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This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...
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Previous research has revealed much global convergence over the past several decades in life expectancy at birth and in infant mortality, which are closely linked. But trends in the variance of length of life, and in the variance of length of adult life in particular, are less well understood. I...
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find that clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas. Once travel is taken into account, however, the …
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Two central topics in recent rounds of international trade negotiations have been environmental concerns, and services … trade. While each is undoubtedly important, they are unrelated. In this paper I show that the services-environment link is … small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air …
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The relative price of services rises with development. A standard interpretation of this fact is that productivity … differences across countries are larger in manufacturing than in services. The service sector comprises heterogeneous categories … negative income elasticity of relative prices, whereas the relative price of aggregate services is mostly driven by large …
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This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurred over more than two … decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be … Salinger (2005, 2008), we develop a simple model of an advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff …
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and structural factors, including trade in business services and foreign direct investment (FDI), using simple descriptive … by offshoring and exports of business services, and a negative association with imports of business services. However … investment, and the relative size of the services sector all have a positive association with the share of potentially …
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services created by immigrants. This effect can attenuate downward pressure from immigrants on non-immigrants' wages, and also … benefit non-immigrants by increasing the variety of local services available. For this reason, immigrants can raise native … workers, and 62% of these jobs are in non-traded services. Immigrants appear to raise local non-tradables sector wages and to …
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-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely fresh approach? I try to identifying some of the important aspects of this … offshoring of white-collar services to occur …
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have made it possible to trade in some business and computing services that were previously considered non-tradable. This …
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