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Taxing human capital efficiently: the double dividend of taxing non-qualified labour more heavily than qualified labour
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2006
Assuming decreasing returns to education and the endogenous supply of qualified and nonqualified labour it is shown to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264005
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Title IX and the evolution of high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2007
The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264259
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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility
Bauer, Philipp C.; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264553
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Title IX and the Evolution of High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2021
The passage of Title IX, the 1972 Education Amendments to the Civil Rights Act, expanded high school athletic opportunities to include girls, revolutionizing mass sports participation in the United States. This paper analyzes high school athletic participation in the United States and how sports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316661
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Demand or Supply? Price Adjustment during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Balleer, Almut; Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; … - 2020
We study price-setting behavior in German firm-level survey data to infer the relative importance of supply and demand … during the Covid-19 pandemic. Supply and demand forces coexist, but demand shortages dominate in the short run. A reported … percentage points. These results imply a role for aggregate demand stabilization policy to buffer the economic consequences of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269464
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Understanding the Estimation of Oil Demand and Oil Supply Elasticities
Kilian, Lutz - 2020
This paper examines the advantages and drawbacks of alternative methods of estimating oil supply and oil demand … conclusion that the one-month oil supply elasticity is close to zero, which implies that oil demand shocks are the dominant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822493
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Trade in Information Technologies and Changes in the Demand for Occupations
Jerbashian, Vahagn - 2021
associated with lower IT prices in European countries. The fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations … and reduced the demand for medium wage occupations. Nearly 25 percent of the variation in the demand for occupations can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246467
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Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions. When do they Arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - 2013
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual pure ethnic gap. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292692
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Female Migration: A Way out of Discrimination?
Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara - 2015
In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women’s willingness and preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388229
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Heterogeneous Effects of a Nonlinear Price Schedule for Outpatient Care
Farbmacher, Helmut; Ihle, Peter; Schubert, Ingrid; … - 2013
demand. In this paper, we develop and apply a finite mixture bivariate probit model to analyze whether there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328783