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The role of social work norms in job searching and subjective well-being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2003 - revised December 2003
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401423
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Why U.S. immigration barriers matter for the global advancement of science
Agarwal, Ruchir; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick; Smith, Geoff - 2021
This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network- representing 20-33% of the frontier knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012404675
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The Role of Social Work Norms in Job Searching and Subjective Well-Being
Stutzer, Alois; Lalive, Rafael - 2001
Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262506
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Unemployment duration in Germany : a comprehensive study with dynamic hazard models and P-Splines
Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2011
unemployment duration in Germany. Due to substantial differences with respect to labour market outcomes we follow a stratified … approach with respect to gender and ethnicity. To analyze unemployment duration comprehensively, dynamic duration time models … are used in which covariate effects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration and others enter the model in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295489
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Do unemployed workers benefit from enterprise zones? : the French experience
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - In: Journal of public economics 96 (2012) 9/10, pp. 881-892
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009702464
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Poverty and Aspirations Failure
Dalton, Patricio S. - 2011
We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and 'aspirations failure'. In our framework, the rich and the poor share the same preferences - and also a behavioral bias in setting aspirations. Greater downside risks imposed by poverty exacerbates the effects of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117294
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Poverty and Aspirations Failure
Dalton, Patricio S. - 2011
We develop a theoretical framework to study the psychology of poverty and 'aspirations failure'. In our framework, the rich and the poor share the same preferences - and also a behavioral bias in setting aspirations. Greater downside risks imposed by poverty exacerbates the effects of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117943
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Microfinance Duration and Development : The Case of Three Cities in India
Lahiri, Radhika; Wei, Honghong - 2023
This paper uses a quasi-randomized control design combined with observational methods to evaluate the impact of a microcredit duration on the welfare of clients of a microcredit organization in western India. We survey respondents from three cities, Mumbai, Pune, and Satara, to understand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350988
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Return Migration, Wage Differentials, and the Optimal Migration Duration
Dustmann, Christian - 2001
In simple static models, migration increases with the wage differential between host and home country. In a dynamic framework, and if migrations are temporary, the size of the migrant population in the host country depends also on the migration duration. This paper analyses optimal migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262467
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The Optimal Migration Duration and Activity Choice after Re-migration
Dustmann, Christian; Kirchkamp, Oliver - 2001
If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: What determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose after a return. Little research has been devoted...
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