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Child labor and resistance to change
Bellettini, Giorgio; Berti Ceroni, Carlotta; Ottaviano, … - 2003
We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …
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Education in a marriage market model without commitment
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
This paper develops a model that combines intra-household bargaining with competition on the marriage market to analyse women's and men's incentives to invest in education. Once married, spouses bargain over their share of total household income. They have the option of unilateral divorce and...
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Do marriage markets influence the divorce hazard?
Hyee, Raphaela - 2011
This paper demonstrates that a woman's propensity to separate from her husband or live-in partner depends positively on male wage inequality on her local marriage market - the more heterogeneous potential future mates are in terms of earnings power, the more likely a woman is to end her...
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Polarized Education Levels and Civil War
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo Javier - 2017
This paper suggests that societies exhibiting a large degree of educational polarization among its populace are systematically more likely to slip into civil conflict and civil war. Intuitively, political preferences and beliefs of highly educated citizens are likely to differ fundamentally from...
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Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies
Findeisen, Sebastian - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax-and-transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life-cycle model, we determine that taxes and...
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(Re-)sources of innovation : understanding and comparing innovation dynamics through the lens of communities of practice
Müller, Felix C.; Ibert, Oliver - 2014
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The measurement of labour content : a general approach
Yoshihara, Naoki; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013
This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of labour content in the context of general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical...
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation
Haupt, Alexander - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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