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Parents transmit happiness along with associated values and behaviors to their children: A lifelong happiness dividend?

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2012

There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for 'children' who have …)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness … participation, and regular exercise. Both parents have about equal influence on the values and behaviors which children adopt …

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Promotion and wages in mid-career: Gender, unionism, and sector

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Wang, Si - 2012

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY that...

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The frisch elasticity in labor markets with high job turnover

Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita; Rendon, Silvio - 2012

employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a …

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Entrepreneurship: Cause or consequence of financial optimism?

Dawson, Christopher; De Meza, David Emmanuel; Henley, Andrew - 2012

Extant evidence that the self-employed overestimate their returns by more than employees do is consistent with two mutually inclusive possibilities. Self-employment may generate optimism or optimists may be drawn to self-employment. This paper finds that employees who will be self-employed in...

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Do literacy and numeracy pay off? On the relationship between basic skills and earnings

Antoni, Manfred; Heineck, Guido - 2012

Is there a reward for basic skills in the German labor market? To answer this question, we examine the relationship between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as...

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Indebted and overweight: The link between weight and household debt

Averett, Susan L.; Smith, Julie K. - 2012

There is a substantial correlation between household debt and bodyweight. Theory suggests that a causal relationship between debt and bodyweight could run in either direction or both could be caused by unobserved common factors. We use OLS and Propensity Score Matching to ascertain if household...

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Rent sharing as a driver of the glass ceiling effect

Matano, Alessia; Naticchioni, Paolo - 2012

In this paper we show that rent sharing plays a role in explaining the glass ceiling effect. We make use of a unique employer-employee panel database for Italy from 1996 to 2003, which allows controlling for observed individual and firm heterogeneity and for collective bargaining. Moreover, by...

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Does schooling improve cognitive functioning at older ages?

Schneeweis, Nicole; Skirbekk, Vegard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2012

We study the relationship between education and cognitive functioning at older ages by exploiting compulsory schooling reforms, implemented in six European countries during the 1950s and 1960s. Using data of individuals aged 50+ from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE),...

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Wage growth and job mobility in the early career: Testing a statistical discrimination model of the gender wage gap

Belley, Philippe; Havet, Nathalie; Lacroix, Guy - 2012

The paper focuses on the early career patterns of young male and female workers. It investigates potential dynamic links between statistical discrimination, mobility, tenure and wage profiles. The model assumes that it is more costly for an employer to assess female workers' productivity and...

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Household search or individual search: Does it matter? Evidence from lifetime inequality estimates

Flabbi, Luca; Mabli, James - 2012

ignoring the household as unit of decision-making has relevant empirical consequences. In estimation, the individual search …

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