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Does the Gender Composition of Scientific Committees Matter?

Bagues, Manuel - 2015

An increasing number of countries are introducing gender quotas in scientific committees. We analyze how a larger presence of female evaluators affects committee decision-making using information on 100,000 applications to associate and full professorships in all academic disciplines in two...

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Did Cheaper Flights Change the Direction of Science?

Catalini, Christian - 2016

We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine-grained, scientist-level dataset within chemistry (1991-2012), we find that after Southwest Airlines enters a new route, scientific collaboration increases by 50%, an effect that is...

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Why Do Women Leave Science and Engineering?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2012

from science and engineering relative to other fields. I find that the higher relative exit rate is driven by engineering … rather than science, and show that 60% of the gap can be explained by the relatively greater exit rate from engineering of …

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Informal Employment Relationships and the Labor Market : Is There Segmentation in Ukraine?

Lehmann, Hartmut - 2018

One of the most important factors that determine individuals' quality of life and wellbeing is their position in the labor market and the type of jobs that they hold. When workers are rationed out of the formal segment of the labor market against their will, i.e., the labor market is segmented,...

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In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine

Koettl, Johannes - 2014

Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions … comparison with other countries. This paper examines the barriers that prevent workers from moving within Ukraine, using … Ukraine through addressing institutional bottlenecks and defines five key areas for improvement, including the population …

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The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover : Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Earle, John S. - 2014

change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Exploiting census-type panel data on over 7 …

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Burden or Relief? Fiscal Impacts of Recent Ukrainian Migration to Poland

Kaczmarczyk, Pawel - 2015

Immigration has become recently one of the most important subjects in socio-economic debates. In many countries immigrants are commonly presented as a threat to host economies and societies. On top of this fiscal impacts of immigration are ones of the hottest and most controversial topics in...

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The Impact of Non-Cognitive Skills and Risk Preferences on Rural-to-Urban Migration : Evidence from Ukraine

Ayhan, Sinem - 2017

This paper provides evidence on the impacts of non-cognitive skills and attitudes towards risk on the decision to migrate from rural to urban areas. Our analysis is based on a unique four-wave panel of Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for the period between 2003 and 2012. Adopting the...

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Inequality in Total Returns to Work in Ukraine : Taking a Closer Look at Workplace (Dis)Amenities

Nizalova, Olena Y. - 2014

This paper examines the importance of non-monetary dimensions of work in studies of inequality in total returns to work. Relying on the methodological advances in the field of multidimensional inequality and using the representative sample of Ukrainian industrial establishments over the period...

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The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide

Constant, Amelie F. - 2006

between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians throughout Ukraine's transition era. We establish that language rather than nationality …

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