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factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men’s and women’s age …
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Absences in Chicago Public High Schools are 3-7 days per year higher in first period than at other times of the day …
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In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina … displaced people (RIDPs). Our findings reveal significant negative effects of vulnerability on income and employment. RIDPs seem … to be about as negatively affected as Roma across the four states, which indicate that vulnerability inflicted by …
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This article clarifies and quantifies the causal impact of climate change vulnerability on child labour incidence and … intensity. For this purpose, we create an index of vulnerability to climate change, composed of biophysical vulnerability and … that climate vulnerability negatively affects child labour incidence and intensity, while has no significant impact on …
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This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …
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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
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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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In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...
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England, Scotland and Wales. Instrumental variables estimates reveal large returns for both men and women. However, the … returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. …
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-wide Danish administrative data from 1982 to 2010. We analyze migration decisions separately for couples in which men earned more … and couples in which women earned more. The empirical results for dual-earner couples are in line with the theory. The …
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