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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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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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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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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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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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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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Econometric simulations provide no evidence that families in West Virginia encouraged sons to drop out of high school in order to earn income as coal miners, at the net expense of later income that they would have earned with more education. Estimates of the typical family's subjective rate of...
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the future. Unemployment benefits do not only depend on an agent’s employment history, but also on the skills reported by …
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different worker types, e.g. age groups. We apply such a method to study the productivity growth and wage growth within the …
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Two alternative models of parental investments in children's human capital are considered and tested empirically using the Indonesian Family Life Survey (IFLS). The pure loan model and the reciprocity with two-sided altruism model yield different predictions about the effect of children's...
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