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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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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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3713
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Kenneth
A.
Couch
Robert
W.
Fairlie
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Last Hired, First Fired? Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle
Past studies have tested the claim that blacks are the last hired during periods of economic growth and the first fired in recessions by examining the movement of relative unemployment rates over the ...
(published as 'Black-White Unemployment and the Business Cycle' in: Demography, 2010, 47 (1), 227-247)
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J15
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3712
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
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The Rise and Fall of Spanish Unemployment: A Chain Reaction Theory Perspective
The evolution of Spanish unemployment has been quite idiosyncratic. The full employment levels of the early seventies were followed by unemployment rates that were the highest within the OECD ...
(published in: Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer (eds.), International Papers in Political Economy, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009)
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E22, E24, J21
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3711
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Deniz
Gevrek
Z. Eylem
Gevrek
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Nepotism, Incentives and the Academic Success of College Students
This study investigates the role of self-employed parents on their children's post-graduation plans and college success by using a unique data set from a private university in Turkey. We assembled ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (3), 581-591)
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J24
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3709
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Øivind
Anti
Nilsen
Kjell
Vaage
Arild
Aakvik
Karl
Jacobsen
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Estimates of Intergenerational Elasticities Based on Lifetime Earnings
Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the entire life-cycle earnings for their fathers, we present new estimates of ...
(published as 'Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Revisited: Estimates Based on Lifetime Earnings' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2012, 114 (1), 1 - 23)
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J62, C23
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3708
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Robert
W.
Fairlie
Rebecca
A.
London
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Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage
Using matched data from the 1996 to 2004 Current Population Survey (CPS), we examine racial patterns in annual transitions into and out of health insurance coverage. We first decompose racial ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 335 - 373)
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I1, J15
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3707
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Sarmistha
Pal
Sugata
Ghosh
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The Elite and the Marginalised: An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States
In the context of strikingly low literacy rates among Indian women and low caste population, the paper explores whether and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the ...
(revised version published as 'Poverty, Elite Heterogeneity, and the Allocation of Public Spending: Panel Evidence from the Indian States' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 51–78)
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I28, J15, O15, P48
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3705
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David
Autor
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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework
Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) are entities or institutions that interpose themselves between workers and firms to facilitate, inform, or regulate how workers are matched to firms, how work is ...
(published in: David Autor (ed.), Studies of Labor Market Intermediation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)
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J2, J4, J5, J6, J8
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3704
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Emilia
Del Bono
John
Ermisch
Marco
Francesconi
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Intrafamily Resource Allocations: A Dynamic Model of Birth Weight
This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2012, 30 (3), 657-706)
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C33, D13, I12, J13
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3700
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Hamish
Low
Costas
Meghir
Luigi
Pistaferri
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Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle
We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (4), 1432-1467)
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D91, H31, J64
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3698
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Jonneke
Bolhaar
Maarten
Lindeboom
Bas
van der Klaauw
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A Dynamic Analysis of the Demand for Health Insurance and Health Care
We investigate the presence of moral hazard and advantageous or adverse selection in a market for supplementary health insurance. For this we specify and estimate dynamic models for health insurance ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2012, 56 (4), 669-690)
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I11, D82, G22, C33
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3697
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Leo
Kaas
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Variable Search Intensity in an Economy with Coordination Unemployment
This paper analyzes an urn-ball matching model in which workers decide how intensively they sample job openings and apply at a stochastic number of suitable vacancies. Equilibrium is not constrained ...
(published in: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2010, 10 (1), Article 31 )
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E24, J63, J64
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3696
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Franz
Buscha
Arnaud
Maurel
Lionel
Page
Stefan
Speckesser
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The Effect of High School Employment on Educational Attainment: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Approach
Using American panel data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) this paper investigates the effect of working during grade 12 on attainment. We exploit the longitudinal ...
(published as 'The Effect of Employment while in High School on Educational Attainment: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Approach' in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 74 (3), 380–396)
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J24, J22, I21
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3695
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David
G.
Blanchflower
Helen
Lawton
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The Impact of the Recent Expansion of the EU on the UK Labour Market
We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of ...
