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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

characteristics, which allows us most of the benefits obtained by introducing firm dummies in wage equations for studying the effect … workers belonging to the middle of the wage distribution, while their return to schooling is significantly lower than that of … high wage workers. Wage regressions including the computed factors confirm that human capital is associated with positive …

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The Impact of HIV/AIDS on Social Safety Nets: What Can the Caribbean Expect?

Theodore, Karl; Foucade, Althea Dianne La - EconWPA - 2001

By the end of 1999 HIV/AIDS was present in at least 200 countries and approximately 34.3 million people were living with the disease, 5.3 million of whom had been infected in that year alone (WHO 2000). Approximately 21.8 million persons had died from AIDS by 2000 and countries where life...

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The Duration of Medicaid Spells: An Analysis Using Flow and Stock Samples

Berger, Mark C.; Black, Dan A. - EconWPA - 1996

We use unique data from the Medicaid program of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to examine the duration of Medicaid spells. The data set consists of a one in ten sample of all Medicaid recipients in Kentucky on July 1, 1986, and a similar sample of all new spells between July 1, 1986, and June 30,...

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Maternal Employment and Adolescent Risky Behavior

Aughinbaugh, Alison; Gittleman, Maury - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child’s first three years and during adolescence on his … evidence that mother’s employment early in the child’s life has lasting consequences on participation in risky behaviors …. Similarly, with the possible exception of drinking alcohol—our results do not indicate that maternal employment during …

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Schooling and Parental Death

Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003

Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and semi-nonparametric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school...

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Obesity, Wages and Employment in Europe

Garcia, Jaume; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the associations between obesity, employment status and wages for several European countries. Our … results provide weak evidence that obese workers are more likely to be unemployed or tend to be more segregated in self-employment …

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Long Term Effects of Preschool Investment on school Performance and Labor Market Outcome

Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 2003

Using the NLSY data set, this paper formulates and then empirically estimates the production processes for social, motivational and cognitive skills during early childhood development and the long-term effects of these skills on learning and life-time earnings of an individual. Using these...

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Human Capital and Labour Productivity, Integration of Institutions and Endogenous Growth

Delsen, Lei; Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 1999

This paper is part of a project that attempts to reveal the way labour market institutions, human capital and labour productivity are interconnected. First we discuss two approaches in the human capital theory, stressing some difficulties that could be solved if the approaches are combined. It...

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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training

Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002

Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...

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A Test of the Signalling Hypothesis - Evidence from Natural Experiment

Stolorz, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

The paper proposes an alternative methodology for testing signalling hypothesis based on chances to get a job in a particular class of the job market. The individuals are ranked and matched by an external mechanism, based on preferences of employers in respect to actual observable and perceived...

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