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Effort and comparison income: experimental and survey evidence
Clark, Andrew E.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2006
This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift …. The individual's rank in the income distribution is a stronger determinant of effort than others' average income …: those who received higher income offers or had higher income rank in the past exert lower levels of effort for a given …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272020
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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful ?omnibus measure? of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276293
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352575
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Assorted essays in economics inequality, labor supply and gender roles
Søgaard, Jakob Egholt - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012503170
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Public education for the children left behind
Camacho, Carmen; Shen, I-ling - 2010
expansive income tax policy that is adopted to increase public education expenditure per pupil. It is shown that such a policy … may exacerbate income inequality in the long run if for the less skilled dynasties, the benefits of more public spending …-induced tax base erosion is not severe, an expansive income tax policy indeed enhances future human capital for all dynasties, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269791
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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270511
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Family location and caregiving patterns from an international perspective
Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2010
adult children and their parents. We then examine whether differences in family structure affect the amount of informal care … adult children provide to their elderly parents. Lastly, we look for cross-country differences in family location and … insights into how family-related and institutional factors shape patterns of time transfers from adult children to elderly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271386
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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336010
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Earnings Inequality, Returns to Education and Immigration into Ireland
Barrett, Alan; FitzGerald, John; Nolan, Brian - 2000
Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262376
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Is there a Return-Risk Link in Education?
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2001
Risk averse investors have to be compensated in higher expected returns when facing investments with higher risk. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to test the positive relationship between return to education and the risk involved in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262526