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Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the … estimating the joint effects of formal schooling, literacy and numeracy skills, and adult literacy programs on employment and … wage outcomes. Wage and employment status equations are estimated jointly, allowing employment status to be endogenous …
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Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...
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Despite having one of the most celebrated labor market integration policies, the native-immigrant employment gap in … the employment gap between male immigrants and natives. The results show that the traditional human capital theory only …, large unexplained employment gaps still persists between immigrants and natives and between migrant categories. Our analysis …
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difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …
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Analyzing a list of all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans in 1991 to 2009 linked with annual information on all U.S. employers from 1976 to 2012, we apply detailed matching and regression methods to estimate the variation in SBA loan effects on job creation and firm survival across firm...
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and employment in real-time. Yet questions remain about the representativeness of these datasets and how to distinguish … real-time estimates of small business dynamics and employment during the pandemic are remarkably representative and closely … and openings from sample churn is critical for these results. We also find that while employment by small businesses …
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This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...
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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
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This paper uses variation created by parental deaths in the amount of time children spend with each parent to examine whether the parent-child correlation in schooling outcomes stems from a causal relationship. Using a large sample of Israeli children who lost one parent during childhood, we...
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Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...
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