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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008
Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …
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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381036
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The right man for the job
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2000
This paper describes a search model with a continuum of worker and job types, free entry and transferable utility. We apply a second-order Taylor expansion to characterize the equilibrium, derive the "cost of search" and show that it is decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303299
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Female admission cap in higher education : the case of Iran
Hering, Laura; Baiardi, Anna; Namini, Julian Emami - 2021 - This version: July 2021
female labor force participation and employment, and a positive impact on marrying at a young age. Furthermore, we explore …We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601056
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The effects of mental health interventions on labor market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries
Lund, Crick; Orkin, Kate; Witte, Marc; Walker, John; … - 2024
labor market outcomes made up of employment, time spent working, capacity to work and job search by 0.16 standard deviations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014555698
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Illegal entrepreneurship experience
Aidis, Ruta; Praag, Mirjam van - 2004
capital as measured by previous business experience and formal education. In this paper, we explore whether illegal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337996
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Human capital formation : the importance of endogenous longevity
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022
We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172987
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The value of an educated population for an individual's entrepreneurship success
Millán Morera de la Vall, José María; Congregado, Emilio - 2013 - Version: September 2013
. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of …Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship … the possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus …
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Determinants of the regional demand for higher education
Sá, Carla; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Rietveld, Piet - 2003
Studies on the determinants of the demand for higher education typically emphasizethe relevance of socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333272
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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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