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The 'Informality Gap': Can Education Help Minorities Escape Informal Employment? Evidence from Peru
Delgado Montes, Juan Gabriel; Corrales, Javier; Singh, … - 2016
Discrimination in formal labor markets can push discriminated groups into labor informality, where wages are lower and pensions scarce. In this paper, we explore whether education offsets discrimination by empowering discriminated groups to successfully compete for formal jobs. Specifically, we...
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Social security incentives, human capital investment and mobility of labor
Poutvaara, Panu - 2005
Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human capital investments in both countries. The possibility of emigration boosts investments in human capital in the country with flat-rate benefits. Correspondingly, those expecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267335
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Social Security Incentives, Human Capital Investment and Mobility of Labor
Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human capital investments in both countries. The possibility of emigration boosts investments in human capital in the country with flat-rate benefits. Correspondingly, those expecting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763602
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Educational Inequality and Public Policy Preferences: Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018
To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality strongly increases concerns about educational...
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278806
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Job Market Signaling and Employer Learning
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Prat, Julien - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their employees over time. Contrary to the model without employer learning, we find that the Intuitive Criterion does not always select a unique separating equilibrium. When the Intuitive...
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable deaths. This chapter overviews the theoretical frameworks for, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024597
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Education, Information, and Improved Health: Evidence from Breast Cancer Screening
Chen, Keith; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While it is well known that education strongly predicts health, less is known as to why. One reason might be that education improves health-care decision making. In this paper we attempt to disentangle improved decision making from other effects of education, and to quantify how large an impact...
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Endogenous indoctrination: occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
educational bureaucracy. It is documented that the beliefs of that bureaucracy differ substantially from those of the broader … entropy defines how predictable one's occupation is as a function of one's beliefs. Heritability is the weight of the family …'s beliefs in the determination of the priors of a new generation. Both heritability and social entropy reduce the bias and makes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271321
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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs: Education, Religion and Superstition
Mocan, Hüseyin Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2014
impact of schooling on superstitious beliefs. We find that more education, due to increased mandatory years of schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481582