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Specific Human Capital and Real Wage Cyclicality : An Application to Postgraduate Wage Premium

Gu, Ran - 2020

This paper examines how specific human capital affects labour turnover and real wage cyclicality in a frictional labour market. I develop an equilibrium search model with long-term contracts and imperfect monitoring of worker effort. Imperfect monitoring creates a moral hazard problem that...

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Investigating the Genetic Architecture of Non-Cognitive Skills Using GWAS-by-Subtraction

Demange, Perline - 2020

Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we use Genomic Structural Equation Modelling and prior genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of EA...

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Public Education Expenditures, Growth and Income Inequality

Artige, Lionel - 2017

income inequality. This paper revisits both relations in a single model of occupational choice with an endogenous supply of … education spending and income inequality can be U-shaped. We provide empirical evidence for this U-shaped relationship. Finally …

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Investigating the genetic architecture of non-cognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction

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Math matters : education choices and wage inequality

Rendall, Andrew; Rendall, Michelle - 2014

cannot mimic the US within-group wage inequality. This paper provides an explanation for the observed intra-college group … inequality by showing that the top decile earners’ significant wage growth is underpinned by the link between ex ante ability …-group and general wage inequality is explained by math-biased technical change (MBTC). …

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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within the family in which parental sorting can translate into intergenerational transmission, or...

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Parental assortative mating and the intergenerational transmission of human capital

Bingley, Paul; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2021

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The dynamics of asymmetry among fertility, income inequality and financial development in Bangladesh

Husain, Humaira - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-9

income inequality in Bangladesh utilizing annual data from 1984-2019. We employ both linear and non- linear autoregressive … income inequality under assumptions of symmetric and asymmetric relationships between fertility and each of the control … development. However, there exists no significant short run and long- run asymmetries between fertility and Inequality. Families …

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The return to college, marriage, and intergenerational mobility

Gould, Eric D. - 2023

This paper examines the idea that the increasing return to college is reducing intergenerational mobility by differentially impacting the investments in children by parents across education groups. A larger return to college will create stronger incentives to invest in children by parents with...

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Heterogenous latent factor models using horizontal kinship

Colagrossi, Marco; Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; … - 2024

We reconstruct the genealogical tree of all individuals ever appearing in Dutch municipalities records since 1995. Using microdata from tax authorities, we compute a measure of their permanent earnings and assess the degree to which the intergenerational transmission process is heterogeneous....

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