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Allocating subsidies for private investments to maximize jobs impacts

Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Walker, Ian - 2020

-linked externalities (JLEs). JLEs emerge when wages exceed the opportunity cost of labor (labor externalities), or when there are social … gains from creating better jobs for some classes of worker, such as women or youth (social externalities). Like all … externalities, JLEs create a gap between private and social rates of return. Investments can be socially profitable (once the …

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...

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Is child like parent? : educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

difference in favor of father's education over mother's education. …

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The effect of personality traits on subject choice and performance in high school : evidence from an English cohort

Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - 2014

ethics at age 15, on test scores at age 16, and on subject choices and subsequent performance at age 17-18. In particular …

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Heterogeneous effects of missing out on a place at a preferred secondary school in England

Gorman, Emma; Walker, Ian - 2020

available. In this paper, we use nationally representative cohort data linked to administrative education records to study the …

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