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The Impact of Cross-Border Flows on Markets for Labor, Higher Education, and Goods and Services.

Jackson, Osborne A. - 2010

The essays of this dissertation examine the determinants of cross-border flows, in the form of immigrants and foreign aid, as well as the impact of those flows on receiving markets. The first essay finds that the composition of immigrant inflows into local markets is a significant determinant of...

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Borrower Self-Selection, Underwriting Costs, and Subprime Mortgage Credit Supply

Nichols, Joseph; Pennington-Cross, Anthony; Yezer, Anthony - 2005

In the U.S., households participate in two very different types of credit markets. Personal lending is characterized by continuous risk-based pricing in which lenders offer households a continuous distribution of borrowing possibilities based on estimates of their creditworthiness. This...

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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006

Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...

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Structural Modelling of Female Labour Participation and Occupation Decisions

De Hoyos, R. E. - 2006

The objective of this paper is to estimate the parameters defining female labour participation and occupation decisions …. Departing from a theoretical framework, we use micro data to estimate the wage-participation elasticity in Mexico. Consistency … between the selectivity-adjusted wages and the multinomial participation equations is achieved via a two-step estimation …

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How to increase the effectiveness of agri-environmental subsidy schemes through knowledge of farmer perceptions-a choice experiment on pesticide free buffer zones

Christensen, Tove; Pedersen, Anders Branth; Nielsen, … - 2010

Danish farmers have been far less interested in agri-environmental subsidy schemes than anticipated. We use choiceexperiments to estimate 486 Danish farmers’ preferences for a number of policy relevant scheme-characteristics.Subsidy schemes for pesticide free buffer zones along hedgerows are...

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Decision-Making and Ecosystem-Based Management: Applying the Vroom-Yetton Model to Public Participation Strategy

Daniels, Steven E.; Lawrence, Rick L.; Alig, Ralph J. - 1996

Previous literature has been critical of public participation practices, finding unimpressive application of public … participation principles and low levels of public satisfaction. Ecosystem-based management generally involves mixed land ownerships … participation and the difficulty of selecting appropriate public involvement mechanisms. To help solve the problem of choosing among …

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Fight or Flight? Portfolio Rebalancing by Individual Investors

Campbell, John; Calvert, Lauren E.; Sodini, Paolo - 2009

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