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Emigration Triggers: International Migration of Polish Workers between 1994 and 2009
Budnik, Katarzyna Barbara - Narodowy Bank Polski - 2011
countries after 2004 significantly facilitated emigration from Poland and increased the share of workers leaving to countries …This paper analyzes the emigration propensity of Polish workers between 1994 and 2009. Particular attention is paid to … (managerial or specialist positions) are least probable to leave Poland. The highest propensity to emigrate is observed among …
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The income-distance trade-off of migrants young workers (In French)
MAGRINI, Marie-Benoît - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2006
Spatial mobility can be seen as an employment strategy to obtain job opportunities located into a different local labor market than the individual origin’s local market. That is migrants should have higher wages than non-migrants, as much more than migration effort should be compensated by job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395031
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Should defaults be forgotten? Evidence from variation in removal of negative consumer credit information
Bos, Marieke; Nakamura, Leonard I. - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2014
Practically all industrialized economies restrict the length of time that credit bureaus can retain borrowers’ negative credit information. There is, however, a large variation in the permitted retention times across countries. By exploiting a quasi-experimental variation in this retention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887127
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Adverse Selection, Moral Hazard and the Demand for Medigap Insurance
Keane, Michael; Stavrunova, Olena - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
The size of adverse selection and moral hazard effects in health insurance markets has important policy implications.  For example, if adverse selection effects are small while moral hazard effects are large, conventional remedies for inefficiencies created by adverse selection (e.g., mandatory...
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Arbitrator Decision-Making in Multi-Issue Disputes
Olson, Craig A. - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1992
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Binary Response Panel Data Models with Sample Selection and Self Selection
Semykina, Anastasia; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2015
We consider estimating binary response models on an unbalanced panel, where the outcome of the dependent variable may be missing due to non-random selection, or there is self selection into a treatment. In the present paper, we first consider estimation of sample selection models and treatment...
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Dynamic models of R&D, innovation and productivity : panel data evidence for Dutch and French manufacturing
Raymond W.; Mairesse J.; Mohnen P.; Palm F.C. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
This paper introduces dynamics in the RD to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...
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RATIONING THE PUBLIC PROVISION OF HEALTHCARE IN THE PRESENCE OF PRIVATE SUPPLEMENTS: EVIDENCE FROM THE ITALIAN NHS
Fabbri, Daniele; Monfardini, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2006
In this paper we assess the relative effectiveness of user charges and administrative waiting times as a tool for rationing public healthcare in Italy. We measure demand elasticities by estimating a simultaneous equation model of GP primary care visits, public specialist consultations and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292729
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Models of Truncation, Sample Selection, and Limited Dependent Variables: Suggestions for a Common Language
Biørn, Erik; R. Wangen, Knut - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2011
The aim of this paper is two-fold: (a) to establish a ‘map’ for describing the wide class of Limited Dependent Variables (LDV) univariate and multivariate models in the econometric literature and (b) to localize typical models in this tradition within the structure, extending typologies of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293644
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Opt Out or Top Up? Voluntary Healthcare Insurance and the Public vs. Private Substitution
Fabbri, Daniele; Monfardini, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We investigate whether people enrolled into voluntary health insurance (VHI) substitute public consumption with private (opt out) or just enlarge their private consumption, without reducing reliance upon public provisions (top up). We study the case of Italy, where a mixed insurance system is in...
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