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Efficient Tax Policy Ranks Education Higher Than Saving

Richter, Wolfram F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education...

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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions:A Macroeconomic Perspective

Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions foreconomic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome maybe inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the impositionof a child-labor ban...

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Incentives and Services for College Achievement:Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Angrist, Joshua David; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Phillip - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Many North American college students have trouble satisfying degree requirements in atimely manner. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategiesdesigned to improve academic performance among entering full-time undergraduates at alarge Canadian university. One...

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Pennies from Heaven? Using Exogeneous Tax Variation to Identify Effects of School Resources on Pupil Achievements

Haegeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; families sort themselves non …-randomly into school districts and school districts allocate money based in order to compensate (or reinforce) differences in child … abilities, which leaves estimates of school input effects likely to be biased.[...] …

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Is Education the Panacea for EconomicDeprivation of Muslims? Evidence fromWage Earners in India, 1987-2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials amongreligious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multireligioussocieties like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examiningthe differences in the...

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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: ZwischenStrukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex

Eichhorst, Werner - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...

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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion

Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources ofwage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemploymentbenefits in a random on the...

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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual,job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previouslyunconsidered...

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Development and Sources of Labor Productivityin Chinese Provinces

Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform andopenness, the development and sources of labor productivity has gradually come to theforefront. This paper studies the development and the source of labor productivity in 31Chinese provinces during the period of...

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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimilano; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia’s immigration policy, introduced inthe mid-1990s, on migrants’ probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy changeconsists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The resultsindicate that those who...

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