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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling

Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...

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Measuring State Dependence in Individual Poverty Status : Are There Feedback Effects to Employment Decisions and Household Composition?

Biewen, Martin - 2004

Using a sample of prime-aged men from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper examines the effects of past poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest that even after controlling for observed and...

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Factor Endowment and Market Size in EU-CEE Trade. Would Human Capital Change the Actual Quality Trade Patterns?

Ferragina, Anna Maria; Pastore, Francesco - 2004

This paper aims to test several hypotheses on the determinants of the quality of trade in cross-country regressions, taking a sample of trade competitors in EU markets. The hypotheses are those underlying two models of VIIT: the so-called neo-H-O model based on factor endowment and an ?economic...

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The Distribution of Wages in Belarus

Verashchagina, Alina; Pastore, Francesco - 2004

This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to education and work experience are high and stable, which is atypical for a transition country. This might be due to the pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant...

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Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants

Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between interethnic marriages and economic assimilation among immigrants in the United States. Two competing hypotheses are evaluated: the productivity hypothesis, according to which immigrants married to native-born spouses assimilate faster than comparable...

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Welfare-to-Work, Wages and Wage Growth

Walker, Ian; Lydon, Reamonn - 2004

This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme that acts as a wage subsidy on wage growth by … income workers induces, reduces the benefits to on-the-job training and so reduces wage growth. In fact, a wage subsidy will … Labour Force Survey panel data to look at wage levels and growth in the UK before and after Working Families? Tax Credit …

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The Effect of High Stakes High School Achievement Awards : Evidence from a School-Centered Randomized Trial

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lavy, Victor - 2004

helpful if low-achieving students reduce investment in schooling because of high discount rates, part-time work, or face peer …

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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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Parental Education and Child?s Education : A Natural Experiment

Chevalier, Arnaud - 2004

Is the intergenerational educational link due to nature or nurture? In order to answer this dilemma, this paper identifies the effect of parental education on their offspring?s schooling attainment using a discontinuity in the parental educational attainment. The discontinuity stems from changes...

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Classic Monopsony or New Monopsony? : Searching for Evidence in Nursing Labor Markets

Schumacher, Edward J.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2004

The market for hospital registered nurses (RNs) is often offered as an example of ?classic? monopsony, while a ?new? monopsony literature emphasizes firm labor supply being upwardsloping for reasons other than market structure. Using data from several sources, we explore the relationship between...

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