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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence: meta-analytic evidence

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009

We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...

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The combined employment effects of minimum wages and labor market regulation: A meta-analysis

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2010

This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum wages are heterogeneous between countries. As possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the...

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Active labor market policy evaluations: a meta-analysis

Card, David Edward; Kluve, Jochen; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2009

This paper presents a meta-analysis of recent microeconometric evaluations of active labor market policies. Our sample consists of 199 program estimates drawn from 97 studies conducted between 1995 and 2007. In about one-half of these cases we have both a short-term impact estimate (for a...

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The impact of immigration on international trade: A meta-analysis

Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...

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Wage effects of on-the-job training: A meta-analysis

Haelermans, Carla; Borghans, Lex - 2011

A meta-analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on-the-job training. This study shows that the average reported wage effect of on-the-job training, corrected for publication bias, is 2.6 per cent per course. The analyses reveal a substantial heterogeneity between training courses,...

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The causal effect of parent's schooling on children's schooling: a comparison of estimation methods

Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael; Plug, Erik - 2008

Recent studies that aim to estimate the causal link between the education of parents and their children provide evidence that is far from conclusive. This paper explores why. There are a number of possible explanations. One is that these studies rely on different data sources, gathered in...

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The labour market integration of refugee and family reunion immigrants: A comparison of outcomes in Canada and Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2012

This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...

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Family-friendly work practices in Britain: availability and perceived accessibility

Budd, John W.; Mumford, Karen - 2005

Using linked data for British workplaces and employees we find a low base rate of workplace-level availability for five family-friendly work practices - parental leave, paid leave, job sharing, subsidized child care, and working at home - and a substantially lower rate of individual-level...

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Couples' Remote Work Arrangements and Labor Supply

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2024

Using the panel component of the Current Population Survey and questions on work-from-home intensity, the authors examine the relationships between partners' work location arrangements, weekly hours worked, and within-couple labor hours inequality. Fixed-effects estimates suggest a strong...

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Disentangling the Attractiveness of Telework to Employees: A Factorial Survey Experiment

Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van Ootegem, Luc; … - 2022

This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an … characteristics, among which a wide variation in telework possibilities. We find that the relationship between the possibility to … telework and job attractiveness is approximately linear: 10 percentage points more telework hours yield a rise of 2 …

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