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The effects of school libraries on language skills : evidence from a randomized controlled trial in India
Borkum, Evan; He, Fang; Linden, Leigh L. - 2013
We conduct a randomized controlled trial of an Indian school library program. Overall, the program had no impact on students' scores on a language skills test administered after 16 months. The estimates are sufficiently precise to rule out effects larger than 0.053 and 0.037 standard deviations,...
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Identifying adjustment costs of net and gross employment changes
Ejarque, João (contributor);  … - 2008
A relatively unexplored question in dynamic labour demand regards the source of adjustment costs, whether they depend on net or gross changes in employment. We estimate a structural model of dynamic labour demand where the firm faces adjustment costs related to gross and net changes in its...
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How working time reduction affects employment and earnings
Raposo, Pedro S. (contributor); Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2008
December 1, 1996 Portugal introduced a new law on working hours which gradually reduced the standard workweek from 44 …
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Mentoring and segregation: female-led firms and gender wage policies
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor);  … - 2007
Portugal. Female managers can protect and mentor female employees by paying them higher wages than male-led firms would do. We …
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Returns to tenure of seniority?
Buhai, Sebastian; Portela, Miguel; Teulings, Coen N.; … - 2008
This study documents two empirical regularities, using data for Denmark and Portugal. First, workers who are hired last …
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Paying more to hire the best? : foreign firms, wages and worker mobility
Martins, Pedro S. (contributor) - 2008
identify the wage differences between foreign and domestic firms. Using matched employer-employee panel data for Portugal, we …
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The timing of labor demand
Cardoso, Ana Rute (contributor);  … - 2008
Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and …
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Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech …, and very large in Portugal, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia. Our findings support the hypothesis of a negative relationship …
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Job durations with worker and firm specific effects : MCMC estimation with longitudinal employer-employee data
Horny, Guillaume; Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2009
We study job durations using a multivariate hazard model allowing for worker-specific and firm-specific unobserved determinants. The latter are captured by unobserved heterogeneity terms or random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker level. This enables us to decompose the...
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Individual teacher incentives, student achievement and grade inflation
Martins, Pedro S. - 2009
recent introduction of teacher performance-related pay and tournaments in Portugal's public schools. Specifically, we draw on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824237