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GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. Our statistical framework uses light growth to supplement existing income growth measures. The framework is applied to countries with...
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German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We … elasticity of local government cost functions to population size. We find that costs rise (fall) underproportionally with … population size for small municipalities, whereas this is less the case for larger municipalities. This implies that especially …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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register data on individuals for the year of 2007 for the entire Swedish population we have in this study a unique opportunity …
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Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...
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