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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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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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Are Entrepreneurs Aware of Covered Interest Parity and Dollar Shortage?
Nariman, Farhad; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
The purpose of this study is demonstrating why entrepreneurs should monitor the broad dollar index. This paper explains the reason why the broad dollar index has become a risk (leverage) gauge since 2008 using the Covered Interest Parity (CIP). CIP can be viewed as a reflection of the shadow...
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Moving Down : Women's Part - Time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991-2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2021
The UK's Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the 'hidden brain drain' when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self - reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of...
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The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2013
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and stagnant export shares. The limited export competitiveness has hampered external demand, growth and employment. Applying, for the first time to North Africa, the stock-flow approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071447
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Firm Dynamics and Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations : Does Trade Openness Matter? Evidence from Mexico’s Manufacturing Sector
Fuentes, Miguel - 2009
In this paper we study the effect of NAFTA on the responsiveness of Mexican economy to real exchange rate shocks. We argue that, by opening the U.S. and Canadian markets to Mexican goods, NAFTA made it easier for domestic producers to take advantage of the opportunities brought by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155309
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Employment and Exchange Rates : The Role of Openness and Technology
Alexandre, Fernando - 2009
Real exchange rate movements are important drivers of the reallocation of resources between sectors of the economy. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition and with the technology level. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159338
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The Real Exchange Rate and Growth in Zimbabwe : Does the Currency Regime Matter?
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2014
Zimbabwe faces growth and external competitiveness challenges, as indicated by its low trend growth and investment, declining share in the world exports, high current account deficits, and external debt. The stock-flow approach to the equilibrium exchange rate reveals that the real exchange rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047877
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COVID-19 Vaccination Mandates and Vaccine Uptake
Karaivanov, Alexander; Kim, Dongwoo; Lu, Shih En; … - 2022
across Canadian provinces in a differencein-differences approach. Time-series analysis for each province and for France …, Italy and Germany corroborates this finding, and we estimate cumulative gains of up to 5 percentage points in provincial … mandate announcements). We also find large vaccination gains in France (3 to 5 mln first doses), Italy (around 6 mln) and …
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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano - 2013
During the last decade, economists have intensively searched for evidence on the importance of the Balassa-Samuelson (B-S) hypothesis in explaining nominal convergence. One general result is that B-S can at best explain only part of the excess inflation observed in the European catching-up...
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