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Most research on the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES) controls for changing age or investigates the relationship for a particular age range. This paper, however, examines changes in the relationship across ages, as well as controls for potential endogeneity in the...
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, which evolved through structural transformation in the era of globalization. The analysis is based on a dynamic model … assume that as competition increases industries adjust their employment to a desired level which is both industry and time … manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …
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played by trade and FDI in determining employment. The empirical results obtained lend support to globalization having a …There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed … countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied …
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Germany plays a pioneering role in replacing conventional power plants with renewable energy sources. While this is … households and firms. The extent to which this is associated with negative impacts on employment depends on the interrelationship …-skilled. Our estimates suggest that the announced increase of the EEG surcharge in 2014 would decrease overall employment in the …
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employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era …
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In this paper, we use 12 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to examine the relationship between job insecurity, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life satisfaction and health. They also, however,...
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incumbent firms. Our results indicate that individuals’ employment stability was higher in incumbent than in newly founded firms … while their risk of becoming unemployed was lower. In particular in eastern Germany, joining firms that were older than six …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
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This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …
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; gender differences; and the poor education performance of men at the lower end of the education distribution. …
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