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's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health. …
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health outcomes also allows for an individual level panel data strategy. We find that the behavior of specialist physicians …
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volunteers belonging to public, private forprofit and private nonprofit institutions delivering social services in Italy. The …
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The purpose in the present paper is to use individual panel data in the European Community Household Panel to analyse the impact on self-reported satisfaction from a number of economic and demographic variables. The paper contributes to the ongoing discussion of the relationship between life...
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We explore two unexpected changes in flight regulations to identify the causal effect of aircraft noise on health …. Detailed yearly noise metrics are linked with panel data on health outcomes using exact address information. Controlling for … headaches. Our pooled models substantially underestimate the detrimental health effects, which suggests that individuals self …
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and gender differences began to vary greatly across these countries. We provide the first systematic analysis of the … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … further examine the flows in the Czech Republic by estimating gender-specific multinomial logit models to learn which factors …
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This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
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Recent studies indicate that firms often outsource standard and simple tasks, while keeping complex and important inputs inside their boundaries. This observation is difficult to reconcile with the property rights approach of the firm, which suggests that important components should be...
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How to design compensation schemes to motivate team members appears to be one of the most challenging problems in the economic analysis of labour provision. We shed light on this issue by experimentally investigating team-based compensations with and without bonuses awarded to the highest...
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