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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
Murtin, Fabrice; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by … the first national estimates of average schooling in 1940. We show that mass migrations have had a significant but modest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703138
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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights
Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
shocks, for population growth, and for marriage strategies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739418
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Cohort Size and Youth Employment Outcomes
Newhouse, David; Wolff, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper utilizes a cross-country panel of 83 developing countries to examine how changes in cohort size are correlated with subsequent employment outcomes for workers at different ages. The results depend on countries' level of development. In low-income countries, young adults that are born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884291
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The Labor/Land Ratio and India's Caste System
Duleep, Harriet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
-century statistics on regional population/land ratios linked to anthropological measures of caste-system rigidity. Both the longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552951
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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among "comparable households. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822418
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The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties
Hammond, George W.; Tosun, Mehmet S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We analyze the impact of fiscal decentralization on U.S. county population, employment, and real income growth. Our … population and employment growth, but no significant impact on nonmetropolitan counties. In contrast, the fragmentation of … general-purpose governments per capita has a negative impact on employment and population growth in nonmetropolitan counties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497588
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"Ain't No Rest for the Wicked": Population, Crime, and the 2013 Government Shutdown
Gil, Ricard; Macis, Mario - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
in daytime population in Washington, DC caused by the government shutdown of October 1-16, 2013. We derive implications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195816
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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Die Erwerbsgesellschaft der Zukunft bietet neben neuen Risiken und neuer Unübersichtlichkeit vor allem vielfältige neue Chancen. Um sie bestmöglich zu nutzen, brauchen Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik ein neues Denken und Handeln, das die Familienfreundlichkeit der Arbeitswelt viel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884061
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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Wildasin, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884096
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884147