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Child support and partnership dissolution : evidence from the UK

Walker, Ian (contributor); Zhu, Yu (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper studies the determinants of partnership dissolution and focuses on the role of child support. We exploit the variation in child support liabilities driven by an important UK policy reform to separately identify the effects of children from the effect of child support liability. We...

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Income redistribution and access to innovations in health care

García-Alonso, María del Carmen (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We study the impact a redistribution of income has on the decisions of a health care innovator and the utility of … consumers. We find that income redistribution from rich to poor increases the quality of the medical innovation, reduces its … price and increases the utility of some of the consumers whose income is reduced through the redistribution. -- Health care …

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Assessing the stability of the inter-industry wage structure in the face of radical economic reforms

Arbache, Jorge Saba (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We assess the stability of the wage structure in an economy experiencing substantial economic changes. We find that the structure of inter-industry wage differentials remained remarkably stable in Brazil in the face of major shocks. -- wage structure ; inter-industry wage differentials ; Brazil

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Job insecurity and wage outcomes in Britain

Campbell, David; Carruth, Alan A.; Dickerson, Andrew P.; … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

In 1996 and 1997, approximately 1 in 10 British workers thought that it was either likely or very likely that they would lose their job within 12 months. Increased job insecurity has been touted as a possible cause for the decline of equilibrium unemployment in Britain and the United States...

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Trade liberalization and the returns to education : a pseudo-panel approach

Dickerson, Andrew P. (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

We investigate the impact of trade liberalization on wages and the returns to education in Brazil. Our pseudo-panel estimates of the returns are significantly lower than OLS estimates, signifying omitted ability bias in traditional cross-section estimated returns in developing countries. Trade...

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Rates of return to schooling and the quality of education in England and Wales

Campbell, David (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Raising the quality of education has been one of the main objectives of the current government in Britain. By devoting more resources to the education sector, it is expected that pupils will achieve higher educational attainment by the time their years of compulsory schooling ends. This study...

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Estimating the wage effects of job mobility in Britain

Campbell, David (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Switching from one job to another would appear to be an important part of an individual's experience within the labour market. In Britain, approximately one in three workers are observed changing jobs over a three year period. Models of voluntary job mobility predict that in the long run,...

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The growth and valuation of generic skills

Dickerson, Andrew P. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using a method for measuring job skills derived from survey data on detailed work activities, we show that between 1997 and 2001 there was a growth in Britain in the utilisation of computing skills, literacy, numeracy, technical know-how, high-level communication skills, planning skills, client...

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Interrupted work careers and the starting salaries of female workers in Britain

Campbell, David (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Evidence from previous studies suggests that part of the observed wage differential between males and females is due to the spells of non-participation experienced by women. During these career breaks, no new investment in human capital occurs and the existing stock of skills depreciates,...

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The long term pay-off from working longer hours

Campbell, David (contributor); Green, Francis (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using data from the first six waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate the impact of working longer hours over 1991 to 1995 on 1996 wages. We find that there are positive but diminishing long-term returns, with the returns becoming negative beyond 47 hours for women and 59 hours...

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