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Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2008

This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then typically featured by increasing (decreasing) firing (hiring) rates with age and a hump-shaped...

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Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2005

countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the extent to which gender differences and life cycle variation in time use …

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Born to be mild? Cohort effects don't (fully) explain why well-being is U-shaped in age

Clark, Andrew E. - 2007

The statistical analysis of cross-section data very often reveals a U-shaped relationship between subjective well-being and age. This paper uses fourteen waves of British panel data to distinguish between two potential explanations of this shape: a pure life-cycle or aging effect, and a fixed...

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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education: simulation based evidence

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2007

This study integrates findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation to assess returns to education. Our framework for evaluating the distribution of age-specific returns to investments in cognitive and noncognitive skills is a lifecycle simulation...

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Is well-being U-shaped over the life cycle?

Blanchflower, David G.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2007

We explore the idea that happiness and psychological well-being are U-shaped in age. The main difficulty with this argument is that there are likely to be omitted cohort effects (earlier generations may have been born in, say, particularly good or bad times). First, using data on 500,000...

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Household Saving and Full Consumption over the Life Cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...

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On the identification of Frisch labor supplies

Donni, Olivier - 2006

This paper examines how Frisch labor supplies, and other structural components of the intertemporal model of labor supply, can be recovered from estimates obtained with the approach developed by Heckman and MaCurdy.

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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …

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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …

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The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively … related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in … the country of origin and the place of residence in Australia. …

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