IND Pub Traditional estimates that often find minimum wage disemployment effects include controls for state unemployment rates and stateand year-fixed effects. Using CPS data on teens for the period 1990–2009, we show that such estimates fail to account for heterogeneous employment patterns that are correlated with selectivity among states with minimum wages. As a result, the estimates are ofte...

While the transition to lead-free electronics, which began nearly a decade ago, is complete for most commercial products, many safety, mission and infrastructure critical systems that were originally exempt from RoHS and WEEE are only now transitioning. For these types of products qualification is very expensive and the consequences of failure can be catastrophic, therefore carefully engineered...

The cable harness manufacturing industry has been growing in a fast pace during the recent years in India. Cable harnesses are used to link together all the electrical components scattered throughout any electrical equipment. Cable harness manufacturing involves a series of operations which are to be carried out in a proper sequence to make a good quality harness. In real time scenario, high vo...

Between 2003 and 2007, the value of shares of Indian companies held by foreigners went up by roughly 13 times. This paper seeks to explain this event. A simple decomposition of changes in the value of foreign shareholding suggests a negative contribution owing to changes in insider shareholding (which actually went up), with the bulk of the change being contributed by the rise in Indian market ...

Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are estimated jointly in a random effects model which corrects for unobserved cohort and individual effects and panel selectivity due to missing wage information....

the present research identified major barriers of isfahan university teachers participation in electronic technology courses. a second goal of this study was to examine the effects of characteristics and demographics of university teachers on these barriers. in this research problems and barriers fell into three distinct categories: personal, perceptual, and contextual. a questionnaire was desi...

Heterogeneous Treatment and Self-Selection in a Wage Subsidy Experiment The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months. The second, the qualification ...

Article history: Received 17 October 2010 Received in revised form 30 November 2011 Accepted 13 April 2012 Available online 21 April 2012 China's central government incrementally introduced various kinds of student financial aid since the late 1990s in response to public concerns about the rising burden of college prices. Despite the marked increase in financial assistance from governmental as ...

There is little micro-economic evidence of the macroeconomic argument of excessive borrowing and overinvestment in East Asia before the crisis of 1997. Using firmlevel panel data-set from four Asian countries, this paper examines the efficiency of internal and external funds and compares the rates of return to these funds. We obtain selectivity-corrected random effects estimates of rates of ret...