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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings, labor market participation, working hours and wage rate, while fathers … babysit, which generate motherhood earnings penalty in labor market. Finally, well-being analysis shows that subjective …
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings … study the earnings in five independent professional practices. Based on the net present value technique, Becker (1964 … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings …
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Background wage premia, beyond education : firm sorting and unobserved abilities
Bonacini, Luca; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Santoni, Edoardo - 2024
This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational inequality and differences in pay policies among firms. We examine whether the effects of parental background in firm selection contribute to the persistence of income inequality across generations, and particularly how this can...
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The evolution of inequality in Latin America in the 21st century : what are the patterns, drivers and causes?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Rojas Lozano, Daniel - 2017
In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible underlying causes, including the role of the new...
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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019
This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...
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The response of firms to maternity leave and sickness absence
Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2020
The costs to a firm of employee absence depend on how easy it is to find a replacement. We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences that arise from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over two million spells of leave in...
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Returns to education and female work force participation Nexus : evidence from India
Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2018
In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit level data of India for the year 2011-12 is used to...
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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Ethnicity differentials in academic achievements : the role of time investments
Ha Trong Nguyen; Connelly, Luke B.; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2020
Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying causes of their advantages are under-studied. We employ panel time-use diaries by two cohorts of children observed over a decade to present new evidence that children of Asian...
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If not now, when? : the timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes
Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018
earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic …
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