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A gendered assessment of the brain drain
Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2007
use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain … drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …
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The economic value of virtue
Mariani, Fabio - 2010
virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269781
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Subjective employment insecurity around the world
Green, Francis - 2008
I consider the concept of employment insecurity and provide new evidence for 1997 and 2005 for many countries with widely differing institutional contexts and at varying stages of development. There are no grounds for accepting that workplaces were going through a sea-change in employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277797
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The Lucas Paradox and the quality of institutions: then and now
Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas M. - 2008
In the first era of financial globalization (1880-1914), global capital market integration led to substantial net capital movements from rich to poor economies. The historical experience stands in contrast to the contemporary globalization where gross capital mobility is equally high, but did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299133
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Estimating the shape of economic crises under heterogeneity
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - 2009
During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265233
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Trade Synchronisation During Major Economic Crises
Bärenthaler-Sieber, Susanne; Bilek-Steindl, Sandra; … - 2013
In this paper we present a new long-term database on monthly export and import series for 23 economies during 1921-2010 and its first empirical application. Using these data, we analyse the synchronised decline in foreign trade during the recession 2008-09 in a historical perspective. We...
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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318983
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Brain drain in the age of mass migration: Does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280801
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Risk attitudes and investment decisions across European countries: are women more conservative investors than men?
Badunenko, Oleg; Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - 2009
financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291778
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Trust in cooperation or ability? An experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - 2007
We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do … not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is …
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