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"The initial occupational placements of male immigrants in the U.S. labor market vary significantly by country of origin even when education and other factors are taken into account. Does the heterogeneity persist over time? Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study...
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part of the country's corporate sector. Morck and Yeung consider the reasons why family control and control pyramids … freestanding firms predominate in the United States. The authors discuss policies that countries might adopt to discourage family …
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"This paper proposes that individuals care about the relative income of proximate reference groups. Making use of self-reported life satisfaction as a proxy for unobservable utility, the relative income of siblings is tested for relevance as a reference point for new sample data from Venezuela....
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overall family medicine program. It describes and assesses Turkey's performance based payment scheme in family medicine with … feasible. Three focus groups were conducted with Family Medicine Practice (FMP) doctors, FMP health personnel and division …
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of the present report are: a) to analyze the main characteristics of family agriculture as well as its development … measures aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and increasing development opportunities for family producers; and d) contribute to … presenting a set of policy recommendations and measures to support an economic and environmentally sustainable family agriculture …
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total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … from trade with the European Union, Korea from trade with Japan, and Mexico from trade with North America. In other words …
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effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex … and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an increasing share …
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score data for 3rd and 4th year primary school pupils in Guatemala and Peru, and 5th grade pupils in Mexico, the authors … assess the magnitude of the indigenous and non-indigenous test score gap and identify the main family and school inputs … by family and school characteristics is between 41 and 75 percent of the overall test-score gap. Furthermore, family …
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examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time …
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