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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare
Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011
This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: "engineering," which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and "law", which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009384652
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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare
Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011
This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: "engineering," which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and "law," which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388245
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A reluctance to assimilate
Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2006
Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737408
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Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018
Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800646
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Intrahousehold decision making and fertility
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2014
The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is abstracted from. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010458481
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Gender differentiation in risk-taking behavior : on the relative risk aversion of single men and single women
Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa - In: Economics letters 137 (2015), pp. 83-87
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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482060
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Gender differentiation in risk-taking behavior : On the relative risk aversion of single men and single women
Stark, Oded; Zawojska, Ewa - 2015
We relate an observed difference between single men (SM) and single women (SW) in attitudes towards risk to the higher value assigned to social status by SM than by SW. In the marriage market, low status carries a harsher penalty for SM than for SW because when selecting a partner, the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379120
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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016
It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454419
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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455013