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The Return to Firm Investment in Human Capital
Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - 2012
In this paper the authors estimate the rate of return to firm investments in human capital in the form of formal job training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of training, and several firm characteristics such as...
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Are Mega-Farms the Future of Global Agriculture? Exploring the Farm Size-Productivity Relationship for Large Commercial Farms in Ukraine
Deininger, Klaus; Nizalov, Denys; Singh, Sudhir K. - 2013
With farms cultivating tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares, Ukraine is often used to demonstrate the existence of economies of scale in modern grain production. Panel data analysis for all the country's farms with more than 200 hectares in 2001-2011 suggests that higher yields and profits...
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Enforceability of Labor Law : Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico
Kaplan, David S.; Sadka, Joyce - 2012
The authors analyze lawsuits involving publicly-appointed lawyers in a labor court in Mexico to study how a rigid law …
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Risk-Based Supervision of Pension Funds : A Review of International Experience and Preliminary Assessment of the First Outcomes
Brunner, Gregory; Hinz, Richard; Rocha, Roberto - 2012
description of pension supervision in Australia, Denmark, Mexico and the Netherlands, and an initial evaluation of the results …
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Mental Health Patterns and Consequences : Results from Survey Data in Five Developing Countries
Das, Jishnu; Do, Quy-Toan; Friedman, Jed - 2012
surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar …
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An Empirical Analysis of Mexican Merger Policy
Avalos, Marcos; De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2012
A newly created dataset including 239 decisions made by the Mexican Federal Competition Commission on horizontal mergers between 1997 and 2001 is used to estimate the different factors affecting the Commission's resolution. The paper approximates the decision making process using two different...
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License to Sell : The Effect of Business Registration Reform on Entrepreneurial Activity in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam - 2012
identification strategy exploits the fact that a recent business registration reform in Mexico was introduced in different …
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Empowering Parents to Improve Education : Evidence from Rural Mexico
Gertler, Paul; Patrinos, Harry; Rubio-Codina, Marta - 2012
Mexico's compensatory education program provides extra resources to primary schools that enroll disadvantaged students …
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Foreign Bank Acquisitions and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico
Beck, Thorsten; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad - 2012
impact on banking outreach using newly gathered data for Mexico, where foreign bank participation rose from 2 percent to 83 …
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Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration : The Role of Migration Networks
McKenzie, David; Rapoport, Hillel - 2012
The authors examine the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration … from Mexico, the authors then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low … by lower returns to education in the U.S. than in Mexico. …
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