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We analyse the effects of demographic and education changes on unemployment rates in Europe. Using a panel of European … individuals, in general, experience lower unemployment rates, changes in the population age structure appear to be positively … related to young workers' unemployment rates while they have no effect on adults. Conversely changes in the skill structure …
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We explore the adoption data approach to estimating causal effects of parental education and income on the same outcomes of their children. Thanks to a data set drawn from Swedish population registers with detailed information on biological background and history of adoptees, we can test basic...
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composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …
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Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
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Many developing countries exhibit a puzzling pattern given their scarce human capital: unemployment rates increase with … education. We develop and estimate a model where educated unemployment arises from heterogeneous workers participating in a … explain around two-thirds of educated unemployment in urban Burkina Faso and one-quarter in Senegal. We then simulate three …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
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This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment … 16 years of schooling. Evidence on the impact of formal schooling on unemployment incidence is mixed. …
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increase the probability of re-employment following unemployment. …
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We use unique Swedish data to estimate intergenerational associations between adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents. We argue that the impact from biological parents captures broad pre-birth factors, including genes and prenatal environment, and the impact from adoptive parents...
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Cognitive and non-cognitive skills are important determinants of labor market outcomes, but are often unobserved. We propose a proxy for these skills derived from item non-response information and a procedure to test its validity. Exploiting a unique data-collection feature of an Australian...
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