(published as' The Impact of the Expansion of the EU on the British Labor Market' in: Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer, Berlin et al., 2009)
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J61
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3694
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Rainald
Borck
Katharina
Wrohlich
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Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 27 (3), 436-454)
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J13, D72, H42, D19
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3693
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Francesco
Giovannoni
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Lobbying, Corruption and Other Banes
Although the theoretical literature often uses lobbying and corruption synonymously, the empirical literature associates lobbying with the preferred mean for exerting influence in developed countries ...
(published as 'Political institutions, lobbying and corruption' in: Journal of Institutional Economics , 2017, 13 (4), 917-939)
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E23, D72, H26, O17, P16
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3692
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Dorothea
Blomeyer
Katja
Coneus
Manfred
Laucht
Friedhelm
Pfeiffer
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Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2009, 7 (2-3), 638 - 648)
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D87, I12, I21, J13
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3690
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Richard
V.
Burkhauser
Shuaizhang
Feng
Stephen
P.
Jenkins
Jeff
Larrimore
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Estimating Trends in US Income Inequality Using the Current Population Survey: The Importance of Controlling for Censoring
Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (1975–2004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 393 - 415)
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D31, C81
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3689
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Alan
Barrett
Elish
Kelly
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Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland
Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As ...
(published as "How Reliable is the Quarterly National Household Survey for Migration Research?" in: Economic and Social Review, 2008, 39 (3), 191-205)
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J61
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3688
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J. David
Brown
John
S.
Earle
Álmos
Telegdy
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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine
We use longitudinal methods and universal panel data on 30,000 initially state-owned manufacturing firms in four transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2010, 120(545), 683-708)
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D21, G34, J23, J31, L33, P31
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3687
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Pierre
Cahuc
Thomas
Le Barbanchon
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Labor Market Policy Evaluation in Equilibrium: Some Lessons of the Job Search and Matching Model
We analyze the consequences of counseling provided to job seekers in a standard job search and matching model. It turns out that neglecting equilibrium effects induced by counseling can lead to wrong ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2010, 17 (1), 196-205)
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J64, J68
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3686
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Rolf
Aaberge
Audun
Langørgen
Magne
Mogstad
Marit
Østensen
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The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how ...
(published as 'The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (9-10), 549 - 562 )
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D31, H72, I30
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3685
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Paul
Grout
Wendelin
Schnedler
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Non-Profit Organizations in a Bureaucratic Environment
How does the environment of an organization influence whether workers voluntarily provide effort? We study the power relationship between a non-profit unit (e.g. university department, NGO, health ...
(improved version is available here)
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L30, M50, H10, H40
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3684
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Andrew
Grodner
Thomas
J.
Kniesner
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Distribution of Wealth and Interdependent Preferences
We examine the socially optimal wealth distribution in a two-person two-good model with heterogeneous workers and asymmetric social interactions where only one (social) individual derives positive or ...
(published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2010, 6 (4), 265-366)
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D31, D63
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3682
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Kristian
Behrens
Giordano
Mion
Yasusada
Murata
Jens
Suedekum
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Trade, Wages, and Productivity
We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favors wage convergence, intensifies ...
(substantially revised version published in: International Economic Review, 2014, 55 (4), 1305-1348. [Final version])
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F12, F15, F17
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3681
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Christian
Merkl
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Escaping the Unemployment Trap: The Case of East Germany
This paper addresses the question of why high unemployment rates tend to persist even after their proximate causes have been reversed (e.g., after wages relative to productivity have fallen). We ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008, 36 (4), 542-556)
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E24, J30, J31, J64
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3680
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Philippe
Aghion
Yann
Algan
Pierre
Cahuc
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Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the ...
(revised version published as 'Civil Society and the State: The Interplay Between Cooperation and Minimum Wage Regulation' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (1), 3 - 42)
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J30, J50, K00
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3679
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Hans
Bloemen
Elena
G. F.
Stancanelli
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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income
This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and ...
(published as 'Market hours, household work, child care, and wage rates of partners: an empirical analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1), 51-81)
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D1, D13, J21
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3677
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Melanie
K.
Jones
Richard
J.
Jones
Paul
L.
Latreille
Peter J.
Sloane
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Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance ...
