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Public Education in an Integrated Europe: Studying to Migrate and Teaching to Stay?

Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. Migration provides a market insurance in case labor market opportunities in the home country are...

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Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor

Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human capital investments in both countries. The possibility of emigration boosts investments in human capital in the country with flat-rate benefits. Correspondingly, those expecting...

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Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State

Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...

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School Shootings and Student Performance

Poutvaara, Panu; Ropponen, Olli - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can perform a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the...

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The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990s: Slowing Convergence

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

, the largest factor was that the “unexplained” gender wage gap fell much faster in the 1980s than the 1990s. Our evidence … suggests that changes in labor force selectivity, changes in gender differences in unmeasured characteristics and in labor … convergence of the unexplained gender pay gap. …

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Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women: 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

wages and work hours; and omitted variables that affect both wage offers and the propensity to work; as well as when age …

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The Economics of Discrimination: Evidence from Basketball

Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

discussion of gender as well. I focus on discrimination in pay, hiring, and retention against black NBA players and coaches and … pay disparities by gender among college coaches. There was much evidence for each of these forms of discrimination against … differences in revenues and coaches' work histories. There is some dispute over whether these revenue differences are themselves …

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The Looks of a Winner: Beauty, Gender and Electoral Success

Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We study the role of beauty in politics. For the first time, focus is put on differences in how women and men evaluate female and male candidates and how different candidate traits relate to success in real and hypothetical elections. We have collected 16,218 assessments by 2,772 respondents of...

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