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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Return to Education in Vietnam: Wage versus Employment Effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Quang, Doan Hong - Tinbergen Institute - 2011
. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …
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The Sustainability of the Pay-as-you-go System with Falling Birth Rates
Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Cardoso, Pedro - Tinbergen Institute - 2002
A model is presented that explains the mix between funded and unfunded pension systems. It turns out that total pension and the relative shares of the two systems may be explained and are determined by the population growth rate, technological growth, the time-preference discount rate, the...
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Self-Employment around Retirement Age
Hochguertel, Stefan - Tinbergen Institute - 2010
This paper uses panel data from the pan-European SHARE survey to study labor market behavior of older male self-employed vis-a-vis wage employed workers. We find the self-employed to work longer hours, to be more flexible in their hours allocation, and to retire later in all countries. We relate...
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The Health Returns to Education - What can we learn from Twins?
Lundborg, Petter - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin-differences strategy in order to obtain estimates that are not biased by unobserved family background and genetic traits that may affect both education and health. I further investigate to what...
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Diffusion of a Social Norm: Tracing the Emergence of the Housewife in the Netherlands, 1812-1922
Poppel, Frans W.A. van; Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Walhout, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
The emergence of the housewife in the Netherlands over the period 1812-1922 was strongly influenced by the social norm that women should withdraw from the labour market on the eve of marriage. Adherence to this norm is most clearly reflected in the emergence of the housewife among the lower...
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Human Capital and Retirement
Alders, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 1999
This paper investigates the relation between human capital and retirement when the age of retirement is endogenous. This relation is examined in a life-cycle earnings model. An employee works full time until retirement. The worker accumulates human capital by training- on-the-job and by...
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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Wage Dispersion in Russia
Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1997
This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...
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Estimating the Effect of Personality on Male-Female Earnings
Müller, Gerrit; Plug, Erik - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1246&context=ilrreview"><I>Industrial & Labor Relations Review</I></A>.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137130
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Illegal Entrepreneurship Experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - Tinbergen Institute - 2004
Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...
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