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Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second …
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The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for … extent the conclusions of some studies change if some alternative indicator for the tax burden on labour is employed. We … indicator for the tax burden on labour is also shown to affect the conclusions of some well-known empirical models. …
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Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second …-best efficient to deviate from Ramsey’s Rule and to distort qualified labour less than nonqualified labour. The result holds for …
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A Beveridgean pension scheme invariably reduces the marginal return to labour, and will thus discourage labour. A … pension contribution will discourage labour less if the scheme is Bismarckian than if it is Beveridgean. A Bismarckian scheme … may even encourage labour. …
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Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two databases of cognitive skills: estimates of...
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This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...
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educated labour force, provision of administrative and judicial services, the control of corruption and crime, and the …
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Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000–2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...
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for consumption and the hours of time supplied to the labour market, they also choose their schooling level and retirement … labour supply. As the agent gets older, biological deterioration sets in and human capital depreciates at an increasing rate …. This ultimately prompts the agent to withdraw from the labour market. The microeconomic and macroeconomic effects of three …
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Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … employment and earnings in England. Clear associations between labour market outcomes and sports participation are established …
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