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Is Child Like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
cohort. Evidence using a large German data set suggests ethnicity does matter: the size of the ethnic network has a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334321
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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London
Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
explanatory variable in the analysis of migration. Although correlated with other variables that are routinely used in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870559
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Firm Migration and Stock Returns
Puopolo, Giovanni W. - Finrisk - 2009
This paper studies the asset pricing implications of a general equi-librium model in which real investment is reversible at a cost. Firmsface higher costs in contracting than in expanding their capital stockand decide to invest when their productive capital is scarce relativeto the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009022140
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Migration Correlation: Definition and Efficient Estimation
Gagliardini, Patrick; Gourieroux, Christian - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2004
The aim of this paper is to explain why cross-sectional estimated migration correlations displayed in the academic and … a model with stochastic migration in which the parameters of interest, that are migration correlations, are precisely … defined. The impossibility of estimating consistently the migration correlations from cross-sectional data only is emphasized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005858516
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Sometimes, winners lose: Economic disparity and indigenization in Kazakhstan
Gang, Ira N.; Schmillen, Achim - 2014
Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies - "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan - we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two directly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396832
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Sibling Rivalry in Educational Attainment: The German Case
Gang, Ira N.; Bauer, Thomas - 2000
Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334299
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Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef - 2010
In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336063
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Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending
Chen, Josie I.; Foster, Andrew D.; Putterman, Louis G. - 2017
neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related factors such as ethnicity and gender. By looking at both channels together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058630
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Trust and cooperation at a confluence of worlds: An experiment in Xinjiang, China
Zhang, Zhe; Putterman, Louis G.; Zhang, Xu - 2018
find that members of each ethnicity show favoritism towards those of their own ethnicity in both trust and cooperation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058634
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A note on poverty in Kosovo
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005
Kosovo is a war-torn corner of the former Yugoslavia, where a civil war between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs raged during most of the 1990s. We examine the incidence and depth of poverty and some of its correlates in post-conflict Kosovo using the Living Standards Measurement Survey.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266358