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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment determined as equilibrium phenomena? What...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822179
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Climbing the Drug Staircase: A Bayesian Analysis of the Initiation of Hard Drug Use
Bretteville-Jensen, Anne Line; Jacobi, Liana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
been influential in formulating a strict drug policy in many western countries. Individual differences in proneness and … different policy implications. We propose a Bayesian estimation and predictive framework to analyze the effects and relative … importance of previous cannabis use, proneness and accessibility factors on hard drug initiation and to explore potential policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822523
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Skill Policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J.; Masterov, Dimitriy V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and … malleable at later ages. This has important implications for the design of policy. The gaps in skills and abilities open up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822555
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Does the Early Bird Catch the Worm? Instrumental Variable Estimates of Educational Effects of Age of School Entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822742
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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
activities, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294836
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How Do Tougher Immigration Measures Impact Unauthorized Immigrants?
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Puttitanun, Thitima; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The recent impetus of tougher immigration-related measures passed at the state-level raises concerns about the impact of such measures on the migration experience, trajectory and future plans of unauthorized immigrants. In a recent and unique survey of Mexican unauthorized immigrants interviewed...
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Recovery Performance of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies in India: An Assessment
Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having direct contact with the rural people and meet their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100176
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Effects of Changes in Pensions on the Age of First Benefit Receipt: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Repatriated Ethnic Germans
Puhani, Patrick A.; Tabbert, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
To estimate the effects of large cuts in pensions on the age of first benefit receipt, we exploit two natural experiments in which such cuts affect a group of repatriated ethnic German workers. The pensions were cut by about 12%, yet, according to our regression discontinuity estimates based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143941
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Neighborhood Decline and the Economic Crisis
Zwiers, Merle; Bolt, Gideon; van Ham, Maarten; van … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variation in economic and political structures (including variety in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development and population composition, makes it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011106161
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Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK
Clark, Ken; Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
and labour market outcomes are also analysed, including how these relate to changes in the economy and migration policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959839