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Orefice, Gianluca; Peri, Giovanni - 2020

. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high …The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality of workers. This process will increase the positive quality …

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Does State Aid for Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas Close the Digital and Economic Divide?

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...

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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance

Suesse, Marvin - 2019

What determines the development of rural financial markets? Starting from a simple theoretical framework, we derive the factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for these determinants using the expansion of credit...

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Were Jews in Interwar Poland More Educated?

Abramitzky, Ran - 2020

In the context of interwar Poland, we find that Jews tended to be more literate than non-Jews, but show that this finding is driven by a composition effect. In particular, most Jews lived in cities and most non-Jews lived in rural areas, and people in cities were more educated than people in...

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Types of Contact : A Field Experiment on Collaborative and Adversarial Caste Integration

Lowe, Matt - 2020

I estimate the effects of collaborative and adversarial intergroup contact. I randomly assigned Indian men from different castes to participate in cricket leagues or to serve as a control group. League players faced variation in collaborative contact, through random assignment to...

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What Stayers Do? Capital Endowments and On-Farm Transitions in Rural China

Wang, Hao - 2019

While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...

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The Urban-Rural Gap in Health Care Infrastructure - Does Government Ideology Matter?

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

Spatial inequalities in publicly provided goods such as health care facilities have substantial socio-economic effects. Little is known, however, as to why publicly provided goods diverge among urban and rural regions. We exploit narrow parliamentary majorities in German states between 1950 and...

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Impact of Formal Climate Risk Transfer Mechanisms on Risk-Aversion : Empirical Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

Haile, Kaleab K. - 2019

This study examines the effect of smallholder farmers' access to a formal climate risk transfer mechanism on their risk preferences. Survey and experimental data were collected from smallholder farmers that have access to weather index-based crop insurance (WICI) in Ethiopia. We use an...

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Dismantling the "Jungle": Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France

Vertier, Paul; Viskanic, Max - 2018

Can a small scale inflow of migrants affect electoral outcomes? We study whether the relocation of migrants from the …

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Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment

Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...

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