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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012

In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer-employee data from Denmark. Specifically, exploiting information retrieved from this comprehensive database and implementing proper instrumental variable strategies, we are able to identify...

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Tax reform in Georgia and the size of the shadow economy

Torosyan, Karine; Filer, Randall Keith - 2012

This paper applies three different methods widely used in the literature to track changes in shadow economic activity in Georgia following a drastic tax reform in 2005. The first method is a currency demand approach based on macro level data. The second and third methods rely on micro data from...

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A control function approach to estimating dynamic probit models with endogenous regressors, with an application to the study of poverty persistence in China

Giles, John T.; Murtazashvili, Irina - 2012

This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. Such a model is of particular value for settings in which one wants to estimate the effects of an endogenous treatment on a binary outcome. In...

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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? Cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection

Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012

Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms …' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms … effect is observed in flexible labour markets. This conditioning effect of employment protection is in line with a recently …

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The impact of education and occupation on temporary and permanent work incapacity

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Lau, Daniel; Pozzoli, Dario - 2012

This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to disability via sickness absence. Our contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and...

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Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2012

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ panel VAR techniques to use a large annual dataset on 22 OECD countries over the period 1987-2009. The VAR approach allows to addresses the endogeneity problem by allowing the...

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Alike in many ways: Intergenerational and sibling correlations of brothers' earnings

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2012

We model the correlations of brothers' life-cycle earnings separating for the first time the effect of paternal earnings from additional residual sibling effects. We identify the two effects by analysing sibling correlations and intergenerational correlations jointly within a unified framework....

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Selection, heterogeneity and the gender wage gap

Machado, Cecilia - 2012

Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation …

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Promotion determinants in corporate hierarchies: An examination of fast tracks and functional area

Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael Leonard; Poinas, … - 2012

300 of the largest corporations in the U.S. in the period from 1981 to 1988. The estimation conditions on unobserved …

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Son preference and children's housework: The case of India

Lin, Tin-chi; Adserà, Alícia - 2012

Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households (NFHS-3) to conduct the first study that analyzes whether...

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