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This paper studies the impact of educational attainment on Labor Market outcomes using data from the Luxembourg Income …
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cross-nationally variations in parents' employment patterns. We use these three arguments to develop our own models of work …
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Families with children appear among both the 'traditional' and 'new' poor in Russia. On one hand, having one or more … dependent household members has traditionally been recognised as an economic risk. On the other hand, working parents of young … children are often among those 'employed poor' which constitute one of the specific characteristics of the Russian poverty …
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equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have … unconditional quantile partial effects of children along UK and US men's earnings distributions. In the 1970s, most UK and US … fathers enjoyed a modest premium regardless of their relative earnings, which decreased as number of children increased. This …
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This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany, and Austria and investigates the extent to which this gap can be explained by a mis-match between the actual and the years of schooling typical for a given occupation. The...
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modification has crucial implications for the long-term income distribution processes: in a context of sustained increases of … premium, contributing, thus, to control the enlargement of primary income inequality. This long-term effect combines with the … applied to developed countries. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) databases, together with the European Community Household …
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The 'motivation' for this study is the change of the occupational structure and the subsequent increase in employment opportunities especially for white-collar professionals, whose situation was comparatively weak under socialist rule. In this paper, it is assumed that the situation of...
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definition. Using Italian, Canadian and US data provided by Luxembourg Income Study, some different formulations of the Mincer …
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The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U.S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time...
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across countries and over time is not well understood. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study Database, I investigate …
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