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Age, wage and productivity
Ours, Jan C. van; 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...
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Age discrimination across the business cycle
Dahl, Gordon B.; Knepper, Matthew - 2020
A key prediction of discrimination models is that competition in the labor market serves as a moderating force on employer discrimination. In the presence of market frictions, however, recessions create excess labor supply and thus generate opportunities to engage in discriminatory behaviors far...
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Setting a good example? : examining sibling spillovers in educational achievement using a regression discontinuity design
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - 2019
We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less...
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Individual attitudes towards immigration in aging populations
Comertpay, Rana; Irmen, Andreas; Litina, Anastasia - 2019
affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes … "societal population aging" is the old-age dependency ratio. "Attitudes" are taken from immigration related questions in eight … consecutive rounds of the European Social Survey. For these attitudes we find non-linear, U-shaped relationships. Hence, the …
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The effect of extending the duration of eligibility in an Italian labour market programme for dismissed workers
Paggiaro, Adriano (contributor); Rettore, Enrico (contributor) - 2008
Liste di mobilità (LM) is an Italian labour market programme targeted to dismissed workers. There is a "passive" component granting monetary benefits to employees dismissed by firms larger than 15 employees, and an "active" component providing an employment subsidy to any firm hiring workers...
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Reputation, price, and death : an empirical analysis of art price formation
Ursprung, Heinrich W. (contributor);  … - 2008
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Age at school entry and intergenerational educational mobility
Bauer, Philipp; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We use Swiss data to test whether intergenerational educational mobility is affected by the age at which children first enter (primary) school. Early age at school entry significantly affects mobility and reduces the relative advantage of children of better educated parents. -- Age at entry ;...
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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship
Bönte, Werner (contributor); Falck, Oliver (contributor);  … - 2007
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The money-age distribution : empirical facts and limited monetary models
Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Maußner, Alfred (contributor) - 2007
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What can go wrong will go wrong : birthday effects and early tracking in the German school system
Jürges, Hendrik (contributor);  … - 2007
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