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Work Expectations, Realizations, and Depression in Older Workers
Falba, Tracy A. - 2008
We explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were less than 62 years of age at the 1992 HRS baseline, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464212
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The Great Recession, Retirement and Related Outcomes
Gustman, Alan L. - 2015
At the recession's peak, half of those who experienced a layoff ended up in the Not Retired or Partially Retired, Not Working category. But only a quarter of those who declared themselves to be Not Retired or Partially Retired, and were Not Working, had experienced a layoff. Most of the jump in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457706
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The Effects of Childhood ADHD on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Fletcher, Jason - 2013
While several types of mental illness, including substance abuse disorders, have been linked with poor labor market outcomes, no current research has been able to examine the effects of childhood ADHD. As ADHD has become one of the most prevalent childhood mental conditions, it is useful to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459976
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How Replaceable Is a Low-Wage Job?
Rose, Evan K.; Shem-Ṭov, Yotam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
rents from holding a full-time $15 per hour job relative to unemployment are worth about $20,000, more than seven times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322834
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The Search for Good Jobs : Evidence from a Six-year Field Experiment in Uganda
Bandiera, Oriana; Bassi, Vittorio; Burgess, Robin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
There are 420 million young people in Africa today. Understanding how youth search for jobs and what affects their ability to find good jobs is of paramount importance. We do so using a field experiment tracking young job seekers for six years in Uganda's main cities. We examine how two standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337802
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Determinants of Non-employment and Unemployment Durations in East Germany
Hunt, Jennifer - 1999
insight into the problem by examining the determinants of transitions between non-employment (or unemployment) and employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471666
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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany
Bell, Linda A. - 2000
This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470681
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Germany's Economic Unification : An Assessment after Ten Years
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
A political miracle occurred when Germany was reunited, and at first glance an economic miracle has followed. Real … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471183
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Wage Equalization and Regional Misallocation : Evidence from Italian and German Provinces
Boeri, Tito - 2019
Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity - North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany - but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on … nationwide contracts that allow for limited local wage adjustments, while Germany has moved toward a more flexible system that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479565
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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2009
In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463591