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Parental response to early human capital shocks : evidence from the Chernobyl accident

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014 - February 27, 2014 (First version: January 29, 2014)

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. We interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents' response...

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The relation between economic and non-economic incentives to work and employment chances among the unemployed

Nordlund, Madelene; Strandh, Mattias - 2014

In this study we address the relationship of self-reported reservation wages (RW) (the lowest offered income at which an unemployed persona will accept a job offer), the income replacement rate of unemployment benefit (IRUB) and psychosocial need for employment with job search intensity and...

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Youth employment and academic performance : production functions and policy effects

Holford, Angus - 2015

This paper proposes an approach to identifying the education production function with endogenous inputs, and applies it in the context of part-time employment decisions by UK teenagers in compulsory education. We identify simultaneously the effect of part-time employment and latent endogenous...

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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …

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Dynamic effects of educational assortative mating on labor supply

Gihleb, Rania; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2016

In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a …

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How responsive is the labor market to tax policy? : when applied to the most responsive segments of the labor market, tax policy can increase lifetime earnings and employment

Blundell, Richard W. - 2014

to tax incentives, which can enhance the flow into work of people leaving school and women with young children and can …

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Parental leave and maternal employment

Kunze, Astrid - 2022

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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2021

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Students' time allocation and school performance : a comparison between student jobs, sports and music participation

Pfeifer, Christian; Seidel, Katja - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 5, pp. 607-652

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Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation : evidence from the manufacturing sector in India

Baranwal, Gunja - 2016

This paper is related to the literature on the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the labour market of host countries. Labour market literature has focused on the demand side of FDI; that is, increasing wage inequality by demanding more skilled workers or just increasing the overall...

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