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How Do Shocks to Non-Cognitive Skills Affect Test Scores?
Behncke, Stefanie - 2009
This paper investigates the extent to which test performance is affected by shocks to non-cognitive skills. 440 students took a low stakes mathematics test. About half of them were exposed to positive affirmation while being given test instructions, whereas the other half served as controls. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158671
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Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications
Zhao, Zhong - 2005
Propensity score matching estimators have two advantages. One is that they overcome the curse of dimensionality of covariate matching, and the other is that they are nonparametric. However, the propensity score is usually unknown and needs to be estimated. If we estimate it nonparametrically, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784056
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Mostly Harmless Simulations? On the Internal Validity of Empirical Monte Carlo Studies
Advani, Arun - 2018
Currently there is little practical advice on which treatment effect estimator to use when trying to adjust for observable differences. A recent suggestion is to compare the performance of estimators in simulations that somehow mimic the empirical context. Two ways to run such 'empirical Monte...
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Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2020
Given the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, the State has had to respond rapidly and quite severely to flatten the curve and slow the spread of the virus. This has had significant implications for many aspects of life with differential impacts across the population. The lack of timely...
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EU Jobs at Highest Risk of Covid-19 Social Distancing : Will the Pandemic Exacerbate Labour Market Divide?
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2020
physical proximity to others and their digital intensity.It is conservatively estimated that about 45 million jobs in the EU-27 … labour market (23% of total EU-27 employment) are faced with a very high risk of Covid-19 disruption and another 22% of the … EU workforce – mostly medium- to lower-skilled service provision – is exposed to some significant risk. The burden of the …
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On the Multivariate Analysis of the Lisbon Process
Tausch, Arno - 2007
Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
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Retirement Patterns of Couples in Europe
Hospido, Laura - 2014
In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are directly related to the actual realization of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058688
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The Employment Effects of the Disability Education Gap in Europe
Albinowski, Maciej; Magda, Iga; Rozszczypała, Agata - 2023
European Union. We use the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for 2011-2019. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261575
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The Gender Wage Gaps, 'Sticky Floors' and 'Glass Ceilings' of the European Union
Christofides, Louis N. - 2010
We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective …
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A New Approach to Testing Marginal ProductivityTheory
Biewen, Martin; Weiser, Constantin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We address the long standing question of whether production factors are paid their marginalproducts. We propose a new approach that circumvents the need to specify productionfunctions and to compare marginal products to factor payments. Our approach is based on asimple equation that directly...
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