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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms
Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2021
Using data covering a single cohort’s first 55 years of life, we show that most of the intergenerational elasticity of earnings (IGE) is explained by differences in: years of schooling, cognitive skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during...
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The intergenerational elasticity of earnings : exploring the mechanisms
Bolt, Uta; French, Eric; Hentall-MacCuish, Jamie; … - 2024
How do education, skills, investments of parental time and school quality, and family circumstances during childhood contribute to the persistence of earnings across generations? Building on a classic literature in sociology and a more recent literature in economics, our model allows each of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015339378
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The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes
Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023
Welfare caseloads in North America halved following reforms in the 1990s and 2000s. We study how this shift affected families by linking Canadian welfare records to tax returns, medical spending, educational attainment, and crime data. We find substantial and heterogeneous employment responses...
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The role of education and income inequality on environmental quality : a panel data analysis of the EKC hypothesis on OECD
Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, João Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, … - 2021
We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to...
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A structural model of demand for apprentices
Mühlemann, Samuel; Schweri, Jürg; Winkelmann, Rainer; … - 2005
It is a widely held opinion that apprenticeship training represents a net investment for training firms, and that therefore firms only train if they have the possibility to recoup these investments after the training period. A recent study using a new firm-level dataset for Switzerland showed,...
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Exploiting discontinuities in secondary school attendance to evaluate value added
Britton, Jack; Clark, Damon; Lee, Ines - 2023
We use a new empirical strategy to test various measures of school effectiveness in England. Our approach exploits discontinuities in attendance probabilities that occur at unpredictable distance cutoffs used as tiebreakers in admissions processes for oversubscribed schools. We show that raw,...
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Skill-biased employment and the stringency of environmental regulations in European countries
Fuinhas, José Alberto; Javed, Asif; Sciulli, Dario; … - 2025
Governments across the globe are implementing stricter environmental policies to combat climate change and promote sustainability. This study contributes to the growing literature exploring the influence of environmental policy on skill-biased employment across various occupations. Specifically,...
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Hot wages : how do heat waves change the earnings distribution?
Valenti, Giulia; Vona, Francesco - 2024
This paper examines the impact of temperature shocks, measured by cold and heat waves, on labour market outcomes across 14 European countries. Using retrospective individual-level data from the Survey on Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and daily climate data from the E-OBS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015163276
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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011
intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … through which the knowledge acquired by emigrants abroad can flow back to the South and enhance the skills of the remaining … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009234630
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The effect of educational mismatch on wages using European panel data
Iriondo, Iñaki; Pérez Amaral, Teodosio - 2013
This paper analyzes the effect of educational mismatch on wages, using a rich panel dataset of workers in the major euro area countries from 2006 to 2009, drawn from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eurostat). We use a consistent estimator to address the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687794