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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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2163
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Sonia
R.
Bhalotra
Arthur
van Soest
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Birth Spacing, Fertility and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty and Fecundity
A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth spacing on subsequent mortality and of mortality on the length of the next birth ...
(published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2008, 143 (2), 274-290)
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I12, J13, C33
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2161
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Ruta
Aidis
Saul
Estrin
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Institutions, Networks and Entrepreneurship Development in Russia: An Exploration
In this paper we explore the ways in which institutions and networks influence entrepreneurial development in Russia. By utilizing new Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data collected in 2001, we ...
(published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2008, 23 (6), 656-672)
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J23, M13
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2160
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Paola
Giuliano
Marta
Ruiz-Arranz
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Remittances, Financial Development, and Growth
Despite the increasing importance of remittances in total international capital flows, the relationship between remittances and growth has not been adequately studied. This paper studies one of the ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 90 (1), 144-152)
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F22, F43, O16
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2155
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Riccardo
Faini
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Remittances and the Brain Drain
In most destination countries, immigration policies are increasingly tilted toward the most skilled individuals. Whether this shift hurts economic prospects in sending countries, as argued by the ...
(published in: World Bank Economic Review , 2007, 21 (2), 177-191)
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F02, F22
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2154
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Helmut
Rainer
Thomas
Siedler
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Does Democracy Foster Trust?
The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals’ attitudes toward social and institutional ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37 (2), 251-269)
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P51, Z13
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2153
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Pieter
Bevelander
Justus
Veenman
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Naturalisation and Socioeconomic Integration: The Case of the Netherlands
This paper investigates Dutch immigrants’ naturalisation decision and how naturalisation affects their employment chances and wages in the Netherlands. The population under consideration consists ...
(published in: Pieter Bevelander and Don J. DeVoretz (eds.): The Economics of Citizenship, Malmo University, Malmö: Holmbergs, Sweden, 2008)
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F22 J61 J68
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2152
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Deng
Quheng
Björn
Anders
Gustafsson
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China's Lesser Known Migrants
In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 ...
(revised version published as 'The Hukou Converters - China's Lesser Known Rural to Urban Migrants' in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2014, 23, 657-679)
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J61, O15, P36
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2150
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John
Bennett
Saul
Estrin
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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies
We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to ‘excessive’ entry, ...
(published in Review of Development Economics, 2013, 17, 685-698)
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L50, O14
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2149
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Andrea
Ichino
Fabrizia
Mealli
Tommaso
Nannicini
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From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?
The diffusion of Temporary Work Agency (TWA) jobs originated a harsh policy debate and ambiguous empirical evidence. Results for the US, based on quasi-experimental evidence, suggest that a TWA ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2008, 23 (3), 305-327)
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C2, C8, J6
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2148
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Marina
Bakanova
Saul
Estrin
Igor
Pelipas
Sergei
Pukovich
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Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus
We explore the impact of privatization and the entry of new firms on enterprise performance in Belarus, a transition economy in which reform and market-orientated institutional development has been ...
(published in Saul Estrin, Grzegorz Kolodko and Milica Uvalic (eds.), Transition and Beyond: A Tribute to Mario Nuti, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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P2, P31, L1
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12998Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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