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4277 George S Naufal
Ali Termos
The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC
We investigate the responsiveness of remittances from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries to the changes in the price of crude oil. Most of the GCC countries rank in the top 20 remitting ...
(published in: OPEC Energy Review, 2009, 33 (3/4), 184-197 )
F24, P22, N15
4276 Joana Naritomi
Rodrigo R. Soares
Juliano J. Assunção
Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil
This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian ...
(published in: Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72 (2), 393-422)
N26, O17, O40
4275 Amelie F. Constant
Klaus F. Zimmermann
Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Upon arrival in the host country, immigrants undergo a fundamental identity crisis. Their ethnic identity being questioned, they can be classified into four states – assimilation, integration, ...
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 3-30)
F22, J15, J16, Z10
4274 James P. Smith
The Impact of Childhood Health on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
This paper examines impacts of childhood health on SES outcomes observed during adulthood-levels and trajectories of education, family income, household wealth, individual earnings and labor supply. ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009, 91(3), 478 - 489)
I10, J00
4273 Tito Boeri
Immigration to the Land of Redistribution
Negative perceptions about migrants in Europe, the Continent with the largest social policy programmes, are driven by concerns that foreigners are a net fiscal burden. Paradoxically instruments of ...
(published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (308), 651-687)
J38, J5
4272 Jan Boone
Karen van der Wiel
Frederic Vermeulen
Kinky Choices, Dictators and Split Might: A Non-Cooperative Model for Household Consumption and Labor Supply
It is unlikely that husbands and wives always agree on exactly what public goods to buy. Nor do they necessarily agree on how many hours to work with obvious consequences for the household budget. We ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3 (11).)
D11, D12, D13
4271 Michael R. Ransom
David P. Sims
Estimating the Firm's Labor Supply Curve in a "New Monopsony" Framework: School Teachers in Missouri
In the context of certain dynamic models, it is possible to infer the elasticity of labor supply to the firm from the elasticity of the quit rate with respect to the wage. Using this property, we ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (2), 331 - 335)
J42, J63
4269 John J. McArdle
James P. Smith
Robert Willis
Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey
Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous ...
(published in: David A. Wise (ed.), Explorations in the Economics of Aging, Chapter 7, University of Chicago Press, pp. 209-236, 2010)
G10
4268 Andries de Grip
Didier Fouarge
Jan Sauermann
What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?
Using a dataset of science and engineering graduates from 12 European countries, we analyse the determinants of labour migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the ...
(published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2010, 19(5), 407-421)
F22, J61
4266 Petter Lundborg
Paul Nystedt
Dan-Olof Rooth
The Height Premium in Earnings: The Role of Physical Capacity and Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills
The association between stature and favorable labor market outcomes has been extensively documented. Recent studies have attributed this height premium to cognitive and social skills. We offer an ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2014, 49(1), 141-166.)
J10, J70
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