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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...

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Migration and Networks: Does Education Matter more than Gender?

Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - CESifo - 2010

at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …

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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment – Insights from Past Experience

Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - CESifo - 2007

The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...

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A Simple Four Quadrants Model to Monitor the Performance of Local Governments

Ballanti, Danilo; Dispotico, Roberto; Porcelli, Francesco; … - CESifo - 2014

evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …

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Why do Foreign Banks Withdraw from other Countries? A Panel Data Analysis

Hryckiewicz, Aneta; Kowalewski, Oskar - CESifo - 2010

problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …

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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?

Babalos, Vassilis; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2013

This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …

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Real Options and Human Capital Investment

Jacobs, Bas - CESifo - 2007

This paper extends the standard human capital model with real options. Real options influence investment behavior when risky investments in human capital are irreversible and individuals can affect the timing of the investment. Option values make individuals more reluctant to invest in human...

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Human Capital Formation, Income Inequality and Growth

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - CESifo - 2001

The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy with heterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features: (1) heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital; (2) intergenerational...

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Private Investment in Higher Education: Comparing Alternative Funding Schemes

Eckwert, Bernhard; Zilcha, Itzhak - CESifo - 2008

This paper uses an overlapping generations framework to analyze the implications of different financing regimes in the education sector for human capital formation and economic welfare. Agents privately invest in education after they have received a noisy information signal about their...

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Optimal Redistributive Tax and Education Policies in General Equilibrium

Jacobs, Bas - CESifo - 2007

Should a redistributive government optimally subsidize education to provoke a reduction in the skill premium through general equilibrium effects on wages? To answer this question, this paper studies optimal linear and non-linear redistributive income taxes and education subsidies in two-type...

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