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Anthropometric Mobility During Childhood
Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
the origins of or persistence in childhood anthropometric measures is incomplete. Here, we utilize several nonparametric …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960098
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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using microdata for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233756
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Male and Female Labour Force Participation: The Role of Dynamic Adjustments to Changes in Labour Demand, Government Policies and Autonomous Trends
Vendrik, Maarten; Cörvers, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This study investigates the extent and speed of dynamic adjustment of labour supply to changes in labour demand, government policies and autonomous trends. We estimate error-correction models (ECMs) for male and female participation rates in the Netherlands between 1969 and 2004. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015488
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Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369115
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Do Business Cycles Have Long-Term Impact for Particular Cohorts?
Andersen, Torben M.; Maibom Pedersen, Jonas; Svarer, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong persistence in employment rates at the cohort level … quickly from such set-backs than older workers for whom persistence is stronger. Moreover, no cohorts have been … assessments of persistence in aggregate employment rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814473
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The Impact of Labor Markets on Emergence and Persistence of Regional Asymmetries
Picard, Pierre M.; Toulemonde, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) introduces asymmetric location of firms. Moreover, changes in that lower bound or in global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761697
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Initial Risk Matrix, Home Resources, Ability Development and Children's Achievement
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761911
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The Origins of Early Childhood Anthropometric Persistence
Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
childhood obesity is highly persistent over the life cycle. However little is known about the origins of this persistence. In … persistence is driven by unobserved, time invariant factors that are determined prior to birth, consistent with the so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700368
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The Persistence of Welfare Participation
Andrén, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Welfare persistence is estimated in and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households. This is done within … heterogeneity. Three different types of persistence are controlled for in terms of observed and unobserved heterogeneity, serial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703210
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Self-Productivity and Complementarities in Human Development: Evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk
Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703341