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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - 2004
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible...
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 2010
Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...
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Business training and female enterprise start-up, growth, and dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka
De Mel, Suresh; McKenzie, David J.; Woodruff, Christopher - 2012
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. In contrast to existing business training evaluations which are restricted to microfinance...
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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
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Competitive work environments and social preferences: field experimental evidence from a Japanese fishing community
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Seki, Erika - 2005
as competition intensifies between workers, the incentive for workers to cooperate with each other diminishes. We report … different amounts of competition on-the-job and that these differences explain differences in cooperation in our experiment … staff who face little competition on the job. Further, after accounting for the possibility of personality-based selection …
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Choice, competition and pupil achievement
Gibbons, Stephen; Machin, Stephen; Silva, Olmo - 2006
Choice and competition in education have found growing support from both policy makers and academics in the recent past … for choice and competition is clear, in existing work there is rarely an attempt to distinguish between the two concepts … academic outcomes than those whose choice is more limited; and whether Primary schools facing more competition perform better …
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Should you compete or cooperate with your schoolmates?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2008
Building upon some education studies finding that cooperative behaviour in class yields better achievements among students, this paper presents a simple model showing that free riding incentives lead to an insufficient degree of cooperation between schoolmates, which in turn decreases the...
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Does school privatization improve educational achievement? Evidence from Sweden's voucher reform
Böhlmark, Anders; Lindahl, Mikael - 2008
This paper evaluates general achievement effects of choice and competition between private and public schools at the …
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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment
Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2008
academia have been partially explained by competitive pressures, which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In our … sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to the fact … individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor performers …
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