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Why develop open source software? : The role of non-pecuniary benefits, monetary rewards and open source licence type

Sauer, Robert M. (contributor) - 2007

A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover … decisions that can provide empirical estimates of relative importance within a single unified framework. -- Software ; open …

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Detecting mortgage delinquencies

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

Economic hardship is strongly reflected by the housing market. It is the concern of much research, but its analysis is often obstructed by insufficient lagged data. This paper evaluates search intensity for "hardship letter" from Google Insights to detect ensuing mortgage delinquencies. Such...

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The development and happiness of very young children

Anand, Paul; Roope, Laurence - 2016

The paper demonstrates how Sen's (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP)...

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The effect of changing financial incentives on repartnering

Fisher, Hayley; Zhu, Anna - 2016

This paper examines how a reduction in the financial resources available to lone parents affects repartnering. We exploit an Australian natural experiment that reduced the financial resources available to a subset of separating parents. Using biweekly administrative data capturing separations...

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Intergenerational social mobility and assortative mating in Britain

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2002

This paper investigates the links between the socio-economic position of parents and the socio-economic position of their offspring and, through the marriage market, the socioeconomic position of their offspring's parents-in-law. Using the Goldthorpe-Hope score of occupational prestige as a...

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Unions and employment growth : the one constant?

Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002

Sequential analyses of the major workplace data sets available to British researchers - the Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys (WIRS/WERS) - have revealed shifts in some previously solid relationships between union presence and a variety of establishment performance indicators. So...

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Who pays for general training? : new evidence for British men and women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...

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Modelling low income transitions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen - 2002

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...

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Wage inequality in the United Kingdom, 1975-1999

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002

This paper uses micro data from the New Earnings Survey to document that cross-sectional wage inequality in the U.K., which rose sharply in the 1980s and continued to rise moderately through the mid-1990s, has remained essentially unchanged in the latter half of the 1990s. As in the U.S.,...

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The impact of local labour market conditions on participation in further education in England

Clark, Damon - 2002

Over the past 30 years, participation in Further Education (FE) in England has been markedly counter-cyclical. What is more, it has yet to increase beyond the peak of 70% reached in 1993, much to the concern of policy-makers. An obvious explanation for these facts is the availability of labour...

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