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Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences

Barrett, Alan - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists, largely economists. For most of its modern history, Ireland has experienced large net outflows. I discuss how the outflow was made up of lower skilled people up until the 1980s...

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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the German Mikrozensus (MZ), the American Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the American Current … resembles the American structure strongly. Cross-sectional and panel results are provided for both countries. Controlling for … unobserved heterogeneity in the random effects panel estimations reduces the industry wage dispersion by about half. Thus …

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Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial logit models are estimated for male and female German youth. The models control for individual, parent, and household...

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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel …

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Employment and Wage Assimilation of Male First Generation Immigrants in Denmark

Husted, Leif; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; … - 2000

Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering … estimated jointly in a random effects model which corrects for unobserved cohort and individual effects and panel selectivity …

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Estimation in a Duration Model for Evaluating Educational Programs

Brännäs, Kurt - 2000

The paper proposes two estimation approaches for duration models that are subject to right censored observations and …

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Parental Separation and Children's Educational Attainment: A Siblings Approach

Björklund, Anders; Sundström, Marianne - 2002

This article analyzes whether the commonly found negative relationship between parental separation in childhood and educational outcomes is causal or mainly due to selection. We use data on about 100,000 Swedish full biological siblings, born in 1951-64, and perform cross-section and...

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The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002

We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust...

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Earnings Risk and Demand for Higher Education: A Cross-Section Test for Spain

Hartog, Joop; Serrano, Luis Diaz - 2002

We develop a simple human capital model for optimum schooling length when earnings are stochastic, and highlight the pivotal role of risk attitudes and the schooling gradient of earnings risk. We use Spanish data to document the gradient and to estimate individual response to earnings risk in...

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Dual Track or Academic Route for Auditors: Does It Matter?

Hartog, Joop; Jonker, Nicole; van Ophem, Hans - 2002

of differently educated auditors are supported by the estimation results in this paper. The part-time, dual track appears …

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