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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012
discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009631462
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Israel and Spain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230532
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Crossing the border : self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
to gather individual-level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and the US in …, even in an episode in which Ecuadorians mostly chose Spain where earnings were lower than in the US, and they contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966975
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Explaining gender differences in migrant sorting : evidence from Canada-US migration
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Lepistö, Miko; Minns, Chris - 2023
Using newly digitized Canada-Vermont border crossing records from the early twentieth century, this paper identifies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014365807
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Marital sorting, household labor supply, and intergenerational earnings mobility across countries
Raaum, Oddbjørn (contributor) - 2007
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561612
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2007
marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609770
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Historical analysis of national subjective wellbeing using millions of digitized books
Hills, Thomas; Proto, Eugenio; Sgroi, Daniel - 2015
go back at least 200 years further using our methods. We analyse data for six countries (the USA, UK, Germany, France …, Italy and Spain). To highlight some results, we find a positive short-run effect for GDP and life expectancy on subjective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296064
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Does management matter in schools?
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - 2014
outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434591
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Managerial practices and students' performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014
centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408867
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"Beauty is the promise of happiness"?
Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Abrevaya, Jason - 2011
.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235144