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Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands
Zwiers, Merle; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
There is increasing evidence that our societies are polarizing. Most studies focus on labour market and educational outcomes and show a socioeconomic polarization of the bottom and top ends of the population distribution. Processes of social polarization have a spatial dimension which should be...
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Risk, Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment
Koudstaal, Martin; Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam C. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Theory predicts that entrepreneurs have distinct attitudes towards risk and uncertainty, but empirical evidence is … mixed. To better understand the unique behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs and the causes of these mixed results, we … perform a large 'lab-in-the-field' experiment comparing entrepreneurs to managers – a suitable comparison group – and …
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Is There a Southern-Sclerosis? Worker Reallocation and Regional Unemployment in Italy
Mussida, Chiara; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Theoretical reasoning justifies different signs of the relationship between the local variation in unemployment rates and the extent of workers reallocation. This paper aims to test different theoretical hypotheses in the case of Italy by using the longitudinal files of the Italian labour force...
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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data
Pastore, Francesco; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is the sign of such relationship. In addition, the paper aims to assess the relative impact of inflow and outflow from unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599742
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Is There Convergence of Russia's Regions? Exploring the Empirical Evidence: 1995–2010
Lehmann, Hartmut; Silvagni, Maria Giulia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over...
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A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China
Giles, John T.; Murtazashvili, Irina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. Such a model is of particular value for settings in which one wants to estimate the effects of an endogenous treatment on a binary outcome. In...
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Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...
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Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China
Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
with success as entrepreneurs or in non-agricultural activities. The findings of this paper suggest a measurable return to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570786
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In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine
Koettl, Johannes; Kupets, Olga; Olefir, Anna; Santos, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions. The rate at which Ukrainians move from one region to another within the country is only half of what would be expected in comparison with other countries. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011078388
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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...
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