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The Short- and Longer-Term Effects of a Child Labor Ban
Piza, Caio; Emerson, Patrick M.; Portela Souza, Andre; … - 2022
Are bans effective at lowering child labor and increasing school attendance and, if so, do these effects lead to positive outcomes later in life? This paper seeks to answer these questions by examining the effect of a 1998 Brazilian law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16. To...
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Low-Educated Unemployed Youths
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2023
We use a regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy for low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points...
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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard : Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
Gregory, Terry - 2020
bite was particularly pronounced. There, the minimum wage lowered both returns to skills and skill supply. We propose a …
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Cognitive, Non-Cognitive Skills and Gender Wage Gaps : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data in Bangladesh
Nordman, Christophe J. - 2015
wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive skills and personality traits. Our results show that while cognitive … skills are important in determining mean wages, personality traits have little explanatory power. However, quantile … of females. Cognitive skills as measured by reading and numeracy also confer different benefits across the wage …
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A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills
Knaus, Michael - 2018
-dimensional settings? The results show that improvements in objectively measured cognitive skills require at least medium intensity, while …
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Children and Parents Time Use : Empirical Evidence on Investment in Human Capital in France, Italy and Germany
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Fontainha, Elsa; Monfardini, Chiara - 2021
/networking at young age, which can enhance personal interaction skills. We provide new empirical evidence for three European …
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Human Capital Persistence and Development
Rocha, Rudi - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
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The Portability of New Immigrants' Human Capital : Language, Education and Occupational Matching
Goldmann, Gustave - 2011
The implications of human capital portability – including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and … occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also investigate occupational mobility and observe convergence toward the …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …
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Human Capital and Career Success : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Frederiksen, Anders - 2011
Denmark's registry data provide accurate and complete career history data along with detailed personal characteristics (e.g., education, gender, work experience, tenure and others) for the population of Danish workers longitudinally. By using such data from 1992 to 2002, we provide rigorous...
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Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level
Alcobendas, Miguel - 2012
While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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