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Éducation et marchés du travail à Brazzaville et Pointe Noire (Congo-Brazzaville)

Kuepie, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe - DIAL - 2011

(english) The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of education on labor market entry, particularly on earnings in the two largest cities of the Republic of Congo. We examine firsthand data from the 2009 Congo's Employment and Informal Sector Survey (Enquête sur l’emploi et le secteur...

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Analyzing Zero Returns to Education in Germany: Heterogeneous Effects and Skill Formation

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Schmitz, Hendrik - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

We analyze the effect of education on wages using German Socio-Economic Panel data and regional variation in mandatory years of schooling and the supply of schools. This allows us to estimate more than one local average treatment effect and heterogeneous effects for different groups of...

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Smoking and Returns to Education: Empirical Evidence for Germany

Reilich, Julia - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011

Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we assume a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate we...

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Education and Labour Market Outcomes in Sub-Saharan West Africa

Kuepie, Mathias; Nordman, Christophe; Roubaud, François - DIAL - 2006

(english) The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of education on urban labour market participation and earnings in seven major West African cities. Our results show that although education does not always guard against unemployment, it does increase individual earnings in Abidjan,...

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Changing Returns to Education Across Cohorts: Selection, School System or Skills Obsolescence?

Hægeland, Torbjørn - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2001

This paper investigates whether economic returns to education in Norway differ across cohorts. Differences in returns to education may arise from selection effects - the large increase in educational attainment in postwar years may have changed selection into education. They may also result from...

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Labor Market Modeling Recognizing Latent Job Attributes and Opportunity Constraints An Empirical Analysis of Labor Market Behavior of Eritrean Women

Arneberg, Marie W.; Dagsvik, John K.; Jia, Zhiyang - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2002

/97 Eritrean Household Income and Expenditure Survey for urban areas. We estimate structural choice probabilities of being in the …

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Savings and Consumption When Children Move Out

Rottke, Simon; Klos, Alexander - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

children are gone and save only a small proportion of the freed-up resources. Since parents had fewer resources to save while …Based on the Italian Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) and the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), we show … increases significantly. Parents approximately upgrade their personal lifestyle up to the level of childless peers after all …

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Kinder - ein Quell der Freude?!

Humpert, Stephan - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

It is well known, that the presences of children lower parental happiness. That is based on psychological and … economical reasons. The effect holds on for micro data of the GSOEP. The number of children affects an inverse u-shaped curve on … after generating terms of interaction for catching some effects of macroeconomic uncertainty. Children turn to be positive …

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Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Outcomes: Are They Related?

Berger, Eva M.; Spieß, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behaviorof five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the …

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Tout est au mieux dans ce meilleur des ménages possibles The Pangloss critique of equivalence scales

Lind, Jo Thori - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2001

A common approach to defining equivalence scales is to consider a household modelled as if it maximizes a single utility function. This may be founded on an assumption of the household maximizing a welfare function of individual utilities. For a positive analysis of the household, this may be...

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