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Why Do We Ignore the Risk in Schooling Decisions?
Hartog, Joop; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard; Costa Dias, Monica; Meghir, Costas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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Bullying at School and Labour Market Outcomes
Drydakis, Nick - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men … wages. Moreover, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions suggest that labour force participation gaps, employment gaps and hourly wage … the labour market and lower wages. …
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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359865
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
van Praag, Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van der … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples' occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that education...
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Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703703
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Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men
Booth, Alison L.; Francesconi, Marco; Zoega, Gylfi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …
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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women
Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages … estimate the impact of training - controlling for its financing method - on wages levels and wages growth. We find that … employer-financed training increases wages both in the current and future firms, with some evidence that the impact in future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822304
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Do Markets Favor Women’s Human Capital More than Planners?
Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Using micro data on women in the Czech Republic, we compare returns to various measures of human capital at the end of communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/posttransition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to education from 1989 to 1996 but no change from 1996 to 2002;...
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