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Part 3: Interethnic marriages and economic performance: I'll marry you if you get me a job: Marital assimilation and immigrant employment rates
(2009)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to test whether marriage to a native affects the probability that an immigrant will be employed. Design/methodology/approach: Utilizing 2000 US Census data, first the effect of ...
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Patterns of Employment Enhancing Economic growth, Optimal Sectoral Structure of Labour Productivity, Capital-Labour Substitution and Employment Growth
(European Commission,Social and Economic Affairs, 2001)
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Peer Review vs Metric-based Assessment: Testing for Bias in the RAE Ratings of UK Economics Departments
(2011)RAE ratings have been criticized as biased in favour of universities that are old, in England, large and represented on the panel. We investigate these accusations for the 1996 and 2001 RAE ratings of economics departments ...
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Performance pay and ethnic earnings differences in Britain
(2014)In the first British study, we show that the ethnic earnings gap amongst performance pay jobs is smaller than that amongst time rate jobs. This partially reflects sorting but persists with diminished magnitude in fixed ...
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Piecemeal reform of domestic indirect taxes toward uniformity in the presence of pollution: With and without a revenue constraint
(2015)The literature on indirect tax reforms in pollution-ridden economies is quite limited. This paper, using a general equilibrium model of a perfectly competitive small open economy with both production- and consumption-generated ...
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Policies for Reducing the Natural Rate of Unemployment
(Praeger, 1986)
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Policy influences on unemployment: The European experience
(1999)This paper considers the implications of four kinds of labour market policies for the 1980s rise in European unemployment: unemployment compensation, active labour market policies, employment protection legislation and ...
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The political economy of constitutional restraints
(2011)Constitutions are multidimensional objects with non-trivial implications on the structure of the political environment and, therefore, on the policy outcomes. This paper models constitutions as sets of "restraints" on the ...
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The political economy of Cyprus’s financial sector reform
(Routledge, 2018)Balancing adjustment policies and structural reforms during a crisis is a delicate act. While both may be necessary, balancing their respective intensity and scope and their relative timing and sequencing is a crucial ...
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Pollution and reforms of domestic and trade taxes towards uniformity
(2013)This paper builds a small open economy trade model where there is pollution from the production and consumption of goods. In the presence of production and consumption pollution, we examine a piecemeal consumer-price-neutral ...
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