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Never the same after the first time: The satisfaction of the second-generation self-employed

Clark, Andrew E.; Colombier, Nathalie; Masclet, David - HAL - 2008

-employed (those whose parents were not self-employed) are more satisfied overall than are the second-generation self-employed. We … their parents, as well as parental transfers which loosen the self-employment participation constraint. This result is found …

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Evidence on the Efficacy of School-Based Incentives for Healthy Living

Cuffe, Harold E.; Harbaugh, William T.; Lindo, Jason M.; … - HAL - 2011

We analyze the effects of a school-based incentive program on children's exercise habits. The program offers children … an opportunity to win prizes if they walk or bike to school during prize periods. We use daily child-level data and …

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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2013

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There … to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map out the correlation between school sports and adult labour …-market outcomes. We show that different types of school sports are associated with different types of jobs and labour-market insertion …

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Benefits to elite schools and the formation of expected returns to education: Evidence from Mexico City

Estrada, Ricardo; Gignoux, Jérémie - HAL - 2014

on the earnings expected with high school education alone. This suggests that students believe that the benefits from …

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Returns to Education and Education-Occupation Mismatch within a Transition Economy. Empirical Analysis for the Russian Federation

Kyui, Natalia - HAL - 2010

This paper makes a thorough analysis of the returns to tertiary education and education-occupation matches within a transition economy and compares these returns to similar returns in a developed economy. This study shows through the example of the Russian Federation that the increase in the...

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The Return to Schooling in Structural Dynamic Models: A Survey

Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006

This papers contains a survey of the recent literature devoted to the returns to schooling within a dynamic structural framework. I present a historical perspective on the evolution of the literature, from early static models set in a selectivity framework (Willis and Rosen, 1979) to the recent...

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Earnings Dispersion, Risk Aversion and Education

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - HAL - 2004

from schooling decisions. In our model, individuals are heterogeneous with respect to school and market abilities but …

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Testing the Specification of the Mincer Wage Equation

Belzil, Christian - HAL - 2006

Using panel data taken from the NLSY, I perform the joint estimation of i) a reduced-form dynamic model of the transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the celebrated Mincerian wage equation with skill heterogeneity,...

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Service quality planning for freight distribution with time windows in large networks

Deflorio, Francesco P.; Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus; Tadei, … - HAL - 2009

This paper introduces a methodology whose aim is to evaluate how the quality of a freight distribution service with time windows, which operates on a given road network to satisfy a number of requests, affects the total cost of the distribution service . The result of a service quality setting,...

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Internal marketing as a new alternative for the service employees' performance: an empirical study

Bellaouaied, Myriam; Gam, Abdelkader - HAL - 2011

The increasing importance of relational marketing in the service sector as underlined by several authors and particularly by Berry (1983) culminates in a new marketing orientation toward internal marketing, even suggesting a significant impact of the latter on service quality perception. Several...

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