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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity

Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

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Interethnic marriages and economic assimilation of immigrants

Kantarevic, Jasmin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...

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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency : evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors

Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - 2009

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...

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What makes a good conference? : analysing the preferences of labor economists

Borghans, Lex; Romans, Margo; Sauermann, Jan - 2010

Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to identify the preferences of participants with respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample...

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …

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Household division of labor, partnerships and children : evidence from Europe

Gimenez, Jose Ignacio (contributor); … - 2007

-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in … differential impact on partnership formation rates in Northern and Southern Europe due to the different social norms regarding the … partnership formation rates in Southern Europe. …

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Analysing the effects of tax benefit reforms on income distribution : a decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Callan, Tim (contributor) - 2007

To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax-benefit structure (rules, rates, etc.),...

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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe

Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012

mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … mortality for women. -- compulsory schooling ; education ; mortality ; Europe …

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Youth unemployment in Europe and the United States

Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2011

lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We focus on Europe and USA, but introduce evidence from other …

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