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Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from Spain

de la Rica, Sara; Dolado, Juan J.; Vegas, Raquel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP is determined in a more competitive fashion than...

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Self-Selection of Migrant Workers: Migration Premium and (no) Returns to Skills

Yashiv, Eran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Why do low-skilled workers choose to work in a foreign economy and what determines their wages? The Paper empirically implements the Roy self-selection model to study this question. It does so using a unique dataset on Palestinian workers working locally and in the Israeli economy. The data...

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Women's Wages in Full- and Part-Time Jobs in Great Britain

Ermisch, John F; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

An analysis of hourly pay that allows for the choice of whether to work full-time, part-time or not at all (using the 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and...

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Capital Controls and Macroprudential Measures: What Are They Good For?

Forbes, Kristin; Fratzscher, Marcel; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

effectiveness is complicated by selection bias and endogeneity; countries which change their capital-flow management measures (CFMs …

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An Econometric Analysis of the Mental-Health Effects of Major Events in the Life of Elderly Individuals

Lindeboom, Maarten; Portrait, France; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Major events in the life of an elderly individual, such as retirement, a significant decrease in income, death of the spouse, disability, and a move to a nursing home, may affect the mental health status of the individual. For example, the individual may enter a prolonged depression. We...

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Language and the Earnings of Immigrants

Dustmann, Christian; van Soest, Arthur - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

A number of studies have established a positive effect of migrants' language proficiency on their productivity. It has been argued that these estimates are upward-biased because of the presence of unobserved heterogeneity. To obtain an accurate estimate of language effects is important since it...

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Assessing agglomeration economies in a spatial framework with endogenous regressors

Artis, Michael J; Miguélez, Ernest; Moreno, Rosina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

assess the relative importance of agglomeration and other assets, controlling both for endogeneity and for spatial …

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Monetary Union, Trade Integration, and Business Cycles in 19th Century Europe: Just Do It

Flandreau, Marc; Maurel, Mathilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper seeks to trace the impact of monetary arrangements on trade integration and business cycle correlation, focusing on Europe in the late 19th century period as a guide for modern debates. For this purpose, we first estimate a gravity model and show that monetary arrangements were...

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Gun Prevalence, Homicide Rates and Causality: A GMM Approach to Endogeneity Bias

Kleck, Gary; Kovandzic, Tomislav; Schaffer, Mark E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

unlike nearly all previous such studies, we properly account for the endogeneity of gun ownership levels. We discuss the … three main sources of endogeneity bias - reverse causality (higher crime rates lead people to acquire guns for self … endogeneity problems. When the problem is ignored, gun levels are associated with higher rates of gun homicide; when the problem …

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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation

Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

An important component of the long-run cost of a war is the loss of human capital, suffered by children of schooling age who receive less education because of the war. This paper shows that in the European countries involved in World War II, children who were ten years old during the conflict...

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