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Returns to foreign education: yet another but different cross country analysis

Gruetter, Max - 2005

The main interest of this paper is to compare the value of education systems of different countries. For this reason I use data on workers who have completed their education before immigrating to Switzerland to estimate a country specific return to education. I estimate the standard...

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Testing

Bergbauer, Annika B.; Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

over 6 waves in the international PISA student achievement test 2000-2015. Our empirical model exploits the country panel …

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Why Do Firms Recruit Internationally?

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2001

recruiting internationally. A number of hypotheses for the international demand are formulated and assessed. Foreign highly …-skilled employees are recruited mainly because of their special skills, be it international competence or technical know-how, that are …

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The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Capital Flows, Wages and Unemployment

Beissinger, Thomas - 2001

The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are …

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International terrorism, political instability and the escalation effect

Campos, Nauro F.; Gassebner, Martin - 2009

What are the main causes of international terrorism? The lessons from the surge of academic research that followed 9 … (the escalation effect) stressing domestic political instability as the main reason for international terrorism …

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External validation of the use of vignettes in cross-country health studies

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Kristensen, Nicolai; Pozzoli, Dario - 2009

Cross-country comparisons of subjective assessments are rendered difficult if not impossible because of sub-population specific response style. To correct for this, the use of vignettes has become increasingly popular, notably within cross-country health studies. However, the validity of...

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Source country characteristics and immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions

Kirdar, Murat G. - 2010

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may stay longer in the host country as a result of an...

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National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...

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Cross-country evidence on teacher performance pay

Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international achievement micro data, this paper estimates student …-level international education production functions. The use of teacher salary adjustments for outstanding performance is significantly …

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Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries

Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020

Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits … respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced exposure to pre-pandemic international mobility causes slightly … 2009. We find that in all cases, even a draconian 50 percent reduction in pre-pandemic international mobility is associated …

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