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experienced in labor market earnings through wage dispersion and employment rate dispersion. We find a low degree of relative risk … low degree of risk aversion implies that an increase in earnings dispersion would have little effect on schooling …
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Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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years of work experience at which individuals' observed earnings approximately equal what they would have been based on …
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This paper estimates the longer-term effects of childhood conduct disorder on human capital accumulation and violent and criminal behaviour later in life using data of Australian twins. We measure conduct disorder with a rich set of indicators based on diagnostic criteria from psychiatry. Using...
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In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese … decision, whereas normally only the first decision is modelled. Correlation between the error terms of the earnings functions … find empirical support for the existence of selectivity bias as the errors of the earnings functions are correlated with …
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We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from … lower earnings for non-white immigrants. …
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working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in … Missouri earnings for employed leavers are unchanged. In both states, the types of jobs leavers hold have not changed …
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Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three...
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This paper analyzes the performance of Mexican manufacturing firms following trade liberalization within a very …
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