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Choosing the right parents : changes in the intergenerational transmission of inequality - between 1980 and the early 1990s

Levine, David I. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Revised estimates of intergenerational income mobility in the United States

Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"Solon's (1992) landmark study estimated the intergenerational elasticity (IGE) in income between fathers and sons to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001920632

Estimating the returns to community college schooling for displaced workers

Jacobsen, Louis (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The growing importance of family and community : an analysis of changes in the sibling correlation in earnings

Mazumder, Bhashkar (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

"This study presents evidence that the correlation in brothers' earnings has risen in recent decades. We use two distinct cohorts of young men from the National Longitudinal Surveys and estimate that the correlation in earnings between brothers rose from 0.26 to 0.45. This suggests that family...

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Should we teach old dogs new tricks? : The impact of community college retraining on older displaced workers

Jacobson, Louis S. (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

less than those reported for schooling of children. However, our internal rate of return estimates are very sensitive to …

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Maternal employment and overweight children

Anderson, Patricia M. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Taxes, Status Goods, and Piracy

Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies the design of indirect redistributive taxation and of corrective taxation, as well as the formation of equilibrium indirect tax policies via a political process, in the presence of status goods, allowing for the possibility that illegal copies of those goods may be purchased...

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Does unemployment help or hinder becoming independent? : the role of employment status for leaving the parental home

Jacob, Marita; Kleinert, Corinna - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

, welfare state, parents and partner. Resources of each can be pooled, and resources of other actors can compensate for own …

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Who is targeted by One-Euro-Jobs? : a selectivity analysis

Hohmeyer, Katrin; Jozwiak, Eva - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2008

"In 2005 major reforms of the means-tested unemployment benefit system were implemented in Germany. One element of the reforms was to activate benefit recipients by a workfare programme, the so-called One-Euro-Job programme. More than 600,000 benefit recipients entered this programme in the year...

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Pension and children : Pareto improvement with heterogeneous preferences

Gaggermeier, Christian - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2006

, which internalises positive externalities of children - their pension contributions. Individuals may differ in their … preferences for children and their ability to have children at all. They can choose between the status-quo flat-rate benefits and … a new system, in which they get just the benefits that are (on average) financed by their own children, reduced by an …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537151