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Using Employer Hiring Behavior to Test the Educational Signaling Hypothesis
Albrecht, James; van Ours, Jan C. - 2001
more likely to lower educational standards when an informal, more informative recruitment channel is used, so we conclude …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270572
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Firm recruitment behaviour: sequential or non-sequential search?
van Ommeren, Jos; Russo, Giovanni - 2009
In the extensive job search literature, studies assume either sequential or non-sequential search. Which assumption is more reasonable? This paper introduces a novel method to test the hypothesis that firms search sequentially based on the relationship between the number of (rejected) job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276109
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A suggested method for the measurement of world leading research: (illustrated with data on economics)
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a … method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics. Of 450 genuinely world-leading journal articles, the UK produced 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269637
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Exploring the Economic and Social Determinants of Psychological and Psychosocial Health
Shields, Michael A.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 2001
This paper explores the determinants of individuals? psychological and psychosocial health using recent Health Survey for England data. We find evidence that our dependent variables, defined, respectively, from the GHQ12 and Perceived Social Support scores, are negatively related to household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262599
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From shame to game in one hundred years: an economic model of the rise in premarital sex and its de-stigmatization
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - 2010
Societies socialize children about many things, including sex. Socialization is costly. It uses scarce resources, such as time and effort. Parents weigh the marginal gains from socialization against its costs. Those at the lower end of the socioeconomic scale indoctrinate their daughters less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269515
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269132
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Family values and the regulation of labor
Alesina, Alberto; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Giuliano, … - 2010
first century and family values prevailing before World War II, which suggests that labor market regulations have deep …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269386
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Asabiyya: re-interpreting value change in globalized societies
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led Barro (2004) to … is whether modernization without spiritual values in a globalized world economy and world society possible in the long … current world crisis is far more connected with these dimensions. We conclude that not a society based on fear is needed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271305
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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy
Altindag, Duha; Mocan, H. Naci - 2010
Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...
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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time: the impact of remittances on the fertility rate
Naufal, George S.; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275920