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Internal vs. international migration: Impacts of remittances on child well-being in Vietnam

Binci, Michele; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2012

This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The...

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An empirical growth model for major oil exporters

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the Dutch disease and the resource curse, which primarily focuses on...

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Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier; Decoster, André; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2011

Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...

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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants

Schüller, Simone - 2011

A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...

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Minimum wage, fringe benefits, overtime payments and the gender wage gap

Cerejeira, João; Kızılca, Kemal; Portela, Miguel; … - 2012

Using linked employer-employee data for Portugal, we explore an amendment to the minimum wage law which increased from 75% to 100% of the full minimum wage applied to employees younger than 18. Our results show a widening of the gender wage gap following the amendment: the wage gap for minors...

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Revisiting the complementarity between education and training: The role of personality, working tasks and firm effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between education and training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual, job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previously unconsidered...

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The returns to four-year college for academically marginal students

Zimmerman, Seth - 2011

I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In addition, I develop a theoretical model of college...

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Household finances and the "Big Five" personality traits

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2011

We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective …. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality … openness to experience exert relatively large influences on household finances in terms of the levels of debt and assets held …

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Nice guys finish last: Are people with higher tax morale taxed more heavily?

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012

This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of 'tax morale'. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale implies a high subjective cost of evading taxes. The model predicts that 'nice guys finish last': groups with higher...

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What explains the gender earnings gap in self-employment? A decomposition analysis with German data

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2012

Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in self-employment than in paid employment. Applying an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, more than a quarter of the difference in monthly self-employment earnings can be traced back to...

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