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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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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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3791
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Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
Ding
Sai
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Temporary and Persistent Poverty among Ethnic Minorities and the Majority in Rural China
Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated taking a dynamic view and using a large sample covering 22 provinces. Based on the ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55 (s1), 588-606)
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I32, J15
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3790
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Andreas
Peichl
Thilo
Schaefer
Christoph
Scheicher
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Measuring Richness and Poverty: A Micro Data Application to Europe and Germany
In this paper, we define a new class of richness measures. In contrast to the often used headcount, these new measures are sensitive to changes in rich persons' income and therefore allow for a more ...
(revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (3), 597-619)
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D31, H23, I32
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3785
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Helena
Skyt
Nielsen
Torben
Sørensen
Christopher
Taber
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Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform
In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of the demand for college to changes in student aid arising from a Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2010, 2 (2), 185-215)
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I22, J24
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3784
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Gary
Charness
Peter
J.
Kuhn
Marie Claire
Villeval
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Competition and the Ratchet Effect
The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent's early actions to the agent's later disadvantage, in a context where binding ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (3), 513-547)
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C91, D23, D82, J24, L14
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3783
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Martyn
J.
Andrews
Ken
Clark
William
Whittaker
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The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach
Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective ...
(revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2011, 174(1), 127-153.)
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C14, C23, C41, J24, J61, R23
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3782
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Guglielmo
Maria
Caporale
Christophe
Rault
Anamaria
Sova
Robert
Sova
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On the Bilateral Trade Effects of Free Trade Agreements between the EU-15 and the CEEC-4 Countries
The expansion of regionalism has spawned an extensive theoretical literature analysing the effects of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European ...
(published in: Review of World Economics, 2009, 145 (2), 189-206)
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E61, F13, F15, C25
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3777
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Douglas
S.
Noonan
Douglas
J.
Krupka
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Determinants of Historic and Cultural Landmark Designation: Why We Preserve What We Preserve
There is much interest among cultural economists in assessing the effects of heritage preservation policies. There has been less interest in modeling the policy choices made in historic and cultural ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Cultural Economics, 2010, 34 (1), 1-26)
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Z1, R52, D78
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3775
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Robert
E.
Hall
Alan
B.
Krueger
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Wage Formation between Newly Hired Workers and Employers: Survey Evidence
Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which ...
(published as "Evidence on the Incidence of Wage Posting, Wage Bargaining, and On-the-Job Search" in: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(4), 56-67)
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E24, J3, J64
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3773
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Nabanita
Datta Gupta
Leslie
S.
Stratton
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Institutions, Social Norms, and Bargaining Power: An Analysis of Individual Leisure Time in Couple Households
We exploit time use data from Denmark and the United States to examine the impact institutions and social norms have on individuals' bargaining power within a household, hypothesizing that the more ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (3), 325-343)
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J22
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3771
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
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Social Image Concerns and Pro-Social Behavior
Using longitudinal data on the entire population of blood donors in an Italian town, we examine how donors respond to an award scheme which rewards them with “medals” when they reach certain donation ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2010, 76 (2), 225-237)
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D12, D64, I18
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3770
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Nicola
Lacetera
Mario
Macis
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Motivating Altruism: A Field Study
This paper analyzes the effects of a legislative provision that grants a one-day paid leave of absence to blood donors who are employees in Italy. The analysis is based on a unique dataset with the ...
(published as 'Time for Blood: The Effect of Paid Leave Legislation on Altruistic Behavior' in: Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 2013, 29(6), 1384-1420)
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D12, D64, I18
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3769
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Helena
Holmlund
Sandra
McNally
Martina
Viarengo
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Does Money Matter for Schools?
There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1154-1164)
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I21, H52
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3767
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Gesine
Stephan
André
Pahnke
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The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labour Market Programmes and the Common Support Problem
For Germany, we analyse the (relative) effects of participation in several active labour market programmes on the employment prospects of participants. First, our results show that different matching ...
