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The Determination of a Migration Wave Using Ethnicity and Community Ties

Locher, Lilo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

If people come to live in a country different from their nation state, due to border shifts, expulsion, or migration, they adopt some of the new country’s habits after some time. This paper investigates their (return) migration decision when they have been restricted to live in the foreign...

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Bureaucratic Delay, Local-Level Monitoring, and Delivery of Small Infrastructure Projects: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...

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Police and Crime: Evidence from Dictated Delays in Centralized Police Hiring

Buonanno, Paolo; Mastrobuoni, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper exploits dictated delays in local police hiring by a centralized national authority to break the simultaneity between police and crime. In Italy police officers can only be hired through lengthy national public contests which the Parliament, the President, and the Court of Auditors...

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The Cost Impact of Spam Filters: Measuring the Effect of Information System Technologies in Organizations

Caliendo, Marco; Clement, Michel; Papies, Dominik; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

More than 70% of global e-mail traffic consists of unsolicited and commercial direct marketing, also known as spam. Dealing with spam incurs high costs for organizations, prompting efforts to try to reduce spam-related costs by installing spam filters. Using modern econometric methods to reduce...

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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ

Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep Singh; Langørgen, Audun; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to...

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The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates

Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences when measuring poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors actually affect poverty estimates. Unlike the standard approach in studies of the...

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Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board

Shen, Kailing; Kuhn, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...

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Consumer Search Costs and Preferences on the Internet

Jolivet, Grégory; Turon, Hélène - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyse consumers' search and purchase decisions on an Internet platform. Using a rich dataset on all adverts posted … and transactions made on a major French Internet platform (PriceMinister), we show evidence of substantial price …

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The Impact of Internet Diffusion on Marriage Rates: Evidence from the Broadband Market

Bellou, Andriana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the United States since the 1990s on one aspect … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

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Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavy, Miroslav; Thum, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …

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