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A Forgotten Issue: Distributional Effects of Day Care Subsidies in Germany
Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spiess, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703636
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Family Background and Income during the Rise of the Welfare State: Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968
bjorklund, anders; Lindquist, Matthew J.; Jäntti, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The goal of this study is to examine trends in the importance of family background in determining adult income in Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born 1932-1968. Our main finding is that the share of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763494
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends
Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...
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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566619
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy: Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565196
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What More Than Parental Income? An Exploration of What Swedish Siblings Get from Their Parents
Björklund, Anders; Lindahl, Lena; Lindquist, Matthew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Sibling correlations are used as overall measures of the impact of family background and community influences on individual outcomes. While most correlation studies show that siblings are quite similar in terms of future achievement, we lack specific knowledge of what it is about family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761927
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Labor Income Dynamics and the Insurance from Taxes, Transfers, and the Family
Blundell, Richard; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...
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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …
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Partial Insurance and Investments in Children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265290
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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S.
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
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