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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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results show that income, factor endowment, and policy independence are important to explain regional asymmetries between …
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reach the levels of income enjoyed by the richest nations.[...] …
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. This is modified by using tax data to allocate non-wage income across regions. The results suggest that the coefficient of …
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This paper analyzes the impact of IRCA 1986, a U.S. amnesty, on immigrants’human capital development and labor market outcomes. Because of IRCA, the 1975-1981 arrivals were all legalized by 1990. However, many of the 1982-1986 arrivalsremained illegal. Using the California Latino immigrants in...
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in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data …; as are girls from low income families compared to middle and high income families. We use another data set to show that … who is diagnosed with an eating disorder is in accord with popular beliefs, suggesting that African American and low-income …
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. In US election survey data, we find that income is more important in affecting voting behavior for more informed voters … strong correlation between income and political information, Congress representatives vote more conservatively, which is also …
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We attempt to replicate for the UK the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2005, 2006) work on spending on intangible assets in the US. Their work suggests private sector expenditure (investment) on intangibles is about 13% (11%) of US GDP 1998-2000, with intangible investment about equal to tangible...
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Fundamental to the Malthusian model of pre-industrial society is the assumption that higher income increased … preindustrial world is weak. Here we examine the relationship between income and net fertility using a large new cross …-sectional data set on reproductive success, social status and income for England between 1585 and 1638. We find that for early …
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positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …
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