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A Lost Generation? Long Term Socioeconomic Outcomes in Orphans

Bozzoli, Carlos - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

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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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...

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Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

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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The Returns to Cognitive Abilities and Personality Traits in Germany

Heineck, Guido; Anger, Silke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

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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Occupations at risk: The task content and job stability

Nedelkoska, Ljubica - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

In the last few decades, Germany, similar to other developed countries, has been witnessing a sharp decline of the jobs that used to constitute the middle-class of the 1970s and the 1980s. This decline has been associated with the level to which jobs are codifiable. This is because, some argue,...

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Firm Size, Wages and Unobserved Skills: Evidence from Dual Job Holdings in the UK

Muravyev, Alexander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

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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Causal effects of subsidized career breaks

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Liljeberg, Linus - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2005

The paper uses a quasi-experimental situation to analyze the effects of career interruptions on future labor market outcomes. Data are generated by a Swedish program that granted career breaks to applicants until funds where exhausted. Comparing approved and declined (due to lack of funds)...

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From giving birth to paid labor: the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...

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Can adult education delay retirement from the labour market?

de Luna, Xavier; Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

In this paper, we examine whether adult education delays retirement and increases labour force participation among the elderly, a mechanism suggested in the OECD strategy for “active ageing” and the “Lisbon strategy” of the EU. Using register data from Sweden, we analyse transcripts from...

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