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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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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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3880
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Marco
Caliendo
Steffen
Künn
Frank
Wießner
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Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren
Die Ich-AG (Existenzgründungszuschuss) war eines der zentralen Instrumente, das im Rahmen der "Hartz-Reformen" in den arbeitsmarktpolitischen Kanon aufgenommen wurde. Zusammen mit dem bereits seit ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2010, 42(4), 269-291)
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J68, M13, H43, C14
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3877
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Christian
Belzil
François
Poinas
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Education and Early Career Outcomes of Second-Generation Immigrants in France
We estimate a flexible dynamic model of education choices and early career employment outcomes of the French population. Individuals are allowed to choose between 4 options: continue to the next ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 101-110)
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I2, J15, J24, J41
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3875
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Jochen
Kluve
Sandra
Schaffner
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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Fiscal Effects of Minimum Wages: An Analysis for Germany
Against the background of the current discussion on the introduction of statutory minimum wages in Germany, this paper analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on ...
(published in: German Economic Review, 2009, 10(2), 224-242)
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H60, J31, J88
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3874
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Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
Steven
Stillman
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Emigration and the Age Profile of Retirement among Immigrants
This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from the host country to their country of origin. We develop a simple theoretical ...
(published as "Return migration and the age profile of retirement among immigrants" in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:20)
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J26, J01, J08
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3873
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Jens
Agerström
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Implicit Prejudice and Ethnic Minorities: Arab-Muslims in Sweden
This paper examines whether Swedish employers implicitly/automatically hold i) negative attitudes toward Arab-Muslims, an ethnic minority group subjected to substantial labor market discrimination in ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 43-55)
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J70
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3872
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Tony
Atkinson
Peter
G.
Backus
John
Micklewright
Cathy
Pharoah
Sylke
V.
Schnepf
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Charitable Giving for Overseas Development: UK Trends over a Quarter Century
Charitable giving for overseas development and emergency relief is important in the UK, being about a quarter of the size of government development aid. There has been a strong growth over time, ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2012, 175 (1), 167-190)
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D12, D64, F35, L31
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3871
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Pascal
Bressoux
Francis
Kramarz
Corinne
Prost
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Teachers' Training, Class Size and Students' Outcomes: Learning from Administrative Forecasting Mistakes
This paper studies the impact of different teacher and class characteristics on third graders' outcomes. It uses a feature of the French system in which some novice teachers start their jobs before ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (536), 540 - 561)
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I21
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3870
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Werner
Eichhorst
Anton
Hemerijck
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Welfare and Employment: A European Dilemma?
The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have ...
(published in: Jens Alber and Neil Gilbert (eds.), United in Diversity? Comparing Social Models in Europe and America, Oxford: OUP, 2010, 201-236)
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J21, J58
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3869
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Stéphane
Pallage
Lyle
Scruggs
Christian
Zimmermann
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Unemployment Insurance Generosity: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison
The goal of this paper is to establish if unemployment insurance policies are more generous in Europe than in the United States, and by how much. We take the examples of France and one particular ...
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2009, 95-96, 15-23)
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E24, J65
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3868
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Stéphane
Pallage
Lyle
Scruggs
Christian
Zimmermann
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Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity
In this paper, we develop a methodology to summarize the various policy parameters of an unemployment insurance scheme into a single generosity parameter. Unemployment insurance policies are ...
(published in: Political Analysis, 2013, 21(4), 524-549)
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E24, J65
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3866
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Francis
Kramarz
Stephen
Machin
Amine
Ouazad
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What Makes a Test Score? The Respective Contributions of Pupils, Schools, and Peers in Achievement in English Primary Education
This study develops an analytical framework for evaluating the respective contributions of pupils, peers, and school quality in affecting educational achievement. We implement this framework using ...
(published as 'Using Compulsory Mobility to Identify School Quality and Peer Effects' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 77(4), 566–587)
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I21
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3865
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
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A Nonparametric Examination of Capital-Skill Complementarity
This paper uses nonparametric kernel methods to construct observation-specific elasticities of substitution for a balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 71 (4), 519 - 538)
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C14, C23, D2
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3864
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Robert
Plasman
Michael
Rusinek
Ilan
Tojerow
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The Regional Dimension of Collective Wage Bargaining: The Case of Belgium
The potential failure of national industry agreements to take into account productivity levels of least productive regions has been considered as one of the causes of regional unemployment in ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2014, 48 (2), 301-317)
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D31, J31, J41
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3863
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Pradeep
Mitra
Alexander
Muravyev
Mark
E
Schaffer
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Convergence in Institutions and Market Outcomes: Cross-Country and Time-Series Evidence from the BEEPS Surveys in Transition Economies
This paper uses the BEEPS firm-level data to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Labor reallocation and firm growth: benchmarking transition countries against mature market economies' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:13)
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G32, L11, O12, P31
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3861
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Robert
Orlowski
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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The East German Wage Structure after Transition
We extend the literature on transition economies' wage structures by investigating the returns to tenure and experience. This study applies recent panel data and estimation approaches that control ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2009, 17 (4), 629-659)
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J31, J24
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3860
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Erin
L.
Krupka
Roberto
A.
Weber
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Identifying Social Norms Using Coordination Games: Why Does Dictator Game Sharing Vary?
We explore the influence of social norms on behavior. To do so, we introduce a method for identifying norms, based on the property that social norms reflect social consensus regarding the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (3), 495–524)
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C91, C72, D34
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3859
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Antoni
Calvó-Armengol
Eleonora
Patacchini
Yves
Zenou
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Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education
This paper studies whether structural properties of friendship networks affect individual outcomes in education. We first develop a model that shows that, at the Nash equilibrium, the outcome of each ...
(published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2009, 76, 1239-1267)
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A14, C31, C72, I21
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3856
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Barbara
Petrongolo
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The Long-Term Effects of Job Search Requirements: Evidence from the UK JSA Reform
This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2009, 93 (11-12), 1234-1253 )
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J31, J64, J65
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3855
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Thomas
K.
Bauer
Christoph
M.
Schmidt
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WTP vs. WTA: Christmas Presents and the Endowment Effect
Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2012, 232 (1), 4 - 11)
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D01, D49, D61
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3854
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Alexander
Vogel
Joachim
Wagner
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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (4), 641-665)
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F14, D21
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