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Understanding neighbourhood effects: Selection bias and residential mobility

Bergström, Lina; Ham, Maarten van - 2010

The number of studies investigating neighbourhood effects has increased rapidly over the last two decades. Although many of these studies claim to have found evidence for neighbourhood effects, most 'evidence' is likely the result of reversed causality. The main challenge in modelling...

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Remittances and their effect on emigration intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - 2005

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …

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Revisiting economic vulnerability in old age : low income and subjective experiences among Swiss pensioners

Henke, Julia - 2020

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Evaluating the impact of public start-up assistance: results from an econometric approach

Almus, Matthias - 2001

This paper analyzes the medium-term growth performance of firms that exclusively received start-up assistance from programs administered by the Deutsche Ausgleichsbank (DtA), a state owned bank, within two years after startup. I apply a parametric selection approach that controls for two...

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The Impact of Venture Capital on Firm Growth: An Empirical Investigation

Engel, Dirk - 2002

The financial and non-financial involvement of venture capitalists is supposed to be positively correlated with firm performance. This paper deals with the evaluation of the impact of venture capitalists on employment growth of new founded firms. Differences between high-tech and low-tech...

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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - 2011

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and...

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Earnings and Community College Field of Study Choice in Canada

Boudarbat, Brahim - 2004

In this paper, we estimate a structural model of choice of field of study by community college students. We use data from the Canadian Survey of Graduates for 12,871 individuals who successfully completed their programs in Canadian community colleges (CEGEPs in Quebec) in 1990 and 1995. Over...

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The Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training on Individual Employment Performance in East Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Wellner, Marc - 2000

This study analyses the effects of public sector sponsored vocational training on individual unemployment and employment duration in East Germany. The data is taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). The empirical analysis is limited to training measures that took place between July...

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How much should we trust linear instrumental variables estimators? An application to family size and children's education

Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2009

Many empirical studies specify outcomes as a linear function of endogenous regressors when conducting instrumental variable (IV) estimation. We show that tests for treatment effects, selection bias, and treatment effect heterogeneity are biased if the true relationship is non-linear. These...

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Short-time compensation and establishment exit: An empirical analysis with French data

Calavrezo, Oana; Duhautois, Richard; Walkowiak, Emmanuelle - 2010

According to the French law, the short-time compensation (STC) program aims at avoiding redundancies during short-term downturns. Even if it does not shield establishments from redundancies (Calavrezo, Duhautois and Walkowiak, 2009a), STC can preserve an establishment's survival. This paper...

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