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examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …
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urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV on average wages is positive but imprecisely estimated. In contrast, HIV has a … large positive impact on the skill premium. The impact of HIV on the wages of low skilled workers is insignificantly …
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, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life … satisfaction and health. They also, however, highlight the fact that this effect is most prominent among individuals over the age … of 40. A second observation is that job insecurity is also associated with lower levels of life satisfaction and health …
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health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a "purged" health measure similar to …Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey (NPHS), we study the relationship between …
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on its impact on three areas of caregivers' lives: employment, health, and family. Because the literature is inherently … lower levels of employment, the affected labor force is seemingly small. Second, such caregiving tends to lower the quality … of the caregiver's psychological health, which also has a negative impact on physical health outcomes. Third, the …
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impact that the enactment of various types of E-verify mandates may have on the employment and wages of these two populations …. We find that the enactment of both universal and public-sector only mandates reduce employment of likely unauthorized … workers. Meanwhile, employment verification does not affect naturalized Hispanic workers but increases the employment …
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-educated workers. We find no evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of full-time workers whose wages were … wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach … than the minimum wage. The Campaign led to the largest increases in the wages of women, younger workers and less …
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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These … effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages among new hires rather than incumbents. The …
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labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men … wages. Moreover, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions suggest that labour force participation gaps, employment gaps and hourly wage …This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment …
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