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Can Patience Account for Subnational Differences in Student Achievement? Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...
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The impact of acquiring unrestricted work authorization on Romanian and Bulgarian migrants in the United Kingdom
Ruhs, Martin; Wadsworth, Jonathan - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 71 (2018) 4, pp. 823-852
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Subjective well-being among the self-employed in Europe : macroeconomy, gender and immigrant status
Sevä, Ingemar Johansson; Vinberg, Stig; Nordenmark, Mikael - In: Small business economics : an entrepreneurship journal 46 (2016) 2, pp. 239-253
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Die Anreizwirkungen der Reform von Arbeitslosen- und Sozialhilfe im Spiegel internationaler Erfahrungen
Thode, Eric - In: Sozialer Fortschritt : unabhängige Zeitschrift für … 52 (2003) 11/12, pp. 284-291
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Labor Markets and Social Security : Issues and Policy Options in the U.S. and Europe
Addison, John T. - 2004 - Second Edition
These continue to be difficult times for the labor markets of the industrialized nations. Shifts in labor demand, deregulatory impulses, and the ongoing process of globalization have each impacted the labor markets of the United States and Europe. In the face of the globalization of economic...
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Seeking Equality : The Political Economy of the Common Good in the United States and Canada
Harles, John - 2017
Seeking Equality compares economic inequality in the United States and Canada. The North American neighbors have much in common-socially, politically, and economically-yet Canadians enjoy significantly higher levels of equality and material well-being. Harles explores the values and policy...
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Youth unemployment in old Europe : the polar cases of France and Germany
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a “lost generation” may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many...
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Heterogeneity in School Value-Added and the Private Premium
Andrabi, Tahir; Bau, Natalie; Das, Jishnu; Khwaja, Asim Ijaz - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Using rich panel data from Pakistan, we compute test score based measures of quality (School Value-Addeds or SVAs) for more than 800 schools across 112 villages and verify that they are valid and unbiased. With the SVA measures, we then document three striking features of the schooling...
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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-26
also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct a version of the … enclave-based instrument to proxy for the flow of immigrants, that is exogenous to local demand shocks. We find that native … Europeans are more likely to upgrade to more skilled and better paid occupations, when a larger number of immigrants enter their …
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Chapter 2. The Economics of International Differences in Educational Achievement
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 3, (pp. 89-200). 2011
An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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