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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Bender, Stefan; Haas, Anette; Klose, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so …-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized … the period 1992 to 1995. Therefore, the IAB employment subsample is equipped with data of one percent of all employees …
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The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
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School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s
Constant, Amelie; Konstantopoulos, Spyros - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally probability samples: the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond study and the 5th and...
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Earnings Over the Lifecycle: The Mincer Earnings Function and Its Applications
Polachek, Solomon William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population. In the years since Mincer’s seminal work, he as well as his students and colleagues extended the original human capital model, reaching important conclusions about a whole...
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Dynamic Skill Accumulation, Comparative Advantages, Compulsory Schooling, and Earnings
Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen; Liu, Xingfei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We show that a calibrated dynamic skill accumulation model allowing for comparative advantages, can explain the weak (or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on compulsory schooling, ii) in the micro literature on estimating...
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Economic Aspects of Human Cloning and Reprogenetics
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run distribution of skills and income. We analyse models of human cloning for different motives, focusing on...
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper explores secular changes in women’s pay relative to men’s pay. It shows how the human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the...
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The Long and Short of It: Maternity Leave Coverage and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes
Hashimoto, Masanori; Percy, Rick; Schoellner, Teresa; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
We investigate the effects of maternity leave coverage on women’s post-birth wages, job tenure, and labor market attachment. We pay particular attention to unobservable characteristics that are correlated with maternity leave coverage and that affect labor market outcomes. We use a control...
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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A.; Lopez, Mary J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants. More stringent border enforcement either deters potential illegal immigrants from coming to the U.S., or moves the point of...
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