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Recessions and Occupational Match Quality : The Role of Age, Gender, and Education
Addison, John T. - 2020
actually decreased through time. For the older cohort, we then explore the role of age, education, gender, and occupational …
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Migration and networks: Does education matter more than gender?
Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - 2010
at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both … influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270510
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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013
We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously separate from employment and endogenously reallocate between...
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Discrimination at Young Age : Experimental Evidence from Preschool Children
Bindra, Parampreet Christopher - 2019
-group and an out-group receiver in two domains (gender and group affiliation). Discrimination is prevalent in our subjects …
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Age-Related Taxation of Bequests in the Presence of a Dependency Risk
Leroux, M.‐L; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021
This paper studies the properties of the optimal taxes on bequests when individuals differ in wage and in their risks of mortality and old-age dependance. Survival is positively correlated to income but dependency is negatively correlated with it. The government cannot distinguish between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013234521
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Motivated Beliefs and the Elderly's Compliance with COVID-19 Measures
von Siemens, Ferdinand - 2021
Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals might not comply with the COVID-19 measures to reassure themselves that they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250730
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Minimum Legal Drinking Age and the Social Gradient in Binge Drinking
Ahammer, Alexander; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Halla, Martin; … - 2021
Low minimum legal drinking ages (MLDAs), as prevalent in many European countries, are severely understudied. We use rich survey and administrative data to estimate the impact of the Austrian MLDA of 16 on teenage drinking behavior and morbidity. Regression discontinuity estimates show that legal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251266
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What Can Go Wrong Will Go Wrong : Birthday Effects and Early Tracking in the German School System
Jürges, Hendrik; Schneider, Kerstin - 2021
At the age of ten German pupils are given a secondary school track recommendation which largely determines the actual track choice. Track choice has major effects on the life course, mainly through labor market outcomes. Using data from the German PISA extension study, we analyze the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316909
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Medical Innovations and Ageing : A Health Economics Perspective
Grossmann, Volker - 2021
This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322775
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Age, wage and productivity
van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276096