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What is Left to Residual Claimants? The Empirics of Income Reported by Entrepreneurs and Workers
Poutvaara, Panu; Tuomala, Juha - EconWPA - 2004
Using Finnish panel data, we study how entrepreneurs differ from workers in education and income dynamics. We find that workers have higher median income in all educational groups. Without additional controls, entrepreneurs have higher average income with all but undergraduate level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556770
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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers
Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to … there differences among genders? Does “family” have an impact? Is the effect of family related variables similar among … internationally, especially in direction of the United States. The impact of the “family” on the probability of taking a postdoc …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556413
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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World
Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005
effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412981
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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals
Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062414
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Universitary Financing and Welfare: A Dynamic Analysis with Heterogeneous Agents and Overlapping Generations
Sanchez, Juan M. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper develops a model in which it is possible to evaluate alternatives of human capital financing. The alternative systems under discussion are: total feeing; graduates taxes and uniform taxes (this can be associated to the scheme presently used in the Argentina universitary system)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561294
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Child Labor and Fertility
Schrepler, Ramona - EconWPA - 2003
labor when children can supplement family income early in life and must support their parents in old age as adults. Parents …
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Qualitative Efficiency Assessment of Markets: An Institutional Approach to Training
Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 2004
We investigate the effect of institutions on efficiency of training markets. After setting up a theoretical institutional framework that shows how institutions affect efficiency, we apply this framework to the real world. An empirical analysis of institutions affecting training markets will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561540
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College Characteristics and the Wages of Young Women
Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996
Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have positive impacts on young women's wages. We find evidence of ability sorting, but controlling for ability, women who attend higher quality colleges earn higher wages. Women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125045
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College Quality and the Wages of Young Men
Daniel, Kermit; Black, Dan; Smith, Jeffery - EconWPA - 1996
Using the rich data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we show that several dimensions of college quality have substantial positive impacts on young men's wages. This finding is robust to a wide array of alternative specifications. Controlling for ability reveals that sorting of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125048
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Effect of a School Finance Reform on Housing Stock and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Proposal A in Michigan
Roy, Joydeep - EconWPA - 2004
Local financing of public schools in the U.S. leads to a bundling of two distinct choices - residential choice and school choice - and increases the degree of socioeconomic segregation across school districts. A school finance reform can go a long way in weakening this link. In this paper I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125973