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Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain
Smith, James P.; van soest, arthur; Kapteyn, Arie - RAND - 2006
This paper investigates the role of pain in affecting self-reported work disability and employment of elderly workers …, using six biennial waves from the Health and Retirement Study. They find the dynamics of the presence of pain is central to … the dynamic patterns of employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545498
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Birth Spacing and Neonatal Mortality in India: Dynamics, Frailty, and Fecundity
van soest, arthur; Bhalotra, Sonia - RAND - 2005
A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth spacing on subsequent mortality and of mortality on the next birth interval, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in mortality (frailty) and birth spacing (fecundity)....
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Wages, Employment and Economic Shocks: Evidence from Indonesia.
Smith, James P.; Thomas, Duncan; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; … - RAND - 2000
crisis on labor market outcomes. Aggregate employment has remained remarkably robust through the crisis although there has … been significant switching within sectors. The drama of the crisis lies not in aggregate employment but in real hourly …
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