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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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mobility. The results on employment outcomes are more consistent, with BA graduates having lower labour market returns than …
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What are the prospects for improving the lot of US workers in the 21st century? This introduction to the topic examines the most important US labor market trends of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, considers their causes and likely future trends; and then explores policies that might...
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We investigate the role of education in creating employment opportunities for persons with disabilities across the … educational attainment is a major factor determining the probability of employment among persons with disabilities. In particular …, the employment effects of tertiary education are much larger among persons with disabilities than among non …
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This paper investigates the relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes using micro-data collected in … the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. A novel source of exogenous variation in the employment … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the …
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, greater family income. Our study is highly relevant for public policy as in most countries maternal employment rates rise when …
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Intergenerational immigrant integration is central to the economic growth and social development of many countries whose populations comprise a substantial share of the children and grandchildren of immigrants. In addition to basic demographics, relevant economic theories and institutional...
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is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining …
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This paper examines the role of education and family background on age at marriage, age at first birth, and age at labor market entry for young women in Senegal using a rich individual-level survey conducted in 2003. We use a multiple-equation framework that allows us to account for the...
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The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate … in employment levels. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of the changes of women and men's employment … examine the impact of employment changes on inequality in family income distribution and how this relationship has changed …
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