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Changing Paths to Adulthood in Italy. Men and Women Entering Stable Work and Family Careers

Mencarini, Letizia; Solera, Cristina - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2011

Paths to adulthood have changed greatly in the last decades: entries into the labour market as well as into partnership or parenthood have been postponed, with also new sequences and interconnections. In this piece of work we observe life-courses from the ages of 14 to 35 of men and women born...

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What is your couple type? Gender ideology, housework sharing and babies

Aassve, Arnstein; Fuochi, Giulia; Mencarini, Letizia; … - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2014

BACKGROUND It is increasingly acknowledged that not only gender equality, but also gender ideology plays a role in explaining fertility in advanced societies. In a micro perspective, the potential mismatch between gender equality (i.e. the actual sharing taking place in a couple) and gender...

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Woman's employment makes unions more stable, if the partner contributes to the unpaid work

Mencarini, Letizia; Vignoli, Daniele - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2014

A new generation of studies has called into question standard microeconomic predictions of a positive association between women's economic independence and union dissolution, suggesting that it is necessary to include information about both partners' contributions to paid and unpaid work when...

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Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2000

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This uni...ted theory encompasses the observed evolution of population, technology and income per capita in the long...

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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development

Galor, Oded - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2011

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The importance of age for the reallocation of labor. Evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986-2002

Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2008

Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job and worker flows have been distributed across age groups. We find that job and worker flows vary by age groups, not only with respect to magnitude and variation,...

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Cohort Effects on Earnings Profiles: Evidence from Sweden.

Dahlberg, Susanne; Nahum, Ruth-Aïda - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2003

and shape of one´s earnings profile. We estimate cohort size effects on earnings profiles and further assess whether these … there are significant cohort effects on the earnings profile which are fairly consistent across gender but not across … education levels. Large cohorts have a higher overall earnings level than small cohorts. Cohorts born in an upswing of a boom …

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The importance of education for the reallocation of labor. Evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986-2002

Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2007

Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...

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Childbearing and psycho-social work life conditions in Sweden 1991-2000

Ström, Sara - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2005

In Sweden, a dramatic fall in fertility coincided with recession and high unemployment during the 1990s. Recent research has shown that the precarious labor market has been one factor contributing to women postponing family formation. Studies have also shown that during the 1990s, the degree of...

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Spirit and the Process of Development

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2009

This research suggests that the evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played a significant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality within and across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonically in the course of human history....

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