, technology adoption and relative demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm-level data over ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S60-S70)
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F16, O15, O33
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3886
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Aurelijus
Dabušinskas
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So Many Rocket Scientists, So Few Marketing Clerks: Estimating the Effects of Economic Reform on Occupational Mobility in Estonia
Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2009, 25 (2), 261-275)
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J62, J63, J64, J23, C41, H53
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3885
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Daniel
S.
Hamermesh
José
Varejão
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The Timing of Labor Demand
We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and ...
(published in: Annals of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 105/106, 15-34)
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J23, J78
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3884
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Julián
Messina
Chiara
Strozzi
Jarkko
Turunen
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Real Wages over the Business Cycle: OECD Evidence from the Time and Frequency Domains
We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data and dynamic methods. ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2009, 33(6), 1183-1200)
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E32, J30, C10
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3883
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Solomon
Polachek
Jun
Xiang
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How Opportunity Costs Decrease the Probability of War in an Incomplete Information Game
This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent ...
(published in: International Organization, 2010, 64 (1), 133-144)
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F10, C7, P16
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3881
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Michael
Kosfeld
Ferdinand
von Siemens
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Worker Self-Selection and the Profits from Cooperation
We investigate a competitive labor market with team production. Workers differ in their motivation to exert team effort and types are private information. We show that there can exist a separating ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 573 - 582)
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D82, D86, M50
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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