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Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities

Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...

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The Economics of Human Cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

In this Paper, we analyse the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone's income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey

Dohmen, Thomas J; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Schupp, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...

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Market and Public Provision in the Presence of Human Capital Externalities

De Fraja, Gianni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper suggests that human capital externalities are important in determining whether goods and services should be privately or publicly provided. We study situations where that the cost incurred by an individual provider for providing quality is affected by the human capital of her...

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The Dynamics of Exclusion and Fiscal Conservatism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the bottom portion of income distribution. It is argued that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the economic literature, inequality will then be associated with less, rather...

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The Education, Labour Market and Health Consequences of Child Labour

Beegle, Kathleen; Dehejia, Rajeev H; Gatti, Roberta - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Though there is a large literature on the determinants of child labour and many initiatives aimed at combating this phenomenon, there is limited evidence on the consequences of child labour for socioeconomic outcomes such as education, occupational choice, wages, and health. Using panel data...

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The Evolution of Modern Educational Systems: Technical Vs. General Education, Distributional Conflict and Growth

Bertocchi, Graziella; Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

We study the evolution of an educational system which is founded on a hierarchical differentiation between technical and general education, with a superior social status attached to general. The resulting dynamic political equilibrium is best summarized by the ratio of vocational to general...

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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Trade and Tasks: An Exploration over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O.; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the German Qualification and Career...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

proportion of knowledge workers in employment, depending on the response of the overall demand for knowledge to the implied … reduction in the cost of acquiring it. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of … knowledge input in the production of human capital. An improvement in IT is modelled as an increase in the number of people who …

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