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Making work pay for the indebted : the effect of debt services on the exit rates of unemployed individuals

Koning, Pierre - 2014

This paper investigates the effectiveness of an intervention that was targeted at a specific group of Dutch Social Assistance (SA) recipients with debt problems. With a large share of the income gains of work resumption were transferred to the creditors, these individuals experienced a strong a...

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Education, growth and income inequality

Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

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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...

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Heritability and public policy reconsidered, again

Rietveld, Cornelius A. - 2024

I offer a way out of the Taubman-Goldberger controversy on the public policy (ir)relevance of heritability studies by arguing for a quasi-experimentally controlled comparison of the estimates that these studies provide. If the environments individuals are exposed to are under such control,...

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Investment in post-compulsory education in Sri Lanka

Ranasinghe, Athula; Hartog, Joop - 1997

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Investment in post-compulsory education in Sri Lanka

Ranasinghe, Athula; Hartog, Joop - 1997

Lankans. We assumed that there is no uncertainty in the education system or in the labour market. Therefore, inthe steady … family background and the education decision. Children of more affluent families seem to derive more benefits from the free … education policy. In particular, mother's education has a very strong effect on the education of the child. This casts doubt on …

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How risky is investment in human capital?

Hartog, Joop; Ophem, Hans van; Bajdechi, Simona Maria - 2004

skewed. Our best guess of ex ante risk in university education is a coefficient ofvariation of about 0.3, comparable to that …

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Intergenerational persistence in the effects of compulsory schooling in the US

Galama, Titus; Munteanu, Andrei; Thom, Kevin - 2024

Using linked records from the 1880 to 1940 full-count United States decennial censuses, we estimate the effects of parental exposure to compulsory schooling (CS) laws on the human capital outcomes of children, exploiting the staggered roll-out of state CS laws in the late nineteenth and early...

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Occupational sorting on genes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2023 - Revision: February 2023

Are genetic differences between people associated with their career choices? We link data from a large sample of genotyped individuals to Swedish government register data on study major and occupation. Our data contains polygenic indices that summarize genetic variants linked to several...

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Occupational sorting on genes

Buser, Thomas; Ahlskog, Rafael; Johannesson, Magnus; … - 2022

We use a novel approach to explore how people sort into different careers based on their personality skills. We link genetic data from individuals in the Swedish Twin Registry to government register data, making use of new polygenic indices that capture the genetic predispositions of individuals...

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