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Recessions and occupational match quality : the role of age, gender, and education
Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2020
actually decreased through time. For the older cohort, we then explore the role of age, education, gender, and occupational …
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Temporary work in turbulent times : the Swedish experience
Holmlund, Bertil; Storrie, Donald W. - 2002
Sweden has experienced a substantial increase in temporary work over the 1990s, with most of the rise occurring during a severe macroeconomic recession with mass unemployment. By the early 1990s, workers on fixed-term contracts accounted for 10 percent of the number of employees; by the end of...
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Slow to hire, quick to fire : employment dynamics with asymmetric responses to news
Ilut, Cosmin; Kehrig, Matthias; Schneider, Martin - 2017
Concave hiring rules imply that firms respond more to bad shocks than to good shocks. They provide a unified explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate countercyclical movement in both aggregate conditional...
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The Modigliani puzzle revisited : a note
Katsimē, Margarita; Gylfi Zoega - 2017
We estimate the relationship between investment and unemployment in order to explore whether the medium-term relationship emphasized by Franco Modigliani survived the recent Great Recession. Our results indicate that the relationship held up, both employment and investment fell although the...
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Age, wage and productivity
Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
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Setting a good example? : examining sibling spillovers in educational achievement using a regression discontinuity design
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Özek, Umut - 2019
We identify externalities in human capital production function arising from sibling spillovers. Using regression discontinuity design generated by school-entry cutoffs and school records from one district in Florida, we find positive spillover effects from an older to a younger child in less...
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The effect of school starting age on special needs incidence and child development into adolescence
Balestra, Simone; Eugster, Beatrix … - 2017
Children starting school at older ages consistently exhibit better educational outcomes. In this paper, we underscore child development as a mechanism driving this effect. We study the causal effect of school starting age on a child's probability of developing special educational needs in early...
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An investment-and-marriage model with differential fecundity
Zhang, Hanzhe - 2019
fecundity and an equilibrium marriage market form the basis of my explanation. The model also accounts for gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110230
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COVID-19 and mental health deterioration among BAME groups in the UK
Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
-19, and uncover four new facts. First, ethnicity predicts mental health deterioration when interacted with gender. Among …, among women, the deterioration in mental health is similar for both BAME and British White individuals. Second, the gender … BAME groups. The BAME group of Bangladeshi, Indian and Pakistani appears to be driving the difference in the gender gap in …
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Racial/ethnic and education-related disparities in control of risk factors for cardiovascular disease among diabetics
Chatterji, Pinka; Joo, Heesoo; Lahiri, Kajal - 2011
Objectives: To estimate racial/ethnic and education-related disparities and examine trends in uncontrolled cardiovascular (CVD) risk factors among adults with diabetes. Methods: The analysis samples include adults aged 20 and over from NHANES III, 1988- 1994 and NHANES 1999-2008 who self-report...
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