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Human capital formation, income inequality and growth

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2001

The paper studies the determinants of income distribution and growth in an overlapping generations economy withheterogenous households. Our framework has the following main features:heterogeneity of consumers with respect to wealth and parental human capital;intergenerational transfers,...

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Illegal entrepreneurship experience

Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004

Existing studies show a positive relationship between entrepreneurs' business performance and their conventional human capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal entrepreneurship experience (IEE), an unconventional form of...

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Moral barriers to birth control access : how the pill changed Dutch women's lives - when religion did not get in the way

Marie, Olivier; Zwiers, Esmée S. - 2021

We investigate how religious beliefs affected the take up of the birth control pill and impacted women's outcomes using the 1970 liberalization of oral contraceptives in the Netherlands. We first document a massive and immediate drop in fertility among minor women, aged 21 or younger, for whom...

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Wage dispersion in Russia

Grogan, Louise Anne - 1997

This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentialsin the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the sixyears since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...

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Earnings responses to disability benefit cuts

Garcia Mandico, Silvia; Garcia-Gomez, Pilar; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018

Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … increased by 6.7 points and earnings rose by 18 percent. Recipients were able to increase earnings by e0.64 for each e1 of DI …

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Childcare subsidies and labor supply : evidence from a large Dutch reform

Bettendorf, Leon; Jongen, E. L. W.; Muller, Paul - 2012

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Prolonged worklife among grandfathers : spillover effects on grandchildren's educational outcomes

Been, Jim; Gielen, Anne C.; Knoef, Marike; Moroni, Gloria - 2022

Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...

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Intra-household insurance and the intergenerational transmission of income risk

Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - 2024

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...

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Optimal income taxation with endogenous human capital

Jacobs, Bas - 2002

This paper augments the theory of optimal linear income taxation by taking into account human capital accumulation as a dimension of labor supply. The distribution of earning potentials is endogenous because agents differ in the ability to learn. Taxation affects utilization rates of human...

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A bit of salt a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children

Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020 - Current version: Tuesday 8th September, 2020

This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the...

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