Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be … between national income per capita and life expectancy. Other studies (e.g., those reviewed in Cochrane et al., 1980) have … inversely related to the economic status of the family, but the measure of economic status used has not always been the same. In …

and family characteristics. Overall, there are very few differences in the association between marriage and earnings for … on men's and women's earnings. We extend earlier earnings research and investigate whether the effect of marriage is … constant for men and women at different points on the conditional earnings distribution by using robust and quantile regression …

dydis, apskritis. The purpose of the study: to evaluate the extent of tax evasion practices in Lithuania ("wages in …

‘unskill-biased technological change’, providing relative reward to informal skills rather than to formal education. Further …In this paper, we use a three-period panel of Tanzanian households to explore the determinants of earnings and earnings … growth from 2004 to 2006. In doing so, we draw particular attention to the role of education and to the importance of …

effect on the earnings of an individual from participation in education. Moreover, the size of the effect seems large …In this paper we focus on education as a private decision to invest in ‘human capital’ and the estimation of the rate … regression methods where the estimated return is obtained as the coefficient ona years of education variable in a log wage …

may be having an impact on wages over and above traditional human capital indicators such as education and work experience …This paper investigates changes in the use of generic skills in Britain's workplaces, and examines which generic skills …. We use instruments borrowed and adapted from commercial psychology to derive quantitative measures of generic skills used …

tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … education suggest gender parity in educational access, the indicator of educational achievement used in this study shows that it …

mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts and at different points in their life cycle. There is … wide cross-country variation in employment and earnings gaps at age 30. At age 50, however, employment gaps between mothers … by age 50, but these gaps do not close altogether. Motherhood gaps in earnings also close by age 50 between mothers and …

This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam … important role in explaining the earnings differentials between workers of different education groups. Education reform to …’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed …

by testing if more satisfied people live longer. Our results clearly confirm the importance of income, education and … marriage as important factors in determining longevity. For example, a one-log point increase in real household monthly income …