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The Academic Origins of Economics Faculty
Jones, Todd; Sloan, Arielle - 2022
We use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty. Academic origins may have implications for how undergraduate (B.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) students are trained and placed, as well as the type of research produced. We find that...
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A Generation of Italian Economists
Nano, Enrico; Panizza, Ugo; Viarengo, Martina - 2021
trajectories, and labor market outcomes of a generation of Italian economists with special focus on gender gaps and the role of …
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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK : Is Gender Relevant?
Mumford, Karen - 2019
academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
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Gender Differences in the Early Career Earnings of Economics Graduates
Bazen, Stephen; Charni, Kadija - 2023
In contrast to the UK, the USA and Germany, the majority of students in economics in France are female. Using a national survey of three cohorts of French university graduates in economics, we examine the gender differential in early career earnings. There is a significant raw differential in...
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
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Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment
Cahuc, Pierre - 2020
In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employmentrate of apprentices is about 15 percentage points higher than that of vocational students.Despite this difference, this paper shows that there is almost no difference between theprobability of getting a...
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The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents
Redmond, Paul - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced from 18 years to 7 years. Lone parents who no longer qualified for the payment, based on the age...
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
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Optimal Taxation, Inequality and Top Incomes
Andrienko, Yuri - 2014
In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to...
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What Can Life Satisfaction Data Tell Us About Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities? A Structural Equation Model for Australia and the United Kingdom
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2014
samples for two different countries – Australia (the HILDA Survey) and the UK (the UK Household Longitudinal Study) – are used …
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