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The number of university students participating in exchange programs has risen sharply over the last decade, but a … students need to be identified. Analyses show that student exchange programs are associated with higher starting salaries and …
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We study the impact that participation in the Erasmus program produces on a number of labor market outcomes. By … implementing a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design, we show that participating in the international mobility program positively …
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The number of university students participating in exchange programs has risen sharply over the last decade, but a … students need to be identified. Analyses show that student exchange programs are associated with higher starting salaries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822608
market. They are also more likely to start a self-employment activity. As a consequence of this upward mobility their income …
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potential concerns: (i) lower levels of labor mobility, (ii) greater commuting times, and (iii) fewer new businesses. Our …
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We report a small-sample, preliminary evaluation of the economic impact of temporary overseas work by Haitian agricultural workers. This work occurs in the United States in the context of a pilot program designed as a form of post-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the...
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The economic mobility of individuals and households is of fundamental interest. While many measures of economic … mobility exist, reliance on transition matrices remains pervasive due to simplicity and ease of interpretation. However … require data from more than two periods. In this paper, we investigate what can be learned about economic mobility as measured …
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'Guest workers' earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries host at least 2.4 million foreign domestic workers, who are legally excluded from national labor laws and regulations, thus placing them in precarious social, legal, and economic conditions in the GCC labor markets. Despite the recent growth of...
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The ?prospect of upward mobility? (POUM) hypothesis formalised by Benabou and Ok (2001a) finds explicit assumptions … provided the mobility process is concave in expectations, redistribution policies are expected to last for a sufficiently long … where the concavity of the mobility process, the degree of social mobility, the knowledge of personal income and the degree …
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