(revised version published as 'The Relative Effectiveness of Selected Active Labor Market Programs: An Empiriccal Investigation for Germany' in: Manchester School, 2011, 79(6), 1262-1293)
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J68, J64, J65
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3766
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Ruth
Uwaifo Oyelere
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Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa: The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms
Until very recently, the conventional wisdom was that the return to education was very high in Africa. However, some recent analysis point to low average returns to education in some African ...
(revised version published as 'Have returns to education changed in Nigeria? Uncovering the role of democratic reforms' in: Journal of African Economies, 2011, 20 (5), 737-780)
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J08, O12, O15, P5
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3765
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Lorenzo
Cappellari
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Receipt: Measurement and Modelling Issues, with an Application to Britain
We model the dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Britain using data from the British Household Panel Survey, waves 1–15. First, we discuss definitions of social assistance benefit ...
(Revised version: IZA DP 4457)
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I38, C33, C35
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3764
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Pieter
Bevelander
Ravi
Pendakur
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Electoral Participation as a Measure of Social Inclusion for Natives, Immigrants and Descendants in Sweden
Three decades ago, Sweden extended municipal and county voting privileges to non-citizen residents arguing that it would increase political influence, interest and self-esteem among foreign citizens. ...
(revised version published as 'Voting and social inclusion in Sweden' in: International Migration, 2011, 49 (4), 67 - 92)
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D72, J15, J61
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3763
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Mikael
Elinder
Henrik
Jordahl
Panu
Poutvaara
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Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and ...
(published as 'Promises, Policies and Pocketbook Voting' in: European Economic Review, 2015, 75, 177–194)
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C21, D72, H50
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3762
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Alexander
M.
Danzer
Hulya
Ulku
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Determinants of Integration and its Impact on the Economic Success of Immigrants: A Case Study of the Turkish Community in Berlin
Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and ...
(revised version published as 'Integration, Social Networks and Economic Success of Immigrants' in: Kyklos, 2011, 64 (3), 342-365)
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O15, J15, C25, D10
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3760
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Blaise
Melly
Patrick
A.
Puhani
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Privatization and Changes in the Wage Structure: Evidence from Firm Personnel Records
We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years ...
(published under revised title in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (4), 918-944)
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J31, J45, L33
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3759
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Abdurrahman
B.
Aydemir
Wen-Hao
Chen
Miles
Corak
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Intergenerational Education Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants
We analyze the intergenerational education mobility of Canadian men and women born to immigrants. A detailed portrait of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility ...
(published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2013, 39 (S1), S107-S122)
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F22, I20, J62
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3757
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Joaquín
Andaluz
Miriam
Marcén
José Alberto
Molina
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Dynamics of Intrahousehold Bargaining
This paper studies the dynamics of bargaining in an intrahousehold context. To explore long-term partner relationships, we analyse bilateral bargaining by considering that spouses take decisions ...
(published as 'Which spouse first decides in the household? The dynamics of bargaining' in: Theoretical Economics Letters, 2013, 3, 69-77)
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C71, C72, C62, J12
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3756
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Sara
Lemos
Jonathan
Portes
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New Labour? The Impact of Migration from Central and Eastern European Countries on the UK Labour Market
The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, 2013, 14(1), 299-338.)
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J22
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3755
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Marco
Caliendo
Michel
Clement
Dominik
Papies
Sabine
Scheel-Kopeinig
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The Cost Impact of Spam Filters: Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations
More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to ...
(published in: Information Systems Research, 2012, 23 (3, Part II), 1068-1080)
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M12, M15
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3754
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Ioannis
Cholezas
Panos
Tsakloglou
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The Economic Impact of Immigration in Greece: Taking Stock of the Existing Evidence
Greece was traditionally an emigration country. However, since the early 1990s it became an immigrant destination and nowadays up to a tenth of the population are immigrants, mainly from neighbouring ...
(published in: Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 2009, 9 (1-2), 77-104)
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F22
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3753
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Spyros
Konstantopoulos
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Incorporating Cost in Power Analysis for Three-Level Cluster Randomized Designs
In experimental designs with nested structures entire groups (such as schools) are often assigned to treatment conditions. Key aspects of the design in these cluster randomized experiments include ...
(published in: Evaluation Review, 2009, 33 (4), 335-357)
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I20
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