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... on both wage and job satisfaction. Job search Informal Treatment effect Machine learning Causal forest C01 C10 C21 J31 J64 Job-seekers are very likely to refer to friends and family to contact potential employers to find a job. If successful, informal job hiring occurs...

.... 29 09 2021 10 04 2022 27 05 2022 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2022 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Income inequality Changes in inequality Factor inequality weights Education Decomposition C21 D31 O12 The gap between the rich...

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... 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Algeria Education Spatial econometric Convergence Inequality A2 C21 D63 O49 Education is a key factor in the development of any country, and differences in standards...

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... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Immigrants Income Labour market outcomes Employment chances Naturalization Regression discontinuity design C21 J15 J61 During the 2007/2008-2011/2012 period of the recent European debt and unemployment crisis, migrants’ unemployment rates...

... explanatory variables including gender, marital status, age, health and economic variables; ε_i is an error term. C21 C40 I31 Z12 Among the many aspects of life which have been considered in the literature, also religious involvement, as a determinant of happiness, has...

... Development Agricultural economies Developing countries Ethiopia Propensity score matching D1 C14 C21 Q18 H41 During the second half of the twentieth century, most developing countries had public extension systems that were funded by donor agencies, often with very limited resources...