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Peer Effects in European Primary Schools : Evidence from Pirls
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2006
We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries
Dang, Thai-Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2021
This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120841
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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109440
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Exports and Profitability : First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2021
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …
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On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm : Evidence from Field Experiments
Shearer, Bruce - 2009
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...
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The Roots of Inequality : Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees and Forests
Brunori, Paolo; Hufe, Paul; Mahler, Daniel - 2021
In this paper we propose the use of machine learning methods to estimate inequality of opportunity. We illustrate how our proposed methods—conditional inference regression trees and forests—represent a substantial improvement over existing estimation approaches. First, they reduce the risk...
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Natural Resources, Demand for Skills, and Schooling Choices
Bütikofer, Aline; DallaZuanna, Antonio; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector the Norwegian petroleum industry on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector with...
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Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams
Dahl, Gordon B. - 2018
mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly …
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