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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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Returns for Entrepreneurs vs. Employees: The Effectof Education and Personal Control on the RelativePerformance of Entrepreneurs vs. Wage Employees
Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
‘income’). This is the caseeven when estimating individual fixed effects of the differential returns to education for spellsin … instrumentalvariables to cope with the endogenous nature of education in income equations. Finally, wefind (indirect) support for the …
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Early Child Development and Maternal Labor Force Participation : Using Handedness as an Instrument
Frijters, Paul; Johnston, David W.; Shah, Manisha; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
We estimate the effect of early child development on maternal labor force participation using data from teacher assessments. Mothers might react to having a poorly developing child by dropping out of the formal labor force in order to spend more time with their child, or they could potentially...
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Long-Run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities
Lechner, Michael - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
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R&D-based Growth in the Post-modern Era
Strulik, Holger; Prettner, Klaus; Prskawetz, Alexia - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2011
higher growth of productivity and income per capita are associatedwith lower population growth... …
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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions:A Macroeconomic Perspective
Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions foreconomic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome maybe inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the impositionof a child-labor ban...
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The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor
Epstein, Gil S.; Kahana, Nava - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various componentspresented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate thephenomenon by encouraging temporary emigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861872
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments:Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influenceschooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schoolingand decline in...
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Understanding the relationship between parental income and multiple child outcomes: a decomposition analysis
Gregg, Paul; Propper, Carol; Washbrook, Elizabeth - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
In this paper we explore the association between family income and children’s cognitive ability (IQ and school … characteristics and home environments of low income children in accounting for different outcomes. Using rich cohort data from the UK … we find that poor children are disadvantaged at age 7 to 9 across the full spectrum of outcomes, the gradient being …
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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Childrenin Sweden´s Three Metropolitan Areas
Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from theperspective of children in the three … income based on income of parents... …
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