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Contextualised mobility histories of moving desires and actual moving behaviour

Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten - 2011

Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a growing body of longitudinal research links mobility...

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R&D drivers in young innovative companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - 2011

This paper examines the determinants of young innovative companies' (YICs) R&D activities taking into account the autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990-2008, we find that previous R&D experience is a...

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Anatomy of welfare reform evaluation: Announcement and implementation effects

Blundell, Richard; Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, … - 2011

This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...

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HIV, wages, and the skill premium

Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2012

The HIV epidemic has dramatically decreased labor supply among prime-age adults in sub-Saharan Africa. Using within-country variation in regional HIV prevalence and a synthetic panel, I find that HIV significantly increases the capital-labor ratio in urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV...

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The impact of Colombia's pension and health insurance systems on informality

Calderón-Mejía, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2012

Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...

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The intergenerational transmission of human capital: Exploring the role of skills and health using data on adoptees and twins

Lundborg, Petter; Nordin, Martin; Rooth, Dan Olof - 2011

In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our...

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The global economic crisis: Long-term unemployment in the OECD

Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of the global economic crisis on unemployment and long term unemployment in the OECD. It uses simple econometric models using panel data (quarterly) and time series data. In general, we find that long term unemployment increases with the unemployment rate, there is...

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Firm-sponsored classroom training: Is it worth it for older workers?

Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - 2011

We use longitudinal linked employer-employee data and find that the probability of participating in firm-sponsored classroom training diminishes rapidly for workers aged 45 years and older. Although the standard human capital investment model predicts such a decline, we also consider the...

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Internal vs. international migration: Impacts of remittances on child well-being in Vietnam

Binci, Michele; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2012

This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The...

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An empirical growth model for major oil exporters

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

conditions and assuming a Cobb-Douglas production function, it is shown that (log) oil exports enter the long-run output equation … with a coefficient equal to the share of capital (α). The long-run theory is tested using quarterly data on nine major oil …-run theory. The existence of long-run relations between real output, foreign output and real oil income is established for six of …

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