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workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be … granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates …
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and the HRS, with a particular focus on whether attrition is systematically related to health outcomes and socioeconomic … status (SES). Investigating the links between health and SES is one of the primary goals of the ELSA and HRS, so attrition …
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We study the effect of permanent income innovations on health for a prime-aged population. Using information on more …-demographic factors, health outcomes and selected risk factors. We then exploit structural and arguably exogenous changes in cohort … incomes over the eighties and nineties to uncover causal effects of permanent income shocks on health. We find that such …
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Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy … are in much worse health than those at the top. This health gradient exists whether education, income, or financial wealth …
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olds, we estimate similar health gradients in income and wealth in both countries, but for 70-80 year old, we find no … benefits are largely flat and independent of past income and hence past health during the working years. Finally, we report …
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in size - positive relationship between innovation and employment. While the links with sales and wages have the expected …The microeconomic empirical literature devoted to the link between innovation and employment tends to suggest that … investments, as in Italian manufacturing. Applying GMM-SYS to an employment equation augmented for technology and using a unique …
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After discussing theory regarding the consequences of technological change on employment and surveying previous …. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high …-tech manufacturing but absent in the more traditional manufacturing sectors. This means that we should not expect positive employment …
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This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment …
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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …
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This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
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