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This paper documents relationships between age at marriage and labor-market out- come reflected by personal income as well as relationships between age at marriage and marriage-market outcome reflected by spousal income for Americans born from 1900s to 1970s, and motivated by these documented...
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Labor market outcomes for young college graduates have deteriorated substantially in the last twenty five years, and more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 year old for the 1996 college graduation cohort was 9%, whereas it rose to 12% for the 2013 graduation...
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Poor labour-market outcomes remain one of Poland’s major structural weaknesses, impeding firms’ competitiveness and the nation’s potential output. Boosting employment prospects is also critical, as the country will soon be ageing at a fast pace. Despite long working hours, labour...
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-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Workers are assumed to differ in … ability, and the choice of education is determined endogenously. Job opportunities in an informal sector are available only to … workers who choose not to acquire higher education. We find that increased punishment of informal activities increases the …
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This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals? choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy's skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low effort...
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This paper develops a four-sector equilibrium search and matching model with informal sector employment opportunities …
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-sector general quilibrium model featuring matching frictions, heterogenous abilities and an informal sector with tax evasion. The … choice of education is determined endogenously. Job opportunities in an informal sector are available only to workers who … choose not to acquire higher education. We find that increased punishment of informal activities increases the number of …
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