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Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still : income mobility in Chile

Castro, Rodrigo - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 243-258

This paper analyses household income mobility in Chile between 1996 and 2001. Compared to industrialized and most …-school education decreases probability of degradation. -- mobility ; poverty ; household structure ; Chile …

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Does more unemployment cause more fear of unemployment?

Gimpelson, Vladimir; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-26

Using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data, the paper examines Russian workers’ fear of unemployment under different economic and labor market conditions during the last 15 years. We employ two alternative measures for this fear. The first one looks at the workers’ fear of losing...

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The impact of parents’ years since migration on children’s academic achievement

Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rangvid, Beatrice Schindler - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

In this paper, we employ register data for eight cohorts of second-generation immigrant pupils to identify the impact of each parent’s years since migration on their children’s school achievements. We exploit variation in years since migration and within-family variation. We find evidence of...

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Pflegemarkt : drohendem Arbeitskräftemangel kann entgegengewirkt werden

Schulz, Erika - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 51/52, pp. 3-17

Die demographisch bedingte Zunahme alter und sehr alter Personen, verbunden mit der deutlichen Verringerung der Personen im erwerbsfähigen Alter, stellt für den Bereich der Pflege eine große Herausforderung dar. Ein Großteil der Pflegebedürftigen wird zwar heute durch Familienangehörige zu...

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Personality and marital surplus

Lundberg, Shelly - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

formation and dissolution of domestic partnerships. Selection into marriage is associated with distinctly different personality … profiles for men and women born before 1960, suggesting that gender-specialized contributions to household public goods were an … important source of marital surplus for these cohorts. The effects of personality on marriage are more similar for younger men …

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Fat spouses and hours of work: are body and Pareto weights correlated?

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

We explore the relationship between relative physical attractiveness in the household and the hours worked by married … the household: fatter spouses may compensate with more hours of work. Our household bargaining interpretation is supported …

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The labour supply effects of a partial cash-out of in-kind transfers to single mothers

Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...

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Remittances and labor supply in post-conflict Tajikistan

Justino, Patricia; Shemyakina, Olga N. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-28

We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from remittance-receiving households are less likely to participate in the labor market and supply fewer hours when they do. The results are robust to different measures of...

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The impact of minimum age of employment regulation on child labor and schooling

Edmonds, Eric V.; Shrestha, Maheshwor - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-28

contrast, child-invariant household attributes account for 63 percent of the variation in participation in paid employment …

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