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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
Adsera, Alicia; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2004
earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the …, country of origin, or country of destination. We find a significant negative effect of immigrant status on individual earnings … from Asia, Latin-America and Eastern Europe receive the lowest earnings. Latin- American and Eastern European women are at …
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From the cradle to the labor market? The effect of birth weight on adult outcomes
Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005
terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself … as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267621
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Earnings over the lifecycle: the Mincer earnings function and its applications
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007
In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population … research explained why education enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one's life; why earnings … questions based on research emanating from Mincer's original earnings function specification. …
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Fatter attraction: anthropometric and socioeconomic characteristics in the marriage market
Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2009
We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269642
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Sexual orientation and job satisfaction : survey-based evidence from sweden
Aldén, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats; Swahnberg, Hanna - In: Journal of labor research 41 (2020) 1/2, pp. 69-101
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Differential mortality in the UK
Attanasio, Orazio; Emmerson, Carl - 2001
In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth rankings are important determinants of mortality and...
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Global Factors, Unemployment Adjustment and the Natural Rate
Smith, Ron P.; Zoega, Gylfi - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-22, pp. 1-29
OECD unemployment rates show long swings which dominate shorter business cycle components and these long swings show a range of common patterns. Using a panel of 21 OECD countries 1960-2002, we estimate the common factor that drives unemployment by the first principal component. This factor has...
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Age Structure and Regional Income Growth
Brunow, Stephan; Hirte, Georg - 2005
A spatial econometrics cross-section analysis of the NUTS2 regions of the EU15 is carried out to examine whether the age structure of the regional population or differences in the regional age pattern affect growth of regional per capita income. We apply two parsimonious models of the age...
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Intra-family transfers in Japan: Intergenerational co-residence, distance, and contact
Yamada, Ken - 2003
Classified broadly, two motives for intra-family transfers exist: altruism and selfishness. This paper examines two selfish hypotheses - the exchange motive (strategic bequest motive)and the demonstration effect - using a new Japanese micro data set. My analysis of the determinants of...
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Abortion and human capital accumulation: A contribution to the understanding of the gender gap in education
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008
This article analyzes the relationship between abortion and female education. It provides new empirical evidence from sub-Saharan Africa to show that more liberal abortion policies are associated with a higher female secondary school enrollment. It is assumed in the model that easier access to...
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