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Time Preferences and Lifetime Outcomes
Golsteyn, Bart H.H.; Grönqvist, Hans; Lindahl, Lena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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The Family Gap in Career Progression
Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959637
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The Employment of the Low-Skilled Youth in France
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
chance programs, job search assistance, income support, employment subsidies and dismissal protection. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668528
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Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?
Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success story makes it a showcase for labor policy and labor market reforms. This paper assesses the potential of the German experience as a model for effective, evidence-based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735642
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Youth Unemployment in Old Europe: The Polar Cases of France and Germany
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many years,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717459
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Sizing It Up: Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371899
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Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis T.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
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Labor Market Institutions and Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Murao, Tetsushi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Graduating from a school during a time of adverse economic conditions has a persistent, harmful effect on workers' subsequent employment opportunities. An analysis of panel data from OECD countries during the 1960-2010 periods reveals that a worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher...
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Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly … young male Hui living in poor villages have a remarkably high likelihood of migrating, thereby bringing home income to their …
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