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Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.

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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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Estimating Labour Market Discrimination with Selectivity Corrected Wage Equations: Methodological Considerations and an Illustration from Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Oaxaca, Ronald L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …

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Globalization and Business Cycle Transmission

Artis, Michael J; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The paper uses long-run GDP data for developed countries drawn from Maddison (2003) to generate deviation cycles for the period from 1870 to 2001. The cyclical deviates are examined for their bilateral cross-correlation values in three separate periods, those of the first globalization wave...

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On Identifying the Core of EMU: An Exploration of Some Empirical Criteria

Artis, Michael J; Zhang, Wenda - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper reports strikingly high correlations of the cyclical components of industrial production between the participant countries in the ERM. Supplementing these correlations with criteria based on real exchange rate volatility, trade and monetary policy conformity, cluster analysis is used...

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Are European Business Cycles Close Enough to be Just One?

Camacho, Maximo; Pérez-Quirós, Gabriel; Sáiz Matute, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We propose a comprehensive methodology to characterize the business cycle comovements across European economies and some industrialized countries, always trying to ‘let the data speak’. Out of this framework, we propose a novel method to show that there is no ‘Euro economy’ that acts as...

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Incentives in the Public Sector: Some Preliminary Evidence from a UK Government Agency

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Ratto, Marisa; Tominey, Emma - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

against our data. We find that team size affects the impact of the incentive scheme upon performance. Moreover, while the …This Paper evaluates the impact of a team-based incentive scheme piloted in the public sector agency, Jobcentre Plus …

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Competition and Firm Performance in Transition Economies: Evidence from Firm Level Surveys in Slovenia, Hungary and Romania

Konings, Jozef - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In this paper firm level data are used to test whether competition affects productivity performance in three transition … pressure has a positive impact on firm performance in Hungary and Slovenia, but not in Romania, while in Romenia short …-run competitive pressure has a positive impact on performance. The paper also finds evidence that ownership matters. Traditional firms …

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In-season head-coach dismissals and the performance of professional football teams

Ours, Jan C van; Van Tuijl, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

replacement of head-coaches does not improve team performance. … bookmaker data. We find that, after the head-coach has been replaced, teams perform better than before. However, the performance …

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Do Funds Make More When They Trade More?

Pastor, Lubos; Stambaugh, Robert F.; Taylor, Lucian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

to scale, we find evidence of industry-level decreasing returns: The positive turnover-performance relation weakens when …

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