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. Furthermore, effects are heterogeneous across education groups: teen motherhood has larger negative effects on high school … completion and years of schooling among poor and low-education households. Our results imply that policies aimed at reducing … early childbearing will have important short-term effects on young women's education outcomes. …
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education and employment outcomes, both among in-school youth who are at risk of dropping out and becoming disconnected as well …In this paper we will briefly review recent trends in employment outcomes for disadvantaged youth, focusing … as out-of-school youth who have already done so; 2) Policies to increase earnings and incent more labor force …
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skill-biased literature, our results surprisingly show that the Italian "best of youth", i.e. the best workers of the most …
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, nonetheless 50% of the Irish population purchase private health insurance. This paper empirically models the propensity to insure … characteristics is shown to influence propensity to insure. Overall the positive effect of education and income and the negative … size of the coefficients on the regressors. The latter point highlights that while education, income and, to a lesser …
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This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971– 96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment parameter is specified in terms of factors...
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include low education, being married, being married to men with low education, low wealth, no landownings, rural residence and … fertility. These findings suggest that insurance motives underpin the dynamics of women's work participation. Examination of …
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"Glass ceilings" and "sticky floors" are typical explanations for the low representation of women in top executive positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of executive employment, which allows for a full...
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participation, access to public services and more. This paper studies the dynamics of minority exclusion. From the viewpoint of the … analysis also has implications for immigration policies which have to take this group dynamics into account. …
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This paper extends the widely used ordered choice model by introducing stochastic thresholds and interval-specific outcomes. The model can be interpreted as a generalization of the GAFT (MPH) framework for discrete duration data that jointly models durations and outcomes associated with...
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imprecise. In sum, reductions in cohort size are associated with moderate improvements in employment outcomes for youth in …
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