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Globalization, gender, and the family
Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2019
−if the worker is a woman. The female biological clock−low fertility beyond the early forties−is central to this gender …This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …
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A second chance? : the labor market outcomes of reforming access to adult education
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard W.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021
higher earnings, increased employment, and decreased fertility. They also point to an effective policy to reduce the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622719
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Optimal linear income taxation and education subsidies under skill-biased technical change
Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2020
This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...
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Preterm births and educational disadvantage : heterogeneous effects across families and schools
Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Barclay, Kieron; Costa-Font, Joan; … - 2019
Using Swedish population register data on cohorts born 1982-1994 (N=1,087,750), we examine the effects of preterm births on school grades using sibling fixed effect models which compare individuals with their non-preterm siblings. We test for heterogeneous effects by degree of prematurity, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110249
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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change : the canonical model revisited
Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599109
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Which ladder to climb? : wages of workers by job, plant, and education
Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2018
rising wage dispersion. The increasing gender wage gap by age parallels a rising hierarchy gap. Our findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902849
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Dual returns to experience
Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Hospido, Laura; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022
In this paper we study how labor market duality affects human capital accumulation and wage trajectories of young workers. Using rich administrative data for Spain, we follow workers since their entry into the labor market to measure experience accumulated under different contractual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419247
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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development
Eicher, Theo S. - 2000
To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781636
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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital
Woessmann, Ludger - 2024
The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body of literature highlights the importance of various skill dimensions for success in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015081348
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …
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