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The contributions of diseases to increasing educational mortality differential in Austria

Schwarz, Franz - 2006

This paper examines how much changing educational disparity for specific causes of death contributed to the change in overall educational mortality disparity between 1981/82 and 1991/92 among Austrian adults aged 30-74 years. Besides specific causes of death, the study also examines educational...

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Behavioral explanation for educational health and mortality differentials in Austria

Schwarz, Franz - 2006

The present study examines the health behavior of more than 30,000 individuals aged 25-74 in Austria, using education as an indicator of socioeconomic status. Of particular interest is the magnitude of the educational disparities in health behavior between hypothetical most and least educated,...

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Decreasing fertility, economic growth and the intergenerational wage gap

Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - 2009

Persistent low fertility rates lead to lower population growth rates and eventually also to decreasing population sizes in most industrialized countries. There are fears that this demographic development is associated with declines in per capita GDP and possibly also increasing inequality of the...

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Time is money: Could deferred graduate retirement finance higher education?

Barakat, Bilal - 2011

number of alternatives, namely full public funding, tuition fees, either up-front or delayed and income-contingent, or a …

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Past and future of human capital in Southeast Asia: From 1970 to 2030

Goujon, Anne; Samir, K. C. - 2006

This paper examines levels of educational attainment in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam for the period 1970-2030 through the reconstruction and projection of levels of educational attainment. While the study of the past shows that the determination to invest in...

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Women's education in the fertility transition: The reversal of the relationship between women's education and birth spacing in Indonesia

2005

It is generally thought that both the demand for children and the cost of fertility control are major forces in … children. This paper examines one aspect of fertility, namely the second birth interval in Indonesia over the period 1970 to … children. Hence, family planning programs can have a big impact on fertility in a relatively low-educated population. In …

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Gender differences in the transition to adulthood in France: Is there convergence over the recent period?

Winkler-Dworak, Maria; Toulemon, Laurent - 2007

Numerous studies have shown that educational attainment and labour force status have a strong impact on the timing of family formation for both men and women. The effects of educational level, enrolment in an educational setting and employment seem to be different for men and women. The aim of...

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Is it (dis)advantageous to have mixed parentage? Exploring education & work characteristics of children of interethnic unions in Britain

Muttarak, Raya - 2013

ethnic individuals comparing to children of two ethnic minority parents and native children of two native white parents … population, signalling better integration of children with mixed parentage compared to their counterparts whose both parents are …Extant studies commonly claim that mixed ethnic children face difficulties in affiliating with either of the parental …

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The low mortality of a learned society

Winkler-Dworak, Maria - 2006

This study addresses the mortality of the members of a learned society. Following the literature on the social gradient of mortality, members of a learned society should exhibit much lower death rates than other social groups. We use biographical records from the members of the Austrian Academy...

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Widening educational inequalities in mortality: An analysis for Austria with international comparisons

Schwarz, Franz - 2006

Recent studies have reported a widening in the relative mortality gap between the socioeconomic classes in several industrialized western countries. The present paper aims to determine whether or not education-related differentials in mortality have increased between 1981/82 and 1991/92 in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352606