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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1599 Maurice Schiff
Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated
Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the "new brain drain" literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, ...
(published in: Caglar Ozden and Maurice Schiff (eds.), International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain, Palgrave MacMillan: New York, 2006)
D61, D62, F22, H20, H41, I12, J61
1598 Nil Demet Güngör
Aysit Tansel
The Determinants of Return Intentions of Turkish Students and Professionals Residing Abroad: An Empirical Investigation
The study estimates an empirical model of return intentions using a dataset compiled from an internet survey of Turkish professionals and Turkish students residing abroad. In the migration ...
(substantially revised version published as 'Brain Drain from Turkey: Return Intentions of Skilled Migrants' in: International Migration, 2012, 52(5), 208-226)
F20, F22
1597 Lex Borghans
Bart H.H. Golsteyn
Time Discounting and the Body Mass Index
In many Western countries, the relative weight of people - measured by the Body Mass Index (BMI) - has increased substantially in recent years, leading to an increasing incidence of overweight and ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2006, 4(1), 39-61)
I1
1596 Amit Kumar Bhandari
Almas Heshmati
Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries
This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The ...
(published in: Global Economic Review, 2005, 32(3), 261-290)
C23, J23, L60
1595 Thomas Dohmen
Social Pressure Influences Decisions of Individuals: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees
Analyzing the neutrality of referees during twelve German premier league (1st Bundesliga) football seasons, this paper documents evidence that social forces influence agents' preferences and ...
(revised version published as 'The Influence of Social Forces: Evidence from the Behavior of Football Referees' in: Economic Inquiry, 2008, 46(3), 411-424)
J00, M50
1594 Craig Gundersen
David C. Ribar
Food Insecurity and Insufficiency at Low Levels of Food Expenditures
This study uses data from the December 2003 Food Security Supplement of the CPS to compare the food insufficiency and insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective ...
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2011, 57 (4), 704-726.)
I3
1591 Nabanita Datta Gupta
Nina Smith
Leslie S. Stratton
Is Marriage Poisonous? Are Relationships Taxing? An Analysis of the Male Marital Wage Differential in Denmark
The word for 'married' in Danish is the same as the word for 'poison'. The word for 'sweetheart' in Danish is the same as the word for 'tax'. In this paper we expand upon the literature documenting a ...
(published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2007, 74 (2), 412-433)
J12, J31
1590 Anna Maria Mayda
International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of Economic and Non-Economic Determinants
In this paper I empirically investigate economic and non-economic determinants of migration inflows into fourteen OECD countries by country of origin, between 1980 and 1995. The annual panel data set ...
(published as "International mirgration: a panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows" in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (4), 1249-1274)
F22
1588 Marco Caliendo
Sabine Kopeinig
Some Practical Guidance for the Implementation of Propensity Score Matching
Propensity Score Matching (PSM) has become a popular approach to estimate causal treatment effects. It is widely applied when evaluating labour market policies, but empirical examples can be found in ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 31-72)
C40, H43
1587 Daniele Checchi
Massimo Florio
Jorge Carrera
Privatization Discontent and Its Determinants: Evidence from Latin America
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this discontent. We use the results of Latinobarometro (2002), a survey of a representative ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2009, 45(3), 333-350)
H32, G14, L33
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