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Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Puerto Rico

Bluedorn, John C.; Cascio, Elizabeth U. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

significantly lower levels of education as adults than their counterparts in less exposed regions. Using the interaction of wind … speed and age at the time of the storm as an instrument, we then find that maternal education is related to the probability … that a child speaks English. Our estimates imply an additional year of education raises the probability that a child speaks …

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State Dependence in a Multi-state Model of Employment Dynamics

Prowse, Victoria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

preferences, and also controls for the possible endogenity of education, fertility and non-labor income. Significant positive true …

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How Damaging is Part-time Employment to a Woman`s Occupational Prospects?

Prowse, Victoria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

This paper investigates the causes of well documented association between part-time employment and low occupational attainment amongst British women. In particular, the relative importance of structural factors and unobserved heterogeneity to the occupational attainment of women who choose to...

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Moving Down: Women`s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991-2001

Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

The UK`s Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the `hidden brain drain` when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self-reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of the...

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Dual Tracks: Part-time Work in Life-Cycle Employment for British Women

Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Almost half the women in work in the UK work part-time, but views conflict: does this support a woman`s career or is it a dead-end trap? Cohort data on labour market involvement to age 42 show highly varied pathways through full/part-time/non-employment. Econometric estimation confirms that...

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Part-time Work - A Trap for Women`s Careers? An Analysis of the Roles of Heterogeneity and State Dependence

Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

Part-time work has been a major area of employment growth for women in the UK over recent decades. Almost half the women in employment now work part-time and two-thirds have worked part-time for some part of their working lives. Part-time employment is welcomed by many women as a means of...

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Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975-2001

Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...

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The Supermodular Stochastic Ordering

Meyer, Margaret; Strulovici, Bruno - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013

In many economic applications involving comparisons of multivariate distributions, supermodularity of an objective function is a natural property for capturing a preference for greater interdependence. One multivariate distribution dominates another according to the supermodular stochastic...

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The Global Distribution of Income

Anand, Sudhir; Segal, Paul - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This paper investigates recent advances in our understanding of the global distribution of income, and produces the first estimates of global inequality that take into account data on the incomes of the top one percent within countries. We discuss conceptual and methodological issues -...

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Desert and Inequity Aversion in Teams

Gill, David; Stone, Rebecca - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings. We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team members find it painful to receive less than their...

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