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In recent years, a large number of studies have investigated the relationship between social security benefits and male retirement decisions in developed countries. However, women's and couples' labour supply decisions and the patterns of withdrawal from the labour force in emerging economies...
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the case of Brazil. The IT monetary policy regime has been adopted by a significant number of countries. While the focus … of this paper is on Brazil, which began inflation targeting in 1999, we also examine the experience of other countries … compare the experience of Brazil with that of non-IT countries, and ask the question of whether adopting IT makes a difference …
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matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found …
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This paper studies the link between television and divorce in Brazil by exploiting variation in the timing of …
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This paper argues that the pass-through in Brazil has fallen compared with estimates in other studies on earlier time …
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In this paper, I study the impact of immigrant concentration in primary schools on educational outcomes of native and migrant students in a major Austrian city between 1980-2001. The outcome measures of interest are track attendance after primary education and grade repetition. Using variation...
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We study the short- and long-term economic and social integration of European war refugees. The population under study left former Yugoslavia for Sweden in the early 1990s. In the first years, there were significant human capital investments in language training, adult education, and active...
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We study the economic and social integration of refugee children. The analysis follows war refugees arriving from former Yugoslavia to Sweden in the early 1990s for up to 25 years. We find strong educational and economic integration, although differing by age at migration and gender. By...
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Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...
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Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460732