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Mnatsakanyan, Hakob; Kanas, Angelos; Rafayelov, Zohrak - EconWPA - 2004

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Are Immigrants Positively or Negatively Selected? The Role of Immigrant Selection Criteria and Self-Selection

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

This paper specifies and estimates a structural model of international migration using micro data. This provides a direct test of human capital theory that suggests that individuals respond to the earnings differentials across countries while making their migration decisions. The paper specifies...

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International Mobility of Highly-Qualified People in APEC

Gera, Surendra; Songsakul, Thitima - EconWPA - 2005

An important aspect of the global knowledge-based economy is the emergence of a new trend where certain groups of highly-qualified workers have become increasingly mobile internationally. Reaching the goal of being more innovative economy requires that the highly-qualified workforce is of...

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Emergence d’une profession comptable libérale : le cas du Maroc

OMARI, Sami El; SABOLY, Michèle - EconWPA - 2005

The purpose of this article is to study the birth and the evolution of accountancy profession and bodies in Morocco. The results show that accountants attempt to monopolize the market for accounting and audit services. National and historical specificities are highlighted.

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The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective

Clemens, Michael A. - EconWPA - 2004

Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children's school enrollment to a greater degree than education...

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The History of Tipping - From Sixteenth-Century England to United States in the 1910s

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

have no feelings and do not care about social norms. This article reviews the early history of tipping and offers an …

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Why Are There Explicit Contracts of Employment?

James, Harvey; Johnson, Derek - EconWPA - 2002

In this paper we explain the prevalence of explicit contracts of employment, particularly those that embody high … agency characterized in and supported by the common law. The implication is that implicit employment contracts supported by … the common law are incapable of effectively governing employment relationship characterized by these two problems. Thus …

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Is corporatism feasible?

Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis-à-vis different kinds of non-co-operative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue...

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What ever happened to Germany? Is the decline of the former European key currency country caused by structural sclerosis or by macroeconomic mismanagement?

Hein, Eckhard; Truger, Achim - EconWPA - 2005

employment and growth cannot unambiguously be derived from modern labour market theory and are at least partially at odds with …

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Do study grants help refugees find jobs? A case study of the effects of the voluntary sector grants on the education, training and employment of refugees in the United Kingdom

Ilmolelian, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

not the employment outcomes of those refugees who received financial grants to enable them attend their education … positive relationship between the level of study and the probability of later employment. Although the differences in subject … employment than education/ social science and health studies. …

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