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Income and Employment Effects of Health Shocks - A Test Case for the German Welfare State

Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

of health shocks on employment and economic well-being of older workers. A health shock trebles the probability of … leaving the labor force and almost doubles the unemployment risk. The financial effects of health shocks are small on average … and those individuals with the highest remaining earnings potential are least affected by the health shock. Welfare state …

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No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health among 450,000 Swedish Men

Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in...

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Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Anton; Rooth, Dan-Olof - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the … entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations …

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An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

Winters, John V.; Hirsch, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Progress in narrowing black-white earnings differences has been far from continuous, with some of the apparent progress resulting from labor force withdrawal among lower-skilled African Americans. This paper builds on prior research and documents racial and ethnic differences in male earnings...

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Re-examining the Impact of Dropping Out on Criminal and Labor Outcomes in Early Adulthood

Bjerk, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper shows that while high school dropouts fare far worse on average than otherwise similar high school completers in early adulthood outcomes such as success in the labor market and future criminal activity, there are important differences within this group of dropouts. Notably, those who...

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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimated the immigrant-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK between 1978 and 2006. We exploited the longitudinal...

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Fatter Attraction: Anthropometric and Socioeconomic Characteristics in the Marriage Market

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Oreffice, Sonia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We construct a matching model on the marriage market along more than one characteristic, where individuals have preferences over physical attractiveness (proxied by anthropometric characteristics) and market and household productivity of potential mates (proxied by socioeconomic...

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Stature and Life-Time Labor Market Outcomes: Accounting for Unobserved Differences

Böckerman, Petri; Vainiomäki, Jari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of …

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Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

examine employment and earnings among Chinese immigrants who were likely beneficiaries of the U.S. government's actions … measures – highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …

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Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine

Böckerman, Petri; Bryson, Alex; Viinikainen, Jutta; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour market outcomes over the period 1990-2010. Those with higher levels of creatine (proxied by urine...

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