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Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …
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main outcomes of young adults, namely labor market attachment and fertility, and its relation to orphanhood status. The … key outcomes (e.g. schooling, work, fertility outcomes). It also provides information on so-called "parental investments … are less likely to be employed(true primarily for males) or to have children (females) early in their lives. Evidence …
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More and more children do not grow up in traditional nuclear fam- ilies. Instead, they grow up in single …" in family structure due to parental relationship dissolution on children. In this study I empirically test whether … children are traumatized both in the short and the long run by shocks in the family structure during childhood. I focus on edu …
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A segregation of the labour market into a family-friendly and a non-family friendly sector has the effect that women self-select into the sectors depending on institutional constraints, preferences for family-friendly working conditions and expected wage differences. We find that neglecting the...
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Using a dataset covering the population of Danish private-sector <p> workers, I analyze the relationship between job changes and wage <p> dynamics. I …nd that the number of past job changes is positively <p> related to wages. This result is consistent with the idea that workers <p> changing …rms end up...</p></p></p></p>
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We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both short-and long-term effects of entering...
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Recent empirical work questions the negative relationship between family size and children’s attainments proposed by …
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diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …
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We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely...
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The paper examines the labour quality explanation of the employer size-wage gap: larger firms pay higher wages because they employ more skilled workers. Most previous studies control for unobserved skills of workers using longitudinal data and the fixed effects estimator thus relying on a...
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