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Can we test for bias in scientific peer-review?

Oswald, Andrew J. (contributor) - 2008

Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the … data from the field of economics. No scientific bias or favoritism is found (although the Journal of Political Economy …

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The determination of wages and the gender wage gap : a survey

Kunze, Astrid - 2000

In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in the specified human capital wage regression models. This aspect has been of great importance in the literature chiefly for two...

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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth

Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor); … - 2007

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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Does corruption promote emigration? : an empirical examination

Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2014

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate of those with high levels of educational attainment also...

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On the relationship between public and private investment in the euro area

Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2014

This paper explores the long run relationship between public and private investment in the euro area in terms of capital stocks and gross investment flows. Panel techniques ac-counting for international spillovers are employed. While private and public capital stocks are cointegrated, the...

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The distribution of total work in the EU and US

Burda, Michael C. (contributor); … - 2006

Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : A cross-country analysis of gender gaps

Olivetti, Claudia (contributor); … - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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International differences in longevity and health and their economic consequences

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Goldman, Dana P.; Lakdawalla, Darius - 2009

In 1975, 50 year-old Americans could expect to live slightly longer than their European counterparts. By 2005, American life expectancy at that age has diverged substantially compared to Europe. We find that this growing longevity gap is primarily the symptom of real declines in the health of...

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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.

Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009

commonly referred to as "differential item functioning" (DIF). A specific form of DIF is justification bias: to justify the … than working respondents. In this paper we use anchoring vignettes to identify justification bias and other forms of DIF … significant evidence of justification bias in the U.S. but not in Europe, suggesting differences in social norms concerning work …

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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe : the role of services

D'Agostino, Antonello (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...

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