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costs themselves, based on PSID evidence on self-reported willingness to move. Evidence on wage processes also supports my …
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countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but …
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In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...
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to valued elements of tacit knowledge, interacting in thick, competitive labour markets. This is partially confirmed with …
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elements of tacit knowledge, interacting in thick, competitive labour markets. This is partially confirmed with analyses of …
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This paper analyses participation in postgraduate higher education in the UK at the micro-level makes several …
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We analyze a dynamic model of agenda formation in which players compete in each period to put their ideal policies on the agenda. In each period, with some probability, a decision maker is called upon to take an action from the agenda. We show that in any Markov equilibrium of this game, players...
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lowest rates of staying on in the labour market after childbearing. Higher education is a key explanatory factor of the …), education and part-time employment. …There is theoretical evidence that economic and family policies have an important impact on mother''s employment. The …
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This paper investigates whether there exists an employment penalty from motherhood in Spain. In particular, we are … interested in transitions from employment to non-employment and downward occupational mobility. Results show that Spanish women … experience significant transitions from employment to non-employment after first birth and these shifts are strongly linked to …
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The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain … is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i ….e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone childbearing. We test if female employment (full and part …
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