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The optimal migration duration and activity choice after re-migration

Dustmann, Christian; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2001

If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose after a return. Little research has been devoted...

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The matching efficiency of regional labour markets : a stochastic production frontier estimation, France 1990 - 1995

Ibourk, Aomar (contributor) - 2001

We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb- Douglas production frontier model extended to allow the efficiency coefficient to depend on variables meant to capture workers and firms characteristics. We apply this methodology to examine regional...

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Learning efficiency of economics students

Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Using a stochastic frontier approach this paper evaluates the effects of substantial changes in the teaching material on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance...

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Estimations of occupational and regional matching efficiencies using stochastic production frontier models

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

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Works councils - sand or grease in the operation of German firms?

Schank, Thorsten - 2002

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Welfare and labor earnings : an evaluation of the financial gains to work

Gurgand, Marc; Margolis, David N. - 2002

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Schooling, literacy, numeracy and labor market success

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

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The effect of parents' employment on childen's educational attainment

Ermisch, John - 2000

childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in … own consumption and children's wellbeing, estimation is complicated by endowment heterogeneity and by the fact that … parents may compensate or reinforce children's endowments relevant to educational attainment. A sibling difference estimation …

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Is the deficit under control? : a generational accounting perspective on fiscal policy and labour market trends in Spain

Bonin, Holger (contributor) - 2001

that current fiscal policy is also intertemporally balanced provided that the favourable present employment situation lasts …-boomers' retirement. The improvement of employment has played an important role in this situation. We extend the standard generational … accounting methodology incorporating tax and transfer age profiles by employment status. This permits us to analyse the possible …

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The macroeconomics of labor and credit market imperfections

Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - 2000

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections, driven by microeconomic frictions and impacted upon by macroeconomic factors such as monetary policy, could also be to blame. This paper shows that labor and credit market...

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