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In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
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international financial decision-making, also as it relates to the legitimacy of the international system in the eyes of the public …
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the preservation of the central bank’s legitimacy requires that a clear line be drawn between the central bank’s provision …
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to provide a macroeconomic perspective on the microeconomic problem of why people don't find work. The first section … business cycle theory. The second section deals with imperfect information as an impediment to finding work: search theory …
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The paper uses BHPS waves 1–5 (1991–5) to compare paid work participation rates of men and women. Year …-on-year persistence in paid work propensities is high, but greater for men than women. Non-work persistence is higher for women. Using …
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Some existing welfare programs (“work-first”) require participants to work in exchange for benefits. Others (“job … can assist the agent’s job search and can mandate the agent to work, and (ii) agents’ skills depreciate during …-search assistance requires large reemployment subsidies. The optimal program features compulsory work activities for low levels of …
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The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … identification on the probability to work controlling for a number of other determinants. While ethnically assimilated immigrant men …
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. Empirical evidence studying economic behaviour like work participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the …
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Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. Existing theoretical literature suggests that these forms of organization should …
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This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We …
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