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Estimating the effect of unearned income on labor supply, earnings, savings and consumption : Evidence from a survey of lottery players

Imbens, G.W.; Rubin, D.; Sacerdote, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Can a brain drain be good for growth?

Mountford, A.W. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1995

human capital. The model uses Galor and Tsiddon's model of income distribution, endogenous human capital formation and … growth, to analyze the interaction between income distribution and migration. The paradoxical positive effect of a brain … accumulation by people wishing to become eligible to emigrate, causes a change in the long run income distribution which outweighs …

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Social Interaction and the Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality : Why Being a Minority Hurts but being a big Minority Hurts More

Kahanec, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

(combinations of) skills and the predicted patterns of income inequality comply with the scale puzzle under fairly general …

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Retaining through Training; Even for OlderWorkers

van Ours, Jan; Picchio, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...

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Welfare Effects of Employment Protection

boone, jan; van Ours, Jan; Belot, M.V.K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

Employment protection is often related to costs incurred by the firms when they hire a worker.The stability of the employment relationship, enhanced by employment protection, is also favorable to the productivity of the job.We analyze employment protection focusing on this trade-off between...

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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins

Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; Jacobs, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

optimal level of education subsidies along with the optimal progressive schedule of the labor income tax and optimal capital … income taxes.Subsidies on education ensure efficiency in human capital accumulation, while taxes on skilled labor help to … redistribute income towards the less able.We thus provide a rationale for the widely observed presence of education subsidies …

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Microfinance and Poverty Alleviation

Augsburg, B.; de Haas, R.; Harmgart, H.; Meghir, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

lead to net increases in household income. Households that already had a business and where the borrower had more education …

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Brain Drain and Distance to Frontier

Di Maria, C.; Stryszowski, P.K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

In this paper we investigate the effects of emigration on growth in developing countries.We present a model in which productivity increases either through imitation or innovation, and both activities use the same types of human capital as inputs, albeit with different intensities.Heterogenous...

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Two-step estimation of simultaneous equation panel data models with censored endogenous variables

Vella, F.; Verbeek, M.J.C.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

This paper presents some two-step estimators for a wide range of parametric panel data models with censored endogenous variables and sample selection bias. Our approach is to derive estimates of the unobserved heterogeneity responsible for the endogeneity/selection bias to include as additional...

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Minimum MSE estimation of a regression model with fixed effects from a series of cross sections (Revised version)

Nijman, Theo; Verbeek, M.J.C.M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1992

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