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Resources and Standards in Urban Schools

Machin, Stephen; McNally, Sandra; Meghir, Costas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

resources matter for pupil outcomes. In this paper we look at this question by considering an English education policy …. We report results showing a positive impact of the extra resources on school attendance and performance in Mathematics … resources can matter for children in the poorest secondary schools, particularly when building on a solid educational or ability …

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The Impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican Migrants' Remittances

Vaira-Lucero, Matias; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

mechanism to insure themselves against higher degrees of uncertainty within their host countries. Furthermore, this finding …

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Wage Risk and Employment Risk over the Life Cycle

Low, Hamish; Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We specify a structural life-cycle model of consumption, labour supply and job mobility in an economy with search frictions that allows us to distinguish between different sources of risk and to estimate their effects. The sources of risk are shocks to productivity, job destruction, the process...

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Socioeconomic Assimilation and Wealth Accumulation of Migrants in Australia

Vaira-Lucero, Matias; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

depending on migrants origins and the type of assets. Understanding migrants' wealth and their perceived degree of assimilation …

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Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Note on Employment Protection, Domestic Anchorage, and FDI

Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Montagna, Catia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a simple theoretical framework, we estimate an empirical model, using OECD-data on bilateral FDI-flows and employment protection indices. We find that, while an "unfavourable"...

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