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Kramarz, Francis; Thesmar, David - 2006

This paper provides empirical evidence consistent with the facts that (1) social networks may strongly affect board composition and (2) social networks may be detrimental to corporate governance. Our empirical investigation relies on a unique dataset on executives and outside directors of...

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From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005

Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself is important or whether it simply reflects other...

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Maternal employment and adolescent development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2005

children spend in enriching home environments. Some of the growth in obesity may be related to determinants of excess weight …

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Birth order matters: the effect of family size and birth order on educational attainment

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2005

We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree to which family size and birth order affect a child's subsequent educational attainment. Theory suggests a trade off between child quantity and 'quality'. Family size might...

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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction

Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2006

The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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Vocational training and gender: wages and occupational mobility among young workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make occupational career choices early during their careers and...

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The part-time wage penalty in European countries: How large is it for men?

O'Dorchai, Síle; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - 2007

Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of part-time work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists, mainly because of lacking data. In this paper, we...

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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis

Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical …

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Self-employment: a way to end unemployment? Empirical evidence from German pseudo-panel data

Glocker, Daniela; Steiner, Viktor - 2007

basis of pseudo-panel data for Germany in the period 1996-2002. The estimation method accounts for cohort fixed effects and …

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