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provides. We estimate the labor supply of physicians employed at hospitals in Norway, using personnel register data merged with …Physicians are key personnel in a sector which is important due to its size as well as the quality of service it … other public records. A dynamic labor supply equation is estimated using a sample of 1303 physicians observed over the …
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Union membership displayed an inverted U-shaped pattern over the 20th century, while the distribution of income sketched a U. A model of unions is developed to analyze these phenomena. There is a distribution of firms in the economy. Firms hire capital, plus skilled and unskilled labor....
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the gender gap in academic achievement. Data from several sources indicate that boys are less likely to use computers for … schoolwork and are more likely to use computers for playing games, but are less likely to use computers for social networking and … email than are girls. Using data from a large field experiment randomly providing free personal computers to schoolchildren …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in … first-ever field experiment randomly providing free computers to students, we examine the relationships between access to … home computers and enrollment in transferable courses and actual transfers to 4-year colleges. The results from the field …
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There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational … first-ever field experiment involving the provision of free computers to students for home use. Financial aid students … attending a large community college in Northern California were randomly selected to receive free computers and were followed …
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choice to a work-retirement decision model and show that the optimal provision of choice is positively related to the degree …
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While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these … investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical life-cycle model with full certainty and investigate how different … contributions and benefits increase human capital investment and postpone retirement. …
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1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor … supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months after the husband became eligible for early retirement. Estimates …
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We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by …
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are young (less than physicians), but there is also a weak tendency of higher mobility again when they are approaching … retirement age. Wage increases have a modest impact on labor supply. The overall elasticity for nurses is close to zero (like for … physicians). These low elasticities shadow for stronger responses, shifting labor away from part time jobs in the public and …
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