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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries over the Twentieth Century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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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...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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Making it Work: The Mixed Embeddedness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Zealand
Cain, Trudie; Spoonley, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In seeking economic immigrants, especially those who are skilled, entrepreneurial and with capital to invest, a settler country such as New Zealand has assumed that national and city labour markets/economies will gain by adding to the human capital pool as well as creating new 'economic'...
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Does Changing the Legal Drinking Age Influence Youth Behaviour?
Boes, Stefan; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the impact of a reduction in the legal drinking age in New Zealand from 20 to 18 on alcohol use, and alcohol-related hospitalisations and vehicular accidents among teenagers. We use both a difference-in-differences approach and a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to...
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Perception of Workplace Discrimination among Immigrants and Native Born New Zealanders
Daldy, Bridget; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite considerable research on differences in labour market outcomes between native born New Zealanders and immigrants, the extent of discrimination experienced by the foreign born in the workplace remains relatively unexplored. We use micro data from the Confidentialised Unit Record File of...
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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
has been measured in recent years by means of micro level data in Australia, North America and Europe. However, these …
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