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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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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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3853
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Pierre-Carl
Michaud
Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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Fertility and Female Employment Dynamics in Europe: The Effect of Using Alternative Econometric Modeling Assumptions
We investigate the direct and long-run effects of fertility on employment in Europe estimating dynamic models of labor supply under different assumptions regarding the exogeneity of fertility and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26 (4), 641 - 668)
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C23, C25, D91, J22
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3852
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Rolf
Aaberge
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Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2009, 33 (2), 235-259)
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D31, D63
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3851
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Arnaud
Chéron
Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
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Age-Dependent Employment Protection
This paper examines the age-related design of firing taxes by extending the theory of job creation and job destruction to account for a finite working life-time. We first argue that the potential ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (557), 1477-1504)
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J22, J26, H55
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3850
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Guillermina
Jasso
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A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality
This paper proposes a new model of wage determination and wage inequality. In this model, wage-setters set workers' wages; they do so either directly, as when individuals vote in a salary committee, ...
(published in: Rationality and Society, 2009, 21 (1), 113-168)
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C02, C16, D31, D6, J31
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3849
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Jens
Clausen
Eskil
Heinesen
Hans
Hummelgaard
Leif
Husted
Michael
Rosholm
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The Effect of Integration Policies on the Time until Regular Employment of Newly Arrived Immigrants: Evidence from Denmark
We analyse the effect of active labour-market programmes on the hazard rate into regular employment for newly arrived immigrants using the timing-of-events duration model. We take account of language ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16 (4), 409-417)
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J64, J24, J68, J61, C41
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3848
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Bruno
Crépon
Marc
Ferracci
Grégory
Jolivet
Gerard
J.
van den Berg
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Active Labor Market Policy Effects in a Dynamic Setting
This paper implements a method to identify and estimate treatment effects in a dynamic setting where treatments may occur at any point in time. By relating the standard matching approach to the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 595 - 605)
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J64, C21, C31, C41, C14
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3847
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Margaretha
Buurman
Robert
Dur
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Incentives and the Sorting of Altruistic Agents into Street-Level Bureaucracies
Many street-level bureaucrats (such as caseworkers) have the dual task of helping some clients, while sanctioning others. We develop a model of such a street-level bureaucracy and study the ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (4), 1318-1345)
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J3, J4, L3, M5
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3846
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François
Langot
Coralia
Quintero Rojas
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European vs. American Hours Worked: Assessing the Role of the Extensive and Intensive Margins
Europeans have worked less than Americans since the 1970s. In this paper, we quantify the relative importance of the extensive and intensive margins of aggregate hours of market work on the observed ...
(published in: Economic Bulletin, 2009, 29, 530-542)
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E2, J2
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3845
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Stephen
Machin
Panu
Pelkonen
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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Education and Mobility
We show that the length of compulsory education has a causal impact on regional labour mobility. The analysis is based on a quasi-exogenous staged Norwegian school reform, and register data on the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 10 (2), 417-50.)
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I28, J24, J61
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3844
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Philip
Du Caju
François
Rycx
Ilan
Tojerow
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Rent-Sharing and the Cyclicality of Wage Differentials
This paper investigates inter-industry wage differentials in Belgium, taking advantage of access to a unique matched employer-employee data set covering all the years from 1999 to 2005. Findings show ...
(published as 'Inter-Industry Wage Differentials: How Much Does Rent Sharing Matter?' in: Manchester School, 2011, 79 (4), 691-717)
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D31, J31, J41
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3843
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ding
Sai
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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (3), 497-507)
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J21, J31, J41, P31
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3842
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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Union Membership and Age: The Inverted U-Shape Hypothesis under Test
In this note we cast some doubt on the claim put forward by David Blanchflower (2007) that the probability of being unionized follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to ...
(published as 'With or Without U? Testing the Hypothesis of an Inverted U-Shaped Union Membership-Age Relationship' in: Contemporary Economics, 2012, 6 (4), 28-34)
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J51
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3841
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François
Langot
Eva
Moreno-Galbis
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Does the Growth Process Discriminate against Older Workers?
