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Long-Lasting Effects of Socialist Education
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2016
Political regimes influence contents of education and criteria used to select and evaluate students. We study the impact of a socialist education on the likelihood of obtaining a college degree and on several labor market outcomes by exploiting the reorganization of the school system in East...
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Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education? Evidence from OECD Countries
Keller, Katarina R. I. - 2013
Using data from 1960-2000 for OECD countries, we analyze the impact of compulsory military service on the demand for higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the working-age population. Based on a theoretical model, we hypothesize that military draft...
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Human Capital Risk, Contract Enforcement, and the Macroeconomy
Krebs, Tom - 2015
households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the household dies. We develop a tractable … macroeconomic model with human capital risk, age-dependent returns to human capital investment, and endogenous borrowing constraints …
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Demographic Uncertainty and Generational Consumption Risk with Endogenous Human Capital
Emerson, Patrick M. - 2018
producing human capital.We also demonstrate that this attenuation effect tends to concentrate generational consumption risk … into an i.i.d. generational consumption shock. In other words, each generation bears all of the risk associated with their …
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The Risk-Return Trade-Off in Human Capital Investment
Christiansen, Charlotte; Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Joensen, … - 2008
capital returns using a performance measure and by using tests for mean-variance spanning. A risk-return trade-off is revealed …
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Trade, Human Capital, and Income Risk
Deng, Liuchun; Krishna, Pravin; Senses, Mine Zeynep; … - 2022
In this paper, we empirically assess the causal relationship between trade and individual income risk and study the … from 1976 to 2012. Our estimates suggest substantial heterogeneity in labor income risk across workers in different entry … exports (per worker) are strongly and causally related to income risk: Imports increase risk and exports decrease risk, and …
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Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale
Dörrenberg, Philipp - 2010
As the link between tax compliance and tax morale is found to be robust, finding the determinants of tax morale can help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a cross-country approach which has not been investigated...
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression Under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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Outsourcing Cost and Tax Progression Under Nash Wage Bargaining with Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - 2010
It is analyzed the impacts of outsourcing cost and wage tax progression under labor market imperfections with Nash wage bargaining and flexible outsourcing. With sufficiently strong (weak) labor market imperfection, lower outsourcing cost has a wage-moderating (wage-increasing) effect so that...
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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
Duncan, Denvil - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
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