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Must Skilled Migration Be a Brain Drain? Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

Commander, Simon; Chanda, Rupa; Kangasniemi, Mari; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software … software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more … adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is …

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Why Develop Open Source Software? The Role of Non-Pecuniary Benefits, Monetary Rewards and Open Source Licence Type

Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance …

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Robust Standard Errors in Transformed Likelihood Estimation of Dynamic Panel Data Models

Hayakawa, Kazuhiko; Pesaran, M. Hashem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper extends the transformed maximum likelihood approach for estimation of dynamic panel data models by Hsiao, Pesaran, and Tahmiscioglu (2002) to the case where the errors are crosssectionally heteroskedastic. This extension is not trivial due to the incidental parameters problem that...

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How Diverse Can Spatial Measures of Cultural Diversity Be? Results from Monte Carlo Simulations of an Agent-Based Model

Arribas-Bel, Daniel; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Cultural diversity is a complex and multi-faceted concept. Commonly used quantitative measures of the spatial distribution of culturally-defined groups – such as segregation, isolation or concentration indexes – are often only capable of identifying just one aspect of this distribution. The...

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Bandwidth Selection and the Estimation of Treatment Effects with Unbalanced Data

Galdo, Jose; Smith, Jeffrey Andrew; Black, Dan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper addresses the selection of smoothing parameters for estimating the average treatment effect on the treated using matching methods. Because precise estimation of the expected counterfactual is particularly important in regions containing the mass of the treated units, we define and...

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Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects on Hazard Rates

Gaure, Simen; Røed, Knut; den Berg, Gerard J. van; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Consider a setting where a treatment that starts at some point during a spell (e.g. in unemployment) may impact on the hazard rate of the spell duration, and where the impact may be heterogeneous across subjects. We provide Monte Carlo evidence on the feasibility of estimating the distribution...

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