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Occupational Classifications : A Machine Learning Approach
Ikudo, Akina - 2018
, classification has been done manually. If it were possible to combine new computational tools and administrative wage records to …
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Immigrant Circulation and Citizenship : Hotel Canada?
DeVoretz, Don J. - 2009
Canada has experienced a unique problem as a subset of its immigrants, approximately 10%, leave after ascension to citizenship. In this paper I argue that both the degree of immigrant naturalization and subsequent emigration from Canada is conditioned by economic opportunities and Canadian...
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Vignette Equivalence and Response Consistency : The Case of Job Satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
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Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2011
Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118537
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Health Impaired Employees' Job Satisfaction : New Evidence from Athens, Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2011
By utilizing the 2008 Athens Area Study (AAS) data set, this study investigates four aspects of job satisfaction – total pay, promotion prospects, respect received from one's supervisor, and total job satisfaction – between healthy and heath-impaired employees. Health impaired employees are...
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The Impact of Greek Labour Market Regulation on Temporary and Family Employment : Evidence from a New Survey
Anagnostopoulos, Achilleas - 2012
This paper uses an original dataset for 206 workplaces in Thessaly (Greece), to study consequences of Greece …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107197
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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
Kahanec, Martin - 2012
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...
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Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2014
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing individuals born during a famine to others. Nutritional intake is typically unobserved and endogenous, whereas famines arguably provide exogenous variation in the provision of...
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Growing Out of the Crisis : Hidden Assets to Greece's Transition to an Innovation Economy
Herrmann, Benedikt - 2013
Greece's currently planned institutional reforms will help to get the country going with limited economic growth. With … an economy based primarily on tourism, trade, and agriculture, Greece lacks an established competitive industry and an …-membership. Instead, Greece exports only its nation's talent, with low returns. To become prosperous, the country must better capitalize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076149
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The Distributional Impact of in Kind Public Benefits in European Countries
Paulus, Alari - 2009
International comparisons of inequality based on measures of disposable income may not be valid if the size and incidence of publicly-provided in kind benefits differ across the countries considered. The benefits that are financed by taxation in one country may need to be purchased out of...
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