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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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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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3752
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Menelaos
G.
Karanasos
Bin
Tan
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Two to Tangle: Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896–2000)
This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest ...
(published in: Journal of Banking and Finance, 2012, 36 (1), 290 - 304)
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C14, O40, E23, D72
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3751
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Michal
Myck
Richard
Ochmann
Salmai
Qari
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Dynamics of Earnings and Hourly Wages in Germany
There is by now a vast number of studies which document a sharp increase in cross-sectional wage inequality during the 2000s. It is often assumed that this inequality is of a "permanent nature" which ...
(revised version published as 'Dynamics in Transitory and Permanent Variation of Wages in Germany' in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (2), 143 - 146)
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C23, D31, J31
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3750
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Judith
K.
Hellerstein
Melissa
McInerney
David
Neumark
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Measuring the Importance of Labor Market Networks
We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the ...
(published as 'Neighbors and Coworkers: The Importance of Residential Labor Market Networks' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2011, 29 (4), 659 - 695)
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J15, J61
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3749
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Wiji
Arulampalam
Robin
Naylor
Jeremy
Smith
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Am I Missing Something? The Effects of Absence from Class on Student Performance
We exploit a rich administrative panel data-set for cohorts of Economics students at a UK university in order to identify causal effects of class absence on student performance. We utilise the panel ...
(revised version publishd in: Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31 (4), 363-375)
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C41, J24, I2
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3748
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Örn
B.
Bodvarsson
John
G.
Sessions
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The Measurement of Racial Discrimination in Pay between Job Categories: Theory and Test
The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to ...
(published as 'The Measurement of Pay Discrimination Between Job Assignments' in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (3), 297-309)
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J7
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3746
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Leszek
Morawski
Michal
Myck
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'Klin'-ing Up: Effects of Polish Tax Reforms on Those In and on Those Out
In 2007 and 2008 Polish governments introduced a series of reforms which led to a substantial reduction in the tax "wedge" (in Polish: "klin") on labour. We show that when considered together the ...
(revised and corrected version published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 556-566)
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H24, J21, J31
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3745
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Tito
Boeri
Battista
Severgnini
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The Italian Job: Match Rigging, Career Concerns and Media Concentration in Serie A
This paper contributes to the literature on competition and corruption, by drawing on records from Calciopoli, a judicial inquiry carried out in 2006 on corruption in the Italian soccer league. ...
(published as "Match rigging and the career concerns of referees" in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18(3), 349-359)
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D73, L82, L83
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3744
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Martin
Halla
Johann
Scharler
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Marriage, Divorce and Interstate Risk Sharing
In this paper we study the importance of marriage for interstate risk sharing. We find that US states in which married couples account for a higher share of the population are less exposed to ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 55-78)
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J12, E21, K36, G21
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3743
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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Are Women More Credit Constrained? Experimental Evidence on Gender and Microenterprise Returns
In a recent randomized experiment we found mean returns to capital of between 5 and 6 percent per month in Sri Lankan microenterprises, much higher than market interest rates. But returns were found ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2009, 1(3), 1-32)
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O12, O16, C93
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3742
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Matthias
Doepke
Fabrizio
Zilibotti
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International Labor Standards and the Political Economy of Child Labor Regulation
Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7(2-3), 508- 518)
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J20, J88, O10
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3741
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Francesco
Feri
Bernd
Irlenbusch
Matthias
Sutter
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Efficiency Gains from Team-Based Coordination: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence
The need for efficient coordination is ubiquitous in organizations and industries. The literature on the determinants of efficient coordination has focused on individual decision-making so far. In ...
(revised and extended version published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (4), 1892-1912)
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C71, C91, C92
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3740
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Barry
R.
Chiswick
Christina
A.
Houseworth
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Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating
This paper analyzes the determinants of interethnic marriages among immigrants in the United States. The dependent variable is intermarriage across ethnic groups and the inclusion of the explanatory ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 149-180)
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J12, J15, J61, F22
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3739
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Thierry
Warin
Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
Hubert
P.
Janicki
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Testing Mundell's Intuition of Endogenous OCA Theory
This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade ...
(published in: Review of International Economics, 2009, 17 (1), 74-89)
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C23, C52, F15
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3738
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Dany
Brouillette
Guy
Lacroix
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Heterogeneous Treatment and Self-Selection in a Wage Subsidy Experiment
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (7-8), 479-492)
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I38, J31, J64
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3737
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Zahra
Siddique
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Caste Based Discrimination: Evidence and Policy
Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate about introducing similar quotas in private sector jobs. This paper uses an audit ...
(published as 'Evidence on Caste-Based Discrimination' in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S146-S159)
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C93, J71, J78, O15
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3735
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Anders
Björklund
Lena
Lindahl
Matthew
J.
Lindquist
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What More Than Parental Income? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents
Sibling correlations are used as overall measures of the impact of family background and community influences on individual outcomes. While most correlation studies show that siblings are quite ...
(revised version published as 'What More Than Parental Income, Education and Occupation? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2010, 10 (1), Article 102)
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D1, D3, J62
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3733
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Guy
Lacroix
Natalia
Radtchenko
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The Changing Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Russia
During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2011, 24(1), 85-106)
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D1, J22, C5
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3732
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
Albert
Yung-Hsu
Liu
Kerry
L.
