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The Effect of Removing Early Retirement on Mortality

Bellés Obrero, Cristina; Jiménez-Martín, Sergi; Ye, Han - 2022

This paper sheds new light on the mortality effect of delaying retirement by investigating the impacts of the 1967 Spanish pension reform. This reform exogenously changed the early retirement age, depending on the date individuals started contributing to the Social Security system. Those...

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The Nature of Long-Term Unemployment: Predictability, Heterogeneity and Selection

Mueller, Andreas I.; Spinnewijn, Johannes - 2023

substantial heterogeneity in the individual-level declines and thus reject the commonly used proportional hazard assumption …

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Nothing Really Matters: Evaluating Demand-Side Moderators of Age Discrimination in Hiring

Dalle, Axana; Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn - 2023

As age discrimination hampers the OECD's ambition to extend the working population, an efficient anti-discrimination policy targeted at the right employers is critical. Therefore, the context in which age discrimination is most prevalent must be identified. In this study, we thoroughly review...

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Does Vocational Education Pay off in China? Evidence from City-Level Education Supply Shocks

Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024

China hosts the world's largest secondary education sector: more than 14 million adolescents enrol in secondary academic or vocational schools every year. Despite the large literature on returns to education, little evidence exists as to how these two streams compare in the country. Using 2013...

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Heterogeneity in the Persistence of Health: Evidence from a Monthly Micro Panel

Hoskins, Stephen; Johnston, David W.; Kunz, Johannes S.; … - 2024

persistence in these outcomes is the same for every individual. Understanding the extent and drivers of heterogeneity in … overall long-run effects of such interventions. This paper explores individual-level heterogeneity in the persistence of … health outcomes. Using simple regression methods that do not place any restriction on the distribution of the heterogeneity …

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The Effect of Search Frictions on Wages

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van Vuuren, Aico - 2003

Labor market theories allowing for search frictions make marked predictions on the effect of the degree of frictions on wages. Often, the effect is predicted to be negative. Despite the popularity of these theories, this has never been tested. We perform tests with matched worker-firm data. The...

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On the Specification of Mincerian Wage Regressions with Heterogeneity, Non-Linearity, Non-Separability, and Heteroskedasticity

Belzil, Christian - 2004

transition from one grade level to the next with observed and unobserved heterogeneity, and ii) a flexible version of the … celebrated Mincerian wage regression with skill heterogeneity, non-linearity in schooling, non-separability between the effects … conditioning on unobserved and observed skills. Skill heterogeneity is also found to be over-estimated when non-linearity is …

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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004

We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed...

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Effects of In-Class Variation and Student Rank on the Probability of Withdrawal: Cross-Section and Time-Series Analysis for UK University Students

Arulampalam, Wiji; Naylor, Robin A.; Smith, Jeremy P. - 2003

From individual-level data for nine entire cohorts of undergraduate students in UK universities, we estimate the probability that an individual will drop out of university during their first-year. We examine the 1984-85 to 1992-93 cohorts of students enrolling full-time for a three or four-year...

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Combining Micro and Macro Unemployment Duration Data

van den Berg, Gerard J.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2000

We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...

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