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Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022

study how the earnings distribution changes with distortions that penalize high-productivity firms and frictions that reduce … much firms are willing to pay workers, how well high-skill workers are matched with high-productivity firms, and how much …

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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …

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Moderation in higher-order earnings risk? : evidence from German cohorts

Isaak, Niklas; Jessen, Robin - 2024

Women born later experience greater earnings growth volatility at given ages than older cohorts. This implies a welfare loss due to increased earnings risk. However, German registry data for the years 2001-2016 reveal a moderation in higher-order earnings risk: Men and women born later face...

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Household saving and full consumption over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...

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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence

Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020

Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...

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Pension policies, retirement and human capital depreciation in late adulthood

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2020

Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data...

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Do private household transfers to the elderly respond to public pension benefits? : evidence from rural China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the standard of living for the elderly. The often-overlooked mechanism of intergenerational transfers, however, can dampen these intended policy effects, as adult children who make...

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A structural analysis of mental health and labor market trajectories

Jolivet, Grégory; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2020

We conduct a joint dynamic analysis of individual labor market and mental health outcomes. We allow for a two-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of employment as well as between jobs on a labor market with search frictions, where we account for the...

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Public-sector compensation over the life cycle

Gomes, Pedro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2020

The size of the public sector in terms of employment and compensation has a strong life-cycle dimension. We establish a quantitative partial-equilibrium life-cycle model with incomplete markets, private and public sectors, and risk-averse workers, and use it to (i) calculate three dimensions of...

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Do pension benefits accelerate cognitive decline? : evidence from rural China

Nikolov, Plamen; Hossain, Shahadat Md. - 2022

Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation, rather than on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. To investigate how human capital depreciates over the life cycle, we examine how a newly introduced pension program, the National Rural...

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