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Sexual orientation and occupational rank

Ahmed, Ali M; Andersson, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2422-2433

This paper presents a study of differences in occupational rank between gay and heterosexual males as well as between lesbian and heterosexual females. We estimate different specifications of an ordered probit model on register data from Sweden. Our data consist of married heterosexual men and...

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Age-adjusted measures of earnings inequality in the United States, 1980-2010

Schirle, Tammy - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2662-2669

I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and …, earnings distribution statistics for the working age population have emphasized within-cohort disparities that are largest at … older ages. As such, the aging of the US population has placed upward pressure on standard measures of earnings inequality …

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Estimating the Gender Pay Gap in the Managerial and non Managerial Italian Labor Market

Biagetti, Marco; Scicchitano, Sergio - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1846-1856

In this article we apply a two stage approach in order to investigate the existence of a stronger gender discrimination when the job position is higher, splitting the Italian labor market into managers and non managers. Once the threefold selection biases for the two genders are accounted for...

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Human Capital and Ferility Decisions: A Comparative Microeconometric Analysis in Europe

Aldieri, Luigi; Vinci, Concetto Paolo; Barone, Adriana - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2007) 18, pp. 0-0

In this paper we have investigated the relationship between human capital proxied by the schooling level and fertility decisions for some EU countries. For this purpose we have resorted to a dynamic random effect probit model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity and initial problem, by using...

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A note on the decomposition technique of economic indices

Mori, Kota; Chen, Joe; Choi, Yun Jeong; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2710-2715

This note introduces a generalized version of multi-component decomposition method, which disintegrates a growth rate of an index into the roles of individual components. The method can be applied to two classes of indices: the additive-product form and the product-additive form. The application...

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A note on demographic shocks in a multi-sector growth model

Marsiglio, Simone; Torre, Davide La - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2293-2299

We introduce demographic shocks in a multi-sector endogenous growth model, a-la Uzawa-Lucas. We show that an analytical solution of the stochastic problem can be found, under the restriction that the capital share equals both the inverse of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution and the...

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Labour and leisure costs of informal caregivers

Marcén, Miriam - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 449-455

In this work, we study whether labour and leisure costs reported by informal caregivers must be analysed separately, using two comparable Spanish samples, for the years 1994 and 2004. We do this since informal care introduces an additional time constraint on the individual, which complicates the...

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Can an ethnic group climb up from the bottom of the ladder?

Epstein, Gil S.; Siniver, Erez - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2414-2441

Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....

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Can population growth contribute to economic development? New evidence from Singapore

Furuoka, Fumitaka; Munir, Qaiser - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 3226-3239

This paper chose Singapore as a case study to investigate whether population growth can contribute to economic development. It employed four different single-equation tests for cointegration, namely, 1) ordinary least squares, 2) fully modified ordinary least squares, 3) canonical cointegration...

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Measuring child marriage

Nguyen, Minh Cong; Wodon, Quentin - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 398-411

Child or early marriage is recognized as an important development and human rights issue that affects girls especially in many developing countries. The practice has been linked to psychological, health, and education risks. These negative impacts explain why in many countries child marriage has...

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