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This paper documents the evolution of the experience-earnings profiles of private employees in Italy over the first six … 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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on health and lifestyles in a sample of 18- to 65-year-old Chinese workers. Although working long hours does … evidence that long work hours affect either the health or lifestyles of Chinese workers. …
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evidence that nutrition and family lifestyle choices have an important role in determining child health and that child health …
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We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
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remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
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This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model on the influence of identity on educational choices which extends …
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Gneezy et al. (2012) uses attribution theory from the psychology literature to argue that when the object of discrimination is a matter of choice (e.g. sexual orientation), observed discrimination may motivated by animus, which exacerbates or intensifies the emotional response to the object of...
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hooligans reap utility from violence and social identity and study the effects of different police strategies. We find that an …
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a multifaceted notion of racial identity. …
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paper, we conduct laboratory experiments in which we explore the motivations for and the effects of group identity. We find … that negative out-group opinion (acting as an inter-group identity threat) can motivate in-group/out-group effects in a … as an intra-group identity threat) increases the use of costly punishment within the in-group. …
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