Papps
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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation across Immigrant Generations
Using 1995–2006 Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 405-435)
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D10, J16, J22, J24, J61
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3731
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Elizabeth
M.
Caucutt
Thomas
F.
Cooley
Nezih
Guner
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The Farm, the City, and the Emergence of Social Security
In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2103, 18(1), 1-32)
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H55, H3, D72
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3730
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Takao
Kato
Cheryl
Long
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Tournaments and Managerial Incentives in China's Listed Firms: New Evidence
The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has not been examined by the emerging literature on managerial incentives in ...
(published in: China Economic Review, 2011, 22 (1), 1-10 (lead article))
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M51, P3
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3729
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Leo
Kaas
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Human Capital Externalities with Monopsonistic Competition
This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (2), 95-97)
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D43, J24
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3728
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Anyck
Dauphin
Abdel Rahmen
El Lahga
Bernard
Fortin
Guy
Lacroix
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Are Children Decision-Makers Within the Household?
Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2011, 121 (553), 871–903)
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D11, D12, D79, J13
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3727
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Cristina
Blanco Perez
Xavier
Ramos
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Polarisation and Health
This paper examines the effect of income polarisation on individual health. We argue that polarisation captures much better the social tension and conflict that underlie some of the pathways linking ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2010, 56 (1), 171-185)
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D31, I1
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3726
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Libertad
González
Berkay
Özcan
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The Risk of Divorce and Household Saving Behavior
We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2013, 48 (2), 404-434)
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J12, D10, K36, E21, D91
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3725
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Francine
D.
Blau
Lawrence
M.
Kahn
Kerry
L.
Papps
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 43-58)
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D10, J16, J22, J24, J61
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3724
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Randolph
Luca
Bruno
Maria
Bytchkova
Saul
Estrin
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Institutional Determinants of New Firm Entry in Russia: A Cross Regional Analysis
We analyse a three-year panel data set of Russian firms spanning from 2000 to 2002 and we investigate the effect of regional institutional and economic factors on entry rates across time, industries ...
(substantially revised and rewritten version available as IZA DP No. 5504)
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D21, L26, P31
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3723
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Pedro
Raposo
Jan
C.
van Ours
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How Working Time Reduction Affects Employment and Earnings
December 1, 1996 Portugal introduced a new law on working hours which gradually reduced the standard workweek from 44 hours to 40 hours. We study how this mandatory working hours reduction affected ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2010, 106 (1), 61-63)
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J22, J31, J63, J81
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3722
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Leo
Kaas
Stefan
Zink
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Human Capital Investment with Competitive Labor Search
We study human capital accumulation in an environment of competitive search. Given that unemployed workers can default on their education loans, skilled individuals with a larger debt burden prefer ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (4), 520-534)
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I22, J24, J31
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3721
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Alari
Paulus
Andreas
Peichl
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Effects of Flat Tax Reforms in Western Europe on Income Distribution and Work Incentives
The flat income tax has become increasingly popular recently, yet its implementation is limited to Eastern Europe. We analyse the distributional and efficiency effects of flat tax scenarios for ...
(revised version published as 'Effects of flat tax reforms in Western Europe' in: Journal of Policy Modelling, 2009, 31 (5), 620-636)
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C81, D31, H24
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3719
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Anna
Piil
Damm
Marie Louise
Schultz-Nielsen
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The Construction of Neighbourhoods and its Relevance for the Measurement of Social and Ethnic Segregation: Evidence from Denmark
In this paper we propose a model for constructing neighbourhoods based on geo-referenced data and administrative data. The 431,233 inhabited hectare cells in Denmark are clustered into 9,404 small ...
(published in: Danish Journal of Economics, 2008, 146 (3), 241-263)
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I3, J61, R2
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3718
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Alicia
Robb
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Gender Differences in Business Performance: Evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners Survey
Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a ...
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2009, 33 (4), 375-395)
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J15, L26
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3717
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Elisabeth
Fevang
Snorre
Kverndokk
Knut
Røed
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Informal Care and Labor Supply
Based on Norwegian register data we show that having a lone parent in the terminal phase of life significantly affects the offspring's labor market activity. The employment propensity declines by ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Labor Supply in the Terminal Stages of Lone Parents’ Lives' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2012, 25 (4), 1399-1422)
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J14, J22
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3716
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Michael
P.
Pflüger
Takatoshi
Tabuchi
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Trade and Location with Land as a Productive Factor
This paper is motivated by the fact that, contrary to its importance in practice, the role of land for production has received no attention in the new trade theory and the new economic geography. We ...
(published in revised form as 'The size of regions with land use for production ' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2010, 40 (6), 481 - 489)
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F12, F22, R12
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3715
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Andreas
Peichl
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The Benefits of Linking CGE and Microsimulation Models: Evidence from a Flat Tax Analysis
Mircrosimulation models (MSM) and Computable General Equilibrium models (CGE) have both been widely used in policy analysis. The combination of these two model types allows the utilisation of the ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Economics, 2009, 12 (2), 301-329)
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D58, H2, J22
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3714
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Christian
Haefke
Marcus
Sonntag
Thijs
van Rens
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Wage Rigidity and Job Creation
Standard macroeconomic models underpredict the volatility of unemployment fluctuations. A common solution is to assume wages are rigid. We explore whether this explanation is consistent with the ...
(published in: Journal of Monetary Economics, 2013, 60, 887 - 899.)
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E24, E32, J31, J41, J64
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