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A number of trends are changing the nature of social risks and increase the importance of human capital, adaptability, and flexibility. This article discusses the usefulness of a life-course perspective in developing proactive social policies that better fit the changing life cycles of...
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determinants of employment and education decisions: (i ) contemporaneous incentives to work, (ii ) future consequences for … employment through human capital accumulation and (iii) anticipatory effects on the value of employment and education. The choice … small but non-negligible anticipation effects on employment and education. …
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We present an intertemporal consumption model of consumer investment in financial literacy. Consumers benefit from such investment because their stock of financial literacy allows them to increase the returns on their wealth. Since literacy depreciates over time and has a cost in terms of...
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mother is well-educated. -- early-life conditions ; migration ; parental education ; adult health ; height retardation ; age …
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Is lifetime inequality mainly due to differences across people established early in life or to differences in luck experienced over the working lifetime? We answer this question within a model that features idiosyncratic shocks to human capital, estimated directly from data, as well as...
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