(published in: Labour, 2009, 23 (Special Issue), 139 - 175)
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J0, J2, J3
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3676
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Anders
Frederiksen
Odile
Poulsen
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Management Compensation and Firm-Level Income Inequality
In recent decades, most developed countries have experienced a simultaneous increase in income inequality and management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management ...
(published as 'Income Inequality: The Consequences of Skill-Upgrading - When Firms Have Hierarchical Organizational Structures' in Economic Inquiry, 2016, 54 (2), 1224-1239)
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J3, J6, M5, O3
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3674
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Michael
Daly
Liam
Delaney
Colm
P.
Harmon
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Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference: Evidence from a Day Reconstruction Study with Biological Tracking
This paper considers the relationship between the economic concept of time preference and relevant concepts from psychology and biology. Using novel data from a time diary study conducted in Ireland ...
(published as 'Psychological and Biological Foundations of Time Preference' in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 7 (2-3), 2009, 659 - 669)
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C81, D84, D01, D91
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3671
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Markus
Frölich
Blaise
Melly
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Identification of Treatment Effects on the Treated with One-Sided Non-Compliance
Traditional instrumental variable estimators do not generally estimate effects for the treated population but for the unobserved population of compliers. They do identify effects for the treated when ...
(published in: Econometric Reviews, 2013, 32 (3), 384-414)
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C13, C14, C21
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3670
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Adriana
Kugler
Mutlu
Yuksel
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives: Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame ...
(published in: David Leal and Stephen Trejo (eds.), Latinos and the U.S. Economy: A Labor Economics Perspective, Springer, 2011.)
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J11, J21, J31, J61
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3669
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Quentin
David
Alexandre
Janiak
Etienne
Wasmer
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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment
European labor markets are characterized by the low geographical mobility of workers. The absence of mobility is a factor behind high unemployment when jobless people prefer to remain in their home ...
(merged with DP 3668 into "Social Capital, Mobility and Unemployment in Europe", published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (2), 191-204 )
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J2, J61, Z1
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3668
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Quentin
David
Alexandre
Janiak
Etienne
Wasmer
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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: A Theory
In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not ...
(merged with DP 3669 into "Social Capital, Mobility and Unemployment in Europe", published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 68 (2), 191-204 )
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J2, J61, Z1
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3667
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Alan
B.
Krueger
Andreas
I.
Mueller
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Job Search and Unemployment Insurance: New Evidence from Time Use Data
This paper provides new evidence on job search intensity of the unemployed in the U.S., modeling job search intensity as time allocated to job search activities. The main findings are: 1) the average ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2010, 94 (3-4), 298-307)
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J64, J65
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3666
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Phanindra
V.
Wunnava
Daniel
B.
Leiter
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Determinants of Inter-Country Internet Diffusion Rates
This paper employs cross-sectional data from 100 countries to analyze the main determinants of inter-country Internet diffusion rates. We set up an empirical model based on strong theoretical ...
(published in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2009, 68 (2), 413-426)
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O33, D63, I20
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3664
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Daniel
L.
Millimet
Rusty
Tchernis
Muna
Husain
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School Nutrition Programs and the Incidence of Childhood Obesity
In light of the recent rise in childhood obesity, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and National School Lunch Program (NSLP) have received renewed attention. Using panel data on over 13,500 primary ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2010, 45 (3), 640-654)
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C31, H51, I18, I28
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3663
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Elke
J.
Jahn
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Reassessing the Wage Penalty for Temps in Germany
As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2010, 230 (2), 208-233)
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J30, J31, J42
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3661
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Claus
Schnabel
Joachim
Wagner
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The Aging of the Unions in West Germany, 1980–2006
Using data from the social survey ALLBUS for West Germany in the period 1980 to 2006, this paper demonstrates that union members are on average older than non-unionized employees. The probability of ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2008, 228 (5-6), 497-511)
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J51
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3660
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John
H.
Pencavel
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How Successful Have Trade Unions Been? A Utility-Based Indicator of Union Well-Being
Can conventional economic analysis help in defining and measuring the success of labor unions? In this paper, a general indicator of union welfare is proposed and particular expressions for the wage ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2009, 62 (2), 47-156.)
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J51
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