Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 124
Cover Image
Where did they go?
Frederiksen, Anders; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels C. - 2002
We study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We find that individual and workplace characteristics as well as business cycle effects are important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405772
Cover Image
Government grants, plant survival and employment growth : a micro-econometric analysis
Girma, Sourafel (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001776097
Cover Image
Family-centered measures of access to early care and education
Davis, Elizabeth; Lee, Won Fy; Sojourner, Aaron - 2018
low and high relative ECE access. The average family in Minnesota lives in a location where there are nearly two children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814820
Cover Image
Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2009
The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919877
Cover Image
Does distance determine who attends a university in Germany?
Spieß, C. Katharina (contributor);  … - 2008
We analyze the role of distance from a university in the decision to attend higher education in Germany. Students who live near a university can avoid moving and the increased living expenses by commuting. Thus, transaction cost arguments would suggest that the greater the distance to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741923
Cover Image
The reallocation of workers and jobs in Russian industry : new evidence on measures and determinants
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues - including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412846
Cover Image
Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
-age populations in the world). Informal networks in Russia are likely to take on distinctive characteristics as the country's economic … found in much wealthier countries. Although it is often assumed that the elderly in Russia are a highly vulnerable economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413334
Cover Image
Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
Cover Image
The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family : evidence from World War II in Russia
Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2016
How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521153
Cover Image
The gender composition of corporate boards and firm performance : evidence from Russia
Garanina, Tatiana; Muravyev, Alexander - 2019
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique longitudinal dataset of virtually all Russian companies whose shares were traded on the national stock market between 1998 and 2014. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019226