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commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria. …

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The Austrian pay transparency law and the gender wage gap

Böheim, René; Gust, Sarah - 2021

In Austria, a gender pay transparency law was introduced in 2011, requiring companies with more than 1,000 employees to …

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The value of formal host-country education for the labour market position of refugees : evidence from Austria

Ludolph, Lars - 2021

using the example of forcefully displaced Bosnians who arrived in Austria during the 1992-1995 Bosnian war. Deploying 22 … attained in Austria vis-à-vis Bosnia on labour market outcomes for refugees aged around schooling thresholds. These estimates … holders are visible after more than two decades of stay in Austria. The discount on Bosnian education declines over time for …

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Mismatch unemployment in Austria : the role of regional labour markets for skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

During the last decade, the Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of the Beveridge curve. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region and skill level, we test which factors caused this shift. We find that the Beveridge curve...

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Activated history : the case of the Turkish sieges of Vienna

Ochsner, Christian; Rösel, Felix - 2017 - This version: July 26, 2017

Austria. In 2005, Austrian right-wing populists started to campaign against Turks and Muslims and explicitly referred to the …

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A pair-wise approach to testing for output and growth convergence

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor) - 2004

This paper proposes a pair-wise approach to testing for output convergence that considers all N(N-1)/2 possible pairs of log per capita output gaps across N economies. A general probabilistic definition of output convergence is also proposed, which suggests that all such output gap pairs must be...

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Does educational tracking affect performance and inequality? : Differences-in-differences evidence across countries

Hanushek, Eric Alan (contributor); … - 2005

Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional differences in the face of country heterogeneity, we employ an international...

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Can patience account for subnational differences in student achievement? : regional analysis with Facebook interests

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kinne, Lavinia; Sancassani, Pietro; … - 2023

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. We show that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data -...

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Political economics of higher education finance

Borck, Rainald; Wimbersky, Martin - 2009

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income. We compare four different systems and analyse voters' choices among them: a traditional subsidy scheme, a pure loan scheme, income contingent loans and graduate taxes. Using...

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Is the international border effect larger than the domestic border effect? : evidence from U.S. trade

Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Novy, Dennis - 2009

Many studies have found that international borders represent large barriers to trade. But how do international borders compare to domestic border barriers? We investigate international and domestic border barriers in a unified framework. We consider a unique data set of exports from individual...

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