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What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...
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In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
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The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … identification on the probability to work controlling for a number of other determinants. While ethnically assimilated immigrant men …
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This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...
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We study how severe acute health shocks affect the probability of not working in the U. S. versus in Denmark. The results not only provide insight into how relative disease risk affects labor force participation at older ages, but also into how different types of health care and health insurance...
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This paper reviews the literature on the impact of work on health. We consider work along two dimensions: (i) the … work found in the literature is based on situations in which workers have essentially no control (no choice) over the … amount of work they provide. In essence, what is detrimental to health is not so much work per se as much as the gap which …
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The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The …
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children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish … much, time on market work than wage-earning women. This raises doubts about whether women in Sweden chose self …
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identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work …
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. Empirical evidence studying economic behavior like work participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the …
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