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mandate that has ever been enforced in the United States, Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act, using a standard supply … Hawaii and other states increased, as did real health insurance costs, implying a rising burden of the mandate on Hawaii … voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …
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How do families influence the ability of children? Cognitive skills have been shown to be a strong predictor of educational attainment and future labor market success; as a result, understanding the determinants of cognitive skills can lead to a better understanding of children's long run...
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Using confidential microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau, we investigate the performance of female-owned businesses making comparisons to male-owned businesses. Using regression estimates and a decomposition technique, we explore the role that human capital, especially through prior work...
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assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …
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Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
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labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has …
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tournament and a piece-rate pay scheme before performing a real task. Men choose the tournament significantly more often than … women. Women are mainly influenced by their degree of risk aversion, but men are not. Men compete more against men than … against women, but compete against women who are thought to compete. The behavior of men seems primarily to be influenced by …
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. -- men and women-economists ; research fields ; gender segregation ; path-dependence ; tobit and probit models …
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This paper analyzes the mobility between self-employment, wage employment and non-employment. Using data for men in …
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