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Teacher Job Satisfaction, Student Achievement, and the Cost of Primary Education in Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Michaelowa, Katharina - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

in Africa. Using standardized data for student achievement in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Madagascar and …

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Sequential Migration, and the German Reunification

Birk, Angela - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

The paper develops a sequential migration model and derives a worker's optimal policies for migration and employment. With the worker's simulated reservation wage functions for employment and migration, a stationary equilibrium is defined. In that equilibrium, stationary distributions of...

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Subsidizing Education in the Economic Periphery: Another Pitfall of Regional Policies?

Sudekum, Jens - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2002

One of the most prominent instruments of regional policy is to foster education and human capital formation in economically lagging regions. However, regional policy of this type can actually hurt instead of help the poor areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with...

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Wages and Employment Growth: Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany

Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...

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Social Security, Unemployment, and Growth

Brauninger, Michael - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

The paper develops an overlapping generations model that highlights interactions between social security, unemployment and growth. The social security system has two components: old age pensions and unemployment insurance. Pensions have a different effect on economic growth. Both pensions and...

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International Mobility of the Highly Skilled: Brain Gain, Brain Drain or Brain Exchange

Straubhaar, Thomas - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2000

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Gender Discrimination and the International Division of Labour

Busse, Matthias; Spielmann, Christian - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

The paper empirically explores the international economic effects of gender discrimination, namely the linkages of gender inequality with comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses different forms and the extent of gender discrimination across countries and...

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Labour Market Outcomes of Education: Evidence for Selected Non-OECD Countries

Michaelowa, Katharina; Waller, Marie - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

Based on recent data collected by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics and the OECD in the context of their joint "World Education Indicators" project, labour market outcomes of education can be reassessed for selected non-OECD countries (Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Malaysia, Peru, Thailand and...

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EU-Enlargement, Migration and Trafficking in Women: The Case of South Eastern Europe

El-Cherkeh, Tanja; Stirbu, Elena; Lazaroiu, Sebastian; … - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

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Complementarity of Labor Market Institutions, Equilibrium Unemployment and the Propagation of Business Cycles

Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

This paper evaluates complementarities of labor market institutions and the business cycle in the context of a …, Nash-bargained wages, payroll taxation, and differential support for unemployed labor in search and leisure are central … production. Furthermore, labor market institutions act in a complementary fashion in generating these effects. …

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