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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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country. We also consider the earnings implications of these immigrant networks for recent arrivals. The empirical evidence … positive effect on their hourly wage and their level of weekly earnings. …
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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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acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …
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(the three E’s) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants …
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acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that …
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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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Three decades ago, Sweden extended municipal and county voting privileges to non-citizen residents arguing that it would increase political influence, interest and self-esteem among foreign citizens. Three decades later, electoral participation on the part of immigrants is perceived as being...
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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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