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Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in … which relates mobility in measured family income/earnings to mobility in social class. Building on this framework we then … the intergenerational persistence of the permanent component of income that is unrelated to social class. We reject the …
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Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
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Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119232
Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S. lowered the early-career wages of conscripts, a finding he attributed to...
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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...
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There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level … from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials as instruments for income. This is based on the idea that at … estimates suggesting that most of the association of income and well-being is causal …
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The question of whether there is a connection between income and psychological well-being is a long-studied issue … higher levels of income later in life. We focus on earnings approximately one decade after the person's well-being is … happiness. We consider how psychological well-being may influence income. Sobel-Goodman mediation tests reveal direct and …
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In this paper we develop in two steps an argument which shows that superstar incomes exceed their marginal contribution to welfare. Firstly, we argue that superstar incomes can only exist if two conditions are met: there should indeed be talents differences, but also that the superstar is able...
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Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved high levels of English language proficiency and earnings. They experience disadvantages in both dimensions at arrival, but because of steeper improvements with duration in the...
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