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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID
Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide … designed from the ground up with the goals of harmonization and cross-country comparability. This paper introduces the database …
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Continuous Training in Germany
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 1996
training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is …
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Financing Apprenticeship Training : Evidence from Germany
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1993
Much of the current discussion promoting apprenticeship programs in the U.S. proceeds as if it is simply a matter of historical accident or lack of imagination which has hindered human capital investment by U.S. firms. However, the cause may be rooted more deeply in our labor market...
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Vocational Education, Manufacturing, and Income Distribution : International Evidence and Case Studies
Aizenman, Joshua - 2017
regular college attainment. Comparing the US to Germany suggests that pushing more students to BA granting colleges may no …
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Training and the private sector : international comparisons
Lynch, Lisa M. (ed.) - 1994
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No Taxation without Information : Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax
Pomeranz, Dina - 2013
Tax evasion generates billions of dollars of losses in government revenue and creates large distortions, especially in developing countries. Claims that the VAT facilitates tax enforcement by generating paper trails on transactions between firms have contributed to widespread VAT adoption...
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Guns, Privacy, and Crime
Acquisti, Alessandro; Tucker, Catherine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
December 2008, a Memphis, TN newspaper published a searchable online database of names, zip codes, and ages of Tennessee … impact of publicity about the database on burglaries. We find that burglaries increased in zip codes with fewer gun permits …, and decreased in those with more gun permits, after the database was publicized …
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Random-Coefficients Logit Demand Estimation with Zero-Valued Market Shares
Dubé, Jean-Pierre H. - 2020
Although typically overlooked, many purchase datasets exhibit a high incidence of products with zero sales. We propose a new estimator for the Random-Coefficients Logit demand system for purchase datasets with zero-valued market shares. The identification of the demand parameters is based on a...
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The Problem of Data Quality in Analyses of Opioid Regulation : The Case of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
Horwitz, Jill - 2018
States, which have the primary legal role in regulating the prescribing and dispensing of prescription medications, have created Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMP) to try to reduce inappropriate prescribing, dispensing, and related harm. Research assessing whether these interventions...
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The Real Effects of Modern Information Technologies
Goldstein, Itay - 2020
Modern information technologies have greatly facilitated timely dissemination of information to a broad base of investors at low costs. To examine their effects on the real economy, we exploit the staggered implementation of the EDGAR system from 1993 to 1996 as a shock to information...
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