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The microeconometric estimation of treatment effects: an overview

Caliendo, Marco; Hujer, Reinhard - 2005

The need to evaluate the performance of active labour market policies is not questioned any longer. Even though OECD countries spend significant shares of national resources on these measures, unemployment rates remain high or even increase. We focus on microeconometric evaluation which has to...

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Cultural transmission and discrimination

Sáez-Martí, María; Zenou, Yves - 2005

Each worker belongs to either the majority or the minority group and, irrespective of the group she belongs to, can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to the next through a learning and imitation process which depends on parents' purposeful investment...

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Why is child labor illegal?

Dessy, Sylvain; Knowles, John - 2007

We present a theory of the emergence of laws restricting child labor or imposing mandatory education that is consistent … educating their children, child-labor laws can increase the welfare of higher-income parents in an ex ante sense. On the basis … of an empirical analysis of Latin-American household surveys, we demonstrate that per capita income in the country of …

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Rent taxation in a small open economy: the effect on transitional generations

Koethenbuerger, Marko; Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

We show that taxation of rents may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement in a small open economy provided tax revenues are earmarked to reduce wage taxes. Previous literature has shown that rent taxation benefits current young and future generations, while we show that it also benefits...

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Extension of labor contracts and optimal backpay

Danziger, Leif - 2006

's real income, but increases the worker's exposure to idiosyncratic uncertainty …

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Studying justice: measurement, estimation, and analysis of the actual reward and the just reward

Jasso, Guillermina - 2007

This paper describes procedures for measuring and estimating the fundamental quantities in the study of distributive justice. We examine a variety of methods for measuring the actual reward and the just reward, for both self and other, including direct and indirect methods for measuring the just...

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Growth, development, and technological change

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M. - 2007

The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding of the fundamental sources of …

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The jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur: innate talent or acquired skill?

Silva, Olmo - 2006

Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of …

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The effects of rent-sharing on the gender wage gap in the Israeli manufaturing sector

Navon, Guy; Tojerow, Ilan - 2006

This paper analyzes the impact of workplace characteristics on individual wages based on a unique cross-section matched employer-employee dataset for the Israeli private manufacturing sector in 1995; especially, we examine the effects of the interaction between rent-sharing and wages on the gender...

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Is man doomed to progress?

Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2006

This paper is dedicated to the empirical exploration of the welfare effect of expectations and progress per se. Using ten waves of the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, a panel household survey rich in subjective variables, the analysis suggests that for a given total stock of...

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