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Policies in hard times : assessing the impact of financial crises on structural reforms
Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2020
It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...
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Cognitive skills, strategic sophistication, and life outcomes
Fe, Eduardo; Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria - 2020
emphasize the importance of childhood theory-of-mind as a cognitive skill. We collected experimental data from more than seven … hundred children in a variety of strategic interactions. First, we find that theory-of-mind ability and cognitive ability both … provides support for the emergence of a sophisticated strategic theory-of-mind. Third, theory-of-mind and age strongly predict …
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Offshoring and labor markets
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
its strength and weakness, discuss its connections with theory, and draw out potential policy implications of its findings …
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Special issue: Evaluation of active labour market policies
Smith, Jeffrey A. (contributor) - 2002
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A review of estimates of the schooling/earnings relationship, with tests for publication bias
Ashenfelter, Orley; Harmon, Colm; Oosterbeek, Hessel - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 6 (1999) 4, pp. 453-470
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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
newly introduces the last three to the literature. It then proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in …
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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Special issue: Economic returns to schooling : new evidence
Ashenfelter, Orley (contributor) - 1999
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Earnings over the lifecycle : the Mincer earnings function and its applications
Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor) - 2007
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer's seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole array...
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Migration gravity, networks, and unemployment
Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Lindeman, Gary - 2022
We develop and estimate a theory-consistent gravity model for interregional migration flows in the presence of … equation for bilateral mobility that embodies a co-determined local unemployment term. As a theory of migration, our model …
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