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Immigration Policy: Methods of Economic Assessment

DeVoretz, Don J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper outlines a set of economic criteria to assess an immigrant receiving country’s immigration policy from three perspectives. These three perspectives include the resident population, the immigrant and the sending country viewpoints. An expanded version of Julian Simon’s financial...

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Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex and party …

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Public Policy and the Labor Market Adjustment of New Immigrants to Australia

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Two separate cohorts of immigrants to Australia are compared in order to assess the potential role of immigrant selection criteria, labor market conditions, and income-support policy in facilitating the labor market adjustment of new arrivals. Although these two cohorts entered Australia only...

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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional preconditions of effective supply and transfer of policy advice with particular respect to the field of...

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'The' Market for Higher Education: Does It Really Exist?

Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Higher education, like any other commodity or service, has been viewed in a variety of economic frameworks. Little of … education, which is the subject of this particular inquiry. Market definition is an essential preliminary step before any … higher education, those who provide inputs into the education process, or those who fund or otherwise subsidize it. The …

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The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage

Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers’ union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...

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Does Money Matter for Schools?

Holmlund, Helena; McNally, Sandra; Viarengo, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

There is considerable disagreement in the academic literature about whether raising school expenditure improves educational outcomes. Yet changing the level of resources is one of the key policy levers open to governments. In the UK, school expenditure has increased by about 40 per cent in real...

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Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?

Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after …

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The Effect of Schooling and Ability on Achievement Test Scores

Hansen, Karsten T.; Heckman, James J.; Mullen, Kathleen J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling...

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Selective Schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...

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