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Unemployment and Subsequent Wages: Does Gender Matter?

Wiklund, Fredrik - 1999

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …

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Trading population for productivity

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2003

This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution has played a significant role in the timing of demographic transitions across countries and has thereby been a major determinant of the distribution of world population and a...

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Trade and the great divergence: The family connection

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2006

This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution has played a major role in the timing of demographic transitions across countries and has thereby been a significant determinant of the distribution of world population and a...

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Trading population for productivity: Theory and evidence

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2008

This research argues that the differential effect of international trade on the demand for human capital across countries has been a major determinant of the distribution of income and population across the globe. In developed countries the gains from trade have been directed towards investment...

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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008

that the reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises be- cause displaced …

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Fertility and Economic Instability: The Role of Unemployment and Job Displacement

Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job...

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For a fair and effective industrial climate transition: Support measures for heavy industry in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany

Bollen, Yelter; Van Hauwaert, Tycho; Beys, Olivier - 2021

Europe's industrial base needs to undergo a swift and persistent transformation towards carbon neutrality and circularity, but this transition must happen in a fair and socially just manner. In this working paper, we evaluate the support mechanisms for heavy industry which have been put in place...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...

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Brain drain and development traps

Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brézis, Elise S. - 2011

This paper links the two fields of 'development traps' and 'brain drain'. We construct a model which integrates endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some underdevelopment traps: an economy starting with a low level of...

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Involuntary integration in public education, fertility and human capital

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008

This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more...

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