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The opportunity costs of rearing British children, in terms of cash earnings forgone by their mother, are estimated for a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work experience and current hours of work. In addition, these...
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Models to explain the chances of economic activity, employment and full-time work in a national cross-section of British women in 1980 in terms of a number of demographic and economic variables are estimated by OLS. Marital status differentials are minor once the presence of dependent children...
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Trotz eines stetigen Anstiegs der Anzahl von selbstständigen Frauen in Deutschland hat sich der sogenannte Gender …
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residential location (housing prices) and commutes workers must be paid the same wages and only wage premia arising from ….S. Decennial Census. We find that wages are higher when an individual works in a location that has more workers or a greater … productivity. Extended model specifications suggest that wages increase with the education level of nearby workers and the …
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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that we explain several stylized facts on the labour market using new secondary data on population, employment and unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the...
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This paper attempts to explain individual variation in wages by estimating different wage equations. The study has two … goals: first, to analyze the effect of years of schooling on the wages of vocational training graduates using a more precise … measure for schooling than that commonly used in wage equations; and second, to analyze the effect on these wages of the match …
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The MRC National Survey of Health and Development provides data on the hourly pay of males and females at age 26 in 1972 and in 1977. These have been subjected to regression analysis to see how far the gap between men's and women's pay is statistically explicable by (a) a "human capital" model...
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The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between wages, human capital and investment in financial assets …
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We explore the effect of risk preference on the educational attainment and wages of a sample of individuals drawn from …
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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 …
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