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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - CESifo - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Climate Change, Rice Crops and Violence. Evidence from Indonesia

Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - CESifo - 2014

between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops is suggested by natural science literature. We use Indonesia as a case …

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Wages and Recruitment: Evidence from External Wage Changes

Falch, Torberg - CESifo - 2013

This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s, the wage setting for certified teachers in Norway was completely centralized, with a wage premium of about 10 percent at schools with severe recruitment problems in the past...

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General Education, Vocational Education, and Labor-Market Outcomes over the Life-Cycle

Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zhang, Lei - CESifo - 2011

Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...

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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

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Wages and International Tax Competition

Krautheim, Sebastian; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - CESifo - 2012

Rent-sharing between firm owners and workers is a robust empirical finding. If workers bargain with firms, information on the actual surplus is essential. When the firm can use profit shifting to create private information on the surplus, it can thereby reduce its wage bill. We study how rent...

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Real and Monetary Challenges to Wage Policy in Germany at the Turn of the Millennium: Technical Progress, Globalization and European Monetary Union

Franz, Wolfgang - CESifo - 1999

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

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Real Convergence, Capital Flows, and Competitiveness in Central and Eastern Europe

Belke, Ansgar; Schnabl, Gunther; Zemanek, Holger - CESifo - 2009

The paper scrutinizes the role of wages and capital flows for competitiveness in the new EU member states in the …

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a “Solovian zone“ where wages increase with … their bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than … always reduces employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase …

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