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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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In this paper, we focus on possible causal mechanisms behind the intergenerational transmission of human capital. For this purpose, we use both an adoption and a twin design and study the effect of parents' education on their children's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our...
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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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parental earnings or fathers' education, or relative to other predictors of child performance. We find no effects on … reform had no effect on children's scholastic performance. However, we do find positive effects for children of well … intermediate outcomes such as mothers' subsequent earnings, child health, parental fertility, divorce rates, or the mothers' mental …
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, lost an average of more than 50 percent of potential earnings. Both genders suffered reduced attainment of senior high …. However, these education responses do not appear to have translated into lower earnings. In addition, at each level of … certificate attained, the impact on earnings of these missed years of schooling or lack of normal curricula was small. …
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the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
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terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself … as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …
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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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important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway …
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