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Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of … differentiated by ethnic origin, gender and generation. This allows visualization of differences by ethnic groups and development … generation. But differences seem to diminish when we consider the second generations. This indicates greater adaptation to German …

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Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...

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Human Capital Policy

Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targeted to different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background...

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Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...

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Household Saving and Full Consumption over the Life Cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...

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Life-Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment

Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then typically featured by increasing (decreasing) firing (hiring) rates with age and a hump-shaped...

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Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany

Bender, Keith A.; Habermalz, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...

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Job Creation and Job Destruction over the Life Cycle: The Older Workers in the Spotlight

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Chéron, Arnaud; Langot, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper extends the job creation - job destruction approach to the labor market to take into account the life-cycle of workers. Forward looking decisions about hiring and firing depend on the time over which to recoup adjustment costs. The equilibrium is typically featured by increasing...

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Parenthood and Productivity of Highly Skilled Labor: Evidence from the Groves of Academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the survey responses of nearly 10,000 economists with their publication records as documented in their RePEc accounts, we do not find that motherhood is associated with low research...

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On the Power of Childhood Impressions for Skill Formation: Initial Evidence and Unsettled Questions

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Manifold childhood impressions result from the interactions with adult caregivers and the environment. These impressions, be they beneficial or detrimental, shape individual skill formation and achievement over the life cycle. The novelty of the paper is that it bonds two different, hitherto...

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