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Childhood health and educational investment under risk

Kumra, Neha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 6 (2017) 2, pp. 1-22

A huge literature shows that childhood health and educational attainment are highly correlated. However, estimates for the effect of childhood health on educational attainment under risk generally confound the effect of liquidity constraints and of lack of insurance against risk. It is unclear...

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Political economy of pension reforms: Selected general issues and the Polish pension reform case

Góra, Marek - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-31

The institutional structures of the various types of European welfare state were established around extra revenues called the demographic dividend that used to be easily available throughout the decades of the 20st century. They, however, ceased to be available at the end of that century. The...

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Education and allocation of skills in Tunisia: Evidence from an education reform

Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Pellicer, Miquel - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

instrument probably affected the academically weaker students this pattern of results suggests that the public sector might …

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Minimum wage effects on employment and working time of Chinese workers: Evidence based on CHNS

Sun, Wenkai; Wang, Xianghong; Zhang, Xiaoxi - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 19, pp. 1-22

This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers … for limited groups. Increase of minimum wage has positive effect on wage income only for low-income workers and has … working hours for employed workers, it does not have significant effect on the relative working times for different income …

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