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The opioid crisis generates broader societal harms beyond direct health and economic effects, impacting non … aimed at reducing the over-prescribing of opioids on women's wellbeing by examining its effects on intimate partner violence … generated a downstream benefit for women by significantly reducing their overall exposure to IPV and IPV-involved injuries by 9 …
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multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity …
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successfully to raise worker wages, income inequality would almost certainly be higher than it is. …
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household survey and conduct wage regressions to conclude whether individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn … significantly lower wages than fairly paid individuals with similar characteristics. We find that unfairly paid individuals earn … significantly less than fairly paid counterparts. This suggests that unfairness perceptions with respect to wages are based on sound …
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This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched injured and non-injured workers …, these health shocks (predominantly impairments in the musculoskeletal system) are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed …
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This paper investigates how HIV/AIDS has impacted the labor market in South Africa, focusing on its effect on wages and … that cumulative AIDS mortality has led to reductions in wages of between 3 and 6% for the African population group (Black …
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Studies from countries with laws against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation suggest that gay and lesbian employees report more incidents of harassment and are more likely to report experiencing unfair treatment in the labor market than are heterosexual employees. Gay men are found...
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Women consistently work less in the labor market and earn lower wages than men. While economic empowerment of women is … an important objective in itself, women's economic activity also matters as a condition for sustained economic growth …
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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …
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negotiation intentions that persist to actual negotiation behavior, particularly for men. While the treatment affects women … treatment effects on behavior for women. Overall, our findings suggest that such information interventions can help to nudge … women who have potentially large financial returns to negotiation to realize these gains …
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