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What Makes a Good Conference? Analysing the Preferences of Labor Economists
Borghans, Lex - 2010
Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to identify the preferences of participants with respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144932
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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2011
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119020
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Culture and Institutions
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2015
A growing body of empirical work measuring different types of cultural traits has shown that culture matters for a variety of economic outcomes. This paper focuses on one specific aspect of the relevance of culture: its relationship to institutions. We review work with a theoretical, empirical,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016238
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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth
Doepke, Matthias - 2014
We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063592
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and its Impact on Economic Behavior
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey : A Quantile Regression Analysis
Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating … Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131425
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Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances on Output Growth : Evidence from Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2010
on key macro variables such as consumption, investment, imports and income in Turkey. The estimated impact and dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134982
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Comparative Essay on Returns to Education in Palestine and Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This study exposes a comparative treatment of the private returns to education in Palestine and Turkey over the period … different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of … than 2004 levels for all levels of education; the pattern is less obvious for Turkey across the various levels. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121333
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The Effect of Compulsory Schooling Laws on Teenage Marriage and Births in Turkey
Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … and fertility behavior of teenage women in Turkey using the 2008 Turkish Demographic and Health Survey. We find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121743
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Higher Education in Turkey : Subsidizing the Rich or the Poor?
Caner, Asena - 2012
We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097215