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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro Silva - 2000

?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France …

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Long-term impact of youth minimum wages: evidence from two decades of individual longitudinal data

Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2009

This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses remarkable longitudinal data spanning for twenty years and explores legislative changes that define groups of teenagers exposed for different durations. After controlling for...

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How immigration may affect US native entrepreneurship: Theoretical building blocks and preliminary results

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; Regets, Mark - 2012

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are easier to …

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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Child Labor and Resistance to Change

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Ottaviano, … - 2003

We study the interactions between technological innovation, investment in human capital and child labor. In our setting … firms decide on innovation, then households decide on education. In equilibrium the presence of inefficient child labor … on child labor are welfare reducing, while a subsidy to innovation is the right tool to eliminate child labor and …

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Are Intellectual Property Rights Unfair?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

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Estimating the production function for human capital: Results from a randomized controlled trial in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Cattan, Sarah; Fitzsimons, Emla; … - 2020

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disavantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline. We estimate the determinants of parents' material and time...

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House price growth when kids are teenagers: a path to higher intergenerational achievement?

Cooper, Daniel; Luengo-Prado, María José - 2011

This paper examines whether rising house prices immediately prior to children entering their college years impacts their intergenerational earnings mobility and/or educational outcomes. Higher house prices provide homeowners, especially liquidity constrained ones, with additional funding to...

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Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market

Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

Starting a firm with expansive potential is an option for educated and high-skilled workers. This option serves as an insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within a matching model that reducing the start-up costs...

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Education choice under uncertainty and public policy

Hogan, Vincent; Walker, Ian - 2003

We analyse how progressive taxation and education subsidies affect schooling decisions when the returns to education are stochastic. We use the theory of real options to solve the problem of education choice in a dynamic, life-cycle consistent, stochastic model. We show that education attainment...

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