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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

Choi, Kate - 2011

status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …

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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States

Banks, James W. - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...

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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...

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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and … the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human … announcement and implementation of a major UK in-work benefit reform, we estimate its effects on single mothers' behavior. We find …

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Immigration Background and the Intergenerational Correlation in Education

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

Australia. We find that young Australians from non-English-speaking background (NESB) immigrant families have an educational …

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Are Young People's Educational Outcomes Linked to Their Sense of Control?

Baron, Juan D. - 2011

This paper analyzes the link between young people's sense (locus) of control over their lives and their investments in education. We find that young people with a more internal locus of control have a higher probability of finishing secondary school and, conditional on completion, meeting the...

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Financial Stress, Family Conflict, and Youths' Successful Transition to Adult Roles

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions into adult roles. We find that mothersﾒ reports of financial stresses and borrowing constraints are associated with earlier transitions to inactivity and public assistance,...

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Portfolio Allocation in the Face of a Means-Tested Public Pension

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

Is there evidence that households adjust their asset portfolios just prior to retirement in response to a means-tested public pension? We address this question by estimating a system of asset equations constrained to add up to net worth. We find little evidence that in 2006 healthy households or...

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Neighborhood Diversity and the Appreciation of Native- and Immigrant-Owned Homes

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia …

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Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2011

This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...

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