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Disentangling the role of contract types and sector disparities for public service motivation

Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015

specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public … sector impact PSM. We also investigate how prospects of employment relations (fixed-term versus permanent contracts …), temporal differences (part-time versus full-time employment), and actual jobs (core versus subsidiary jobs) moderate PSM in …

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Spouses' access to financial services : estimating technological and managerial gaps in production

Malabayabas, Maria Luz L.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Mayorga, … - 2023

The study investigates the effect of the spouse's access to financial services (credit or savings) through membership in a self-help group on adopting technology, technical efficiency, and managerial gaps. To estimate the empirical model, we use farm-level data from rice farming households in...

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Is privatization working in Ukraine? : new estimates from comprehensive manufacturing firm data, 1989 - 2013

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the data permit us to track the privatization process and to...

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Are sociocultural factors important for studying a science university major?

Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke; Osterfeld, Marius - 2015

This paper examines the role of the sociocultural background of students for choosing STEM fields in university. We combine rich survey data on university graduates in Switzerland with municipality level information from the census as well as nationwide elections and referenda to characterize a...

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Entrepreneurship from scratch : lessons on the entry decision into self-employment from transition economies

Earle, John S.; Saková, Zuzana - 1999

This paper exploits the rapid rise in self-employment rates in post-communist Eastern Europe as a valuable "quasi-experiment" for understanding the sources of entrepreneurship. A relative demand-supply model and an individual sectoral choice model are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000...

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The effects of public sector sponsored training on individual employment performance in East Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Wellner, Marc - 2000

This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and employment duration in East Germany. The data is taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analysis is limited to training measures that took place between July...

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Decomposition analysis for a binary choice model

Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000

This paper introduces a new and simple decomposition method for a binary choice model that is equivalent to the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis for wage differentials. The decomposition method is first developed for a single probit model and later generalized to a simultaneous equations...

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Unobservable, but unimportant? : the influence of personality traits (and other usually unobserved variables) for the evaluation of labor market policies

Caliendo, Marco; Mahlstedt, Robert; Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2014

Many commonly used treatment effects estimators rely on the unconfoundedness assumption ("selection on observables") which is fundamentally non-testable. When evaluating the effects of labor market policies, researchers need to observe variables that affect both treatment participation and labor...

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Testing for selection bias

Joo, Joonhwi; LaLonde, Robert John - 2014

This paper uses the control function to develop a framework for testing for selection bias. The idea behind our framework is if the usual assumptions hold for matching or IV estimators, the control function identifies the presence and magnitude of potential selection bias. Averaging this...

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Finance for all : the impact of financial literacy training in compulsory secondary education in Spain

Hospido, Laura; Villanueva, Ernesto; Zamarro, Gema - 2015

We estimate the impact on objective measures of financial literacy of a 10-hours financial education program among 15-year old students in compulsory secondary schooling. We use a matched sample of students and teachers in Madrid and two different estimation strategies. Firstly, we use...

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