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We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of 'class size' and time-in-term, other school factors and student...
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This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of “class size” and time-in-term, other school factors and student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529146
As a unified discipline, econometrics is still relatively young and has been transforming and expanding very rapidly over the past few decades. Major advances have taken place in the analysis of cross sectional data by means of semi-parametric and non-parametric techniques. Heterogeneity of...
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poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest … behaviour and on household cohesion. Apart from its economic significance, the existence of such feedback effects is interesting …
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human capital investment. This paper measures the impact of child fostering on school enrollment and uses household and … interviewing the sending and receiving household participating in each fostering exchange, allowing a comparison of foster children …
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This research evaluates the impact on German household labor supply of various subsidy schemes proposed to foster low …-wage employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate a discrete choice model of household labor supply. On … different policies raising low labor earnings at the individual and household levels. In all cases, the labor supply effect is …
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to get access to resources without support from unemployment compensation. Analysing a household survey from 1995, we … find that the household formation response of the unemployed is the critical way in which they assure access to resources …. In particular, unemployment delays the setting up of an individual household of young people, in some cases by decades …
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In the Italian public debate growing attention has been recently paid to ?household impoverishment?. Subjective …, estimates based on the Bank of Italy?s Survey of Household Income and Wealth reveal a surprising stability of income …
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institutions are underdeveloped and there is a very limited social safety net, while household structure closely resembles that …
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