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Bitter sugar : slavery and the black family
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
sugar plantations, since the extreme demographic and social conditions prevailing in the latter have persistently affected … family formation patterns. By exploiting the exogenous variation in sugar suitability, we establish the following. In 1850 …, sugar suitability is indeed associated with extreme demographic outcomes within the slave population. Over the period 1880 …
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Forced labor and health-related outcomes : the case of beggar children
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
The study aims to examine whether beggar children are victims of forced labor, as well as to identify the manifestations of forced labor in beggar children, and assess whether forced child begging relates to deteriorated health-related quality of life and mental health. The study focused on the...
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Disentangling the attractiveness of telework to employees : a factorial survey experiment
Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van Ootegem, Luc; … - 2022
This research adds to the literature on the attractiveness of telework to employees. To this end, we set up an innovative factorial survey experiment in which a high-quality sample of employees evaluates job offers with diverging characteristics, among which a wide variation in telework...
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Getting stuck in the status quo ante : evidence from the Egyptian economy
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In this study, for the first time, to our knowledge, we use the propensity score matching algorithm to estimate the probability to remain 'stuck in the status-quo ante' across generations in Egypt. We use repeated cross-sectional data relative to a 20-year period from 1998 to 2018 to build...
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Why do parents under invest in their children's education? : evidence from China
Wang, Jiyuan; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2022
In this paper we study whether the presence of binding liquidity constraints and the existence of fixed costs can explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and...
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Dynamics of returns to vocational education in China : 2010-2017
Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data (2010-2017) to analyse the returns to different education qualifications. We additionally compare the returns to vocational education with returns to academic education, at both the upper secondary level and the tertiary level....
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
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The labor market returns to "first in family" university graduates
Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Henderson, Morag; Shure, Nikki - 2022
We examine how first in family (FiF) graduates (those whose parents do not have university degrees) fare on the labor market. We find that among women, FiF graduates earn 7.4% less on average than graduate women whose parents have a university degree. For men, we do not find a FiF wage penalty....
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Inequality and occupational change in times of Revolution : the Tunisian perspective
Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Phuong Minh Le - 2022
The public sector plays a large role in many developing economies, but its effect on earnings inequality dynamics has not been widely studied. In this paper, we investigate the earnings inequality trends and their determinants in the decades before and after the Tunisian Revolution, focusing on...
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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe
Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022
This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...
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