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We use unique retrospective family background data from the 2003 British Household Panel Survey to explore the degree … their children's education. We construct a composite birth order index that effectively purges family size from birth order … and family level attributes, we find that children from larger families have lower levels of education and that there is …
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We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …
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We model educational investment and labor supply in a competitive economy with home and market production. Heterogeneous workers are assumed to have different productivities both at home and in the workplace. We investigate the degree to which there is under-investment in human capital, and...
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continental Europe, this proportion has been relatively stable over the 1990s. Using data from the British Household Panel Survey …
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In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the …
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In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a "buffer stock" model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...
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affects children left behind in terms of their school attendance, household expenditures on education, and nonhousework labor … supply in the 1990s. The estimating subsample is children aged 7-18 in households in which both parents usually coreside and … is not affected. We find no evidence that paternal temporary absence influences his children in terms of school …
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Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban … inter-group differences in education, household demographic structure, industrial structure and their related returns …
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quantile regression models. Using unique data from the British Household Panel Survey, we find that a woman's origin …
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