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Macroeconomic determinants of international migration to the UK
Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017
This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which … macroeconomic variables – UK GDP growth and GDP at origin - are significant drivers of migration flows; evidence for the impact of … result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664504
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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 … substantial independence like UK academies and US charters) have significantly higher management scores than regular government …
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 … managerial practices as the UK (the best performer), it would close the gap in the math OECD-PISA test with respect to the OECD …
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Managerial practices and student performance : evidence from changes in school principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014286980
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Heterogeneous treatment and self-selection in a wage subsidy experiment
Brouillette, Dany (contributor); Lacroix, Guy (contributor) - 2008
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760076
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A comparison of the poverty impact of transfers, taxes and market income across five OECD countries
Bibi, Sami (contributor); Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2008
This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777874
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Assessing the impact of a wage subsidy for single parents on social assistance in Canada
Lacroix, Guy - 2009
In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831886
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Macroeconomic impacts of Canadian immigration : results from a macro-model
Dungan, Douglas Peter; Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley - 2012
. -- macroeconomic impact ; immigration ; FOCUS Model ; Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570282
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The pitfalls of work requirements in welfare-to-work policies : experimental evidence on human capital accumulation in the self-sufficiency project
Riddell, Chris; Riddell, William Craig - 2012
This paper investigates whether policies that encourage recipients to exit welfare for full-time employment influence participation in educational activity. The Self-Sufficiency Project ('SSP') was a demonstration project where long-term welfare recipients randomly assigned to the treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532041
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Estimating labor supply responses and welfare participation : using a natural experiment to validate a structural labor supply model
Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - 2011
In this paper, we formulate and estimate an economic model of labor supply and welfare participation. The model is estimated on data on single men from Quebec drawn from the 1986 Canadian Census. Budget sets for each work-welfare combination - accounting for income taxes, tax credits and welfare...
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