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The risk and time preferences of young truants and their parents
Antrobus, Emma; Baranov, Victoria; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; … - 2017
We use an incentivized experiment to measure the risk and time preferences of truant adolescents and their parents. We find that adolescent preferences do not predict school attendance and that a unique police-school partnership program targeting school absences was most effective in reducing...
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Do selection criteria make a difference? : Visa category and the labour market status of immigrants to Australia
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: The economic record : er 76 (2000), pp. 15-31
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Human capital and earnings of female immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002
than women to gain admission on the basis of immigration criteria related to labor market considerations rather than family … female immigration flows. Therefore, our findings of similar patterns for men and women and of the key role played by … national origin both suggest that factors other than immigration policy per se are important contributors to the observed skill …
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The changing nature of employment-related sexual harassment : evidence from the US Federal Government (1978-1994)
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2002
This paper examines the changing nature of views towards and reports of sexual harassment using unique data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the U.S. Federal Government over the period from 1978-1994. Our results indicate that while federal government employees...
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The changing nature of employment-related sexual harassment : evidence from the U.S. federal government, 1978 - 1994
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 57 (2003/04) 3, pp. 443-461
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Cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes and the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt
Barón, Juan David (contributor);  … - 2009
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Cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes and the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt
Baron, Juan D. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003791784
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Cultural transmission of work-welfare attitudes and the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt
Barón, Juan D. (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper considers the potential for the cultural transmission of attitudes toward work, welfare, and individual responsibility to explain the intergenerational correlation in welfare receipt. Specifically, we investigate whether 18-year olds' views about social benefits and the drivers of...
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Bias in the legal profession : self-assessed versus statistical measures of discrimination
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - 2011
Legal cases are generally won or lost on the basis of statistical discrimination measures, but it is workers' perceptions of discriminatory behavior that are important for understanding many labor-supply decisions. Workers who believe that they have been discriminated against are more likely to...
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Bias in the legal profession: self-assessed versus statistical measures of discrimination
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Helland, Eric - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310777