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'Make-or-Buy' of Peripheral Services in Manufacturing: Evidence from Spanish Plant-Level Data

Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdon-Sanchez, Jose Enrique; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we empirically explore the 'make-or-buy' decisions of peripheral services in manufacturing plants using detailed information on a data set from a new plant-level survey from 926 plants distributed in all manufacturing industries in Spain. In particular, survey respondents are asked...

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A Multi-Method Approach to Identifying Norms and Normative Expectations within a Corporate Hierarchy: Evidence from the Financial Services Industry

Burks, Stephen V.; Krupka, Erin L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-the-job...

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Risk Management among the Poor: The Case of Microfinancial Services

Arun, Thankom; Bendig, Mirko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household’s use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally...

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The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada

Adsera, Alicia; Ferrer, Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …

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The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010

Duclos, Jean-Yves; Pellerin, Mathieu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent …

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Wage Returns to Mid-Career Investments in Job Training through Employer-Supported Course Enrollment: Evidence for Canada

Ci, Wen; Galdo, Jose C.; Voia, Marcel; Worswick, Christopher - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment …

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Labour Supply and Taxes: New Estimates of the Responses of Wives to Husbands' Wages

Dostie, Benoit; Kromann, Lene - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper, we estimate income- and substitution- labour supply and participation elasticities for Canadian married women using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1996-2005. We use the Canadian Tax and Credit Simulator (CTaCS) and detailed information on the structure of...

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The Recent Evolution of Retirement Patterns in Canada

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

retirement behaviour in Canada. We also investigate trends in work after retirement. Our findings are in line with findings from …

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Cut-Point Shift and Index Shift in Self-Reported Health

Lindeboom, Maarten; van Doorslaer, Eddy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

There is a concern that ordered responses on health questions may differ across populations or even across subgroups of a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This paper proposes a test for differential reporting in ordered...

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First and Second Generation Immigrant Educational Attainment and Labor Market Outcomes: A Comparison of the United States and Canada

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Sweetman, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

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