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The impact of migration on family left behind
Antman, Francisca M. - 2012
parental health. Results show that elderly parents receive lower time contributions from all of their children when one child … migration on elderly parents. After discussing the identification issues involved in estimation, I review the literature on the … effects of migration on the education and health of non-migrant children as well as the labor supply of non-migrant spouses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009532139
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - In: Annual review of economics 6 (2014), pp. 689-733
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
importance of credit constraints in forming skills is examined. There is little support for the claim that untargeted income … will better capture the active role of the emerging autonomous child in learning and responding to the actions of parents …
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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258249
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The GED
Heckman, James J.; Humphries, John Eric; Mader, Nicholas S. - 2010
induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …
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Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
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Overeducation and mismatch in the labor market
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2011
This paper surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic were reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the US led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...
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The returns to education: microeconomics
Harmon, Colm; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Walker, Ian - In: Journal of economic surveys 17 (2003) 2, pp. 115-155
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Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply : theory and evidence revisited
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
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Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply : theory and evidence revisited
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with age-specific survival rates show that an increase in lifetime labor supply is not a necessary, nor a...
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