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Gender discrimination in the Australian graduate labour market

Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. - 2012

is applied. A smaller gender wage gap is found for university graduates than that reported for all workers in earlier … earnings equation on the standardised gender pay gap. Female graduates are less likely to be overeducated, compared to male … graduates. Overeducation, while associated with substantial penalties, is not a substantial contributor to the gender wage gap. …

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Cooperation, competition, and risk attitudes: an intergenerational field and laboratory experiment

Charness, Gary; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2007

The population of most developed societies is 'graying'. As life expectancy increases and the large baby-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the sustainability of pension systems. In the light of these...

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Population aging, elderly migration and education spending: intergenerational conflict revisited

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Williamson, Claudia R.; Yakovlev, … - 2009

Elderly have been increasingly targeted as a group to enhance economic development and the tax base in communities. While recent literature on elderly migration tends to focus on how elderly migration patterns are influenced by state fiscal variables, the reverse effect from elderly population...

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The effects of aging on migration in a transition economy: The case of China

Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W. - 2010

China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in history; and (ii) a shift in its age distribution. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are...

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Aging and productivity: Evidence from piece rates

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Uusitalo, Roope - 2012

We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data contain the population of Finnish blue collar workers in 61 different industries during 1990-2002. A unique feature of the data is that we can observe the exact hours worked on piece...

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High School Types, Academic Performance and Early Labour Market Outcomes

Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2004

Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the relationship between the …

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Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? : The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - 2004

This paper contributes to the understanding of how compulsory schooling regulations affect educational attainment and subsequent labour market outcomes. It uses valuable information from a natural experiment driven by rules that allow for variation in legal dropout dates. Since the school...

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Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

Margolis, David N.; Simonnet, Véronique - 2003

Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks help? In this paper, we consider the effect of the educational track on the means by which individuals find employment,...

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Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions

Riphahn, Regina T. - 1999

In response to increased international policy attention to youth unemployment this study investigates post-secondary school transitions of school leavers. Multinomial logit models are estimated for male and female German youth. The models control for individual, parent, and household...

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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian - 2001

The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...

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