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Education and Optimal Dynamic Taxation
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
optimum. In one implementation there is a common labor income tax schedule, and a repayment schedule for government loans …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359855
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Hidden Action, Identification, and Organization Design
Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727777
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Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching
Caliendo, Marco; Kopeinig, Sabine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
researcher has decided to use PSM, he is confronted with a lot of questions regarding its implementation. To begin with, a first …. Each implementation step involves a lot of decisions and different approaches can be thought of. The aim of this paper is … to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703025
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Freiheit und Bedrängnis: Zuwanderung am Arbeitsmarkt
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Die Nettozuwanderung nach Deutschland ist im Jahre 2013 wieder auf einen Wert gestiegen, den es zuletzt vor über einem … diese Sorgen. Die Zuwanderung nach Deutschland schafft wirtschaftliche Chancen und keine Belastungen des Wohlfahrtsstaates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990911
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Does the Calculation Hold? The Fiscal Balance of Migration to Denmark and Germany
Hinte, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
accentuates the assets and deficits in migration and integration policies and their long-term potential. The less national … Denmark and Germany showcased in this paper – may still result in substantially different economic outcomes of migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884400
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Language and Labor Market Success
Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
migrants, destination language skills display both a prerequisite for and outcome of successful integration. Investments into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959721
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959840
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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when … economic assimilation of immigrants in Germany. We propose a weighting scheme that weights components of social inclusion by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233747
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FSU Immigrants in Canada: A Case of Positive Triple Selection?
DeVoretz, Don J.; Battisti, Michele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper investigates the economic performance of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) countries in Canada. The contribution of this paper lies in its use of a natural experiment to detect possible differential labour market performances of Soviet immigrants prior to and after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015504
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The Evaluation of Immigration Policies
Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652097