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The purpose of the study is to investigate how labour market regulation, modified by educational systems, affects the magnitude, composition and targeting of Youth Programmes. The data used include Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Scotland and Sweden. Although not fully comparable, the data...
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We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...
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This study analyzes social mobility and human capital accumulation among ethnic minorities in Mexican urban areas, exploring changes in educational attainment and labor market status and using panel data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MFxLS). The results indicate important ethnic...
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findings indicate that family wealth inequality - even in a comparatively egalitarian context like Sweden - has profound …-term consequences of wealth inequality may be conservative for nations other than Sweden, like the U.S., where family wealth - in …
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This paper estimates the effect of a major education reform on the intergenerational income mobility in Finland. The Finnish comprehensive school reform of 1972-1977 replaced the old two-track school system with a uniform nine-year comprehensive school and significantly reduced the degree of...
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reduction in earnings is likely due to the reduction in education. …
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the experiment have substantially reduced educational attainments, lower earnings and higher welfare dependency rates …
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little evidence of a causal effect on long term outcomes such as years of schooling and earnings, and studies that do not …
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earnings for 2,485 individuals born in 1972–1978 and diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at <15 years old, we found that childhood … health and socioeconomic status is partly explained by a gradient that runs from health to earnings, rather than the other … way around, which has important implications for policy to reduce socioeconomic-related health inequality. …
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In this paper we develop a novel method to project location-specific life-cycle wages for all occupations listed in the Occupational Outlook Handbook from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Our method consists of two steps. In the first step, we use individual-level data from the Current...
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