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Sample Attrition in the Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics

Boudarbat, Brahim; Grenon, Lee - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an analysis of the effects of attrition and non-response on employment and wages using the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. We consider a structural model composed of three freely correlated equations for non-attrition/response, employment and wages. The model...

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Has Atypical Work Become Typical in Germany?

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

on the changing patterns of labor market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labor market … duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labor market reforms promoting in particular non-standard forms of …

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The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model

Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pay and non … institutions, the pattern found in Germany shows sequences of de- and re-regulatory reforms of employment protection and increasing …

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Not So Standard Anymore? Employment Duality in Germany

Eichhorst, Werner; Tobsch, Verena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

on the changing patterns of labour market segmentation or 'dualization' of employment in Germany. While labour market … duality in Germany can partially be attributed to labour market reforms promoting, in particular, non-standard forms of … contributed to the expansion of overall labour market inclusion and job growth in Germany and that at least some forms of non …

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Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family

Blundell, Richard; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...

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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments

Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper we use a Finnish panel spanning 22 years to predict the mean, the variance and the skew of the present value of lifetime income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime...

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Post Schooling Human Capital Investments and the Life Cycle Variance of Earnings

Magnac, Thierry; Pistolesi, Nicolas; Roux, Sébastien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We propose an original model of human capital investments after leaving school in which individuals differ in their initial human capital obtained at school, their rate of return, their costs of human capital investments and their terminal values of human capital at a fixed date in the future....

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Rent Sharing as a Driver of the Glass Ceiling Effect

Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm heterogeneity and for collective bargaining. Moreover, by...

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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills

Dupuy, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur; workers self-select the type of skills to supply and firms...

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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression

Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The baby-boom and subsequent baby-bust have shaped much of the history of the second half of the 20th century; yet it is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that links the latter to the Great Depression and the...

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