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What Accounts for International Differences in Student Performance? : A Re-Examination Using PISA Data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...

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Nascent Entrepreneurs

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

evidence on how many of them are there around the world, what they are doing, who they are, what makes them different, and …

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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004

World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility … towards new immigrants of lower quality, public assessment of the impact of those immigrants on a deteriorating labor market …, political participation of those impacted, and, as a triggering mechanism, the sudden shocks to the labor market delivered by …

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2004

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...

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Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

between inequality and growth in the post World War II period using WIDER inequality database. Regression results suggest that …

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North-South Technology Diffusion, Regional Integration, and the Dynamics of the ?Natural Trading Partners? Hypothesis

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004

Based on static analysis, a number of studies argue that forming a RTA is more likely to raise welfare if member countries are ?natural trading partners,? while other studies claim the opposite. This paper considers the argument from a dynamic viewpoint by examining the impact of trade with...

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When Migrants Overstay Their Legal Welcome : A Proposed Solution to the Guest-Worker Program

Schiff, Maurice - 2004

-workers from entering the illegal job market and overstay their legal welcome, which is the reason why these programs became …

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Trade Liberalization in a Globalizing World

Faini, Riccardo - 2004

Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among these flows. The main findings of the paper can be summarized as follows. First, at least in the nineties, import trade liberalization fostered not only trade but also inward...

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The Determination of Wages and the Gender Wage Gap: A Survey

Kunze, Astrid - 2000

In this paper the extensive empirical literature on the gender wage gap is reviewed with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in the specified human capital wage regression models. This aspect has been of great importance in the literature chiefly for two...

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