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% of pre-birth earnings. We study the mandate's impact on women's employment and earnings around the birth of their first …
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pregnancy, and earnings. Unlike much of the recent literature, we are able to separate school starting age from test age effects …. There appears to be a short-run positive effect on earnings of beginning school at a younger age; however, this effect has …
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I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and …, earnings distribution statistics for the working age population have emphasized within-cohort disparities that are largest at … older ages. As such, the aging of the US population has placed upward pressure on standard measures of earnings inequality …
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In 1958 Jacob Mincer pioneered an important approach to understand how earnings are distributed across the population … research explained why education enhances earnings; why earnings rise at a diminishing rate throughout one’s life; why earnings … questions based on research emanating from Mincer’s original earnings function specification. …
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earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the …, country of origin, or country of destination. We find a significant negative effect of immigrant status on individual earnings … from Asia, Latin-America and Eastern Europe receive the lowest earnings. Latin- American and Eastern European women are at …
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pregnancy, and earnings. Unlike much of the recent literature, we are able to separate school starting age from test age effects …. There appears to be a short-run positive effect on earnings of beginning school at a younger age; however, this effect has …
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We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...
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or for married women. We suggest a marriage market mechanism through which male BMI and earnings are positively related …
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The earnings of mothers make up an important, but difficult to quantify, component of parental expenditures on children …. This paper compares the long-term earnings of women with children, women without children, and men. The study conducts … mothers in the Continental European group experiencing the largest earnings differentials, mothers in the Nordic group …
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terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called into question whether birth weight itself … as height, IQ, earnings, and education are significant and similar in magnitude to OLS estimates. Our estimates suggest …
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