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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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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 examine a set of listed family firms through the means of a survey that seeks to understand the variations in the level of training, education and experience across this business form. We find great degree of concentration of family members in the top management in key critical positions....
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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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The paper studies the effects of the changing age and education composition of the labour force on productivity growth in Singapore. The quality change of workers from aging and education is measured through a quality index. Quality change through education is the key driving force for the...
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This paper utilizes a Swedish alcohol policy experiment conducted in the late 1960s to identify the impact of prenatal alcohol exposure on educational attainments and labor market outcomes. The experiment started in November 1967 and was prematurely discontinued in July 1968 due to a sharp...
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