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grew up under legal divorce have lower earnings and income as well as worse health as adults compared with women who grew …
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that "made divorce easier" were followed by significant increases in divorce rates. The effect of no-fault legislation was …
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We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …
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between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as administrative earnings data. Our results indicate that earnings …
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subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …
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We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find...
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We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings by employer spanning close to two decades. Individuals who in 1991 … worked in manufacturing industries that experienced high subsequent import growth garner lower cumulative earnings, face …
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college major choices and expected future earnings. In a sample of high ability undergraduates, we find that competitiveness … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, is systematically related with expectations about future earnings: individuals … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences …
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We use data on twins matched to register-based information on earnings to examine the long-standing puzzle of non …
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that high school achievement measures can account for much of the racial gaps in BA completion and earnings and some of the … gaps by family background, though they account for little of the continuing gender gap favoring young men in earnings. …
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