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The economics of communist party membership: the curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China's transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008
wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268834
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The impact of immigration on the labour market outcomes of native-born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285431
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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466459
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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761810
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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014
death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352231
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Female Babies and Risk-Aversion
Pogrebna, Ganna; Oswald, Andrew J.; Haig, David - 2017
Being told the sex of your unborn child is a major exogenous 'shock'. In the first study of its kind, we collect before-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk-aversion. Using a standard Holt-Laury criterion, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653445
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Violence While in Utero: The Impact of Assaults during Pregnancy on Birth Outcomes
Currie, Janet; Mueller-Smith, Michael; Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2018
presents new evidence on the effects of violent crime on pregnancy and infant health outcomes, using unique linked … cost per assault during pregnancy of $41,771, and a total annual cost of over $4.25 billion when scaled by the national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931620
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Fired and Pregnant: Gender Differences in Job Flexibility Outcomes after Job Loss
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter - 2020
female workers come through longer unemployment instead of higher losses in wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322578
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Motherhood, Pregnancy or Marriage Effects?
Berniell, Maria Ines; Berniell, Lucila; De la Mata, Dolores - 2021
marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882417
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The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic
Bailey, Martha J.; Currie, Janet; Schwandt, Hannes - 2022
We use restricted natality microdata covering the universe of U.S. births for 2015-2021 and California births from 2015 to August 2022 to examine the childbearing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although fertility rates declined in 2020, these declines appear to reflect reductions in travel...
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