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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Expanding Schooling Opportunities for 4-Year-Olds

Leuven, Edwin; Lindahl, Mikael; Oosterbeek, Hessel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This study presents quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of expanding early schooling enrollment possibilities on early achievement. It exploits two features of the school system in Holland. The first is rolling admissions; children are allowed start school immediately after their 4th...

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The Effects of Maternity Leave Extension on Training for Young Women

Puhani, Patrick A.; Sonderhof, Katja - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using three representative individual-level datasets for West Germany, we estimate the effect of the extension of maternity leave from 18 to 36 months on young women's participation in job-related training. Specifically, we employ difference-indifferences identification strategies using control...

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The Todaro Paradox Revisited

Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an …

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Optimal Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest-Worker, or Mode IV?

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

share of migrants’ income whose payment is deferred. The maximization also takes into account the impact of the policy on … solves for the policy measures, the overstaying probability, and the level of illegal migration. The paper concludes that the … optimal policy is a combination of Mode IV-type and permanent migration. …

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Determinants of Bilingualism among Children

Chiswick, Barry R.; Gindelsky, Marina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper analyzes the determinants of bilingualism (i.e., speaks a language other than English at home) among children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of children are considered: those born in the US (native born) and foreign-born children who...

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Female Self-Employment and Children: The Case of Sweden

Andersson Joona, Pernilla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …

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