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    Title: The Role of Mothers and Fathers in Providing Skills: Evidence from Parental Deaths  Author(s): ADDA, Jérôme; BJÖRKLUND, Anders; HOLMLUND, Helena Date: 2011 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper evaluates the long-term consequences of parental death on children’s cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as on labor market outcomes. We exploit a large administrative data set covering many Swedish ...
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    Title: Technology Adoption, Turbulence and the Dynamics of Unemployment  Author(s): DUERNECKER, Georg Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: The divergence of unemployment rates between the U.S. and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 70’s. Furthermore, evidence suggests that European economies ...
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    Title: "For One More Year with You": Changes in Compulsory Schooling, Education and the Distribution of Wages in Europe  Author(s): BRUNELLO, Giorgio; FORT, Margherita; WEBER, Guglielmo Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI MWP Abstract: Using data from 12 European countries and the variation across countries and over time in the changes of minimum school leaving age, we study the effects of the quantity of education on the distribution of earnings. We ...
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    Title: Competition, Human Capital and Income Inequality with Limited Commitment  Author(s): MARIMON, Ramon; QUADRINI, Vincenzo Date: 2008 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model with two-sided limited commitment to study how barriers to competition, such as restrictions to business start-up, affect the incentive to accumulate human capital. We show ...
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    Title: ‘The Child is Father of the Man:’ Implications for the Demographic Transition  Author(s): DE LA CROIX, David; LICANDRO, Omar Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: We propose a new theory of the demographic transition based on the evidence that body development during childhood is an important factor for life expectancy. The key and novel mechanism of the model is that parents face ...
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    Title: The Bargaining Family Revisited: A Comment  Author(s): MIZUSHIMA, Atsue; FUTAGAMI, Koichi Date: 2007 Type of Publication: Working Paper Series/Report no.: EUI ECO Abstract: This paper reexamines results of Konrad and Lommerud (2000). They construct a two-stage game model of a family. We show that their result crucially depends on their linear payoff function and obtain an opposite result if ...