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Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States
Khor, Niny; Pencavel, John H. - 2006
Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276243
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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282251
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Chinese immigrants in the US labor market: Effects of post-tiananmen immigration policy
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - 2012
around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese … measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282428
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329089
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What Works? Interventions Aimed At Reducing Student Dropout in Higher Education
Ibsen, Kristoffer; Rosholm, Michael - 2024
High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533955
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How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer
Dur, Robert; Gomez-Gonzalez, Carlos; Nesseler, Cornel - 2022
A rich literature shows that ethnic discrimination is an omnipresent and highly persistent phenomenon. Little is known, however, about how to reduce discrimination. This study reports the results of a large-scale field experiment we ran together with the Norwegian Football Federation. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351725
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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2015
early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531658
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A Local Community Course That Raises Wellbeing and Pro-sociality: Evidence from a Randomised Controlled Trial
Krekel, Christian; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Fancourt, Daisy; … - 2021
local communities by means of intervention. Can we teach people to live happier lives, cost-effectively and at scale? We … conducted a randomised controlled trial of a scalable social-psychological intervention rooted in self-determination theory and … limitations and implications for intervention design, as well as implications for the use of wellbeing as an outcome for public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597593
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What Predicts a Successful Life? A Life-Course Model of Well-Being
Layard, Richard; Clark, Andrew E.; Cornaglia, Francesca; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
If policy-makers care about well-being, they need a recursive model of how adult life-satisfaction is predicted by childhood influences, acting both directly and (indirectly) through adult circumstances. We estimate such a model using the British Cohort Study (1970). The most powerful childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960126
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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?
Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve … child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ), especially for socially disadvantaged children. The intervention … results show improvements in several subscales of the SDQ scale. However, the intervention proves less beneficial for socially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011228306