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Estimating returns to education when the IV sample is selective

Wang, Le - 2012

particularly worrisome, suggesting that the previous IV results are robust. In particular, using China Household Income Project …

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Domestic multinationals, foreign affiliates, and labour demand elasticities

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Greenaway, David - 2012

Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic multinationals is less sensitive to labour cost changes than in foreign multinationals. This difference in the wage elasticity of labour demand persists...

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The impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity: Evidence from linked panel data

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2012

We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the period 1999-2006. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant unobserved workplace...

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Early child care and child development: For whom it works and why

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...

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Does education matter for economic growth?

Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012

Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...

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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several years...

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Visa policies, networks and the cliff at the border

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - 2012

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....

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What explains the decline in wage mobility in the German low-wage sector?

Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2012

earnings attrition in our estimation approach by accounting for the selection into low-wage employment and earnings retention …

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Children, spousal love, and happiness: An economic analysis

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankarananda - 2012

In this paper we examine how children affect happiness and relationships within a family by analyzing two unique questions in the National Longitudinal Study of Youth's 1997 cohort. We find that (a) presence of children is associated with a loss of spousal love; (b) loss of spousal love is...

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Can intensive early childhood intervention programs eliminate income-based cognitive and achievement gaps?

Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2012

How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center … treatment to low birth weight children from both higher- and low-income families between ages one and three, shows much larger … impacts among low- than higher-income children. Projecting IHDP impacts to the U.S. population's IQ and achievement …

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