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Kristin Dale

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Household skills and low wages

2008

Originally published in the journal Journal of Population Economics, Springer http://www.springerlink.com/content/100520/ Household skills provide job skills when tasks in jobs and household production are similar and jobs produce substitutes for home-made services. Opportunity costs of higher education are foregone earnings during schooling and foregone household production while studying and later in life. I show that individuals in jobs requiring household skills accept lower wage rates than traditional human capital theory predicts, and that individuals with low household skills tend to enter higher education. According to these results, declining household skills may have contributed t…

Labour economicsEconomics and EconometricsOpportunity costEarningsHigher educationbusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjecteducationWageVDP::Social science: 200::Women's and gender studies: 370Human capitalbehavioral disciplines and activitiesPeer reviewHousehold productionEconomicsHuman capitalVDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212Production (economics)businesshealth care economics and organizationsSocial policymedia_commonDemographyJournal of Population Economics
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Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices

2011

Gender StudiesEconomics and EconometricsLabour economicsPoliticsMarket economyArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)EconomicsGeneral Business Management and AccountingFeminist Economics
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