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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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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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correlations between risk aversion and labour market outcomes (full-time employment, temporary agency work, fixed-term contracts …, employer change, quits, training, wages, and job satisfaction). …
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outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and poor diets and sedentary …, and empirical evidence on, the economics of risky health behaviors. It describes traditional economic approaches …
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partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
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Little is known about the response behavior of parents whose children are exposed to an early-life shock. In this paper we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human capital shock and examine their parents'...
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, extend the empirical approach in two ways. First, we add health as an additional outcome dimension. Second, we apply a semi …
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This short essay reviews Gary Becker's contributions and influence in health economics. It was originally prepared for …
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rates and school performance, health, labor supply, and lifetime income. Males and high ability children gain significantly …
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's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …
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