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When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal

Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

rate. The supply of high-skilled workers more than doubled during this period, contributing significantly to the slowdown …

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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa; Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We …

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Immigration and Labor Productivity: New Empirical Evidence for Spain

Nicodemo, Catia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The purpose of this paper of this paper is to explore the immigration and productivity in Spain. We estimate the effect … of immigration on labor productivity from 2004 until 2008 for Spain. Using firms (SABI) and individuals data (Social …

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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times

Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The Spanish labour market disproportionately booms in expansions and bursts in recessions; meanwhile, its regions' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To examine this twofold feature, we apply Blanchard and Katz's...

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Intergenerational Transmission of ‘Religious Capital’: Evidence from Spain

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The paper examines intergenerational transmission of 'religious capital' from parents to their offspring, within an economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of Catholic Spaniards who grew up in Catholic households...

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Overeducation and Local Labour Markets in Spain

Ramos, Raul; Sanromá, Esteban - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

spatial mobility in regional labour markets on overeducation in Spain. With this aim, we use microdata from the Spanish Budget …

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Work, Risk and Health: Differences between Immigrants and Natives in Spain

Solé, Meritxell; Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Rodriguez … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We analyze the impact of working and contractual conditions, particularly exposure to job risks, on the probability of acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk associated to it. We assume this choice is...

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