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Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
migration migrant networks consumption poverty wealth rural China
2012/10/23
In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant i...
School and Drugs: Closing the Gap – Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the US
mentoring programs peer effects risky behaviors educational programs randomized trials
2012/10/23
We present evidence on how The Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP hereafter) worked in the US. While the program was regarded as successful in the short-term, in the long-run its educational results wer...
Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany
immigration sectoral change output growth post-war Germany
2012/10/23
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natur...
Impact of Bilingual Education Programs on Limited English Proficient Students and Their Peers: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Texas
bilingual education
2012/10/23
Texas requires a school district to offer bilingual education when its enrollment of limited English proficient (LEP) students in a particular elementary grade and language is twenty or higher. Using ...
The Role of Peers in Estimating Tenure-Performance Profiles: Evidence from Personnel Data
tenure-performance profiles experience earning on-the-job peer effects productivity call centres
2012/10/19
In this paper, we estimate tenure-performance profiles using unique panel data that contain detailed information on individual workers' performance. We find that a 10 per cent increase in tenure leads...
Multidimensional Well-Being at the Top: Evidence for Germany
multidimensional measurement well-being Germany
2012/10/19
This paper employs a multidimensional approach for the measurement of well-being at the top of the distribution using German SOEP micro data. Besides income as traditional indicator for material well-...
Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe
continuous vocational training labor productivity growth
2012/10/19
In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivity growth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to what extent vocatio...
Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom
graduates under-employment over-education persistence United Kingdom
2012/10/18
This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of individuals who graduated in 2002/3, micro-data collected by the Higher Education Stati...
How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model
job search local labor markets location-based policies ripple effects
2012/10/18
This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of non-overla...
The Effect of Religion on Cooperation and Altruistic Punishment: Experimental Evidence from Public Goods Experiments
cooperation experiment public goods punishment religion
2012/10/18
This paper experimentally examines how religious festivals and the degree of religiosity affect cooperation and altruistic punishment by using public goods experiments. We conducted the experiments in...
Sectoral Shifts, Diversification and Regional Unemployment: Evidence from Local Labour Systems in Italy
unemployment sectoral shift diversification spatial dependence nonparametrics
2012/10/18
Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when...
Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
foreign ownership firm survival Germany
2012/10/18
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys perfor...
War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal
conflict women’s employment added worker effect geography Nepal
2012/10/18
This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-differe...
The Effects of Social Security Taxes and Minimum Wages on Employment: Evidence from Turkey
minimum wages payro ll taxes employment Turkey
2012/10/18
Worker-level panel data are used to analyse the separate employment effects of increases in the social security taxes paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and 200...
Evidence of State-Level Variability in the Economic and Demographic Well-Being of People with Disabilities in India
disability India economic well-being state variations people with disabilities
2012/10/18
Among countries with comparable levels of income, India has one of the more progressive disability policy frameworks; however, people with disabilities in India are subject to multiple disadvantages. ...