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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … into the wage differential decompositions, two statistical methodologies are merged: the Oaxaca methodology and the Heckman …

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Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …

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Testing for Structural Breaks in Small Samples

Antoshin, Sergei; Berg, Andrew; Souto, Marcos - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

smaller samples. We propose modifying their methodology to deal with small samples by using Monte Carlo simulations to …

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Informality and Regulations; What Drives Firm Growth?

Dabla-Norris, Era; Inchauste, Gabriela - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

The paper relies on a rich firm-level data set on transition economies to examine the role of informality as an important channel through which regulatory and other policy constraints affect firm growth. We find that firms reduce their formal operations with a higher tax and regulatory burden,...

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Informality and Bank Credit; Evidence From Firm-Level Data

Koeda, Junko; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

The paper relies on a firm-level data on transition economies to examine the relationship between informality and bank credit. We find evidence that informality is robustly and significantly associated with lower access to and use of bank credit. We also find that higher tax compliance costs...

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Firm Productivity, innovation and Financial Development

Verdier, Geneviève; Kersting, Erasmus; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010

How do firm-specific actions-in particular, innovation-affect firm productivity? And what is the role of the financial sector in facilitating higher productivity? Using a rich firm-level dataset, we find that innovation is crucial for firm performance as it directly and measurably increases...

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Autocorrelation-Corrected Standard Errors in Panel Probits; An Application to Currency Crisis Prediction

Berg, Andrew; Coke, Rebecca N. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Many estimates of early-warning-system (EWS) models of currency crisis have reported incorrect standard errors because of serial correlation in the context of panel probit regressions. This paper documents the magnitude of the problem, proposes and tests a solution, and applies it to previously...

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Assessing Early Warning Systems; How Have they Worked in Practice?

Berg, Andrew; Borensztein, Eduardo; Pattillo, Catherine A. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Since 1999, the IMF's staff has been tracking several early-warning-system (EWS) models of currency crisis. The results have been mixed. One of the long-horizon models has performed well relative to pure guesswork and to available non-model-based forecasts, such as agency ratings and private...

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What Causes Firms to Hide Output? the Determinants of Informality

Inchauste, Gabriela; Gradstein, Mark; Dabla-Norris, Era - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

In many developing countries, a significant part of economic activity takes place in the informal sector. Earlier work has examined the determinants of the size of the informal sector, focusing separately on factors such as tax and regulation burden, financial market development, and the quality...

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