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The Demographic Transition:Causes and Consequences
Galor, Oded - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the variousmechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition.Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance forthe understanding of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486956
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A Note on Risk Aversion and Labour Market Outcomes : Further Evidence from German Survey Data
Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Using the large-scale German Socio-Economic Panel, this note reports direct empirical evidence for significant correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859631
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Wage Gaps Large and Small
Hirsch, Barry - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
The law of one wage does not strictly hold, nor should it be expected to hold, in contemporary labor markets. The law of one wage, however, provides a surprisingly good first approximation of the structure of U.S. wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860584
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Income Volatility and Health
Halliday, Timothy J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We investigate the impact of exogenous income fluctuations on health using twenty years ofdata from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics using techniques from the literature on theestimation of dynamic panel data models....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861088
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Earnings Over the Lifecycle:The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings aredistributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as hisstudents and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching importantconclusions about a whole array...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861361
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The Impact of Welfare Reform on LeaverCharacteristics, Employment and Recidivism:An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri
Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program forsingle parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changesand their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reformsfrom the perspective of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861522
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Political Economy of Immigration in Germany:Attitudes and Citizenship Aspirations
Kahanec, Martin; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
attitudes towards foreigners, political interest of foreigners,intergenerational conflict between natives and foreigners and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861517
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Occupational Segregation and the Gender Wage Gap in Private- and Public-Sector Employment : A Distributional Analysis
Baron, Juan; Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use HILDA data from 2001 - 2006 to analyse the source of the gender wage gap across public- and private-sector wage … distributions in Australia. We are particularly interested in the role of gender segregation within sector-specific occupations in … explaining relative wages. We find that, irrespective of labour market sector, the gender wage gap among low-paid, Australian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859579
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The Role of Educational Choice in Occupational Gender Segregation : Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859602
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Analysing the Gender Wage Gap Using Personnel Records of a Large German Company
Pfeifer, Christian; Sohr, Tatjana - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859626