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A comment on variance decomposition and nesting effects in two- and three-level designs
Konstantopoulos, Spyros (contributor) - 2007
Multilevel models are widely used in education and social science research. However, the effects of omitting levels of the hierarchy on the variance decomposition and the clustering effects have not been well documented. This paper discusses how omitting one level in three-level models affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003586556
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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries
Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335455
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Contingent convergence : a comparative analysis of activation policies
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor);  … - 2008
principles, instruments, target groups and governance in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793501
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Does the welfare state make older workers unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
States and France. It discusses how the welfare state can be reformed in order to improve outcomes for older workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900521
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On the role of sectoral and national components in the wage bargaining process
Dreger, Christian; Reimers, Hans-Eggert - 2010
This paper provides an empirical analysis on the determination of wages at the sectoral level in main industrial economies. Nominal wages are bargained between labour unions and employers in imperfect competitive markets, where spillovers across sectors might occur. Using a principal component...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959628
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Entrepreneurship, wealth, liquidity constraints and start-up costs
Fonseca, Raquel (contributor);  … - 2007
France have flatter wealth gradients. …
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Sorting in the labor market : do gregarious workers flock to interactive jobs?
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007
the United States and France on whether workers who are more gregarious, as revealed by their behavior when they are not …
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The firm as the locus of social comparisons : internal labor markets versus up-or-out
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - 2012
We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy in which a worker's status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion hierarchies: (i) internal labor markets, in which agents have a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530691
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Immigration, human capital formation and endogenous economic growth
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2015
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428114
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Ethnic unemployment rates and frictional markets
Gobillon, Laurent; Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2013
The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the … rate gap in both France and the US, amounting to 17% to 25% of the relative gap in France and about 10% in the US. Among … these factors, differences in commuting distance plays the most important role. In France, though, longer commuting …
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