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What More Than Parental Income? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents
Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Lena; Lindquist, Matthew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Sibling correlations are used as overall measures of the impact of family background and community influences on individual outcomes. While most correlation studies show that siblings are quite similar in terms of future achievement, we lack specific knowledge of what it is about family...
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565196
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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy: Does Rationing Play a Role?
Brilli, Ylenia; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in conjunction with data on public childcare availability. Public childcare … account rationing in public childcare access and the functioning of the childcare market. Our estimates indicate that …
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Market Work and Motherhood Decisions in Contexts
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
jointly and, in addition to personal characteristics, include variables related to the childcare system, parental leave … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762203
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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America: Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo; Galiani, Sebastián; Cruces, Guillermo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor force in the region with at least secondary education increased from 40 to 60 percent....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403384
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Is There Such Thing as Middle Class Values? Class Differences, Values and Political Orientations in Latin America
López-Calva, Luis Felipe; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...
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Can Money Change Who We Are? Estimating the Effects of Unearned Income on Measures of Incentive-Enhancing Personality Traits
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Boyce, Christopher J.; Wood, Alex M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The importance of noncognitive childhood skills in predicting higher wages is well documented in economics. This paper studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371872
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When Supply Meets Demand: Wage Inequality in Portugal
Centeno, Mario; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Wage inequality in Portugal increased over the last quarter of century. The period from 1982 to 1995 witnessed strong increases in both upper- and lower-tail inequality. A shortage of skills combined with skill-biased technological changes are at the core of this evolution. Since 1995,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008558937
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A Microfoundation for Production Functions: Assignment of Heterogenous Workers to Heterogenous Jobs
Dupuy, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In very different fields of economics, economic inference and policy evaluation require economists to parametrize a production function that links measures of input factors to measures of output. While doing so, strong assumptions are implicitly made about microeconomic variables governing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703309
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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks, Wage Distribution and Technical Change: A Critical Review
Dupuy, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper reviews the literature on two-sided atomeless assignment models of workers to tasks. Using simple parametric examples, the fundamental differences between the comparative advantage and the scale of operations models are illustrated. Holding the distributions of abilities and tasks and...
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