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On human capital formation with exit options : comment and new results
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...
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The wider benefits of adult learning : work-related training and social capital
Ruhose, Jens; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Weilage, Insa - 2018
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the...
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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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Optimal policy towards families with different amounts of social capital, in the presence of asymmetric information and stochastic fertility
Cigno, Alessandro (contributor);  … - 2006
We examine the effects of differences in social capital on first and second best transfers to families with children, in an asymmetric information context where the number of births, and the future earning capacity of each child that is born, are random variables. The probability that a couple...
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Trade and the distribution of human capital
Bougheas, Spiros P. (contributor);  … - 2005
We develop a two-country, two-sector model of trade where the only difference between the two countries is their distribution of human capital endowments. We show that even if the two countries have identical aggregate human capital endowments the pattern of trade depends on the properties of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003109768
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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021
shocks across the life cycle on labor market outcomes and major life decisions: human capital investment, mobility, family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012745247
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Trade, education, and income inequality
Brückner, Markus; Long, Ngo Van; Vespignani, Joaquin - 2020
This paper examines the relationship between countries' bilateral trade with the United States that is not due to gravity (non-gravity trade) and the distribution of income within countries. In countries where only a small share of the population are educated, an increase in non-gravity trade is...
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Relocation of the rich : migration in response to top tax rate changes from Spanish reforms
Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk - 2018
A recent Spanish tax reform granted regions the authority to set income tax rates, resulting in substantial tax differentials. We use individual-level information from Social Security records over a period of one decade. Conditional on moving, taxes have a significant effect on location choice....
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Lockdown strategies, mobility patterns and COVID-19
Askitas, Nikos; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Verheyden, … - 2020
population mobility patterns across 135 countries. Taking into account the contemporaneous presence of multiple interventions, we … changing population mobility patterns in a manner consistent with time-use and epidemiologically relevant considerations. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225440
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Mobility restrictions and alcohol use during lockdown : "a still and dry pandemic for the many"?
Celidoni, Martina; Costa-Font, Joan; Salmasi, Luca - 2023
Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the … alcohol consumption. We document two findings using information from the Google Mobility Report and longitudinal data from the … Understanding Society in the United Kingdom. First, we find a sharp reduction in both actual mobility and alcohol use (consistent …
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