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Analysis of population aging is typically framed in terms of chronological age. However, chronological age itself is not necessarily deeply informative about the aging process. This paper reviews literature and conducts empirical analyses aimed at investigating whether chronological age is a...
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This paper studies the effects of a large welfare benefit reduction on the children in the affected families. The welfare cut targeted adult refugees who received residency in Denmark, and it reduced their disposable income by 30 percent on average over the first five years. We show that...
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Analysis of population aging is typically framed in terms of chronological age. However, chronological age itself is not necessarily deeply informative about the aging process. This paper reviews literature and conducts empirical analyses aimed at investigating whether chronological age is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015098960
The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …
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This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol …
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An extensive literature on labor-market outcomes by sexual orientation finds lower wages for gay men compared to … heterosexual men and higher wages for lesbians compared to heterosexual women. Recent work looking over multiple time periods …
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is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows … controlling for potentially confounding effects at the individual level. The effect of cohort size on male wages is identified …
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is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This paper estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … the labour force. The effect of cohort size on wages is identified through an instrumental variables strategy which, in … groups. The results support the hypothesis that cohort size has a negative effect on male wages, particularly for the highly …
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and wages is not a genuine causal effect, but largely explained by strong spatial sorting mechanisms. We also find that …
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