This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job ...
(published in: Journal of Macroeconomics, 2013, 38, 286-306)
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J14, J24, J26, O33
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3840
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Jean-Olivier
Hairault
François
Langot
Sophie
Osotimehin
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Unemployment Dynamics and the Cost of Business Cycles
In this paper, we investigate whether business cycles can imply sizable effects on average unemployment. First, using a reduced-form model of the labor market, we show that job finding rate ...
(published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2010, 13(4), 759-779)
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E32, J64
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3839
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Robert
Dur
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Gift Exchange in the Workplace: Money or Attention?
We develop a model of manager-employee relationships where employees care more for their manager when they are more convinced that their manager cares for them. Managers can signal their altruistic ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 550 - 560)
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D86, J41, M50, M54, M55
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3838
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Anne
C.
Gielen
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Repeated Job Quits: Stepping Stones or Learning about Quality?
Despite the fact that worker quits are often associated with wage gains and higher overall job satisfaction, many workers quit once again within one or two years after changing jobs initially. Such ...
(published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:7 )
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J28, J62
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3837
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Ludger
Woessmann
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Luther and the Girls: Religious Denomination and the Female Education Gap in 19th Century Prussia
Martin Luther urged each town to have a girls' school so that girls would learn to read the Gospel, evoking a surge of building girls' schools in Protestant areas. Using county- and town-level data ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 777–805)
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I21, J16, N33, Z12
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3836
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Chris
M.
Herbst
Erdal
Tekin
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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development
Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (4), 618-638)
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I18, I2, J13
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3835
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Steffen
Altmann
Armin
Falk
Matthias
Wibral
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Promotions and Incentives: The Case of Multi-Stage Elimination Tournaments
Promotion tournaments play an important role for the provision of incentives in firms. In this paper, we extend research on single-stage rank-order tournaments and analyze behavior in multi-stage ...
(revised and extended version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (1), 149-174)
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M51, M52, J33, C92
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3834
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Eberhard
Feess
Michael
Gerfin
Gerd
Muehlheusser
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Contracts as Rent Seeking Devices: Evidence from German Soccer
Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53(1), 714-730)
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L14, J63, L40, L83
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3833
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Barry
Hirsch
Edward
J.
Schumacher
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Underpaid or Overpaid? Wage Analysis for Nurses Using Job and Worker Attributes
The nursing labor market presents an apparent puzzle. Hospitals report chronic shortages, yet standard wage analysis shows that nursing wages have increased over time and greatly exceed those ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2012, 78 (4), 1096-1119.)
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I12, J31, J44
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3832
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Rodolfo
Stucchi
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Do Temporary Contracts Affect TFP? Evidence from Spanish Manufacturing Firms
This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on workers' effort. We propose a simple analytical framework showing that, under ...
(published in: SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association, 2016, 7, 421-459.)
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C14, C52, D24, J24, J41
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3831
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Timothy
Brezina
Erdal
Tekin
Volkan
Topalli
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"Might Not Be a Tomorrow": A Multi-Methods Approach to Anticipated Early Death and Youth Crime
A number of researchers point to the anticipation of early death, or a sense of "futurelessness," as a contributing factor to youth crime and violence. Young people who perceive a high probability of ...
(published in: Criminology, 2009, 47 (4), 1091-1129)
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K0, K42
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3830
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Iga
Magda
François
Rycx
Ilan
Tojerow
Daphné
Valsamis
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Wage Differentials across Sectors in Europe: An East-West Comparison
This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2011, 19 (4), 749-769)
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J31, J51
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3829
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Wen-Hao
Chen
Jean-Yves
Duclos
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Testing for Poverty Dominance: An Application to Canada
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. ...
(published in: Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'économique, 2011, 44 (3), 781-803)
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C12, C15, D31, D63, I30
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3828
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Heather
Antecol
Deborah
A.
