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height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time labor market outcomes. The use of twin data allows us to remove otherwise unobserved ability and other …
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earnings determination that separate income shocks into idiosyncratic transitory and permanent components. We allow for … education-specific differences in the stochastic process for earnings and for measurement error. The conditional variance of the …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
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This paper investigates how students' collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage distribution of former college athletes is significantly different from non-athletes and that athletic...
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This paper studies the cause of the changes, or lack of, in wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economic system. We are interested in how much of the change in the dispersion of wages can be explained by the changes in the characteristics...
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
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career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …, and much of its effect on earnings is through occupational attainment; different immigrant groups have differentiable …
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The share of labour increased in the first half of the 1970s, declined slowly to its 1960s level in 2001, and since then has been rising. Between 1975 and 2001, the decline in the labour share was due in part to the recovery in profits, and in part to a steady increase in housing rents on GDP,...
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The conventional model of immigrant earnings does not account for the correlation of outcomes across immigrant ethnic … variable. Results confirm strong positive associations of earnings with both ethnic concentration and networks of resources …. The analytically enhanced approach provides opportunities for new research on the determinants of immigrant earnings. …
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