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Die Reform des Elterngeldes hat nicht dazu geführt, dass Ungleichheiten in der kindlichen Entwicklung zunehmen. Das zeigt die vorliegende Studie des DIW Berlin, die als eine der ersten anhand der Ergebnisse von Schuleingangsuntersuchungen der Frage nachgeht, welche Effekte die Einführung des...
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that constraints in both time and (non-)cognitive skills of the parents restrict their choice. We find that children …'s skills, in particular non-cognitive skills, are strongly associated with the parenting style. Parenting styles that are … associated with low household income and having more than one child are associated with lower skills of the child. Therefore, our …
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Concerns about widening inequality have increased attention on the topic of equality of opportunities and …
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increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …
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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates’ wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653404
This paper presents evidence on a rise and fall in income inequality in Chile during the past two decades. We show that … income inequality rises from 1990 to 2000 and then falls from 2000 to 2011. We perform simple but informative decompositions … to figure out the contributing factors behind that dissimilarity in the behavior of inequality across those two …
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Many American policy analysts point to Denmark as a model welfare state with low levels of income inequality and high …
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We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an investment in human development that depends not only on inputs of time and market goods, but also...
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This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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