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Education, reputation or network? : evidence from Italy on migrant workers employability
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna; Ponti, Giovanni - 2009
The strong adverse selection that immigrants face in hosting labour markets may induce them to adopt some behaviours or signals to modify employers' beliefs. Relevant mechanisms for reaching this purpose are personal reputation; exploiting ethnic networks deeply-rooted in the hosting country;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008810982
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The effect of educational mismatch on wages using European panel data
Iriondo, Iñaki; Pérez Amaral, Teodosio - 2013
the depreciation of skills on human capital. The main policy implication of the paper is that overeducation constitutes a … waste of resources. Therefore public authorities should seek to reduce the negative impact of overeducation on the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687794
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The relative importance of symmetric and asymmetric shocks : the case of United Kingdom and euro area
Peersman, Gert - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003511397
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Navigating the waves of global shipping : drivers and aggregate implications
Dunn, Jason; Leibovici, Fernando - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249274
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Skill mismatch and returns to education in manufacturing : a case of India's textile and clothing industry
Kukreja, Prateek - 2018
coupled with unemployment or underemployment among highly educated workers. While a shortage of skills (or under-education) is … definitely a cause of concern, surplus education (or over-education) can also lead to underutilization of skills and further … lower demand for low skill workers. Given this scenario, the paper attempts to measure the incidence and extent of skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900162
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Nonparametric analysis of treatment effects in ordered response models
Boes, Stefan - 2007
This paper deals with the identification of treatment effects when the outcome variable is ordered. If outcomes are measured ordinally, previously developed methods to investigate the impact of an endogenous binary regressor on average outcomes cannot be applied as the expectation of an ordered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892435
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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution : evidence from a discrete choice experiment
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010 - Revised version
In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900781
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Partial identification of discrete counterfactual distributions with sequential update of information
Boes, Stefan - 2009
The credibility of standard instrumental variables assumptions is often under dispute. This paper imposes weak monotonicity in order to gain information on counterfactual outcomes, but avoids independence or exclusion restrictions. The outcome process is assumed to be sequentially ordered,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695625
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Do religious beliefs explain preferences for income redistribution? : experimental evidence
Neustadt, Ilja - 2010
Due to the mixed empirical evidence bearing on the economic determinants, beliefs have been at the center of attention of research into preferences for income redistribution. We elicit preferences for income redistribution through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008695996
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Is the welfare state sustainable? : experimental evidence on citizens' preferences for redistribution
Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010
The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens’ preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696029