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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023

This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings … study the earnings in five independent professional practices. Based on the net present value technique, Becker (1964 … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings …

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Women's employment, children and transition: an empirical analysis on Poland

Bardasi, Elena; Monfardini, Chiara - 2004

The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many studies have pointed out that the emergence of labour markets created obstacles to but also new opportunities for women's employment. A frequently mentioned potential explanation of...

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Women's employment, children and transition : an empirical analysis on Poland

Bardasi, Elena (contributor); Monfardini, Chiara (contributor) - 2004

The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many studies have pointed out that the emergence of labour markets created obstacles to but also new opportunities for women’s employment. A frequently mentioned potential explanation...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002613459

Women's Employment, Children and Transition An Empirical Analysis on Poland

Bardasi, Elena; Monfardini, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2005

The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many studies have pointed out that the emergence of labour markets created obstacles to but also new opportunities for women’s employment. A frequently mentioned explanation of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518897

The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence

Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2000

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...

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Corrigendum: Sex Selection and Gender Balance

Bhaskar, V. - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 3 (2011) 2, pp. 252-53

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Sex Selection and Gender Balance

Bhaskar, V. - In: American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 214-44

We model the equilibrium sex ratio when parents can choose the sex of their child. With intrinsic son preference, sex selection results in a male-biased sex ratio. This is inefficient due to a marriage market congestion externality. Medical innovations that facilitate selection aggravate the...

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Is longer maternal care always beneficial? : the impact of a four-year paid parental leave

Bičáková, Alena; Kalísková, Klára - 2022

We study the impact of an extension of paid family leave from 3 to 4 years on child long- term outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences design and comparing the first-affected with the last-unaffected cohorts of children, we find that an additional year of maternal care at the age of 3, which...

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Youth labor force participation, education, and human capital in Asia, by gender, 1990-2019

Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2023

Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the...

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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children

Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021

Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...

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