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We provide the first twin-based estimates of the intergenerational transmission of income between fathers and sons. Using Swedish register data on the income of monozygotic twin fathers and their sons, we are able to control for unobserved endowments at the twin-pair level when estimating the...
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Behrman and Rosenzweig (2002) used data on a small sample of MZ (monozygotic, identical) twin parents and their children to show that father's schooling is more important than mother's schooling for children's schooling in the U.S. Recent studies based on much larger samples of twins from...
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For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and...
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This paper develops a new equilibrium model of two-sided search where ex-ante heterogenous individuals have general payoff functions and vectors of attributes. The analysis applies to a large class of models, from the non-transferable utility case to the collective household case with...
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This study proposes a new approach to the analysis of non-employment and its duration in Germany, Italy and Spain using … administrative longitudinal databases. Non-employment includes the discouraged unemployed not entitled to draw unemployment benefits … estimate the magnitude and duration of non-employment, applying the survival methodology developed in recent years to deal with …
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short employment spell (< 3 months), 10-year survival does not reach 50%. We show that the order of magnitude of workforce …
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Why did employment growth - high in the last decade - take place at the expense of young workers in the countries of … a positive impact on its evolution: population ageing and the demographic decline, low labor cost of young workers …
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, and policy restrictions, we consider a range of employment outcomes—including permanent layoffs, which generate large and … how these employment patterns vary across different states, according to the timing and severity of virus caseloads … economic activity reduce employment rates concurrently, but do not seem to have lingering effects once relaxed. In contrast …
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More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...
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cannot be attributed to the parents' own employment status. The results suggest pathways through stress and air pollution …
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