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Looking Beyond the Bridge : How Temporary Agency Employment Affects Labor Market Outcomes

Jahn, Elke J. - 2010

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages...

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Canary in a Coal Mine : Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

Clay, Karen - 2016

Pollution is a common byproduct of economic activity. Although policymakers should account for both the benefits and the negative externalities of polluting activities, it is difficult to identify those who are harmed and those who benefit from them. To overcome this challenge, our paper uses a...

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For Better or Worse? Subjective Expectations and Cost-Benefit Trade-Offs in Health Behavior

Conti, Gabriella; GIUSTINELLI, PAMELA - 2023

We provide a framework to disentangle preferences and beliefs in health behavior and apply it to lockdown compliance in the UK. We estimate a model of compliance choice with uncertain costs and benefits to quantify utility tradeoffs, decompose group differences in compliance, and compute...

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The Subjective Costs of Health Losses Due to Chronic Diseases : An Alternative Model Appraisal

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, B.M.S - 2023

This paper proposes a method to evaluate health losses or gains by looking at the impact on well-being of a change in health status. The paper presents estimates of the equivalent income change that would be necessary to change general satisfaction with life to the same extent as a change in...

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets : Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …

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How Fast Do Wages Adjust to Human-Capital Productivity? Dynamic Panel-Data Evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland

Andini, Corrado - 2009

assumption is rejected by the ECHP data for Belgium, Denmark and Finland. The empirical evidence supports a dynamic approach to … dynamic panel-data wage equation and provide measures of the speed of adjustment in Belgium, Denmark and Finland. Further, we …

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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?

O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007

penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain … between 31 percent of the observed wage gap in the UK and 71 percent in Denmark. When a larger set of control variables is …

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The Lasting Legacy of Seasonal Influenza : In-Utero Exposure and Labor Market Outcomes

Schwandt, Hannes - 2017

around every year and causes strong inflammatory responses in pregnant women. Using administrative data from Denmark, I …

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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency : Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise - 2014

administrative data from Denmark to investigate the impact of exposure to Ramadan in utero on labor market outcomes of adult Muslim …

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Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages

Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2021

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains...

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