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The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
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outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …
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In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...
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Canada?s treasury circa 1996 over their life cycle. Naturalized citizens from OECD countries contributed the largest public …
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This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 … Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with … in Canada on earnings. …
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estimation procedure, and quantify biases caused by using average instead of marginal tax rates. Finally, because marginal tax …
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by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
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The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has … predictions from the tournament theory to the context of transition economies in which state ownership still plays a significant …
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the joint estimation of firm and worker fixed effects. We find that changes in ownership do not tend to affect wages …
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Using a firm level dataset from four regions of Russia covering 1996/97, an investigation was carried out into how the surplus created within the firm is divided between profits and wages. An efficient bargaining framework based on the work of Svejnar (1986) is employed which takes into account...
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