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Are Wages in Southern Europe More Flexible? : The Effects of Cohort Size on European Earnings

Brunello, Giorgio; Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

We exploit the cross-country and time variation in the demographics and education structure in 11 European countries to study how cohort size has affected real earnings in Europe. When we pool the data of all countries, we find that cohort size has a negative and statistically significant effect...

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The redistributive effects of tax benefit systems in the enlarged EU

Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that...

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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …

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Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection,and High School Graduation in Mexico

Miranda, Alfonso - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …

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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions:Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh

Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …

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Surveying Migrant Households: A Comparison ofCensus-Based, Snowball, and Intercept Point Surveys

McKenzie, David J.; Mistiaen, Johan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

migration on sending families. We report the results of an experimentdesigned to compare the performance of three alternative …

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The Making of a Ghetto Place-Based Policies, Labeling, and Impacts on Neighborhoods and Individuals

Govind, Yajna; Melbourne, Jack; Signorelli, Sara; Zink, … - 2024

Does the labeling of neighborhoods affect their outcomes? Place-based policies targeting disadvantaged areas aim to improve their conditions, but the labels they impose carry consequences of their own. In this paper, we examine Denmark's Ghetto Plan which designated public housing areas with a...

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Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US

Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...

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Grandfathers and Grandsons: Social Security Expansion and Child Health in China

Yang, Jinyang; Chen, Xi - 2022

We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS). NRPS was rolled out in full scale since 2012, and rural enrollees over age 60 are eligible to receive a minimum of 70 CNY non-contributory monthly pension. We leverage...

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Migration and University Education: An Empirical (Macro) Link

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …

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