Cobb-Clark
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The Effect of Community-Level Socio-Economic Conditions on Threatening Racial Encounters
This paper contributes to the emerging literature on racial and ethnic tension by analyzing the relationship between local socio-economic conditions and the propensity for outsiders to have ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2010, 40 (6), 517-529)
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D74, J15
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3827
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Steven
W.
Hemelt
Dave
E.
Marcotte
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Rising Tuition and Enrollment in Public Higher Education
In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all public four-year ...
(published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011, 33 (4), 435-457)
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I2, I21, I23
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3826
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Liliana
E.
Pezzin
Robert
Pollak
Barbara
Steinberg Schone
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Parental Marital Disruption, Family Type, and Transfers to Disabled Elderly Parents
This paper examines the family variables that affect intergenerational living arrangements and adult children's time and cash transfers to their unpartnered disabled elderly parents. The family ...
(published in: Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2008, 63 (6), S349-S358. )
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I10, J14
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3825
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Gerard
J.
van den Berg
Annette
Bergemann
Marco
Caliendo
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The Effect of Active Labor Market Programs on Not-Yet Treated Unemployed Individuals
Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 606-616)
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J64, C21, D83, D84
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3824
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Sami
Bibi
Jean-Yves
Duclos
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A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various ...
(published in: Bulletin of Economic Research, 2010, 62 (4). 387 - 406)
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D31, I32, I38
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3823
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Hans
Bloemen
Silvia
Pasqua
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?
This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, ...
(published as "An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are they responsive?" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 345-369)
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D1, D13, J21
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3822
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Corrado
Andini
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Wage Bargaining and the (Dynamic) Mincer Equation
This paper shows that, if observed earnings are the result of employer-employee wage bargaining, under a set of specific assumptions, the standard static Mincer equation can be thought as a ...
(published in: Economics Bulletin, 2009, 29 (3), 1846-1853)
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I21, J31
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3821
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Tito
Boeri
Agar
Brugiavini
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Pension Reforms and Women Retirement Plans
We analyse the effects of pension reforms on the planned retirement age of women by exploiting within country variation in pension wealth across cohorts of workers in Italy after the Amato and Dini ...
(published in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2008, 1 (1), 7 - 30)
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J14, J16, J26
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3820
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Patrick
A.
Puhani
Katja
Sonderhof
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The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women
Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of maternity leave from 18 to 36 months on young women's participation in job-related ...
(published as 'The Effects of Parental Leave on Training for Young Women' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24 (2), 731-760)
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J16, J24, J58, J83
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3818
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Martin
R.
West
Ludger
Woessmann
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"Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School": Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries
Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(546), F229-F255)
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I20, L33, N30, Z12
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3816
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Markus
Poschke
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Who Becomes an Entrepreneur? Labor Market Prospects and Occupational Choice
Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2013, 37 (3), 693-710)
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E20, J23, L11, L16
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3815
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Elsa
Fontainha
Chiara
Monfardini
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Children and Parents Time Use: Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany
We analyze a mechanism that has been disregarded in the literature on parental investment in children, as little attention has been devoted to the choices made by children themselves. We model ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (4), 479-504)
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J22, J24, J13, C21, C24
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3814
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Pieter
A.
Gautier
Yves
Zenou
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Car Ownership and the Labor Market of Ethnic Minorities
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67 (3), 392-403.)
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D83, J15, J64, R1
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3813
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Andrew
E.
Clark
Nicolai
Kristensen
Niels
C.
Westergård-Nielsen
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Economic Satisfaction and Income Rank in Small Neighbourhoods
We contribute to the literature on well-being and comparisons by appealing to new Danish data dividing the country up into around 9,000 small neighbourhoods. Administrative data provides us with the ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7, (2-3), 519–527)
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C23, C25, D84, J28, J31, J33
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3812
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Alpaslan
Akay
Peter
Martinsson
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Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, where relative income has shown a significant ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 110(3), 213-215)
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D10, I31, I32
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