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Gender wage gap in West Germany: how far do gender differences in human capital matter?

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

female human capital is less valued in terms of wages. The gender wage gap narrowing stems mainly from a reduction in gender …

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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods

Beblo, Miriam - 2000

depreciation rates. This we interpret as an indication for segregation in the labor market. We conclude that traditional wage …

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function—physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology … development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing … work effort, fertility, and the demographic transition. And it affects total factor productivity by constraining or …

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The true returns to the choice of occupation and education

Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria; Layard, Peter R. G. - 2021

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Consumption and nutrition: age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989 - 1992

Miquel, Ruth - 2000

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the relation between nutrient intake and age for Czechoslovak individuals, as a function of characteristics of both the individual and the household she lives in, on the basis of household purchases. Results show no significant difference between...

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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences : prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America

Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - 2021

The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...

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Nowcasting the impact of COVID-19 on education, intergenerational mobility and earnings inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Larroulet, Patricio - 2022 - This version: June 2022

Using microsimulations, we nowcast the impact of learning losses caused by COVID-19 on secondary school completion rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On average, secondary school completion rates decrease by 12...

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