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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2003

This paper reviews Jacob Mincer?s contributions to the analyses of earnings and the distribution of earnings through … theoretical literature on the distribution of earnings in the pre-Mincer period, and then discusses his analysis of human capital … and earnings developed in his 1957 doctoral dissertation and 1958 Journal of Political Economy (JPE) article. Further …

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Optimal Family Taxation and Income Inequality

Apps, Patricia F. - 2017

This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear income tax systems for families based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between the wage rates of mothers as "second earners" and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2009

the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …

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Why are Women Working so Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective

Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006

This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...

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The Child Penalty Atlas

Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...

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Chapter 57 Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007

In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...

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Revisiting wage, earnings, and hours profiles

Rupert, Peter; Zanella, Giulio - 2014

We document empirical life cycle profiles of wages, earnings, and hours of work for pay from the Panel Study of Income … decline with age (not before 65, at least), while the earnings profile always does. The discrepancy is explained by a sharp …

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The economics of human cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants

Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...

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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants

Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

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