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Altruistic care for the elderly : a gender perspective
Minh Tam T. Bui; Vlaev, Ivo - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655504
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428354
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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany
Boockmann, Bernhard - 2000
Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428293
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Explaining cross-racial differences in the educational gender gap
Aucejo, Esteban - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746294
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Unmet aspirations as an explanation for the age u-shape in human wellbeing
Schwandt, Hannes - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009777664
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The long-term effect of age at school entry on competencies in adulthood
Görlitz, Katja; Penny, Merlin; Tamm, Marcus - 2019
The previous literature has shown that children who enter school at a more advanced age outperform their younger classmates on competency tests taken between kindergarten and Grade 10. This study analyzes whether these effects of school starting age continue into adulthood. Based on data on math...
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Demographic change and regional labour markets
Böhm, Michael; Gregory, Terry; Qendrai, Pamela; … - 2020
Like many other countries, Germany has experienced rapid population and workforce ageing, yet with substantial … supply effects of ageing on regional labour market outcomes, drawing on the identification strategy of Böhm and Siegel (2020 … age rises. A decomposition of the heterogeneous regional trends using our estimates shows that ageing of rural regions is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314983
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …
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Kim Jiyoung, born 1982, and the labour market : overeducation, gender, income and life satisfaction : panel evidence from Korea
Ahmed Lahsen, Amina; Piper, Alan T.; Thiele, Ida-Anna - 2020
also face more discrimination in the labour market, the consequences of overeducation are likely to differ by gender. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221423