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the interventions on college enrollment, graduation, and earnings in adulthood. I show that the career education …
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This paper explores the characteristics associated with marriages between Roman Catholics and members of other religious denominations ('mixed marriages') in 1911 Ireland. Using the recently-digitized returns of the 1911 census of population, we find that such marriages were relatively rare,...
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Effect," where an initial advantage is self-amplifying. We find that entrepreneurs who obtain university education are more … entrepreneurs have significantly better future firm outcomes compared to those without a university education. Furthermore, we find … a key role for investments in innovation, intangible assets, and lower within-firm pay inequality. …
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There are two well-established gender gaps in education. First, females tend to have higher educational attainment and …
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This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...
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This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household disposable income data from the Household Budget Survey to calculate...
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presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …
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Very little is known about wealth-holding and its distribution in Ireland in the past. Here we employ death duty register data to analyse and identify a sample of the top wealth holders in Ireland between the early 1820s and late 1830s. We examine the sources of their wealth and its regional...
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Difference Principle, by which inequalities are shown to be permitted as far as they stimulate a greater effort in education in … the population, and so economic growth. To our knowledge, this is the only possibility for the inequality to be "bought …
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