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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
immigration unemployment wages labor markets panel data comparative studies
2012/10/23
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare stat...
Do Fiscal and Political Decentralization Raise Students' Performance? A Cross-Country Analysis
school outcomes PISA fiscal decentralization political decentralization
2012/10/23
The low quality of education is a persistent problem in many developed countries. Parallel to in the last decades exists a tendency towards decentralization in many developed and developing countries....
New Evidence of the Causal Effect of Family Size on Child Quality in a Developing Country
New Evidence Causal Effect Family Size Child Quality Developing Country
2016/3/9
This paper presents new evidence of the causal effect of family size on child quality in a developing-country context. We estimate the impact of family size on child labor and educational outcomes amo...
Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms
product cycle ownership structure contract environment export variety processing trade China
2012/10/22
We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and im...
Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries
immigration growth unemployment Granger causality
2012/10/25
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the bootstrap panel Granger causality testing approach of Kónya (200...
Migrant Women on the Labour Market: On the Role of Home- and Host-Country Participation
female labour force participati on immigration cultural transmission
2012/10/26
The behaviour of migrant women on the labour market is influenced by a variety of factors, among which the culture of the home and host country. Part of the literature investigates the role of home-co...
How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country
child labour education uncertainty moral hazard optimal taxation
2012/10/30
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes scho...
This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed coun...
The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores
immigrants school performance natives
2012/11/1
We study whether a higher share of immigrant pupils affects the school performance of natives using aggregate multi-country data from PISA. We find evidence of a negative and statistically significant...
Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country: North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union
return migration human capital education duration of migration
2012/11/1
This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. ...
Good and Bad Institutions: Is the Debate Over? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence from the Textile Industry
institutional quality production efficiency stochastic frontier model
2012/11/1
Using firm-level data from nine developing countries we demonstrate that (a) certain institutions like restrictive labour market regulations that are considered to be bad for economic growth might be ...
Islamic Outfits in the Workplace in Turkey,a Muslim Majority Country
Islamic Outfits Workplace in Turkey Muslim Majority Country
2009/11/6
This article attempts to explore the ways in which the headscarf issue
is invoked to characterize differentiated visions of secularism in Turkey’s
sociopolitical structure and history. It attempts t...
Inventories:a cross-country comparison of behaviour and methodology
Inventories cross-country comparison behaviour methodology
2009/11/4
There are a number of contrasting economic theories regarding companies' motivations for holding inventories. One theory suggests firms use inventories to smooth production levels over time in respons...
Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state The role of labor-market status, country of origin, and gender
fertility immigrants labor-market status Sweden
2008/12/16
This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of foreign-bor...
Lee-Carter mortality forecasting: a multi-country comparison of variants and extensions
functional data Lee-Carter method mortality forecasting nonparametric smoothing principal components state space
2008/12/12
We compare the short- to medium-term accuracy of five variants or extensions of the Lee-Carter method for mortality forecasting. These include the original Lee-Carter, the Lee-Miller and Booth-Maindon...