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Marriage market signals and homeownership for the never married
Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2018
There is a growing trend of buying homes among the single population in the U.S. This trend has been referred to as … expectations may raise home buying probabilities among never married singles. We focus solely on the sub population called the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129934
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A contribution to the theory of fertility and economic development
Gori, Luca; Sodini, Mauro - 2018
The aim of this research is to build on a theory for explaining economic development in a (neoclassical) growth model … and high development regimes. It provides alternative reasons (history driven or expectations driven) why some countries … enter development trajectories with high GDP and low fertility and others experience under-performances with low GDP and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130325
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Country of origin, earnings convergence, and human capital investment : a new method for the analysis of U.S. immigrant economic assimilation
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark C. - 2018
The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130585
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A parsimonious model of longevity, fertility, HIV transmission and development
Gori, Luca; Manfredi, Piero; Sodini, Mauro - 2018
disease. The aim of this research is twofold. First, it develops a framework for explaining economic development in a general …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131225
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Inclusive recruitment? : hiring discrimination against older workers
Drydakis, Nick; MacDonald, Peter; Bozani, Vasiliki; … - 2017
Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119031
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The distributional impacts of early employment losses from COVID-19 : [running head: employment losses from COVID-19]
Cho, Seung Jin; Winters, John V. - 2020
document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012221840
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239323
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Turkish university students' self-perceptions of aging : an analysis over socio-economic dimensions
Yumurtaci, Aynur; Bagis, Bilal - 2019
University students represent nearly more than half of the youth population (age group of 15-24) in Turkey. Meanwhile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149273
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Fiscal policy instruments for inclusive labour markets : a review
Ernst, Ekkehard; Merola, Rossana; Reljic, Jelena - 2024
This study provides a critical assessment of various fiscal policy instruments - including direct public job creation, active labour market and care policies, social protection measures and tax reforms - and their effectiveness in supporting the most vulnerable groups in the labour market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496436
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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times : evidence from UK prolific participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020 - Revised version: 12December2020
We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health was worse than men's along the four metrics we...
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