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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature
Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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Suitability of Microfinance as an Investment Option
Janda, Karel; Svarovska, Barbora - Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education and … - 2012
This paper investigates investment performance of the most commercially developed microfinance investment funds and it … between microfinance funds' returns and the performance of stock and fixed income markets in developed and emerging economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842910
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Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We exploit two shocks to Italian bank CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007-2009 financial crisis and the 2010-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over...
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On the Determinants of Pay of CEOs in UK Public Sector Higher Education Institutions
Bachan, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
fixed effects. There is only limited evidence that they are rewarded for the 'performance' of the institutions they manage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703830
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Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from a Government Agency
Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
targets, measured with varying degrees of precision. We use data from the agency's performance management system and personnel …This paper addresses a lack of evidence on the impact of performance pay in the public sector by evaluating a pilot … records plus matched labour market data. We focus on three main issues: whether performance pay matters for public service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559801
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and out of Management Positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self-reported subjective well-being was associated with occupying a high-level managerial position in the labour market, compared with employment in non-leadership, non-high-level...
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