Search Results - subject:"1996 - 2002"

The linkage between outcome differences in cotton production and rural roads improvements : a matching approach

Kingombe, Christian K.M. - 2012

This paper tests the linkage between a binary treatment (rural road improvement project) and a continuous outcome (cotton productivity) in Zambia's agro-based Eastern Province as measured by repeated cross-sections of farm-level data from the Zambian post-harvest survey (PHS). We use this PHS...

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From boom to bust and back again : a dynamic analysis of IT services

Maican, Florin G. - 2012

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Trade, trust and institutions

Yu, Shu; Haan, Jakob de; Beugelsdijk, Sjoerd - 2011

To investigate the relation between trust and formal institutions, we analyze bilateral trade patterns in a sample of 16 European countries between 1996-2009. Trust in trading partners has a significant positive effect on bilateral trade. However, our results suggest that trust and formal...

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The returns to four-year college for academically marginal students

Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2011

I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In addition, I develop a theoretical model of college...

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Changes in the Austrian structure of wages, 1996-2002 : evidence from linked employer-employee data

Pointner, Wolfgang; Stiglbauer, Alfred - 2010

Analyzing data from the Structure of Earnings Surveys we find that wage dispersion in Austria increased marginally between 1996 and 2002. There was an increase in the returns to education which accrued only to male workers. The positive effects of tenure and especially of experience on wages...

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Investor protection and the value of shares : evidence from statutory rules governing variations of shareholders’ class rights in Russia

Muravyev, Alexander - 2009

This paper uses a quasi-experimental framework provided by recent changes in Russian corporate law to study the effect of investor protection on the value of shares. The legal change analyzed involves the empowerment of preferred (non-voting) shareholders to veto unfavorable changes in their...

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Reservation wages, expected wages and the duration of unemployment: evidence from British panel data

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2009

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Social interaction and sickness absence

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2009

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Does innovation help the good or the poor performing firms?

Damijan, Jože P. (contributor); Kostevc, Črt (contributor) - 2009

-level innovation data for a large sample of Slovenian firms in the period 1996-2002, the paper finds surprising results that … sample of Slovenian firms in the period 1996-2002 and, controlling for different types of innovation, we study whether … sample of Slovenian firms from 1996-2002. Unlike some recent studies, we do not find the response of productivity growth to …

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Reservation wages, expected wages and the duration of unemployment : evidence from British panel data

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2009

In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for a sample of individuals who are not in work,...

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