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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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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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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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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone: Will There Be Any Gain After the Pain of Internal Devaluation?

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2014

In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970-2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...

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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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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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Gift Exchange in the Workplace: Money or Attention?

Dur, Robert - CESifo - 2008

altruistic managers may offer lower wages and nevertheless build up better social-exchange relationships with their employees …

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