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Economics of the Family: Applications to Divorce and Remarriage

Ermisch, John F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

and the timing of childbearing: this is consistent with previous research. This study is, however, the first in Britain to …

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Child Care and Mothers' Lifetime Earnings: Some European Contrasts

Davies, Hugh; Joshi, Heather - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

Patterns of female employment participation are compared in a variety of European countries with differing levels of child care provision. The earnings forgone over a lifetime by a woman bearing children (compared with the earnings of her childless counterpart) are simulated for four countries,...

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How Does Investing in Cheap Labour Countries Affect Performance at Home? France and Italy

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide; Disdier, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Transferring low tech manufacturing jobs to cheap labour countries is often seen by part of the general public and policy makers as a step into the de-industrialisation of the European economies. However, several recent contributions have shown that the effects on home economies are rarely...

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Investments Abroad and Performance at Home: Evidence from Italian Multinationals

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Castellani, Davide - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Foreign activities of MNEs have important effects on home economies. The debate is ambiguous: concerns that foreign investments deplete domestic economies are often coupled with the pride for doing good business in foreign countries. This Paper addresses this question by defining the appropriate...

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Do German Welfare-to-Work Programmes Reduce Welfare and Increase Work?

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Walter, Thomas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...

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Growth and Risk at the Industry Level: the Real Effects of Financial Liberalization

Levchenko, Andrei A.; Rancière, Romain; Thoenig, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper analyzes the effects of financial liberalization on growth and volatility at the industry level in a large sample of countries. We estimate the impact of liberalization on production, employment, firm entry, capital accumulation, and productivity, using both de facto and de jure...

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Grant Support and Exporting Activity

Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...

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Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Porto, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (i.e., whether it redistributes income from rich to poor households). We also explore the extent to which the barriers faced by SSA...

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Poor Countries or Poor People? Development Assistance and the New Geography of Global Poverty

Kanbur, Ravi; Sumner, Andy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non … special weight be given to the poor in poor countries? How, if at all, should international agencies with a focus on poverty … greater debate on the new geography of global poverty. …

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Community-based Development and Poverty Alleviation: An Evaluation of China’s Poor Village Investment Program

Park, Albert; Wang, Sangui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

poverty alleviation program began in 2001 which finances public investments in designated poor villages based on participatory …

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