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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the …
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The effects of school entry laws on educational attainment and starting wages in an early tracking system
Zweimüller, Martina - 2013
earnings in the first years of the career. I estimate the reduced-form effect of the school entry law on starting wages and …
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Parental leave and mother's careers: The relative importance of job protection and cash benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analía; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
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Education, Cognition, Health Knowledge, and Health Behavior
Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha T. - 2013
education on health behavior is the same between those with and without a learning disability, suggesting that cognition is not …
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Economic conditions at the time of birth and cognitive abilities late in life: Evidence from eleven European countries
Doblhammer, Gabriele; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Fritze, … - 2011
With ageing populations and a stronger reliance on individual financial decision-making concerning asset portfolios, retirement schemes, pensions and insurances, it becomes increasingly important to understand the determinants of cognitive ability among the elderly. To study effects of the...
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The power of reasoning: Experimental evidence
Dugar, Subhasish; Bhattacharya, Haimanti - 2008
This paper presents an experimental investigation of how a systematic variation in the cognitive demands on subjects affects the optimal play. The innovation of this paper is the choice of a game, which we call the Game of Position. This is a two-player zerosum game characterized by a...
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Happiness and beliefs in criminal environments
Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert; Ñopo, Hugo - 2008
This paper uses newly available data to describe the distribution of crime victimization and other criminal activities (including drug trafficking and corruption) around the world. The paper then documents a negative (positive) correlation between measures of criminal activity and happiness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278276
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Labor Market Entry and Earnings Dynamics: Bayesian Inference Using Mixtures-of-Experts Markov Chain Clustering
Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Weber, Andrea; … - 2010
This paper analyzes patterns in the earnings development of young labor market en- trants over their life cycle. We … identify four distinctly di®erent types of transition patterns between discrete earnings states in a large administrative data …
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Causal effects of subsidized career breaks
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Lindqvist, Linus - 2005
The paper uses a quasi-experimental situation to analyze the effects of career interruptions on future labor market outcomes. Data are generated by a Swedish program that granted career breaks to applicants until funds where exhausted. Comparing approved and declined (due to lack of funds)...
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Working while enrolled in a university: Does it pay?
Häkkinen, Iida - 2004
work experience may also improve employment opportunities and increase wages after the graduation. This study examines how … significant changes in the Finnish labor market. The study finds that in-school work experience increases graduates' earnings at … the beginning of the career, but there are no statistically significant persistent effects on employment or earnings after …
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