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This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
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Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …
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The paper examines the relation between political participation and the size of regions taking German counties as observational units. The paper makes several contributions to the literature. To begin with, we measure political participation along two dimensions namely voter turnout, which is...
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Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
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performance in pre-university education. Employing data from central exit exams, a positive link between competition intensity and …
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women. Historically, women with more education have been the least likely to marry and have children, but this marriage gap … degree relative to women with fewer years of education. However, the patterns of, and reasons for, marriage have changed … marital patterns by education for men. …
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This paper studies second best policies for education, saving, and labour in an OLG model in which endogenous growth … equilibria are inefficient. The inefficiency is exacerbated if selfish individuals externalize the positive effect of education … on descendents' productivity. It is shown to be second best to subsidize education even relative to the first best if the …
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work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
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This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals? choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy's skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low effort...
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The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
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