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The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Labor-Market Activity : Evidence from the United States

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Moriarty, Joan Y.; … - 2021

wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier research by Baker and Benjamin (1997) posits a family investment … family with liquidity during this period. Consistent with this model, they find for Canada that immigrant wives work longer …

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Young and Out in Germany : On the Youths' Chances of Labor Market Entrance in Germany

Franz, Wolfgang; Inkmann, Joachim; Pohlmeier, Winfried; … - 2021

This paper deals with the labor market entrance of young people in the Federal Republic" of Germany. The main focus is … on failures during this stage. First, an overview of the youth" labor market in Germany is given. Then, the transition … capital variables there is a striking effect of the family background" of the youths. The following section addresses the …

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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. And Germany

Bell, Linda A.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital : Evidence from the Golden Age of Upward Mobility

Card, David - 2018

We use 1940 Census data to study the intergenerational transmission of human capital for children born in the 1920s and educated during an era of expanding but unequally distributed public school resources. Looking at the gains in educational attainment between parents and children, we document...

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Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization : Saint-Germain-D'Anxure 1730-1895

Blanc, Guillaume; Wacziarg, Romain T. - 2021

Using a unique, comprehensive household-level dataset for a single French village from 1730 to 1895, we study the process of modernization during a period of rapid institutional and demographic transformation. We document changes in fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational...

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Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Mobility

Borjas, George J. - 2022

This paper analyzes the extent to which ethnic skill differentials are transmitted across generations. I assume that ethnicity acts as an externality in the human capital accumulation process. The skills of the next generation depend on parental inputs and on the quality of the ethnic...

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Job Market Signaling Through Occupational Licensing

Blair, Peter - 2018

presence of occupational licensing, we find evidence that firms rely less on observable characteristics such as race and gender …

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The Evolution of Inequality, Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Labor Earnings in the U.S. Economy

Cunha, Flavio - 2007

A large empirical literature documents a rise in wage inequality in the American economy. It is silent on whether the increase in inequality is due to greater heterogeneity in the components of earnings that are predictable by agents or whether it is due to greater uncertainty faced by agents....

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Long-Run Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure : Narrowing, Widening, Polarizing

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2010

The U.S. wage structure evolved across the last century: narrowing from 1910 to 1950, fairly stable in the 1950s and 1960s, widening rapidly during the 1980s, and quot;polarizingquot; since the late 1980s. We document the spectacular rise of U.S. wage inequality after 1980 and place recent...

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Intergenerational Mobility between and within Canada and the United States

Connolly, Marie - 2019

Intergenerational income mobility is lower in the United States than in Canada, but varies significantly within each country. Our sub-national analysis finds that the national border only partially distinguishes the close to one thousand regions we analyze within these two countries. The...

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