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The effect of household characteristics on economic returns to schooling: evidence from the Palestinian territories
Aranki, Ted - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 4 (2013) 1, pp. 36-56
returns to schooling in Palestine is overestimated because of omitted unobservable household characteristics from the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669170
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Policy Options for Reducing Poverty and Raising Employment Rates in Israel
Hemmings, Philip - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Welfare-to-work measures are a central theme of Israel’s labour and social policies to tackle relative poverty, which is concentrated among the Arab-Israeli and Ultra-orthodox (Haredi) communities. Policies include pilot programmes involving private-sector job placement (the “Wisconsin”...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552863
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Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance
Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003
In exploring the impact of tax policy on labor-market performance, the paper first investigates how tax reform impacts labor supply and equilibrium unemployment in representative agent models.The impact of tax policy on labor market performance depends importantly on various other labor-market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092296
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Tax reforms and labour-market performance: An evaluation for Spain using REMS
Emilio Boscá, José; Domenech, Rafael; Ferri, Javier - BBVA Research, Grupo BBVA - 2009
This paper uses REMS, a Rational Expectations Model of the Spanish economy designed by Bosca et al (2007) to analyse the effects of lowering the overall tax edge to the level prevailing in the US. Our results partially confirm previous findings in the literature: a reduction in the overall tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008515182
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Job creation in Spain: Productivity, growth, labour market reforms or both
Emilio Bosca, Jose; Ferri, Javier; Andres, Javier; … - BBVA Research, Grupo BBVA - 2010
The benefits implied by changing the growth model are at the heart ofthe heated political and economic debate in Spain. Increases in productivity and the reallocation of employment towards more innovative sectors are defended as the panacea for most of the ills afflicting the Spanish economy. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550309
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A Search Interpretation of Male-Female Wage Differentials.
Bowlus, A.J. - University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics - 1995
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Competition for land and labour among individual farms and agricultural enterprises: Evidence from Kazakhstan's grain region
Petrick, Martin - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2013
This article evaluates the recent evolution of farm structure in Kazakhstan's grain region against the reform objectives of the 1990s and the family farm theory that underpinned the latter. In the study region, super-large agroholdings, large-scale enterprises and smaller individual farms...
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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt: Der Zeithorizont macht den Unterschied
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2012
Ob die Marktform des Monopsons am Arbeitsmarkt vorliegt, ist fur die Frage des Für oder Wider des Mindestlohns von … Strukturen am Arbeitsmarkt nachgewiesen werden, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns nicht nur zu einer exogenen Lohnerhöhung für … gilt fur den Unternehmer mit Marktmacht am Arbeitsmarkt genau dasselbe, was auch fur alle anderen Unternehmer ohne …
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PROFIT DETERMINATION IN U.K. MANUFACTURING.
CONYON, M.; MACHIN, S. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1989
This paper examines the determinants of profitability in 90 U.K. manufacturing industries over the period 1983-86. It considers the importance of labour market characteristics in determining profits and how their inclusion in a profitability equation affects the concentration-margins...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005368594
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The Labour Market Position of Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands: Reason for Migration, Naturalisation and Language Proficiency
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
On the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002 and the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002, we investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the labour market position of Turkish immigrants. We use regression techniques to correct for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822974