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A Microfoundation for Increasing Returns in Human Capital Accumulation and the Under-Participation Trap

Booth, Alison L.; Coles, Melvyn - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

This paper considers educational investment, wages and hours of market work in an imperfectly competitive labour market with heterogeneous workers and home production. It investigates the degree to which there might be both underemployment in the labour market and underinvestment in education. A...

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Higher Education, the Bane of Fertility? An investigation with the HILDA Survey

Yu, Peng - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

relationship falls importantly with the addition of a range of variables, such as marital history and equivalised household income … expectation. In addition to education, all fertility measures are influenced importantly by, among others: household income …

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