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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling

Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes. There is no evidence that smaller classes …

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Brides for sale: Cross-border marriages and female immigration

Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Soohyung - 2012

from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. …

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Immigration and the distribution of incomes

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2012

We review research on the impact of immigration on income distribution. We discuss routes through which immigration can affect income distribution in the host and source countries, including compositional effects and effects on native incomes. Immigration may affect the composition of skills...

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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000

Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007

What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the idea that …

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Flexibility at the margin and labor market volatility in OECD countries

Sala, Héctor; Silva, José Ignacio; Toledo, Manuel E. - 2008

achieve similar volatility than fully deregulated labor markets. Flexibility at the margin produces a gap in separation costs … de labor market volatility. This increased volatility is partially reverted when limitations in the duration and number … explain the similar volatility observed in many regulated OECD labor markets with flexibility at the margin vis-à-vis the …

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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis

Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012

combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting …

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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

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Housing mobility and downsizing at older ages in Britain and the United States

Banks, James; Blundell, Richard; Oldfield, Zoë; Smith, … - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the lifecycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...

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House price volatility and the housing ladder

Banks, James; Blundell, Richard; Oldfield, Zoë; Smith, … - 2010

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The gender wage gap in four countries

Daly, Anne; Kawaguchi, Akira; Meng, Xin; Mumford, Karen - 2006

comparing the gender wage gap across four countries, Australia, France, Japan and Britain. Our results concord with those of …

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