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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
3476 Andrew E. Clark
Nathalie Colombier
David Masclet
Never the Same After the First Time: The Satisfaction of the Second-Generation Self-Employed
Previous empirical work has shown that the self-employed are generally more satisfied than salaried workers. This paper contributes to the existing literature in two ways. First, using French data ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2008, 29 (7), 591-609)
J20, J21, J23, J24
3475 Eswar Prasad
Raghuram G. Rajan
A Pragmatic Approach to Capital Account Liberalization
Cross-country regressions suggest little connection from foreign capital inflows to more rapid economic growth for developing countries and emerging markets. This suggests that the lack of domestic ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008, 22 (3), 149-172)
F2, F3, F4
3474 Edwin Leuven
Hessel Oosterbeek
Marte Rønning
Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Effect of Class Size on Achievement in Norway
Using a comprehensive administrative database we exploit independent quasi-experimental methods to estimate the effect of class size on student achievement in Norway. The first method is based on a ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 663-693)
I2
3473 Juan D. Barón
Robert Breunig
Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
Tue Gorgens
Anastasia Sartbayeva
Does the Effect of Incentive Payments on Survey Response Rates Differ by Income Support History?
This paper asks which sub-groups of the population are affected by the payment of a small cash incentive to respond to a telephone survey. We find that an incentive improves response rates primarily ...
(published in: Journal of Official Statistics, 2009, 25(4), 483-507)
C89, I39
3468 Javier E. Baez
Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees
Between 1993 and 1994, extremist militia groups carried out the extermination of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda. Nearly one million people were killed and ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 2011, 96 (2), 391 - 408)
O10, O12, O15
3466 Ali T. Akarca
Aysit Tansel
Impact of the 1999 Earthquakes on the Outcome of the 2002 Parliamentary Election in Turkey
The two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999, not only caused enormous amounts of death, destruction and suffering, but also exposed rampant government corruption involving ...
(published in: Institutions and Economic Development: Selected Papers from the ERF 14th Annual Conference, Economic Research Forum, Cairo, Egypt, 2008, 147-164)
D72, D73, Q54
3465 Regina Dionisius
Samuel Mühlemann
Harald Pfeifer
Günter Walden
Felix Wenzelmann
Stefan C. Wolter
Cost and Benefit of Apprenticeship Training: A Comparison of Germany and Switzerland
For the first time it has been made possible to merge a German and a Swiss firm-level data set that include detailed information about costs and benefits of apprenticeship training. Previous analyses ...
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55(1), 7-36)
J24, J31, J44
3463 Timothy J. Halliday
Heterogeneity, State Dependence and Health
We investigate the evolution of health over the life-cycle. We allow for two sources of persistence: unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence. Estimation indicates that there is a large degree ...
(published in: Econometrics Journal, 2008, 11(3), 499-516)
I1, C5
3462 Santiago Budría
Pedro T. Pereira
The Contribution of Vocational Training to Employment, Job-Related Skills and Productivity: Evidence from Madeira Island
In this paper, we analyze the transition to the labour market of participants in vocational training in Madeira Island. In a first stage, we investigate how the employment status at different dates ...
(published in: International Journal of Training and Development, 2009, 13(1), 53-72)
C35, I21, J64
3461 Hakan Berument
Nukhet Dogan
Aysit Tansel
Macroeconomic Policy and Unemployment by Economic Activity: Evidence from Turkey
This paper investigates how macroeconomic policy shocks in Turkey affect the total unemployment and provides evidence on the differential responses of the unemployment by sectors of economic ...
(published in: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2009, 45(3), 21-34)
E60, E24
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