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The labor market effects of refugee waves : reconciling conflicting results
Clemens, Michael A.; Hunt, Jennifer - 2017
the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …
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Supervisors and performance management systems
Frederiksen, Anders; Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2017
Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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Transmission of US and EU economic policy uncertainty shock to Asian economies in bad and good times
Balcilar, Mehmet; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Ozdemir, Huseyin - 2020
This study empirically examines the fragility of five major Asian economies (China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, and South Korea) to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) of US and EU, and oil prices in different state of the economies. To investigate these dynamics, we use the relative tail dependence...
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Effect of enforcement shock on pushers' activities : evidence from an Asian drug-selling gang
Leong, Kaiwen; Li, Huailu; Xu, Haibo - 2019
We study a Singaporean drug-selling gang's dataset and empirically find that the gang's pushers purchased larger quantities of drugs during periods of enforcement shocks caused by enforcement activities targeting the gang's drug supply chain. This counter-intuitive finding can be explained by...
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The long-term effects of labor market entry in a recession : evidence from the Asian financial crisis
Choi, Eleanor Jawon; Choi, Jaewoo; Son, Hyelim - 2020
This study investigates the long-term effects of initial labor market conditions by comparing cohorts who graduated … effect by examining their labor market activities, family formation, and household finances. Using data from 20 waves of the … Korean Labor and Income Panel Study, we find a substantial and persistent reduction in employment, earnings, marriage …
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In need of a roof : pandemic and housing vulnerability
Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Housing is a basic need and is intricately connected to a household's health and wellness. The current pandemic has exposed the housing vulnerability for certain subgroups of the population and further jeopardized these household's health and stability. Using the Household Pulse Survey launched...
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The evils of forced migration : do integration policies alleviate migrants' economic situations?
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Link, Susanne - 2011
foster their labor market integration. We evaluate the success of this law using unique retrospective individual-level panel …
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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality : reply to Cutler and Miller
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2019
This is a rejoinder to a comment written by Cutler and Miller on our recent paper, "Public Health Efforts and the Decline in Urban Mortality" (IZA DP No. 11773), which reanalyzes data used by Cutler and Miller to investigate the determinants of the urban mortality decline from 1900 to 1936. Two...
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Public health efforts and the decline in urban mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Rees, Daniel I. - 2018
Using data on 25 major American cities for the period 1900-1940, we explore the effects of municipal-level public health efforts that were viewed as critical in the fight against food- and water-borne diseases. In addition to studying interventions such as treating sewage and setting strict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903985
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Was the first public health campaign successful? : the tuberculosis movement and its effect on mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, … - 2017
The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...
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