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A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
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, which control for increases in age and education of the population, suggest that relative to 1979 the economy has lost about …
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The decline in the economy’s ability to create good jobs is related to deterioration in the bargaining power of workers, especially those at the middle and the bottom of the pay scale. The restructuring of the U.S. labor market – including the decline in the inflation-adjusted value of the...
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.2 percent) had a college education or more. Over the same period, the share of black workers with less than a high school degree … increases in education and work experience will increase workers' productivity and translate into higher compensation. But, the …
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modules modelling retirement rules, retirement behaviours, migrations, education and participation choices, plus a consolle to …
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rural focus, Whites are more similar to American Indians, both experiencing very small wage returns to education. However …, females enjoy much higher returns to education than males. …
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between men´s and women´s economic activity and transition to first marriage. Our findings support the men´s economic … positive effect on marriage. Over the life course, we find that men who have a continuum of stable employment have the highest … odds of first marriage; while women reduce economic activity in anticipation of or due to marriage. Moreover, marriage is …
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Economic and sociological theories of marriage have long emphasized the impact of women’s education and employment on …€™s patterns of entry into marriage and cohabitation in Portugal and Spain. In these two Southern European countries, gender equity … effect of female education is consistent with the independence hypothesis, women’s labour force participation encourages …
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This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing...
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This paper provides unique evidence of a reversal of gender gaps in cognitive development in early childhood. We find steep caste and gender gradients and few substantive changes once children enter school. The gender gap, however, reverses its sign for the upper caste, with girls performing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784989