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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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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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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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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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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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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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Human Capital and National Institutional Quality: Are TIMSS, PISA, and National Average IQ Robust Predictors?

Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2014

performance as well as performance at the 5th and 95th percentiles of the national population. National average IQ and the 95th …

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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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The Business Environment in the Transition

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - CESifo - 2012

Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...

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Why are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - CESifo - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000–2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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