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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia

Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

characteristics, which allows us most of the benefits obtained by introducing firm dummies in wage equations for studying the effect … workers belonging to the middle of the wage distribution, while their return to schooling is significantly lower than that of … high wage workers. Wage regressions including the computed factors confirm that human capital is associated with positive …

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Retaining through Training; Even for OlderWorkers

van Ours, Jan; Picchio, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

heterogeneity. We also take into account that there might be feedback from shocks in the employment status to future propensity of … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …

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Does Family Planning Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from Surveillance Data in Matlab, Bangladesh

van soest, arthur; Saha, U.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: Analyzing the effect of family planning on child survival remains an important issue but is not straightforward because of several mechanisms linking family planning, birth intervals, total fertility, and child survival. This study uses a dynamic model jointly explaining infant...

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The Miracle Drug : Hormone Replacement Therapy and Labor Market Behavior of Middle-Aged Women

Meltem Daysal, N.; Orsini, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: In an aging society, determining which factors contribute to the employment of older individuals is …) on employment of middle-aged women. HRT are drugs taken by middle-aged women to soften symptoms related to menopause … HRT use impacts employment: namely, that HRT use increases employment by 25 percentage points among middle-aged women who …

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Health Cost Risk and Optimal Retirement Provision : A Simple Rule for Annuity Demand

Nijman, Theo; Werker, Bas J.M.; Peijnenburg, J.M.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

We analyze the effect of health cost risk on optimal annuity demand and consumption/savings decisions. Many retirees are exposed to sizeable out-of-pocket medical expenses, while annuities potentially impair the ability to get liquidity to cover these costs and smooth consumption. We find that...

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Fee-for-service, Capitation and Health Provider Choice with Private Contracts

boone, jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2014

Contracts between health insurers and providers are private; i.e. not public. By<br/>modelling this explicitly, we find the following. Insurers with bigger provider networks,pay higher fee-for-service rates to providers. This makes it more likely that a patient is treated and hence health care costs...

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Socio-Economic Status, Health Shocks, Life Satisfaction and Mortality: Evidence from an Increasing Mixed Proportional Hazard Model

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

The socio-economic gradient in health remains a controversial topic in economics and other social sciences. In this paper we develop a new duration model that allows for unobserved persistent individual-specific health shocks and provides new evidence on the roles of socio-economic...

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The Health Status of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Booth, Alison; Carroll, Nick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

and one half of the health gap can be explained by differences in socio-economic status - such as income, employment …

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The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on cotinine concentration- a metabolite of nicotine- measured in a large population of non-smokers...

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Overcrowding and Indigenous Health in Australia

Booth, Alison; Carroll, Nick - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

We use unique survey data from the 2001 National Health Survey to examine the association between overcrowding and the self-assessed health of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Our goal is to determine whether or not overcrowding explains why the Indigenous population has worse health...

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