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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using administrative data, the paper shows that the wage gap for German temp workers is rather large and...
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Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of …
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While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the …
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is punished for its government's behavior. Sanctions can create problems due to international migration. Iran is an …, and reducing exports and imports. At the same time, Iran had a very fast growth of emigration with an increase of 141 … percent. Sanctions have been imposed on Iran's economy in different ways, but so far, it has not been determined how each type …
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effects of oil exports are taken into account, the estimates support output growth convergence between Iran and the rest of …, which could be partly due to the relatively underdeveloped nature of Iran's financial markets. …
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efficiency of Iran's cotton production and to provide empirical evidence on the sources of technical inefficiency of cotton …
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Despite the remarkable increase in women's education levels and the rapid fall of their fertility rate in Iran, female … force participation in Iran. Policy implications are discussed. …
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War II. Those against Iran and Russia are at present in focus for the discussion of sanctions, but also other countries as …
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We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size...
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Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...
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