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The Timing of Careers and Human Capital Depreciation
Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: unemployment, parental leave for female workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566662
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Human Capital Policy
Carneiro, Pedro; Heckman, James J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This paper considers alternative policies for promoting skill formation that are targeted to different stages of the life cycle. We demonstrate the importance of both cognitive and noncognitive skills that are formed early in the life cycle in accounting for racial, ethnic and family background...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761961
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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies
Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment … pattern, which helps explain the lack of convergence in regional unemployment rates, is consistent with the presence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763690
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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763851
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Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk: Implications for Optimal Employment Contracts
Pissarides, Christopher A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper derives optimal employment contracts when workers are risk averse and there are employment and unemployment … risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment … during employment but dismissal delays insure partially against the unemployment risk because of moral hazard. During the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822597
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Positional Concerns through the Life Cycle: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data and Survey Experiments
Akay, Alpaslan; Martinsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper uses both subjective well-being and survey experimental data to analyze how people's positional concerns regarding income and goods vary with age. The subjective well-being approach is mainly based on German panel data for the period 1984-2009 (German Socio-Economic Panel), while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646308
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Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762224
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Household Saving and Full Consumption over the Life Cycle
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762285
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Life-Cycle Equilibrium Unemployment
Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762327
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Are There Differences in the Health-Socioeconomic Status Relationship over the Life Cycle? Evidence from Germany
Bender, Keith A.; Habermalz, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703399