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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
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Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261628
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Potential, prizes and performance : testing tournament theory with professional tennis data
Sunde, Uwe - 2003
This paper tests two hypotheses from the theory of elimination tournaments: (i) that uneven tournaments, where the … contestants are ex ante heterogeneous, entail lower effort exertion; this is a prediction from agency theory that has not been … underlies any agency theory about elimination tournaments, and has been empirically tested in other contexts. The evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261647
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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...
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When Migrants Overstay Their Legal Welcome : A Proposed Solution to the Guest-Worker Program
Schiff, Maurice - 2004
A number of developed countries have implemented guest-worker programs in recent decades. Its basic feature is the temporary presence of the foreign guest-workers. The problem with such programs is that there is little to prevent these guest-workers from entering the illegal job market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262144
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The Economics of Assisted Reproduction
Kossoudji, Sherrie A. - 2005
Typically, when two people decide to become parents, they procreate by copulation and produce a child. What do people do if, for some reason, they can?t produce their own children but want to be parents? Today, a prospective parent can go to the web, drop a vial of sperm from a donor with...
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The Determination of Wages and the Gender Wage Gap: A Survey
Kunze, Astrid - 2000
In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in the specified human capital wage regression models. This aspect has been of great importance in the literature chiefly for two...
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Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs
Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001
Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification – this is also the approach used by numerous studies analyzing the relative capital-skill...
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In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...
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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?
Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2003
Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of … productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265405