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significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health using …
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We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact …
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While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...
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inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined …
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separately identifying the role of peers. This paper uses data on the population of Norway and idiosyncratic variation in cohort …
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More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...
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Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …
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results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …
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Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …
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Using a large data set for Germany, we show that both the raw and the unexplained gender earnings gap are higher in …
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