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health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a "purged" health measure similar to …
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This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital obsolescence, mobility becomes more costly when workers become older. We measure and interpret how changing...
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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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for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …
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. We find no evidence suggesting that the law reduced employment probabilities. …
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This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of Jewish expulsions in Nazi Germany on the educational attainment and political outcomes of German children. We combine a unique city-level dataset on the fraction of Jewish population residing in Germany before the Nazi Regime with...
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We examine the relationship between works councils and two different types of employment separation: dismissals by the …
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show that roughly 50% of the observed raw differential in individual dismissal rates can be explained by the estimated …
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On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three noncompeting explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
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This paper provides an overview of the employment situation of young and old workers in the EU Member States, setting … out the most recent development during the crisis and dealing with policies implemented to promote the employment of both … groups. However, the responsibility for employment policies still predominantly lies within Member States of the European …
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