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The pro-trade effect of immigration on American exports during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William Kenneth - 2001
use a modified gravity model to examine the migrant stock-export relationship and find that United States exports to a …
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Social capital and the uncertainty reduction of self-employment
Blumberg, Boris; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2001
We study the self-employed decision and its relation to human and social capital. Human capital is necessary to acquire skills. Social capital dampens the effects of uncertainty about future income. Our data set consists of 1339 respondents from the same age group, who were interviewed three...
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Religious practice and student performance: evidence from Ramadan fasting
Hornung, Erik; Schwerdt, Guido; Strazzeri, Maurizio - 2021
We investigate how the intensity of Ramadan affects educational outcomes by exploiting spatio-temporal variation in annual fasting hours. Longer fasting hours are related to increases in student performance in a panel of TIMMS test scores (1995-2019) across Muslim countries but not other...
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The wider benefits of adult learning : work-related training and social capital
Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2018
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...
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Explaining happiness trends in Europe
Easterlin, Richard A.; O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2023
In Europe differences among countries in the overall change in happiness since the early 1980s have been due chiefly to the generosity of welfare state programs - increasing happiness going with increasing generosity and declining happiness with declining generosity. This is the principal...
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Exports, imports and profitability : first evidence for manufacturing enterprises
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world...
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Decomposing the exporter wage gap : selection or differential returns?
Bødker, Jonas Ehn; Maibom Pedersen, Jonas; Vejlin, … - 2018
, little is known about the sources behind the gap: Is it because more productive (and/or higher paying) firms export, because … more productive workers select into the export sector, or is it because matches in the export sector are more productive … returns and thereby the exporter wage gap becomes a result of workers selecting into the export or non-export sector based on …
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Exports and labor demand : evidence from Egyptian firm-level data
Berg, Claudia; Robertson, Raymond; López Acevedo, Gladys - 2022
present a simplified general equilibrium model inspired by Melitz (2003) with two sectors: one able to export and one "reserve … export expansion, this is not occurring at a large enough scale to be felt at the macro level. To seize the benefits of trade …, Egypt requires deeper business environment reforms to incentivize large export, labor-intensive sector growth and integrate …
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The impact of social capital on crime : evidence from the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003739947
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Intergenerational mobility of immigrants in Germany : moving with natives or stuck in their neighborhoods?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2009
In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than...
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