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-care infrastructure concerning children, which either fosters or restricts a sustainable risk management between family and work in the …
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This paper investigates to what extent the wealth accumulation of immigrants is explained by their degree of assimilation, defined as the immigrants' capacity to become more similar over time to the local people in terms of their norms, values, behaviours, and socioeconomic characteristics. The...
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This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge, educational choices, and labor market outcomes. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the location...
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practices between schools. Tentative analyses also indicate that counselors reduce students' uncertainty about their own … individual preferences at least to the same extent as uncertainty about objective measures such as employment prospects. …
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uncertainty of remittance income inflows affects the accumulation of human, physical and financial assets of Mexican households …, while accounting for the level of transfers from family abroad. We find that both the level and the uncertainty of … income hypothesis and theories of precautionary saving, a one standard deviation increase in the uncertainty of remittance …
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In this paper we try to understand the phenomena whereby a large proportion of the population evades tax payments. We present a model which incorporates elements from the theory of information cascades with the standard model of tax evasion and analyze the connection between the decision of a...
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it is due to greater uncertainty faced by agents. Applying the methodology of Cunha, Heckman, and Navarro (2005) to data … on agents making schooling decisions in different economic environments, we join choice data with earnings data to … predictable and unpredictable components of earnings have increased in recent years. The increase in uncertainty is substantially …
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This paper examines how employment protection legislation affects location decisions of multinationals. Based on a …
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This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about …
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social security schemes, an ageing population thus leads to policy uncertainty in first pillar pensions. This paper sheds … presence of such policy uncertainty. To do so, I assess the influence of subjective policy change expectations on voluntary … for anticipated policy changes in old age social security and policy uncertainty in social security thus seems to lead to …
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