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Europe's Tired, Poor, Huddled Masses: Self-Selection and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration

Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah; Eriksson, Katherine - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2010

migration while accounting for migrant selection. Our first method compares migrants to their brothers who remained in Norway …

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Estudo sobre os Processos de Recrutamento e Seleção em Agroindústrias: uma análise em dois estudos de casos

Araujo, Geraldino Carneiro; Dias, Edilaine Mendes - Sociedade Brasileira de Economia e Sociologia Rural - SOBER - 2008

. This case study was done in two agricultural industries checking the process of recruitment and selection of staff. The … for recruitment and selection. It is evident that the process of recruitment and selection should be made with great care … on factors specific. An ideal model for recruitment and selection should be the one where the applicant's vague …

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Rational choice, functional selection and empty black boxes

Pettit, Philip - In: Journal of Economic Methodology 7 (2001) 1, pp. 33-57

In order to vindicate rational-choice theory as a mode of explaining social patterns in general - social patterns beyond the narrow range of economic behaviour - we have to recognize the legitimacy of explaining the resilience of certain patterns of behaviour: that is, explaining, not...

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Selection into skill accumulation: evidence using observational and experimental data

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Gangadharan, Lata; Maitra, Pushkar; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper combines unique survey and experimental data to examine the determinants of self-selection into a vocational …

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A triple hurdle model of US commercial bank use of guaranteed operating loans and interest assistance

Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Settlage, Latisha A. - In: Agricultural Finance Review 71 (2011) November, pp. 310-328

degree of participation in the interest assistance program. Statistical selection is modeled. Data on almost all commercial … banks in the USA from 1995 to 2003 are used in the estimation sample. Findings – Statistical selection is statistically … significant so selection must be included in the models. Variables reflecting state-level characteristics such as farm debt …

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Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010

Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a...

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Convex Approximation of Bounded Rational Equilibria

Miyazaki, Yusuke; Azuma, Hiromi - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 2869-2874

existence of a selection for some bounded rational equilibria on a discontinuous region P when P is a perfect set. …

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A Distributional Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh

Ahmed, Salma; Maitra, Pushkar - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2011

discrimination effect, taking into account possible selection into full-time employment. Applying a new decomposition approach to the …

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Can Darwinism be “Generalized” and of what use would this be?

Levit, Georgy; Hossfeld, Uwe; Witt, Ulrich - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 21 (2011) 4, pp. 545-562

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Innovation, diffusion and the distribution of income in a Malthusian economy

Staley, Mark - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 20 (2010) 5, pp. 689-714

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