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The Determinants of Participation in a Social Program : Evidence from a Prototypical Job Training Program

Heckman, James J. - 2003

This paper decomposes the participation process of a prototypical program into eligibility, awareness, application, acceptance and enrollment. With this decomposition, we determine the sources of unequal participation for different groups, and demonstrate that variables often have very different...

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Why Do Firms Train? Theory and Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron - 1996

This paper offers and tests a theory of training whereby workers do not pay for general training they receive. The crucial ingredient in our model is that the current employer has superior information about the worker's ability relative to other firms. This informational advantage gives the...

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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria : Evidence from Failed Firms

Fersterer, Josef - 2007

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS … selection in who obtains an apprenticeship, and what type. In order to overcome the resulting ability bias we estimate returns … to apprenticeship training for apprentices in failed firms in Austria. When a firm fails, current apprentices cannot …

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Income risk and health

Halliday, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2007 - [Rev.]

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Income volatility and health

Halliday, Timothy (contributor) - 2007 - [Rev.]

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Differential Mortality in the UK

Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2001

In this paper we use the two waves of the British Retirement Survey (1988/89 and 1994) to quantify the relationship between socio-economic status and health outcomes. We find that, even after conditioning on the initial health status, wealth rankings are important determinants of mortality and...

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Is the Melting Pot Still Hot? Explaining the Resurgence of Immigrant Segregation

Cutler, David M. - 2005

This paper uses decennial Census data to examine trends in immigrant segregation in the United States between 1910 and 2000. Immigrant segregation declined in the first half of the century, but has been rising over the past few decades. Analysis of restricted access 1990 Census microdata...

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Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940 : The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents

Olivetti, Claudia - 2016

This paper estimates intergenerational elasticities across three generations in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We extend the methodology in Olivetti and Paserman (2015) to explore the role of maternal and paternal grandfathers for the transmission of economic status...

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Parental education and child's education : a natural experiment

Chevalier, Arnaud (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Born to be wild? : The effect of birth order, families and schools on truancy

Denny, Kevin (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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