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The Narrowing of the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap, 1959-1999: A Cohort-Based Analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822111
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The Risk and Return of Human Capital Investments
Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Investing in human capital increases lifetime income, but these investments may involve substantial risk. In this paper we use a Finnish panel spanning 22 years to predict the mean, the variance and the skew of the present value of lifetime income, and to calculate certainty equivalent lifetime...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960122
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Books Are Forever: Early Life Conditions, Education and Lifetime Income
Brunello, Giorgio; Weber, Guglielmo; Weiss, Christoph T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings in Europe, by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals who had access to many or few books at age ten. We instrument years of education using reforms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652526
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Lifetime versus Annual Tax Progressivity: Sweden, 1968–2009
Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968–2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553315
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Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings
Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105074
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Mehr und bessere Daten für die Arbeitsmarktforschung: Vorschläge zur effizienten Erschließung der amtlichen Statistik
Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Die ökonomische Beurteilung von Vorgängen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt erfordert eine solide und aussagekräftige Datengrundlage. Eine Kerngröße zu deren Verständnis bilden Stundenlöhne. Stundenlöhne erklären beispielsweise, ob und in welchem Umfang Menschen arbeiten und konsumieren, warum und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615420
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990939
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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … part-timers is associated with wage penalties. The authors conclude that men and women differ with respect to motives for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990941
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884151
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The Effect of Sexual Activity on Wages
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The purpose of this study is to estimate whether sexual activity is associated with wages, and also to estimate … potential interactions between individuals' characteristics, wages and sexual activity. The central hypothesis behind this …'s set of productive traits that affect wages. Using two stage estimations we examine the relationship between adult sexual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884311