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biographies of roughly 2.4 million manufacturing workers in Germany (1990–2010). To profit from export opportunities, workers …
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poor re-employment outcomes …
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Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just …
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We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment … histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are … characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into employment at a higher age, and by experiencing atypical employment more …
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Job posting counts (JPCs) are increasingly being used as indicators of employment dynamics, but they have not received … predict individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment. Unlike with the unemployment rate, we not only examine …
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Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His … argument is based on the assumption that women's utility is higher if they are married. Thus, extending the lifespan of men …
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argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion … employment of women. It is shown that within position women were substitutes for men, although the degree of substitutability was … less for older men than for juniors. In addition, the employment of women in routine positions allowed the Bank to expand …
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Research on intergenerational income mobility is based on current income since data on lifetime income are typically not available for two generations. However, using snapshots of income over shorter periods causes a so-called life-cycle bias if the snapshots cannot mimic lifetime outcomes....
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Many authors have recently suggested that the heterogeneity in the quality of early education may be one of the key mechanisms underlying the intergenerational persistence of earnings. This paper estimates the effect of a major educational reform on the intergenerational income mobility in...
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This paper uses Census microdata linked with tax records to quantify the contribution of career choices - occupations and fields of study - to intergenerational income mobility. We document substantial segregation into occupations by parental income. Yet, the occupations children pursue explain...
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