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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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6899
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James
P.
Smith
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The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America
This paper deals with several salient issues about immigrants to the United States and their education. These issues include a comparison of the schooling accomplishments of immigrants and the ...
(published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller. (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, Volume 1A, Chapter 4, pp. 167-195, 2014)
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I20, I23, I28, J10, J15, J61
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6898
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Susan
L.
Averett
Julie
K.
Smith
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Indebted and Overweight: The Link Between Weight and Household Debt
There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused ...
(published as 'Financial hardship and obesity' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2014, 15, 201-212 )
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I10, I12, I14
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6897
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Holger
Görg
Dennis
Görlich
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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers
We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected ...
(published in: Review of World Economics / Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 2015, 151(3), 533-554)
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J31, F14
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6896
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Suresh
de Mel
David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-Up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental Evidence from Sri Lanka
We conduct a randomized experiment in Sri Lanka to measure the impact of the most commonly used business training course in developing countries, the Start-and-Improve Your Business (SIYB) program. ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 106: 199-210)
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O12, J16, L26, M53
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6895
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David
McKenzie
Christopher
Woodruff
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What Are We Learning from Business Training and Entrepreneurship Evaluations around the Developing World?
Business training programs are a popular policy option to try to improve the performance of enterprises around the world. The last few years have seen rapid growth in the number of evaluations of ...
(revised version published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2014, 29(1), 48-82)
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O12, J16, L26, M53
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6894
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Vanessa
Dräger
Paul
Marx
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms’ demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload ...
(published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (4), 942-975)
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J23, J28, J21, J63, J68, J82
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6893
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Philippe
Belley
Nathalie
Havet
Guy
Lacroix
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Wage Growth and Job Mobility in the Early Career: Testing a Statistical Discrimination Model of the Gender Wage Gap
The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2015, 42, 231-260)
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J16, J71, J41
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6890
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Costanza
Biavaschi
Werner
Eichhorst
Corrado
Giulietti
Michael
Jan
Kendzia
Alexander
Muravyev
Janneke
Pieters
Núria
Rodríguez-Planas
Ricarda
Schmidl
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Youth Unemployment and Vocational Training
This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of vocational training and ...
(substantially revised version published in: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics, 2013, 9 (1-2), 1-157 )
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J24, I25, O17
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6889
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Marc
Piopiunik
Guido
Schwerdt
Ludger
Woessmann
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Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on ...
(published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2013, 31, 93-108)
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I20, J24, J31, J64
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6887
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John
T.
Giles
Irina
Murtazashvili
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A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors, with an Application to the Study of Poverty Persistence in China
This paper proposes a parametric approach to estimating a dynamic binary response panel data model that allows for endogenous contemporaneous regressors. Such a model is of particular value for ...
(published as 'A Control Function Approach to Estimating Dynamic Probit Models with Endogenous Regressors' in: Journal of Econometric Methods, 2013, 2 (1), 69-87)
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C13, C33, O15, P25
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12989Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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