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This paper reviews current issues in youth labour markets in developed countries. It argues that young people aged 16-25 have been particularly hard hit during the current recession. Using the USA and UK as cast studies, it analyses both causes and effects of youth unemployment using micro-data....
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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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climate of employment relations and union effects on employment growth. …
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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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and around the time that temporary disability insurance benefits are exhausted for women – is consistent with causal … effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to … life and possibly also on wages. …
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physical health. …
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-collar employment predicts a substantial increase in the probability of transitioning from very good into bad self-assessed health …, relative to white-collar employment, but with no evidence of occupational differences in movements from bad to very good health … occupational status is related to the health transitions of 30 to 59 year-old U.S. males. A recent history of blue …
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Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...
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cohorts, with most of this being attributed to the way that high school employment is related to subsequent adult work …
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’s theoretical framework: (i) wages are higher in states with more generous unemployment benefits, (ii) the perceived probability of …
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