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Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labor Market

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

We often observe minority ethnic groups at a disadvantage relative to the majority. Why is this and what can be done about it? Efforts made to assimilate, and time, are two elements working to bring the minority into line with the majority. A third element, the degree to which the majority...

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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, IncomeDistribution and Social Welfare

Dasgupta, Indraneel - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2008

We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identicalindividual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric andconcave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles...

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Management quality, firm size, and managerial compensation: An international comparison

Schwalbach, Joachim; Brenner, Steffen - Institut für Management <Berlin, Humboldt-Universität> - 2001

This paper deals with the relationship between management quality, firm size, and managerial compensation.

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The Dynamics of School Attainment of England’s EthnicMinorities

Wilson, Deborah; Burgess, Simon M.; Briggs, Adam - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

We exploit a universe dataset of state school students in England with linkedtest score records to document the evolution of attainment through school fordifferent ethnic groups. The analysis yields a number of striking findings. First,we show that, controlling for personal characteristics, all...

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The Economic Determinants of Truancy

Burgess, Simon M.; Gardiner, Karen; Propper, Carol - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Truancy is often seen as irrational behaviour on the part of school ageyouth. This paper takes the opposite view and models truancy as thesolution to a time allocation problem in which youths derive currentreturns from activities that reduce time spent at school. The model isestimated using a US...

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Parental Investment in Childhood and Later Adult Well-Being: Can More Involved Parents Offset the Effects ofSocioeconomic Disadvantage?

Hango, Darcy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

involvement and the gender ofthe parent. Father interest in education has the strongest impact on earlierpoverty, especially at … age 11. Meanwhile, both father and mother interest inschool at age 16 have the largest direct impact on education. The … frequency ofoutings with mother at age 11 also has a larger direct impact on education thanoutings with father, however, neither …

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The Impact of Social Capital on Crime : Evidence from the Netherlands

Akçomak, I. Semih; Weel, Bas ter - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link...

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Institutionalized Corruption and the Kleptocratic State

Charap, Joshua; Harm, Christian - 1999

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

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Generalized Contest Success Functions

Rai, Birendra K.; Sarin, Rajiv - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

The key element of models of contest is the Contest Success Function (CSF) which specifiesthe winning probabilities of agents. The existing axiomatizations of CSFs assume thatcontestants can make only one type of investment. This paper generalizes these axiomatizationsto the case where each...

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Parametric Contest Success Functions

Rai, Birenda K.; Sarin, Rajiv - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

The key element of models of contest is the Contest Success Function (CSF) whichspecifies the winning probabilities of agents. We provide an axiomatization of two parametricfamilies of CSF’s. In the first, the winning probability of each agent depends onthe investments and a vector of...

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