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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market
Devereux, Paul J. - 2014
Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … reduce inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414158
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Intergenerational return to human capital : better educated parents invest more time and money in their children, who are more successful in the labor market
Devereux, Paul J. - 2019
Governments invest a lot of money in education, so it is important to understand the benefits of this spending. One … essential aspect is that education can potentially make people better parents and thus improve the educational and employment … reduce inequality in current and future generations. In addition to purely formal education, much less expensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131034
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Opportunity and inequality across generations
Koeniger, Winfried; Zanella, Carlo - 2022
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012879620
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Transmission channels of intergenerational income mobility : empirical evidence from Germany and the Unites States
Coban, Mustafa; Sauerhammer, Sarah - 2017
Relying on harmonized individual data for Germany and the United States, we perform a country comparison regarding the underlying mechanisms of the intergenerational income mobility. By applying descriptive and structural decomposition methods, we estimate the relative importance of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770657
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The decline of routine tasks, education investments, and intergenerational mobility
Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting … decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in … vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact …
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Is there an advantage to working? : the relationship between maternal employment and intergenerational mobility
Stinson, Martha H.; Gottschalk, Peter - 2015
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Locus of control and the labor market
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
This paper reviews the role of locus of control in the labor market. I begin with a discussion of the conceptual origins of locus of control, including its relationship to related concepts such as self-efficacy, motivation, and self-control. The relationship between locus of control and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603332
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Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight? Socio-economic Representativeness in the Modern Military
Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2013
pursue higher education and had higher self-reported life satisfaction. Recruits had 0.2 standard deviation higher cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320363
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Locus of control and the labor market
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
This paper reviews the role of locus of control in the labor market. I begin with a discussion of the conceptual origins of locus of control, including its relationship to related concepts such as self-efficacy, motivation, and self-control. The relationship between locus of control and labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483431
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Rich man's war, poor man's fight? : socioeconomic representativeness in the modern military
Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2013
pursue higher education and had higher self-reported life satisfaction. Recruits had 0.2 standard deviation higher cognitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009782751