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Impact of the 2008 - 2009 food, fuel, and financial crisis on the Philippine labor market
van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana; Menon, Nidhiya - 2011
family work. Real wages fell for men and women, with much of the decline at the upper tails of the wage distribution. If one …
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Insurance versus savings for the poor: Why one should offer either both or none
Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Frölich, Markus - 2012
and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is …
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Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being : Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction
Schwarze, Johannes - 2004
The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...
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Risk, Network Quality, and Family Structure : Child Fostering Decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2005
their biological children to live with another family, is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and provides evidence against …
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Determinants of integration and its impact on the economic success of immigrants: a case study of the Turkish community in Berlin
Danzer, Alexander M.; Ulku, Hulya - 2008
Using a new data on 590 Turkish households in Berlin, we investigate the determinants and impact of integration on economic performance. We find that usual suspects such as time spent in Germany and education have positive impact, while networks have no impact on integration. There is strong...
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Social-family network and self-employment: Evidence from temporary rural-urban migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test … this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … social-family network exactly because he is self-employed. For this reason, a simple correlation between the probability of …
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - 2003
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
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Performance spillovers and social network in the workplace: evidence from rural and urban weavers in a Chinese textile firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
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Labor mobility, social network effects, and innovative activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
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The distributional impact of public services when needs differ
Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep; Langørgen, Audun; … - 2010
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to...
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