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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?

Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.

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The costs of favoritism: is politically-driven aid less effective?

Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Overtime Work Dual Job Holding and Taxation

Frederiksen, Anders; Graversen, Ebbe Krogh; Smith, Nina - 2001

Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on hours and wages in overtime work and second job which is merged to detailed register information...

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The Matching Efficiency of Regional Labour Markets A Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation, France 1990-1995

Ibourk, Aomar; Maillard, Bénédicte; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2001

We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb- Douglas production frontier model extended to allow the efficiency coefficient to depend on variables meant to capture workers and firms characteristics. We apply this methodology to examine regional...

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Estimations of Occupational and Regional Matching Efficiencies Using Stochastic Production Frontier Models

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

By applying a stochastic production frontier approach to the matching process of unemployed and vacancies, this paper provides novel detailed insights into the process of job creation. For different labor markets as defined by occupation and region, the methodology produces estimates of the...

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Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using Bounds

Blundell, Richard W.; Gosling, Amanda; Ichimura, Hidehiko; … - 2004

This paper examines changes in the distribution of wages using bounds to allow for the impact of non-random selection into work. We show that bounds constructed without any economic or statistical assumptions can be informative. However, since employment rates in the UK are often low they are...

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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Scotland: An Endogenous Switching Model

Heitmüller, Axel - 2004

The public-private sector wage gap in Scotland in 2000 is analysed using the extension sample of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). Employing an endogenous switching model, and testing for double sample selection from the participation decision and sector choice, the unadjusted wage gap...

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Non-Linearities in the Expansion of Capital Stock

Pfann, Gerard A.; Letterie, Wilko; Verick, Sher - 2004

The empirical identification of non-linearities in investment relies on how investment is assumed to be separated into various regimes. Using German establishment-level panel data, we estimate a two-regime model of replacement and expansion investment which allows us to observe regime...

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Robust estimation of wage dispersion with censored data: An application to occupational earnings risk and risk attitudes

Pollmann, Daniel; Dohmen, Thomas; Palm, Franz C. - 2012

We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...

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Household finances and the "Big Five" personality traits

Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2011

We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decision-making at the individual...

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