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Joining the EU: Capital Flows, Migration and Wages
Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
What is the impact of joining the European Union on a small, less developed economy? This is the general question driving this research paper. In particular, the role of factor movements in explaining real wage behavior in Portugal after its entry in the European Union (EU) is evaluated. Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047988
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Why Doesn't Labor Flow from Poor to Rich Countries? Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience
Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Joining the EU is a natural experiment that drastically opens the borders of richer European countries to immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051168
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Rates of Return to Education by Gender in Pakistan
Aslam, Monazza - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
Differential labour market returns to male and female education are one potential explanation for large gender gaps in education in Pakistan. We empirically test this explanation by estimating private returns to education separately for male and female wage earners. This paper contributes to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605236
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Intrahousehold Allocation of Education Expenditure and Returns to Education: The Case of Sri Lanka
Himaz, Rozana - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
This paper uses demand analysis to explore whether intrahousehold allocation of education expenditure differs between boys and girls in rural Sri Lanka.  Contrary to most countries in South Asia a significant bias favouring girls is found in 1990/91 for the 5-9 and 17-19 age groups and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047961
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A Pluralist Account of Labour Participation in India
Olsen, Wendy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2006
Labour force participation in India is found to respond to a plurality of causal mechanisms. Employment and unpaid … curve of female employment by education levels. Many women at the bottom of the U are doing extra-domestic work, so a …-domestic work (and are more likely to be `inactive`) than women in other cultural groups. Economic poverty causes employment to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604859
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Business Cycle Measurement in the Presence of Structural Change: International Evidence
Krolzig, Hans-Martin - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000
the US and Japan based on an output-employment MS vector equilibrium correction model, and a structural break in the …
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Il lavoro e la sovranità sociale, 1996 - 1997
Rossi, Nicola (contributor) - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000903085
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Bericht des Europäischen Beschäftigungsobservatoriums
Europäische Kommission / Europäisches … - Luxembourg : Amt für Amtliche Veröffentlichungen der …; … - 2001 - 2003; 2004(2005) - 2009,Frü.; 2009 - 2011
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Tassazione, performance dell'economia ed Europa
Paganetto, Luigi (contributor) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001623825
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Bericht des Europäischen Beschäftigungsobservatoriums
Europäische Kommission / Europäisches … - Birmingham : ECOTEC Research and Consulting Ltd.; … - 2001 -
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002177023