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This paper analyzes the impact of the Austrian Regional Extended Benefit Program (REBP) on the labor market outcomes for elderly workers in Austria. The REBP extended entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 weeks for elderly individuals in certain regions....
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market. Our difference-in-difference model estimates whether the earnings difference between individuals with high and low … grades differs between central and local exams. We find that the earnings premium for a one standard-deviation increase in …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between earnings and charitable giving. We set up a real effort … want to donate a share of their earnings to a charity of their choice. We find that, despite large differences in earnings … givers in the two groups give the same share of their total earnings. Charities receive the same average donation from …
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different economies. International comparisons of earnings analyses rely almost exclusively on school attainment measures of … the focus on early-career earnings leads to underestimating the lifetime returns to skills by about one quarter. On … States. Estimates are remarkably robust to different earnings and skill measures, additional controls, and various subgroups …
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on ex post outcomes impose a rational structure of expectations on school performance and post-graduation earnings … countries and check for relations of expected probability to graduate and of expected earnings with personal abilities and …
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market earnings and to own separate property. The former were called married women’s earnings acts (MWEAs) and the latter …
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How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
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China’s emergence as a great economic power has induced an epochal shift in patterns of world trade. Simultaneously, it has toppled much of the received empirical wisdom about how labor markets adjust to trade shocks. Alongside its heralded consumer benefits, trade has both significant...
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earnings, and the effects of vocational education in the developing world. …
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. Monthly earnings inequality increased during the pandemic, and the key driver is income losses among low-paid individuals … dampened the inequality increase, but did not fully offset it. Annual total market income inequality, which also includes … capital income and taxable transfers, shows similar patterns of increasing inequality during the pandemic. …
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