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Microeconomic Determinants of Domestic Tourism Expenditure in India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2022

Using a nationally representative household survey from India, we examine individuals' domestic tourism participation …

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Youth Unemployment in Europe and the United States

Bell, David N.F. - 2011

This paper focuses particularly on youth unemployment, why we should be concerned about it, why it is increasing again, how the present difficulties of young people entering the labour market differ from those of the past and what useful lessons have been learned that may guide future policy. We...

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Youth Labour Markets in Europe and Central Asia

O'Higgins, Niall - 2010

Transition to the market economy in ECA opened up a range of potential opportunities for young people. It has also raised a series of challenges. Youth unemployment and joblessness have emerged as serious problems with the potentially very high costs. Formal Education and Training systems have...

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Effect of Enforcement Shock on Pushers' Activities : Evidence from an Asian Drug-Selling Gang

Leong, Kaiwen - 2019

We study a Singaporean drug-selling gang's dataset and empirically find that the gang's pushers purchased larger quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by...

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Asian Segregation and Scholastic Achievement : Evidence from Primary Schools in New York City

D'Este, Rocco - 2018

This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on students' academic performance in New York City primary schools. We use exogenous variation in the share of Asian students across cohorts and schools stemming from a fertility shock among Asian population in the Chinese year of the Dragon....

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The Long-Term Outcomes of Refugees : Tracking the Progress of the East African Asians

Anders, Jake - 2018

Refugees are often perceived as an economic "burden", as the current debate on the European refugee crisis illustrates. But there is little quantitative evidence on the medium-term outcomes of refugees in the UK. We fill this gap by looking at the case of "East African Asians" who arrived as...

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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion : Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dist...

Schiff, Maurice - 2017

diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period … distance to the North; ii) an increase in LA's ETG to East Asia's level raises LA's TFP by some 100% and accounts for about 75 …% of its TFP gap with East Asia; iii) raising LA's education to East Asia's level has a larger impact on TFP and on the TFP …

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The Effect of Divorce Laws on Divorce Rates in Europe

Gonzalez, Libertad - 2006

This paper analyzes a panel of 18 European countries spanning from 1950 to 2003 to examine the extent to which the legal reforms leading to easier divorce that took place during the second half of the 20th century have contributed to the increase in divorce rates across Europe. We use a...

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Transmission of US and EU Economic Policy Uncertainty Shock to Asian Economies in Bad and Good Times

Balcilar, Mehmet - 2020

This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South … asymmetric effect on macro variables of China, Hong Kong, and South Korea during the quantitative easing period (QE) and the …

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Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions

Arcidiacono, Peter - 2020

Detecting racial discrimination using observational data is challenging because of the presence of unobservables that may be correlated with race. Using data made public in the SFFA v. Harvard case, we estimate discrimination in a setting where this concern is mitigated. Namely, we show that...

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