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The American Family in Black and White : A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality

Heckman, James J. - 2011

In contemporary America, racial gaps in achievement are primarily due to gaps in skills. Skill gaps emerge early before children enter school. Families are major producers of those skills. Inequality in performance in school is strongly linked to inequality in family environments. Schools do...

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Social Stability Challenged : Pandemics, Inequality and Policy Responses

Perugini, Cristiano - 2020

The public health measures implemented by governments to limit the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic will produce significant economic consequences that are likely to exacerbate social and economic inequalities. In this paper we provide a framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other...

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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism …-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of …

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Immigrants' 'Ability' and Welfare as a Function of Cultural Diversity : Effect of Cultural Capital at Individual and Local Level

Tubadji, Annie - 2014

This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...

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Technological Advance, Social Fragmentation and Welfare

Bosworth, Steven; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021

This paper models the welfare consequences of social fragmentation arising from technological advance. We start from the premise that technological progress falls primarily on market-traded commodities rather than prosocial relationships, since the latter intrinsically require the expenditure of...

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Occupational Adjustment of Immigrants

Zorlu, Aslan - 2011

This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...

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Are Occupations Paid What They are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...

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The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity

Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2012

This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to disability via sickness absence. Our contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and...

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Labour-Market Outcomes of Older Workers in the Netherlands : Measuring Job Prospects Using the Occupational Age Structure

Bosch, Nicole - 2013

This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital obsolescence, mobility becomes more costly when workers become older. We measure and interpret how changing...

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Working Hard in the Wrong Place : A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle

Patterson, Christina - 2016

The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle." If jobseekers disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where...

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