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Reproductive Technology and the Child Care Sector : How Access to Oral Contraception and Abortion Shaped Workforce Composition and Quality

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The composition and quality of the child care workforce may be uniquely sensitive to changes in the complementarities between home production and market work. This paper examines whether the expansion of oral contraceptives and abortion access throughout the 1960's and 1970's influenced the...

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The Menopause "Penalty"

Conti, Gabriella; Ginja, Rita; Persson, Petra; Willage, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The motherhood penalty is well-documented, but what happens at the other end of the reproductive spectrum? Menopause--a transition often marked by debilitating physical and psychological symptoms--also entails substantial costs. Using population-wide Norwegian and Swedish data and...

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The returns to occupation-specific human capital - Evidence from mobility after training

Mueller, Barbara; Schweri, Juerg - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

Using a longitudinal dataset based on the PISA 2000 survey, we analyze the effect of inter-firm and occupational mobility on post-training wages in Switzerland to assess the transferability of the human capital acquired in training. We show that OLS provides a lower bound estimate of the wage...

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The promise of workplace training for non-college bound youth: theory and evidence from German apprenticeship

Clark, Damon; Fahr, Rene - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper assesses the potential of `workplace training'' with reference to German Apprenticeship. When occupational matching is important, we derive conditions under which firms provide `optimal'' training packages. Since the German system broadly meets these conditions, we evaluate the...

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Dropping out and revising educational decisions: Evidence from vocational education

Bessey, Donata; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008

Previous research on educational decisions has almost exclusively focused on individual decisions to start a particular education. At the same time, the decision to revise an educational choice has hardly been analyzed, unless it is the decision to drop out. However, dropping out is only one...

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Premature Apprenticeship Terminations: An Economic Analysis

Bessey, Donata; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2007

This paper presents empirical evidence on premature terminations of apprenticeship contracts in Germany. Our novel approach uses human capital theory with a regional component as a clear-cut framework for the analysis. It derives testable hypotheses on individual decisions to finish an...

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Fertility Timing, Wages, and Human Capital

Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1990

Women who have first births relatively late in life earn higher wages. This paper offers an explanation of this fact based on a staple life-cycle model of human capital investment and timing of first birth. The model yields conditions (that are plausibly satisfied) under which late childbearers...

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Bargaining Power in Marriage : Earnings, Wage Rates and Household Production

Pollak, Robert A. - 2005

to market work at the threat point. In the divorce threat model, for example, a wife who does not work for pay while … married might do so following a divorce; hence, her bargaining power would be related to her wage rate, not to her earnings …

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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives : A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation

Fernández, Raquel - 2014

environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher divorce probability and changes in wage structure are each able to … explain a large proportion of the LFP increase. Higher divorce risk increases LFP not because the latter contributes to higher … towards the adjustment of marital consumption in the face of increased divorce risk …

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Male Wage Rates and Marital Status

Kenny, Lawrence W. - 1978

Numerous studies have found that married men earn consider-ably more than single men of the same education, experience, etc. There are several possible explanations of this phenomenon. Recent theoretical developments in the economics of marriage predict that males with higher wage rates have a...

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