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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by … childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the …
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Cooperative Household Models
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We set out a general framework for cooperative household models, based on Samuelson’s idea of a household welfare function, but extending it to incorporate the key insight from Nash bargaining models - the idea that the household’s preference ordering over the utility profiles of its members...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566789
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Investment under Company-Level Pacts
Bellmann, Lutz; Gerner, Hans-Dieter; Hübler, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To improve their competitiveness the companies aim to increase the funds available to finance the necessary investments …
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When, Where and How to Perform Efficiency Estimation
Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the … examples. We find that the reliability of efficiency scores critically hinges upon the ratio of the variation in efficiency to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323097
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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
as pivotal input in order to control for their particular contribution to firm-level efficiency. Conceptually, the study … of low-tech industries. However, with regard to firms' technical efficiency, R&D matters for all industries (unlike …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497587
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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884338
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How Falsifiable is the Collective Model? A New Test with an Application to Monogamous and Bigamous Households in Burkina Faso
Dauphin, Anyck; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
that the standard approach to test the collective model with distribution factors may yield misleading inference. We … generalize the model and provide an appropriate test procedure to assess its validity. Our new approach extends to households …. We conclude that the household efficiency does yield empirically falsifiable restrictions despite being scarcely rejected …
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Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based ALMP Programs?
Gerdes, Christer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265645
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Does Secondary School Tracking Affect Performance? Evidence from IALS
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There is substantial cross-country variation in secondary school design, with some countries tracking students into different ability schools very early, and other countries with little or no tracking at all. Does tracking length affects school performance, as measured by standardized test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233754
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On-The-Job Search and Sorting
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry …
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