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Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling
Stark, Oded; Berlinschi, Ruxanda - 2021
Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny’s education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427357
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Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling
Stark, Oded; Berlinschi, Ruxanda - 2020
Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390756
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Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling
Stark, Oded; Berlinschi, Ruxanda - 2021
Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421980
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Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - 2014
We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals' formation of … gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than men …. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350520
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Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - 2014
We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of … gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women consider their chances of getting top positions to be lower than menś …. Gender quotas discourage men who are less efficient in forming human capital, and encourage women who are more efficient in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353585
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Tales of Migration without Wage Differentials: Individual, Family, and Community Contexts
Stark, Oded - In: Institutions and Economic Development (2003) 2, pp. 79-92
By means of examples that pertain to individual, family, and community contexts, it is shown that migration between locations is compatible with a zero expected net earnings differential between locations. The examples give rise to testable predictions that differ sharply from the predictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504505
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On the economic architecture of the workplace: Repercussions of social comparisons among heterogeneous workers
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We analyze the impact on a firm’s profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers’ earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855240
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On the economic architecture of the workplace: repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers
Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - Wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät, … - 2011
We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019610
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On the economic architecture of the workplace: repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers
Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 2011
We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304640
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On the economic architecture of the workplace : repercussions of social comparisons amongst heterogeneous workers
Hyll, Walter; Stark, Oded - 2011
We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008990892