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hourly wage and spousal education, showing that attractiveness and height matter in the labor market, whereas both male and …
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, there is one essential factor that affects family size throughout the world. This is education. School has decreased … mortality by the emphasis on personal and household hygiene. It has then decreased fertility by the increased costs of bringing … and scarcely without modernization, except for the school itself. Education, as we know it, preceded industrialization and …
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This study investigates the citation patterns of theoretical and empirical papers over a period of almost 30 years, while also exploring the determinants of citation success. The results indicate that empirical papers attract more citation success than theoretical studies. However, the pattern...
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We empirically analyze the labor supply choices of married men and women according to their body size (BMI), using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics on anthropometric characteristics of both spouses, and unmarried men and women as comparison group. Heavier husbands are found to work...
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In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as...
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In low- and middle-income countries (LIMCs) measuring early childhood development (ECD) with standard tests in large scale surveys (i.e. evaluations of interventions) is difficult and expensive. Multi-dimensional screeners and single-domain tests ('short tests') are frequently used as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527323
The paper analyzes the effect of mother tongue on labor market outcomes of Swiss residents. This type of analysis can shed light on an important policy question. Is the Swiss labor market well integrated, or can one find instead segmentation along language borders? Improving on previous research...
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. Macroeconomic models explaining these aggregate trends are surveyed. The relent-less flow of technological progress and its role in …
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, permitting us to construct gender- and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within …- and between-education groups and gender. Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key driver of labor …
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