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Do Mandatory Pensions Decrease Household Savings? Evidence for the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 2004
income. The goal of this paper is to test for the effect of mandatory pensions on discretionary household savings. The data … pensions have a significant negative impact on savings motives with respect to old age. Concerning the effect on household … are drawn from the CentER Savings Survey, which consists of a representative and a highest-income-decile sample of Dutch …
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Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training
Picchio, Matteo - 2015
Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012040
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Retaining Through Training : Even for Older Workers
Picchio, Matteo - 2011
This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127957
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Gender, Financial Literacy and Pension Savings
Preston, Alison; Wright, Robert - 2022
relationship between the gender gap in financial literacy and the gender gap in pension savings amongst non-retired adults aged 18 … where the focus is on pension savings and a more structural specification where the focus is on the "pension return" (the … ratio of pension savings to cumulative earnings). Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis suggests that around 8.5 per cent of …
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Changing Norms About Gender Inequality in Education : Evidence from Bangladesh
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2014
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger cohort being far more positive...
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Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
Pham, Thong - 2011
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more so for boys than for girls. A higher education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124470
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Choice of Fields of Study of Canadian University Graduates : The Role of Gender and Their Parents' Education
Boudarbat, Brahim; Montmarquette, Claude - 2021
This paper examines the determinants of the choice of field of study by university students using data from the Canadian National Graduate Survey. The sample of 18,708 graduates holding a Bachelor degree is interesting in itself knowing that these students completed their study and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317241
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Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation : The Role of Gender and Ethnicity
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find that both male and female second-generation immigrants,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030862
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The Decline of Early Retirement Pathways in the Netherlands : An Empirical Analysis for the Health Care Sector
Euwals, Rob - 2011
Early retirement schemes and disability insurance in the Netherlands have both been reformed during the past decades. The reforms have increased incentives to continue working and have decreased the substitution between early retirement and disability. This study investigates the impact of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122969
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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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