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Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour market outcomes over the period 1990-2010. Those with higher levels of creatine (proxied by urine...
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including who should choose the number of temporary immigrants and under what employment conditions. This paper offers an …
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suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …
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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and … from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we focus exclusively on the self-employment participation among south Asian … higher education attainment are less likely to choose self-employment, the probability is relatively higher in comparison to …
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A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling for developing countries in Asia where corruption, inequality and shadow economies are...
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This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household’s use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally...
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We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of …
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We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …
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and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …
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Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...
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