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The shift to services : a review of the literature

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2003

structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first … on final demand as an explanation of higher service shares in GDP. It also provides an overview of studies analyzing the …

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What do social scientists know about the benefits of marriage? : A review of quantitative methodologies

Ribar, David C. - 2004

This study critically reviews quantitative methods that have been employed and evidence that has been gathered to assess the benefits of marriage and consequences of other family structures. The study begins by describing theoretical models of the determinants of different well-being outcomes...

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Advising Policymakers Through the Media

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

In the information age an exchange with the media is part of the duties the economics profession has to deliver to educate the public and to ensure its position in society. A key issue is the education of policymakers through the media. It is the silver bullet of policy advice in comparison to...

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The Costs of Missing the Millennium Development Goal on Gender Equity

Abu-Ghaida, Dina; Klasen, Stephan - 2004

achievement of gender equity in primary and secondary education by the year 2005 in every country of the world. Based on the …At the Millennium Summit, the world community pledged to promote gender equality and chose as a specific target the …. Our estimates suggest that, by 2005, the countries that are off track are likely to suffer 0.1-0.3 percentage points lower …

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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices

Lemos, Sara - 2004

It is well established in the international literature that minimum wage increases compress the wages distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing profits, or raising prices. While there are hundreds of studies on the employment effect of the minimum...

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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004

countries, suggest a labor-market explanation for this cross-country pattern. The variation across countries in the correlation …

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Which School Systems Sort Weaker Students into Smaller Classes? International Evidence

Woessmann, Ludger; West, Martin R. - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

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Capital Accumulation and Growth : A New Look at the Empirical Evidence

Schiantarelli, Fabio; Leblebicioglu, Asli; Bond, Steve - 2004

We present evidence that an increase in investment as a share of GDP predicts a higher growth rate of output per worker, not only temporarily, but also in the steady state. These results are found using pooled annual data for a large panel of countries, using pooled data for non-overlapping...

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Outlier Aversion in Evaluating Performance : Evidence from Figure Skating

Lee, Jungmin - 2004

The quality of subjective performance evaluation is dependent on the incentive structures faced by evaluators, in particular on how they are monitored and themselves evaluated. Figure skating competitions provide a unique opportunity to study subjective evaluation. This paper develops and tests...

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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...

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