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Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School : Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement Across Countries

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...

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Is Secessionism Mostly About Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

determining a region's propensity to secede. Removing identity differences reduces the average support for secession from 7.5% to …

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Human Capital Growth - with Region and Gender in Perspective

Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara; Managi, Shunsuke - 2022

growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …

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High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions

Vom Berge, Philipp - 2017

We estimate the effects of the introduction and subsequent increases of a substantial minimum wage in Germany's main construction industry on wage and employment growth rates. Using a regional dataset constructed from individual employment histories, we exploit the spatial dimension and border...

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Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring : A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation

Carlsson, Magnus - 2011

The standard correspondence testing experiment does not identify whether employer prejudice drives discriminatory behavior when hiring. This article proposes a new methodology using geographic variation to explore the link between employer attitudes toward ethnic minorities and the ethnic...

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Preferences and Skills of Indian Public Sector Teachers

Fagernäs, Sonja - 2012

With a sample of 700 future public sector primary teachers in India, a Discrete Choice Experiment is used to measure job preferences, particularly regarding location. General skills are also tested. Urban origin teachers and women are more averse to remote locations than rural origin teachers...

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Does Immigration Raise Natives Income? National and Regional Evidence from Spain

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Rica, Sara de la - 2021

How immigration affects the labor market of the host country is a topic of major concern for many immigrant-receiving nations. Spain is no exception following the rapid increase in immigrant flows experienced over the past decade. We assess the impact of immigration on Spanish natives income by...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives

Akay, Alpaslan - 2012

well-being is a function of the assimilation of immigrants in the region. The effect of immigration is higher in regions …

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Economic Crises and Mortality Among the Elderly : Evidence from Two Russian Crises

Khvan, Margarita - 2020

We assess the short-term effects of the two recent economic crises, the Great Recession and the collapse of the USSR, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with quantitatively similar elasticities of death with respect to GDP fall...

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Technological Capabilities and Patterns of Cooperation of UK Firms : A Regional Investigation

Iammarino, Simona - 2009

innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region … between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the … analysis for the UK as a whole masks stark regional differences in terms of intra- and extra-region collaborative linkages and …

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