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An investigation into the positive effect of an educated wife on her husband’s earnings: the case of Japan in the period between 2000 and 2003.
Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000–2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … suggestive evidence that educated wives increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025312
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Dependent Elderly and Gender Equality in Bulgaria
Beleva, Iskra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper describes the current provisions, employment implications and policy options for care for elderly people in Bulgaria. The aging of the Bulgarian population makes this problem quite sensitive for the society and important from policy point of view. That is because the elderly people are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260590
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The Relationship Between the Effects of a Wife’s Education on her Husband’s Earnings and her Labor Participation: Japan in the period 2000 -2003
Yamamura, Eiji; Mano, Yukichi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, we explore the relationship between the influence of wives’ human capital on their husbands’ earnings … capital has a positive effect on her husband’s earnings regardless of her work status when the entire sample is used … wife’s labor participation drastically reduces the positive effect of her human capital on her husband’s earnings after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560974
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Labor earnings imputation: An application using labor surveys in Mexico
Rodriguez-Oreggia, Eduardo; Lopez-Videla, Bruno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The aim of this paper is to make imputation of earnings in observations with missing values in the Encuesta Nacional de … present imputations by two methods, and also a correction for estimations by reweighting observations with reported earnings … values of earnings are ignored. Differences are acute when measuring labor poverty. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109800
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The Impact of Work-Related Training on Employee Earnings: Evidence from Great Britain.
Panos, Sousounis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
-related training on earnings levels. Different measures for general and specific training are constructed from available information …. The analysis diverges from the standard fixed effects framework for earnings determination modelling and presents evidence … effects formulation for the earnings equation suggested by Nijman and Verbeek (1992) for controlling for attrition bias in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623408
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The Relationship Between the Effects of a Wife’s Education on her Husband’s Earnings and her Labor Participation: Japan in the period 2000 -2003
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the effect of a wife’s human capital on her husband’s earnings, using individual-level data for Japan in the … period 2000?2003. We find a positive association between a wife’s education and her husband’s earnings, which can be … suggestive evidence that educated wives increase their husbands’ productivity and earnings only when they are non-workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008557275
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Private sector employment growth, 1998-2004: a panel analysis of British workplaces
Bryson, Alex; Nurmi, Satu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Using nationally representative panel data for British private sector workplaces this paper points to the importance of distinguishing between workplace and firm size when analysing employment growth, and finds that the factors associated with growth differ markedly between single independent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928607
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Family size, human capital and growth: structural path analysis of Rwanda
Temel, Tugrul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic role that different household groups play in human capital formation, sectoral growth and income distribution in Rwanda. Using a disaggregated SAM for Rwanda and with the assistance of structural path analysis, the paper explores the macroeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147703
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Human capital and the probability of divorce
zax, ori - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Concern about the high poverty rates experienced by children in female-headed households has led to policies aimed at increasing these households' income. In this paper we present a model that analyzes decisions made before and during marriage to invest in the human capital of parents and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113853
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Improved estimates of the benefits of breastfeeding using sibling comparisons to reduce selection bias
Reilly, Siobhan; Evenhouse, Eirik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Objective Better measurement of the health and cognitive benefits of breastfeeding by using sibling comparisons to reduce sample selection bias. Data We use data on the breastfeeding history, physical and emotional health, academic performance, cognitive ability, and demographic characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623436