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Trust in Public Institutions over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions – and particularly trust in banks, business and government – has declined … over recent years. U.S. time series evidence suggests that this partly reflects the pro-cyclical nature of trust in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868129
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The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression...
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Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impacts of Immigration
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the ‘absorption capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761887
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The Impact of Immigration on International Trade: A Meta-Analysis
Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...
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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia
Fleisher, Belton M.; Sabirianova, Klara; Wang, Xiaojun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We explore the pace of increase in returns to schooling during the transition from planning to market over time across a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition economies covering a period from 1975 through 2002. Our...
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Fixed and Mixed Effects Models in Meta-Analysis
Konstantopoulos, Spyros - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The last three decades the accumulation of quantitative research evidence has led to the development of systematic methods for combining information across samples of related studies. Although a few methods have been described for accumulating research evidence over time, meta-analysis is widely...
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A Meta-Analysis of the International Gender Wage Gap
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. Consequently, estimates for the gender wage gap have been published for the most diverse countries at different points in time. This metastudy provides a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822653
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How Consistent Are Class Size Effects?
Konstantopoulos, Spyros - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Evidence from Project STAR has suggested that on average small classes increase student achievement. However, thus far researchers have focused on computing mean differences in student achievement between smaller and larger classes. In this study I focus on the distribution of the small class...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469705
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The Effect of Migration on Income Growth and Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527330
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The Combined Employment Effects of Minimum Wages and Labor Market Regulation: A Meta-Analysis
Boockmann, Bernhard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum wages are heterogeneous between countries. As possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the...
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