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Should employment authorities worry about mergers and acquisitions?
Margolis, David N. - 2006
different aspects of compensation policy and human resource management practices for distinguishing acquired and acquiring firms …. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms remain with the newly created entity after the takeover. Using a … active in the post-takeover period, with employees of the acquired firm being less likely to remain with the new entity in …
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The cliometrics of international migration: A survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be described as cliometric. This literature uses the concepts and approaches of applied economics to investigate a range of historical issues and there are strong parallels with the...
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How economics helped shape American Judaism
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...
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Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar's long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to...
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Long Term Impacts of Class Size in Compulsory School
Leuven, Edwin; Løkken, Sturla Andreas - 2017
How does class size in compulsory school affect peoples' long run education and earnings? We use maximum class size rules and Norwegian administrative registries allowing us to observe outcomes up to age 48. We do not find any indication of beneficial effects of class size reduction in...
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The Effect of Early Life Health on Later Life Home Care Use: The Mediating Role of Household Composition
Bijwaard, Govert; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2018
In this paper we estimate the effect of early life health on home care use later in life, and we analyse whether this effect is mediated through household composition. We use Dutch administrative data on men born in 1944-1947 who were examined for military service between 1961-1965 and we link...
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The (Unexpected) Structure of ?Rents? on the French and British Labour Markets
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2004
This paper considers the allocation of labour on the French and British markets, using objective wage and subjective satisfaction data. We show that, in some sectors, workers enjoy both higher wages and higher job satisfaction. We argue that this reflects labour market wage rents. Perhaps...
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Identification and Estimation of Causal Effects of Multiple Treatments Under the Conditional Independence Assumption
Lechner, Michael - 1999
The assumption that the assignment to treatments is ignorable conditional on attributes plays an important role in the applied statistic and econometric evaluation literature. Another term for it is conditional independence assumption. This paper discusses identification when there are more than...
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The measurement of child costs: a rothbarth-type method consistent with scale economies
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier - 2009
We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...
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The measurement of child costs: evidence from Ireland
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Gbakou, Monnet Benoit … - 2009
We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)'s sense. A practical...
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