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The Impact of Language Proficiency on Immigrants' Earnings in Spain

Budría, Santiago; Swedberg, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to investigate the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrants' earnings. The results, based on Instrumental Variables (IV), point to a substantial earnings return to Spanish proficiency, of approximately 27%. This...

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How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions

Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the … (relative to population), immigration increased the high school dropout population by 24%, while only increasing the number of … large expansion of employment in high immigration regions. Specifically, most industries in high-immigration regions …

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different areas of public services. In order to address...

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Charters Without Lotteries: Testing Takeovers in New Orleans and Boston

Abdulkadiroğlu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; Hull, Peter D.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Lottery estimates suggest oversubscribed urban charter schools boost student achievement markedly. But these estimates needn't capture treatment effects for students who haven't applied to charter schools or for students attending charters for which demand is weak. This paper reports estimates...

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The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the UK

Clark, Damon; Del Bono, Emilia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on long-run outcomes including completed education, income and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to either elite or non-elite secondary schools. Using...

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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size

Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...

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The Role of Constitutions on Poverty: A Cross-National Investigation

Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...

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Candidates' Quality and Electoral Participation: Evidence from Italian Municipal Elections

Benedetto, Marco Alberto De; De Paola, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...

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The Consequences of Measurement Error when Estimating the Impact of BMI on Labour Market Outcomes

O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper uses data on both self-reported and true measures of individual Body Mass Index (BMI) to examine the nature of measurement error in self-reported BMI and to look at the consequences of using self-reported measures when estimating the effect of BMI on economic outcomes. In keeping with...

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