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Convergences in Men's and Women's Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment

Jacobsen, Joyce P.; Khamis, Melanie; Yuksel, Mutlu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

gender differences in employment and earnings has been of a more snapshot nature rather than taking a longer comparative look … experience), estimating comparable earnings equations by gender at each point in time. We consider the effects of sample … labor force participation, hours, and earnings that indicate convergence by gender in worklife patterns, but less …

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Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa

Pugatch, Todd - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Re-enrollment in school following a period of dropout is a common feature of the South African school to work transition that has been largely ignored in both the literature on South Africa and the wider literature on sequential schooling choice. In this paper, I quantify the importance of the...

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The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment

Christiansen, Charlotte; Joensen, Juanna Schröter; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper we analyze investments in human capital assets in a way which is standard for financial assets, but not (yet) for human capital assets. We study mean-variance plots of human capital assets. We compare the properties of human capital returns using a performance measure and by using...

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Solow and Heterogeneous Labor: A Neoclassical Explanation of Wage Inequality

Meckl, Juergen; Zink, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The paper analyzes the effect of human-capital investments of heterogeneous individuals on the dynamics of the wage structure within a neoclassical growth model. The accumulation of physical capital changes relative factor prices and thus incentives to acquire skills, thereby altering the...

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"Sex in Marriage is a Divine Gift": For Whom? Evidence from the Manila Contraceptive Ban

Dumas, Christelle; Lefranc, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family … size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in … Manila metropolitan area were not affected by the ban, this allows us to implement a difference-in-difference estimation of …

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How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper describes the theoretical underpinnings and provides empirical evidence for a model that predicts a positive impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. At...

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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States

Cortes, Kalena E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...

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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Regets, Mark C.; Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...

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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently: The Double Dividend of Taxing Non-Qualified Labour More Heavily Than Qualified Labour

Richter, Wolfram F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Assuming decreasing returns to education and the endogenous supply of qualified and nonqualified labour it is shown to be efficient to supplement a consumption tax with positive incentives for education. If the return from education is isoelastic and if the choice is between (i) subsidizing the...

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Immigration from the Eastern Block and the former Soviet Union to Israel: Who is coming when?

Locher, Lilo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

option value of staying. Estimation of a Cox proportionate hazard model and a discrete time hazard model suggest that human … are being Jewish, being married, and having no children. Economic conditions in the source countries and in the …

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