Search Results - subject:"Self‐Selection"

Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies

McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The decision of whether or not to migrate has far-reaching consequences for the lives of individuals and their families. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a credible counterfactual of what the person and their...

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The impact of studying economics, and other disciplines, on the belief that voluntary exchange makes everyone better off.

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Goossens, Amélie - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010

Using a survey of a large group of first and final-year students of different disciplines, to study their belief in the existence of mutual benefits of voluntary transactions, we observe significant differences between economics and business students on the one hand, and students of other...

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Self-selection into export markets by business services firms – Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … productive services firms that pay higher wages. The surprising finding of self-selection of less profitable German business …

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Financial Constraints, Endogenous Educational Choices and Self-Selection of Migrants

Assuncao, Juliano; Carvalho, Leandro - RAND - 2010

The Roy model predicts that migrants will be disproportionately drawn from the lower half of the educational distribution of the sending country if the sending country has a higher return to schooling. However, Mexican immigrants in the U.S. tend to be disproportionately drawn from the middle of...

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Networks, Sorting and Self-selection of Ecuadorian Migrants

Bertoli, Simone - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2010

This paper provides new empirical evidence about the influence exerted by migration networks upon migrants‟ self-selection … migrants‟ sorting and self-selection. The estimates are in line with the theoretical arguments which predict that migration … networks increase the likelihood or the extent of a negative self-selection of the migrants with respect to education. …

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You get what you pay for: incentives and selection in the education system

Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2010

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Retirement choices in Italy : what an option value model tells us

Belloni, Michele; Alessie, Rob - 2010

Stock and Wise (1990). This implies that we account fordynamic self-selection bias. We also present an extended version of … not able to fullycorrect for dynamic self-selection bias. …

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Self-selection and the power of incentive schemes : an experimental study

Výrašteková, Jana; Onderstal, Sander; Koning, Pierre - 2010

We examine how self-selection of workers into firms depends on the power of the firms' incentive schemes and how it …

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Paying for a name? : comparing the performance of franchised real estate brokerage firms

Locke, Stephen L. - In: The journal of real estate finance and economics 61 (2020) 1, pp. 115-128

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Product and Process Innovation and the Decision to Export: Firm-level Evidence for Belgium

Van Beveren, Ilke; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2009

export market, pointing to the importance of self-selection into innovation. …

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