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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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for people who are unable to secure their income in agriculture. Although average earnings in the rural non …-agricultural sector are higher than in agriculture, it is unclear whether income prospects are systematically better in non … unskilled workers would earn a higher income by switching from agriculture to RNAE. Instead it tends to be the relatively well …
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Working while studying at university increases the time-to-degree and may interfere with learning, but the acquired work experience may also improve employment opportunities and increase wages after the graduation. This study examines how university students' employment decisions affect their...
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on an adults income, health and educational attainment. When possible, the estimated models take into account of possible … endogeneity and measurement error problems. The results suggest that early working has a negative and substantial income impact on … associated with a worse self-assessed health index for rural adults and higher probability of getting health problems for both …
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euro area countries from 2006 to 2009, drawn from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (Eurostat …
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Empirical evidence suggests that relative age, which is determined by date of birth and the school entry cutoff date, has a causal effect on track choice. Using a sample of male labor market entrants drawn from Austrian register data, I analyze whether the initial assignment to different school...
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM college studies. Using Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a larger proportion of female peers reduces women's...
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This paper studies how a student's ordinal achievement rank affects performance and specialization choices in university. We exploit data from a setting where students are randomly assigned to teaching sections and find that students with a higher rank in their section achieve higher grades,...
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. We find that front-loading debt repayment - by increasing income-contingency or shortening the loan repayment period … taking-up loans. Income-contingency of repayments exhibits and elasticity of -0.72 for debt and -0.14 for income at exit, but …
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This paper investigates the male wage inequality and its evolution over the 1994-2002 period in Turkey by estimating Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined at the lower end of the wage distribution it...
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