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Labor and financial market interactions : the case of labor income risk and car insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk … and car insurance using data from the UK. The main empirical results are: - higher labor income risk induces a higher … demand for car insurance. - the effects of increases in labor income risk after 1979 seem to be more than offset by a more …
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Should I stay or should I go? : educational choices and earnings ; an empirical study for Portugal
Modesto, Leonor - 2000
In this paper we analyse educational choices and earnings of individuals at two different levels in the Portuguese educational system. At each potential exit level we consider two decisions: the decision to continue studying and the employment decision, whereas normally only the first decision...
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The effect of income on mortality : new evidence for the absence of a causal link
Ahammer, Alexander; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; … - 2015
We analyze the effect of income on mortality in Austria using administrative social security data. To tackle potential … estimations, IV regressions reveal a robust zero-effect of income on ten-year death rates for prime-age workers, both in terms of …
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Occupational attainment and earnings among immigrant groups : evidence from New Zealand
Maani, Sholeh A.; Dai, Mengyu; Inkson, Kerr - 2015
This paper concerns the prediction of career success among migrants. We focus specifically on the role of occupation as a mediating variable between the predictor variables education and time since migration, and the dependent variable career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to...
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Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment : caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses
Deshpande, Ashwini; Sharma, Smriti - 2015
Using the 2004-05 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs), and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in...
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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000
We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
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Who is on the rise in Austria : wage mobility and mobility risk
Raferzeder, Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2004
In this paper we investigate earnings mobility in Austria from the angle of individual persons: earnings mobility over time has two aspects: positional changes and the volatility of earnings over time. Whereas the further is a positive outcome, more volatility as such can be seen as negative. We...
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Stature and life-time labor market outcomes : accounting for unobserved differences
Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - 2013
height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009753798
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Who suffers the penalty? : a panel data analysis of earnings gaps in Vietnam
Nguyen Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe J.; Roubaud, François - 2013
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave panel data (2002, 2004, 2006), we assess the...
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A comparison of the relationship between obesity and earnings in the US and Germany
Cawley, John H.; Grabka, Markus M.; Lillard, Dean R. - 2005
from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (U.S.) and the German Socio-Economic Panel, instrumental variables models are …
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