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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...

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The Economics of Human Cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In this Paper, we analyse the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone's income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...

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Occupational Choice Across Generations

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and second-generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labour market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...

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Sports and Child Development

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the role of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children’s skill...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...

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Are Elite Universities Losing their Competitive Edge?

Han Kim, E; Morse, Adair; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the location-specific component in research productivity of economics and finance faculty who have ever been affiliated with the top 25 universities in the last three decades. We find that there was a positive effect of being affiliated with an elite university in the 1970s; this effect...

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Immigration and the Earnings of Young Native Workers

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of … second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …

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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

D Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

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