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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004

This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...

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The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Zeiss, Christopher - 2004

. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible … possible locking-in effects by separate estimation of in- and after-programme effects. Regarding several different programme …

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Race, Performance, Pay and Retention among National Basketball Association Head Coaches

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2004

This paper estimates racial differences in the retention probability, pay and performance of NBA coaches over the 1996-2003 period. Using a hazard function approach, I find small and statistically insignificant racial differences in the exit hazard, conditional on team performance, team payroll,...

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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment : Factors of Supply and Demand

Hogerbrugge, Maurice; Euwals, Rob - 2004

Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the … country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a … sectoral level of industry suggests that the growth of part-time employment in the 1990s relates strongly to the growth in …

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Understanding the Effects of Early Motherhood in Britain : The Effects on Mothers

Walker, Ian; Goodman, Alissa; Kaplan, Greg - 2004

This paper examines the socio-economic consequences of teenage motherhood for a cohort of British women born in 1970. We employ a number of methods to control for observed and unobserved differences between women who gave birth as a teenager and those who do not. We present results from...

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What a Difference a Y Makes : Female and Male Nascent Entrepreneurs in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2004

In western industrialized countries men are on average more than twice as active in entrepreneurship as women. Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper uses an empirical model for the decision to become selfemployed to test for differences...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices

Lemos, Sara - 2004

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture … will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data …

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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

poverty experience on future poverty status, future employment status and household composition. The empirical results suggest … of future periods. Moreover, there is evidence that experiencing poverty has a negative effect on future employment …

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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 … pervasive role of the state in fixing wages in the dominant budget sector, rather than to market forces coming into play. Women …

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