destination language skills are highly rewarded by wage returns and higher employment probabilities and act as the medium of …

occupational segregation. Using micro-data from the Greek Labour Force Survey (LFS), the returns to academic disciplines are …, Humanities) are also those with the lowest wage returns. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions subsequently imply that gender differences …

returns to education. As in western economies, computers are adopted most heavily by young, educated, English-speaking workers …, we find much larger returns to individuals from computer adoption than have been found in established market economies …. The large returns are explainable by the high cost of adoption and the scarcity of computer skills. As of 2000, only 14 …

It has been long recognized that cash plays a critical role in fueling street crime due to its liquidity and … transactional anonymity. In poor neighborhoods where street offenses are concentrated, a significant source of circulating cash … circulation of cash on the streets associated with EBT implementation had an effect on crime. To address this question, we exploit …