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Based on a model of two-stage life cycle, this paper investigates and measures intergerational relationships in lifetime earnings. Using data from PSID, I have found that the lifetime earnings transmission equation is non-linear. The elasticity of a son's lifetime earnings with respect to his...
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participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …. Since 1973, with petroleum crashes, the process of growth has slowed down in Europe, but it was only after 1985 that Ireland …
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participated in the convergence phenomenon, Ireland, also neutral but democratic, was not able to converge to the developed world …. Since 1973, with petroleum crashes, the process of growth has slowed down in Europe, but it was only after 1985 that Ireland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556858
Over the issue of the difference or otherwise between economically active children and home-care children, there are … two competing claims by researchers. One holds that economically active children and home- care children are the same in … that both groups of children have identical determinants, while the other contradicts this view. Using the probit analysis …
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Estimates of child poverty are based on the percentage of children living in poor households, which ignores the issue … is not possible to report figures relating to the number of children living in poverty. Yet analysts using income and …
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Child poverty matters directly as children constitute a large share of the population and indirectly for future … individual and national well- being. Developed country measures of child poverty are dominated by income-poverty, although health … children. Moreover, a broader range of factors than material well-being matter for child development; family and community play …
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portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of …
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technology. Even today less than half of the school-age children are going to school. Some common but many of them disputed … perceptions about lower school-enrolment rate, at the household level are that the younger age children, younger in their brothers … and sisters, male children, and the children from educated parents; high-income households; smaller households; wealthy …
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Two 'event' scales for financial markets, called 'scale of market shocks' (SMS), are introduced, which measure the importance of the market movements. These indices are based on the price volatility and are computed by integrating mapped asset volatilities over time horizons that range from 1...
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Differences in asset measurement techniques can have a major impact on reported capital costs. Their influence on total … that different methods of asset measurement could lead to quite large variations in reported capital costs. Considered in … the context of total unit costs, however, the differences created by these asset measurement effects were relatively small …
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