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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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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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3811
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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An Experimental Study of Sex Segregation in the Swedish Labour Market: Is Discrimination the Explanation?
This paper studies whether sex discrimination is the cause of sex segregation in the Swedish labour market. The correspondence testing (CT) method was used, which entails two qualitatively identical ...
(published as 'Does Hiring Discrimination Cause Gender Segregation in the Swedish Labor Market?' in: Feminist Economics, 2011, 17 (3), 71-102)
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J64, J71
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3810
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Magnus
Carlsson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring
This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method ...
(revised version published as: "Experimental evidence of discrimination in the hiring of first- and second-generation immigrants", Labour, 2010, 24(3), 263-278 )
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J64, J71
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3809
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Albert
Saiz
Uri
Simonsohn
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Downloading Wisdom from Online Crowds
The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise ...
(revised version published as 'Proxying for Unobservable Variables with Internet Document-Frequency' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (1), 137–165)
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J11, C81, B40
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3808
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Alessandra
Guariglia
Xiaoxuan
Liu
Lina
Song
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Internal Finance and Growth: Microeconometric Evidence on Chinese Firms
Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000?2005. We estimate ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 96 (1), 79 - 94)
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D92
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3806
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Martin
Nordin
Inga
Persson
Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty?
This paper adds to the small literature on the consequences of education-occupation mismatches. It examines the income penalty for field of education-occupation mismatches for men and women with ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1047-1059)
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I21, J24, J31
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3805
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Louis
N.
Christofides
Michael
Hoy
Ling
Yang
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The Determinants of University Participation in Canada (1977?2003)
The decision to attend university is influenced by the balance of the expected returns and costs of attending university, by liquidity constraints and capital market imperfections that may modify ...
(published as "Participation in Canadian Universitites: The Gender Imbalance (1977-2005)" in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29(3), 400-410)
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I21, J01, J24
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3804
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Etienne
Lehmann
Alexis
Parmentier
Bruno
Van der Linden
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Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Participation and Search Unemployment
This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive taxation when individuals are heterogeneous in two exogenous dimensions: their skills and their values of non-market activities. Search-matching ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95 (11-12), 1523-1537)
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D82, H21, J64
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3802
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Simen
Gaure
Knut
Røed
Lars
Westlie
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The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality
We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies – in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) – on the duration and outcome of job search and on the ...
(revised version published as 'Job search incentives and job match quality' in: Labour Economics, 2012, 19 (3), 438-450)
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C14, C15, C41, J64, J65, J68
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3801
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Anders
Björklund
Jesper
Roine
Daniel
Waldenström
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Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden: A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties
This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational income and earnings mobility in the top of the distributions. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain ...
(revised version published as 'Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden: Capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2012, 96 (5-6), 474-484)
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D31, J62
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3800
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Richard
Blundell
Monica
Costa Dias
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Alternative Approaches to Evaluation in Empirical Microeconomics
This paper reviews some of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments, natural experiments, matching, instrumental variables, discontinuity design, and ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44 (3), 565-640)
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C52, J24
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3799
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Dan-Olof
Rooth
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Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring
This study provides empirical support for automatically activated associations inducing unequal treatment against the obese among recruiters in a real-life hiring situation. A field experiment on ...
(revised version published (with Jens Agerström) as 'The Role of Automatic Obesity Stereotypes in Real Hiring Discrimination ' in: Journal of Applied Psychology, 2011, 96 (4), 790 - 805)
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J64, J71
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3798
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Helmut
Fryges
Joachim
Wagner
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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship ...
(published in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (3), 399-423)
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F14, D21
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3797
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Robert
A.
Hart
Yue
Ma
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Wage-Hours Contracts, Overtime Working and Premium Pay
This paper offers a contract-based theory to explain the determination of standard hours, overtime hours and overtime premium pay. We expand on the wage contract literature that emphasises the role ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 170-179)
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J41, J33
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3796
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Gustavo
J.
Canavire Bacarreza
Felix
Rioja
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Financial Development and the Distribution of Income in Latin America and the Caribbean
One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality so prevalent in the continent. Using large world samples, the literature has ...
(published in: Well-Being and Social Policy, 2009, 5 (1), 1-18)
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O11, O16, G00
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3795
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Francesco
C.
Billari
Michele
Pellizzari
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The Younger, the Better? Relative Age Effects at University
In this paper we estimate relative age effects in academic performance using a unique database of students at Bocconi University. The identification exploits school entry cut-off ages that generate ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (2), 697-739)
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J13, I21
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3794
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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An Afriat Theorem for the Collective Model of Household Consumption
We provide a nonparametric 'revealed preference' characterization of rational household behavior in terms of the collective consumption model, while accounting for general (possibly non-convex) ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2010, 145(3), 1142-1163.)
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D11, D12, D13, C14
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3792
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Lex
Borghans
Bas
ter Weel
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Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion: Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure
We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the ...
(published in: Journal of Income Distribution, 2008, 17 (3-4), 37-70)
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J31, O15, O33
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