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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
small and non-significant when we use twins. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105074
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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimated the immigrant-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK between 1978 and 2006. We exploited the longitudinal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009359860
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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252286
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Baby-Boom, Baby-Bust and the Great Depression
Bellou, Andriana; Cardia, Emanuela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
is still largely unclear what caused them. This paper presents a new unified explanation of the fertility Boom-Bust that …s and 1950s as economic conditions improved, decreasing wages and reducing work incentives for younger women. Its … the entry of the D-cohort is associated with increased births in the 1950s, while its retirement turned the fertility Boom …
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The Changing Benefits of Early Work Experience
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine whether the benefits of high school work experience have changed over the last 20 years by comparing effects for the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Our main specifications suggest that the future wage benefits of working 20 hours per week in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959634
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The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins
Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Zhu, Yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
, where the public education system is poor. Given that our estimates of the effect of twinning on non-twins at least provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822059
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Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins
Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009144859
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Big and Tall: Is there a Height Premium or Obesity Penalty in the Labor Market?
Lee, Wang-Sheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Previous studies have shown that both height and weight are associated with wages. However, by focusing on interpreting … the partial effects of either height or weight on wages while holding all else constant, some gaps in our understanding of … the complex relationship between body size and wages remain. Utilizing a semi-parametric spline approach, we first …
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Evaluating the Effect of Beauty on Labor Market Outcomes: A Review of the Literature
Liu, Xing; Sierminska, Eva - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
An important underlying determinant of wage discrimination, as well as the gender wage gap is the way the labor market rewards individual physical attractiveness. This article surveys the extensive empirical literature of the effect of physical attractiveness on labor market outcomes. Particular...
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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs
Gobillon, Laurent; Meurs, Dominique; Roux, Sébastien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959761