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Is There An Informal Employment Wage Penalty? Evidence from South Africa
Strobl, Eric Albert; Walsh, Frank; Badaoui, Eliane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sector and link individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822419
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Motherhood Wage Penalty in Times of Transition
Nizalova, Olena Y.; Sliusarenko, Tamara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Motherhood is usually associated with lower wages due to a number of reasons such as career interruptions, potentially … fertility. Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey provides the data to estimate the motherhood wage penalty in Ukraine during … of first birth has an impact on the motherhood wage penalty. It is smallest for females with vocational …
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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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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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Increasing Returns to Education and the Skills Under-Investment Trap
Booth, Alison; Coles, Melvyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233767
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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality
Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in 1958. This result is in stark contrast to the finding on the basis of social class; intergenerational mobility for this outcome is found to be unchanged. Our aim here is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395426
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone’s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762041
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Accounting for Intergenerational Income Persistence: Noncognitive Skills, Ability and Education
Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We analyse in detail the factors that lead to intergenerational persistence among sons, where this is measured as the association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in the 1970 BCS cohort and also to explore the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762058
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Wage Dips and Drops around First Birth
Kunze, Astrid; Ejrnaes, Mette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We use a rich longitudinal data set for West Germany to disentangle the wage effects for female workers around first birth. Data on daily real wages reveal a dip in women's real wages shortly before giving birth and a drop of 10 to 20 percent after finishing maternity leave and returning to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822916
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The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517976