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Why Do Scientists Move? The Mobility of Scientists
This policy brief provides an overview of new evidence on the determinants of the mobility of scientists - high human ca…
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Highly Educated Women No Longer Have Fewer Kids
This policy brief summarizes evidence that the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women’s education in t…
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Did Russian Migration to Russia Affect the Labor Market?
As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia…
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Does Gender Matter for the Innovativeness of SMEs?
This policy brief summarizes the results of an on-going research project on the gender aspect of companies’ innovativene…
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Education for the Poor
Authors: Lasha Lanchava and Zurab Abramishvili, ISET and CERGE-EI. This brief summarizes the results of a study by Lanch…
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Growing Inequalities in Workplace Amenities
Inequality is considered to be a serious detrimental factor for societies’ development. It has been shown to undermine t…
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Does Immigration Help Diffuse Knowledge? Evidence from Russian Scientists
Author: Ina Ganguli, SITE. Immigration is a hotly contested policy issue in many countries. Often, the debate centers on…
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Equity and Efficiency in the Latvian Tax-Benefit System
There is a trade-off between two major objectives of a tax-benefit system: equity and efficiency. The tax-benefit system…
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Meeting Qualification Mismatch with Vocational Training
While in an ideal world the qualification preferences of job seekers and employers would coincide, in reality this is of…
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