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Transcriptional Modulation of the Developing Immune System by Early Life Social Adversity

Cole, Steven W.; Conti, Gabriella; Arevalo, Jesusa M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

To identify molecular mechanisms by which early life social conditions might influence adult risk of disease in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta), we analyze changes in basal leukocyte gene expression profiles in 4-month-old animals reared under adverse social conditions. Compared to the basal...

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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the …

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Extra Status and Extra Stress: Are Promotions Good for Us?

Johnston, David W.; Lee, Wang-Sheng - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …

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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data and the exogenous variation generated by the 2006 revision of the Japanese Elderly Employment...

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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

relationship between exposure to stress and overall health is shown. Apparently, the increase in mortality can be explained by the … increase in individual stress after the economic, cultural and political consequences of reunification. …

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Job Anxiety, Work-Related Psychological Illness and Workplace Performance

Jones, Melanie K.; Latreille, Paul L.; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper uses matched employee-employer data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2004 to examine the determinants of employee job anxiety and work-related psychological illness. Job anxiety is found to be strongly related to the demands of the job as measured by...

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Terrorism and Human Capital at Birth: Bomb Casualties and Birth Outcomes in Spain

Quintana-Domeque, Climent; Ródenas-Serrano, Pedro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of terrorism in Spain on birth outcomes, focusing on terrorism perpetrated by ETA, combining information on the number of bomb casualties from The Victims of ETA Dataset with the individual birth records from the national registry of live births in Spain, elaborated by the...

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Effects of Stress on Economic Decision-Making: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments

Delaney, Liam; Fink, Günther; Harmon, Colm P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The ways in which preferences respond to the varying stress of economic environments is a key question for behavioral … economics and public policy. We conducted a laboratory experiment to investigate the effects of stress on financial decision … intelligence tests as cognitive stressors, we find that stress increases subjective discounting rates, has no effect on the degree …

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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being: Is There a Silver Lining?

Böckerman, Petri; Maliranta, Mika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that offshoring involves job destruction, especially...

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Do Immigrants Work in Worse Jobs than U.S. Natives? Evidence from California

Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not want. Using data from the 2000 Census merged with O*NET data on occupation characteristics, I show that the jobs held by immigrants are more physically arduous than the jobs held...

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