Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns

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* Manuscript TRENDS IN WORKER DISPLACEMENT PENALTIES IN JAPAN: 1991-2005 MICHAEL BOGNANNO * and RYO KAMBAYASHI** Theme: Microeconomics of unemployment

Note: The Employment Trend Survey micro-data is used with the permission of the Economi

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short-term training programmes activate means-tested unemployment benefit recipients in Germany

Efficiency Wages and Rent Sharing: A Note and Some Empirical Findings

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The data used in this paper were collected by a team from the Centre fo

The Structure of the Tax-system and the Estimation of Labor Supply Models”, Working Paper

the Swedish tax system has reduced both tax levels and degree of progressivity, the numbers of kink-points have dropped from 18 to only 3. The numbers of individuals close to or at a kink point have a large influence on the estimated parameters, more individuals close to a kink imply larger estimated incentive effects. More kinks in the tax system imply a higher probability of finding individuals close to a kink

Is unemployment really scarring? Effects of unemployment experiences

* The BHPS data used in this paper were collected by the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change at the University of Essex and made available through the ESRC Data Archive. I should like to thank Mark Taylor for providing help with the creation of some of the variables used in the study and to the Institute for Social and Economic Research Centre for providing the data on Travel-To-Work-Area unemployment and vacancy rates. Any errors remain my responsibility. I am grateful to Mark Stewart, Ian Walker, and seminar participants at th

The Chicken or the Egg? Endogeneity in labour market participation of informal carers in England †

Informal care is a vital pillar of the British welfare state. A well-known fact in the small economic literature on informal care is the apparent negative relation between care responsibilities and labour market participation. Yet, caring and labour market participation may be endogenous. Using an instrumental variable approach and panel data techniques and employing data from the British Household Panel Study for 1991 to 2002 this paper shows that not accommodating for endogeneity in the labour market participation equation may significantly overestimate the impact care exhibits on the employment decision of informal carers. Moreover, it is shown that a negative impact on employment only applies to some care-types. Policy implications are derived

Up in the skies? The relationship between body height and earnings

This paper analyzes whether taller workers earn more then their shorter counterparts. Using GSOEP data from 1991 to 2002, earnings functions are estimated separately for male and female workers in both West and East German regions. The Hausman-Taylor IV estimator ist applied to account for unobservable heterogeneity including also time-invariant indicators. The results do not suggest for an effect of height on the earnings of female workers and male East German workers. There, however, is an earnings premium associated with stature for male workers from West Germany of 4 % for additional 2.5cm in height

Prepared for New School University’s CEPA Conference, “Labor and the Globalization of Production”

How do multinational firms affect both the demand for and supply of skills in hostcountry labor markets? On the demand side, inward can FDI stimulate demand for moreskilled workers in host countries through several channels. To date, most empirical evidence indicates that these channels work mainly within multinationals themselves, rather than through knowledge spillovers to domestic firms. On the supply side, the question of how inward FDI influences the development of human capital is much less clear, with possible links at both the micro- and macro-levels. This paper offers some new empirical evidence on the links between inward FDI and within-industry skill upgrading for a country-industry-year panel spanning both developed and developing countries. The main empirical finding is a robustly positive correlation between skill upgrading and the presence of affiliates of U.S. multinationals, with this correlation even stronger among the sub-sample of developing countries. This correlation is consistent with inward FDI stimulating skill upgrading in these developing countries

Jeronimo Oliveira Muniz An Empirical Approach for Child Labor in BrazilAN EMPIRICAL APPROACH FOR CHILD LABOR IN BRAZIL

There are a lot of reasons that can urge a child to labor market, but generally the most common is the presence of low household incomes, which forces children to work to sustain themselves or, in less serious cases, to increase the life quality of their families. According to the altruistic model suggested by Basu & Van (1998), a household will not send children t