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Migration and Networks: Does Education Matter more than Gender?
Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - CESifo - 2010
at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534007
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257675
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Reflections on Cluster Policies
Brakman, Steven - 2012
Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098963
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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment – Insights from Past Experience
Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - CESifo - 2007
The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094201
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Measuring Alpha in the Fund Management Industry: Do Female Managers Perform Better?
Babalos, Vassilis; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the performance of 358 European diversified equity mutual funds controlling for gender differences …. Fund performance is evaluated against funds’ designated market indices and representative style portfolios. Consistently … with previous studies, no significant differences in performance and risk are found between female and male managed funds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667412
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Why do Foreign Banks Withdraw from other Countries? A Panel Data Analysis
Hryckiewicz, Aneta; Kowalewski, Oskar - CESifo - 2010
problems in the home country, with a lesser factor being the weak performance of the foreign subsidiary. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583673
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A Simple Four Quadrants Model to Monitor the Performance of Local Governments
Ballanti, Danilo; Dispotico, Roberto; Porcelli, Francesco; … - CESifo - 2014
evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960639
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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133620
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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation
Haupt, Alexander - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137447
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Integrated Public Education, Fertility and Human Capital
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
This article analyzes the consequences of integration in public education. I show that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and, as a result, decreases fertility among more affluent parents whose children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121202