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Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme
Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
(Title: Active Labor Market Policy and its Evaluation: The Current State of Affairs) Despite the considerable effort and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market Policy in Germany, relatively little is known about their actual impact. To the contrary, past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703776
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Civil Wars beyond their Borders: The Human Capital and Health Consequences of Hosting Refugees
Baez, Javier E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children’s anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823005
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New Directions for Residential Mobility Research: Linking Lives through Time and Space
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten; Findlay, Allan M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
While researchers are increasingly reconceptualising international migration, less interest is being shown in rethinking the geographies of short-distance residential mobility and immobility. Short-distance moves are crucial for the structuration of everyday life, the operation of housing and...
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Well-being across America
Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514854
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Contextualised Mobility Histories of Moving Desires and Actual Moving Behaviour
Coulter, Rory; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Conceptually, adopting a life course approach when analysing residential mobility enables us to investigate how experiencing particular life events affects mobility decision-making and behaviour throughout individual lifetimes. Yet although a growing body of longitudinal research links mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371889
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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Modin, Bitte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
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Cognitive Ability, Character Skills, and Learning to Play Equilibrium: A Level-k Analysis
Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
ability to that of character skills, and find that both cognition and personality affect behavior and learning. More agreeable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886141
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Hard Evidence on Soft Skills
Heckman, James J.; Kautz, Tim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of "cognitive ability" like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or...
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Economic Conditions at the Time of Birth and Cognitive Abilities Late in Life: Evidence from Eleven European Countries
Doblhammer, Gabriele; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Fritze, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
changes in the early life economic environment on late life cognition. In European countries, about three to four economic …
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Cognition and Economic Outcomes in the Health and Retirement Survey
McArdle, John J.; Smith, James P.; Willis, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Dimensions of cognitive skills are potentially important but often neglected determinants of the central economic outcomes that shape overall well-being over the life course. There exists enormous variation among households in their rates of wealth accumulation, their holdings of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004969335