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returns to education. As in western economies, computers are adopted most heavily by young, educated, English-speaking workers …, we find much larger returns to individuals from computer adoption than have been found in established market economies …. The large returns are explainable by the high cost of adoption and the scarcity of computer skills. As of 2000, only 14 …
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occupational segregation. Using micro-data from the Greek Labour Force Survey (LFS), the returns to academic disciplines are …, Humanities) are also those with the lowest wage returns. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions subsequently imply that gender differences …
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Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings …
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destination language skills are highly rewarded by wage returns and higher employment probabilities and act as the medium of …
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destination language skills are highly rewarded by wage returns and higher employment probabilities and act as the medium of …
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occupational segregation. Using micro-data from the Greek Labour Force Survey (LFS), the returns to academic disciplines are …, Humanities) are also those with the lowest wage returns. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions subsequently imply that gender differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550005
returns to education. As in western economies, computers are adopted most heavily by young, educated, English-speaking workers …, we find much larger returns to individuals from computer adoption than have been found in established market economies …. The large returns are explainable by the high cost of adoption and the scarcity of computer skills. As of 2000, only 14 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566404
Are coastal cities adjusting to rising sea levels? This paper argues that large-scale events have the potential to ignite the process. We examine the effects of hurricane Sandy on the New York City housing market. We assemble a large plot-level dataset with rich geographic data on housing sales...
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characterize the flood risk level for each property. First, we compare trends in housing values and sales activity among properties …
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-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new … new property with tenure ranging from multiple decades to multiple centuries, we estimate the discount rate schedule …
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