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Parental Response to Early Human Capital Shocks: Evidence from the Chernobyl Accident

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...

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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

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Is the Quantity-Quality Trade-off a Trade-off for All, None, or Some?

Millimet, Daniel L.; Wang, Le - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Although the theoretical trade-off between the quantity and quality of children is well-established, empirical evidence supporting such a causal relationship − particularly on child health − is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses the quantity-quality trade-off across the...

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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation across Immigrant Generations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …'s fertility and labor supply are significantly positively affected by the immigrant generation's fertility and labor supply … respectively, with the effect of mother's fertility and labor supply larger than that of women from the father's source country …

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The Demographic Transition: Causes and Consequences

Galor, Oded - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

the rise in the demand for human capital in the process of development was the main trigger for the decline in fertility …

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Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives

Constant, Amelie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to study the immigrant performance in France and the impacts on the natives by drawing on research findings from the existing academic literature on the economics of French migration. The research questions are: how do immigrants fare with respect to wages,...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self Selection of Mexican Immigrants

Caponi, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Building on Borjas (1993) I develop an intergenerational model of self-selection of migration and education that allows for a complex selection mechanism. In particular, it allows for the possibility that agents are selected differently depending on the schooling level they choose. As in Mayer...

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Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Micro Evidence from an African Success Story

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C.; Lacuesta, Aitor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde - the African country with the largest fraction of tertiary educated population...

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Labor Market Segmentation and the Earnings of German Guestworkers

Constant, Amelie; Massey, Douglas S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

In this paper we study the occupational progress and earnings attainment of immigrants in Germany over time and compare them to native Germans. Our analysis is guided by the human capital and segmented labor market theories. To assess the separate effects of occupational segmentation and...

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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations

Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...

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