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Trends of children's height and parental unemployment: a large-scale anthropometric study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2008
The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never declined over longer time spans in Eastern Germany since 1880 - except for the most recent period 1997-2006. In the Eastern German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050 pre-school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264283
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Sorting and the output loss due to search frictions
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2011
max-mean wage differential. The latter measure of wage dispersion is more robust than measures based on the reservation … wage, due to the long left tail of the wage distribution. We estimate this wage differential using data on match quality … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274790
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Trends of Children's Height and Parental Unemployment : A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2021
The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never declined over longer time spans in Eastern Germany since 1880 - except for the most recent period 1997-2006. In the Eastern German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050 pre-school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316616