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Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Attempts to gauge the depth of outreach of microfinance organizations usually start--and often end--with the measurement of loan size. But just what is loan size? Loan size has at least seven aspects, each of which matters not only for depth of outreach but also for profitability. The aspects...

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Job stability trends and labor market (re-)entry in West Germany 1984 - 1997

Mertens, Antje - 1999

termination. -- job stability ; labor mobility ; duration analysis …

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Training systems and labor mobility : a comparison between Germany and Sweden

Korpi, Tomas; Mertens, Antje - 2002

The impact of general and specific training on income and mobility is an important issue for the discussion around … training (Germany) on inter-firm, inter-occupational, and inter-industrial mobility. The results show that workers with a … school-based vocational degree move more frequently between occupations, while no difference in firm and industrial mobility …

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Job stability trends, layoffs and quits : an empirical analysis for West Germany

Bergemann, Annette; Mertens, Antje - 2000

mobility ; duration analysis ; Job stability ; layoffs …

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Testing the purchasing power parity in pooled systems of error correction models

Herwartz, Helmut; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2000

In this paper we test the purchasing power parity for the post Bretton Woods period for 18 main industrial countries. As base currencies we use alternatively the Deutsche mark, the Japanese yen, and the US dollar. We employ error correction models for single countries and on the level of pooled...

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Education and Job Market Signalling: A Comment.

Giannini, Massimo - EconWPA - 1997

In this paper the Signalling approach to the explanation of wage differentials is analyzed both under a microeconomic and a macroeconomic viewpoint. Departuring from the classical Spence's model, the introduction of inequalities in accessing to education leads to redistributive effects among...

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Returns to the Market: Valuing Human Capital in the Post- Transition Czech and Slovak Republics

Jurajda, Stepan; Filer, Randall K.; Planovsky, Jan - EconWPA - 2001

An employer-based sample of over 660,000 Czech and 260,000 Slovak workers is used to estimate the benefits of education in 1995 to 1997. By 1997 education of all types had become substantially more highly rewarded in both countries than it was either under communism or in the early years of the...

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Dispersión y Estabilidad de las Diferencias Salariales interestatales en México, 1984-2000

Cortez, Willy W. - EconWPA - 2005

Economic liberalization has induced a new dynamics on wage setting and employment on Mexican labor market. These changes have been caused by two related events: productive restructuring and increasing labor market flexibility. To the extent that productive restructuring has implied significant...

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INEQUALITY AND DETERMINANTS OF EARNINGS IN MALAYSIA, 1984-97

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

Using the large nationally-representative Malaysian Household Income Surveys from 1984, 1989 and 1997, the paper studies earnings inequality and determinants of earnings. During the period 1984-97, Malaysia’s real per capita GDP increased by about 70 percent, participation rates for both men...

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Health and Amenity Effects of Global Warming

Moore, Thomas Gale - EconWPA - 1996

A somewhat warmer climate would probably reduce mortality in the United States and provide Americans with valuable benefits. Regressions of death rates in Washington, DC, and in some 89 urban counties scattered across the nation on climate and demographic variables demonstrate that warmer...

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