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Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help
Canova, Luciano; Vaglio, Alessandro - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper investigates the role performed by mothers in affecting their childrens' performance at school. The article … through which help of mothers may affect pupil's performance both in terms of time devoted to supervision and spillover … effects. Empirical evidence then, using PISA 2006 and focusing on Italian case, shows that education of mothers is an issue …
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An estimation of worker and firm effects with censored data
González de San Román, Ainara; Rebollo-Sanz, Yolanda F. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
In this paper, the authors develop a new estimation method that is suitable for censored models with two high-dimensional fixed effects and that is based on a sequence of least squares regressions, yielding significant savings in computing time and hence making it applicable to frameworks in...
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Skill-Biased Technological Change and the Business Cycle
Balleer, Almut; Rens, Thijs van - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Over the past two decades, technological progress in the United States has been biased towards skilled labor. What does this imply for business cycles? We construct a quarterly skill premium from the CPS and use it to identify skill-biased technology shocks in a VAR with long-run restrictions....
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Offshoring and Labour Market Inequalities
Schwörer, Tillmann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...
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Wage Inequality and the Changing Organization of Work
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work lead to wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are...
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Minimum Wages and Firm Training
Lechthaler, Wolfgang; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The paper analyzes the influence of minimum wages on firms’ incentive to train their employees. We show that this influence rests on two countervailing effects: minimum wages (i) augment wage compression and thereby raise firms’ incentives to train and (ii) reduce the profitability of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755173
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Wage Inequality and the Changing Organization of Work
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work lead to wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the span of competence are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543246
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The Effect of Low-Wage Subsidies on Skills and Employment
Oskamp, Frank; Snower, Dennis J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the ones who earn low wages). Second, by raising the payoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103185
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Firm Training and Wage Rigidity
Lechthaler, Wolfgang - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
Although wage rigidity is among the most prominent subjects in modern economics, its effects on wage compression and firm training have thus far not been considered. This paper is trying to bridge this gap by using a simple two period model which can still by analyzed analytically. I am able to...
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Explaining Labour Market Inactivity in Migrant-Sending Families: Housework, Hammock, or Higher Education
Görlich, Dennis; Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and time allocation in migrant-sending families. Departing from the common finding that labour market participation is lower in migrant households, we investigate whether the reasons...
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