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Whose Money? Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework

Gupta, Sanjiv; Ash, Michael - 2006

We argue that earlier quantitative research on the relationship between heterosexual partners’ earnings and time spent on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on their housework, and has not considered the simpler...

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Subnational Probabilistic Population Forecasts: the Example of Australia

Wilson, Tom; Bell, Martin - 2003

The variability of demographic trends at the subnational scale, particularly internal and international migration, renders subnational population forecasting more difficult than at the national scale. Illustrating the uncertainty of the demographic future for subnational regions is therefore a...

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Dynamics in highly skilled Migration: A European Perspective

Avato, Johanna - 2009

This thesis contributes to the research in highly skilled migration and takes special interest in questions and concerns of the European Union. The research will look at the causes of migration and what factors cause the selection of migrants. In particular, it will present three empirical...

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International Mobility to Support Innovation in Eastern Europe: Estonia, a Case Study

Kalvet, Tarmo - 2009

Human capital has become a central element in the innovation debate, but in the discourse on international mobility, Eastern European "catching-up countries" are usually afflicted with a brain drain that is inconsistent with their economic development. The case study of Estonia shows that to...

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Human capital, international migration, R&D spillovers, and productivity growth: A panel data analysis

Le, Thanh - 2006

This paper focuses on the role of R&D efforts – both domestic and foreign – and human capital investments to the development of national productivity. As technology is also embodied in human capital, the paper empirically investigates the significance of labour mobility as an effective...

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Auswirkungen der internationalen Migration auf die Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Theoretische und empirische Analysen vor dem Hintergrund der EU-Osterweiterung

Pflugbeil, Stephan Dirk - 2005

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht wissenschaftlich anhand eines theoretischen Modells, wie sich internationale Migration auf die Volkwirtschaft des Aufnahmelandes auswirkt nicht nur im Rahmen der EU-Osterweiterung. Kapitel eins enthält neben einer Hinführung zum Thema einen allgemeinen...

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Micro evidence of the brain gain hypothesis : the case of Cape Verde

Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde. This is allegedly the African country suffering from the largest "brain drain",...

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International migration pressures in the long run

Campos, Rodolfo G. - 2017

En este trabajo se estima la contribución del crecimiento demográfico a la migración bilateral por medio de un modelo gravitacional y se utilizan los resultados para proyectar flujos migratorios basados en las previsiones de crecimiento demográfico de las Naciones Unidas. Para ello se...

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From Prediction to Prescription: Intelligent Decision Support for Variable Rate Fertilization

Fink, Raymond Keith; Hoskinson, Reed Louis; Hess, John … - 2009

We describe the use of machine learning methods in the analysis of spatial soil fertility, soil physical …

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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMICS OF LABOR MARKETS

Stetsenko, Sergiy - 2010

the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United States between the 1970s and 1990s … and shows how the cyclical and secular properties of fertility can be used to distinguish among several proposed theories … that account for the rise in labor force participation of married mothers. The model, in which households make fertility …

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