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A broad set of possible determinants of private saving behaviour is examined, using data for a large sample of industrial and developing countries. Both time-series and cross-section estimates are obtained. Results suggest that there is a partial offset on private saving of changes in public...
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We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons using household data for the US and Spain (the SCF and the EFF). We estimate counterfactual US distributions relying on the Spanish household structure. Our results show that...
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The main aims of this paper are, first, to construct a consistent comparative set of data on the sources of finance for investment over the period 1970--89 for Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and second, to challenge some conventional views of the international...
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We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of intertemporal changes in an individual's status vis-à-vis the real minimum wage on employment transition rates. We find that movements in both French and American real minimum...
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-mode interaction (with consultants, universities, and research centres) and DUI-mode interaction, distinguishing between DUI …
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nearly 250 departments across 100+ UK universities. We find large differences in management scores across universities and … that departments in older, research-intensive universities score higher than departments in newer, more teaching …-oriented universities. We also find that management matters in universities. The scores, particularly with respect to provision of …
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achieve the goal of greater economic growth. We argue that state-supported research universities can be used to integrate …-level economic policies. There is an opportunity at research universities to combine the human capital talent available on faculties …
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with panel data on U.S. universities for 1995-99. We find that private universities are much more likely to adopt incentive …. Adopting incentive pay is associated with about 30-40 percent more income per license. Universities with strong local …
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This paper studies the causal effect of educational attainment on conviction and incarceration using Sweden's compulsory schooling reform as an instrument for years of schooling and a 25 percent random sample from Sweden's Multigenerational Register matched with more than 30 years of...
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