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The Impact of Emigration on Real Wages in Ireland 1850-1914
Boyer, George; Hatton, Timothy J.; O'Rourke, Kevin … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
In this paper we evaluate quantitatively the impact of mass emigration from Ireland between the 1850s and the first … find that, in the absence of emigration, faster labour force growth would have resulted in lower real wage growth, reducing …
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When is "Too Much" Inequality Not Enough? The Selection of Israeli Emigrants
Gould, Eric D; Moav, Omer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
. Also, we find that virtually the entire positive relationship between education and the rate of emigration would be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666919
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A Model of UK Emigration, 1870-1913
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
This paper develops a simple time-series model of emigration and applies it to data for emigration from the UK between … rates in the sending and the receiving countries influenced fluctuations in emigration. The short-run fluctuations were … driven largely by variations in employment rates while the long-run level of emigration was determined largely by the …
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Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labour Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives
Angrist, Joshua; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labour market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives from immigrant competition in the near term, but...
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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The Impact of 'Rollover' Contracts on Switching Costs in the UK Voice Market: Evidence from Disaggregate Customer Billing Data
Crawford, Gregory S; Tosini, Nicola; Waehrer, Keith - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In February 2008, British Telecommunications (BT) introduced automatically renewing, or ‘rollover’, contracts into the UK market for fixed-voice telephone service. These contracts included a 12-month Minimum Contract Period (MCP) with associated Early Termination Charges (ETCs). Unless...
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Optimally Combining Censored and Uncensored Datasets
Devereux, Paul J.; Tripathi, Gautam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
We develop a simple semiparametric framework for combining censored and uncensored samples so that the resulting estimators are consistent, asymptotically normal, and use all information optimally. No nonparametric smoothing is required to implement our estimators. To illustrate our results in...
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How to Exit from Fixed Exchange Rate Regimes
Asici, Ahmet Atil; Ivanova, Nadezhda; Wyplosz, Charles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper improves upon the recently developed literature on exits from fixed exchange rate regimes in three ways: 1) It allows for two indicators for post-exit macroeconomic conditions, the change in the exchange rate and the change in the output gap; 2) it tests whether the distinction...
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Job Characteristics and Labor Turnover: Assessing the Role of Preferences and Opportunities in Teacher Mobility
Bonhomme, Stéphane; Jolivet, Grégory; Leuven, Edwin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Abstract Job characteristics can affect worker turnover through their effect on utility and through their effect on outside job opportunities. We separately identify and estimate the roles of these two channels. Our method exploits information on job changes and relies on an augmented sample...
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What Matters Most: Teaching or Research? Empirical Evidence on the Remuneration of British Academics
Euwals, Rob; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper examines the impact of productivity on pay within academia, drawing upon a detailed dataset of academics from five old, established universities. We investigate the relationship between teaching and research skill, but find no evidence in support of the hypothesis that productive...
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