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traditional income data. We find that intergenerational SWB mobility-as measured by subjective wealth and life satisfaction …
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The increasing flows of immigrants in Europe over the last decade has generated a range of considerations in the policy agenda of many receiving countries. One of the main considerations for policy makers and public opinions alike is whether immigrants contribute their ”fair” share to their...
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We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...
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pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country setting. Analyzing rich individual-level data from a six-country survey …, we find that while the outbreak has no impacts on household income losses, it results in a 63-percent reduction in the … expected own labor income for the second-poorest income quintile. The impacts of the pandemic are most noticeable in terms of …
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This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups, literacy skills are an important determinant of the hourly wage. In the second step, we show that differences in proficiency with respect to literacy can explain more than three...
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during the First Indochina War. Difference-in-difference estimation results suggest that school-age children who were exposed … educated spouses, and raised more educated children. We discuss various robustness checks and extensions that support these …
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, Vietnam still remains a large positive outlier conditional on its income. Possible higher motivation of, and coaching given to …, Vietnamese students only partly explains Vietnam's performance, and this is also the case for various observed household- and … and the other participating countries is due not to differences in students' and schools' observed characteristics, but …
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rate in general, but by definition only for households with children. Overall the reform has a positive impact on labour …
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, respectively. We also find some indicative evidence of stronger impacts of air pollution for younger, primary school students who … find significant effects on students' test scores for temperature extremes and air pollution over the past 12 months. Our …
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