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Knowledge economy formation in Russian regions in 2000th
Zemtsov, Stepan; Baburin, Vyacheslav - 2015
PCT-applications per capita) and information infrastructure (number of cell phones and computers with Internet access per … and information infrastructure, which grew throughout the 2000s, hold the largest share in the variation of the RKEI. We …
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The economics of risky health behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
, restrictions on purchase and use, providing information and restricting advertising. The chapter concludes with suggestions for …
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Wage Distributions in Origin Societies and Occupational Choices of Immigrant Generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …
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Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training
Picchio, Matteo; van Ours, Jan C. - 2015
-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive training as full-time working women. Although we cannot rule out gender …-working time specific monopsony power, we speculate that the gender-specific effect of working hours on training has to do with … gender-specific stereotyping. In the Netherlands, for women it is common to work part-time. More than half of the prime age …
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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap
Polachek, Solomon W. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Australia it remains around 17%. Thus, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …
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Obesity and Developmental Functioning Among Children Aged 2-4 Years
Cawley, John; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2008
In developed countries, obesity tends to be associated with worse labor market outcomes. One possible reason is that obesity leads to less human capital formation early in life. This paper investigates the association between obesity and the developmental functioning of children at younger ages...
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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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The US labour force participation debacle: Learning from the contrast with Britain
Richiardi, Matteo; Nolan, Brian; Kenworthy, Lane - 2018
This paper uses the marked divergence in labour force participation trends between the US and the UK to probe underlying drivers and implications for recent US poor performance. Contrary to a common US narrative, our comparative perspective suggests that the relative decline in US labour force...
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Maternal Age and Offspring Human Capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied, especially in LMICs, which host 95% of teen births...
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