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Parents, Siblings and Schoolmates : The Effects of Family-School Interactions on Educational Achievement and Long-Term Labor Market Outcomes

Bertoni, Marco - 2017

individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of …

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

de la Croix, David - 2016

learn as apprentices from the old. Institutions such as the family, the clan, the guild, and the market organize who learns …

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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism

Doepke, Matthias - 2015

The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was replaced by industrial capitalists rising from the middle classes as the economically dominant group. Many observers have linked this transformation to the contrast in values...

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Families in Macroeconomics

Doepke, Matthias - 2016

. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is typically ignored in macroeconomic models. In this chapter, we argue … that family economics should be an integral part of macroeconomics, and that accounting for the family leads to new answers … fluctuations, and argue that changes in family structure in recent decades have important repercussions for the determination of …

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Not in My Community : Social Pressure and the Geography of Dismissals

Bassanini, Andrea - 2015

We investigate the role of local social pressure in shaping the geographical pattern of firms' firing decisions. Using French linked employer-employee data, we show that social pressure exerted by the local communities where firms' headquarters are located induces CEOs to refrain from dismissing...

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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions:A Macroeconomic Perspective

Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions foreconomic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome maybe inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the impositionof a child-labor ban...

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"For One More Year with You":Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Educationand the Distribution of Wages in Europe

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Weber, Guglielmo - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time inthe changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of educationon the distribution of earnings...

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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired Under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...

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Non-Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits : Labour Market Relevance and Their Development in Education & Training Systems

Brunello, Giorgio - 2011

This paper reviews the empirical economic literature on the relative importance of non cognitive skills for school and labour market outcomes, with a focus on Europe. There is evidence that high cognitive test scores are likely to result not only from high cognitive skills but also from high...

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Leadership at School : Does the Gender of Siblings Matter?

Brunello, Giorgio - 2012

Having leader positions at school, as well as participating in sports and clubs helps promoting valuable non cognitive skills, including leadership, self-discipline, motivation, competitiveness and self-esteem. We use survey data from the US and Japan to investigate whether these behaviors in...

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