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height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other …
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regular employment position. Second, foreigners seem to gain more from self-employment relative to Germans. The earnings …
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Much of the research that has followed welfare reform and new policies such as the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) has focused on identifying the variations in how different states have put the new policy into practice. Less is known however, about how this new policy affects the...
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As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working conditions of temps, specifically their remuneration, has intensified recently. Using administrative data, the paper shows that the wage gap for German temp workers is rather large and...
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We examine the impact of parental education on the shape of an individual's experience-earnings profile. A number of … earnings. Our empirical analysis of US data suggests that this is indeed the case. Higher parental education shifts the … earnings profile significantly to the left - the profile of individuals with parents who both have 15 years of education peaks …
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career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …, and much of its effect on earnings is through occupational attainment; different immigrant groups have differentiable …
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We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings … increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the lower end. Consequently, earnings inequality … declined. Recentered Influence Function decompositions show that throughout the earnings distribution, except at the very top …
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earnings determination that separate income shocks into idiosyncratic transitory and permanent components. We allow for … education-specific differences in the stochastic process for earnings and for measurement error. The conditional variance of the …
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This paper investigates how students' collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic...
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wages to identify the effects of reducing or eliminating the tip credit on employment and earnings in the U.S. restaurant … reduction in the tip credit increases weekly earnings but reduces employment in the full services restaurant industry and for …
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