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This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...
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positive long-term labour market effects in terms of earnings and wages, as well as positive effects on health and subjective … variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual …
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health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...
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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …
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, we find that teachers who move to outside employment earn 22% less pay, work longer hours, in largely nonprofessional …
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empirical investigation into the quitting behaviour of nurses in the British National Health Service (NHS), using a newly …. However, whilst the effect of wages is found to be statistically significant, the predicted impact of an increase in nurses …
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In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings … overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on Palestinian employment and earnings are taken from the … Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Palestinian employment rates in Israel and mean monthly earnings, regardless of work location …
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greatest to value-added, followed by capital stock changes, and least by wages. The speed of adjustment in employment and the …This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian … variables and is used to model the desired level of labour-use. The labour requirement is specified to be function of wages …
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conclusions of the literature survey are indecisive. Conclusions about the efficacy of worksharing as an employment enhancing … evidence for the proposition that worksharing would promote employment or reduce unemployment. In an appendix we present an …
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