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Losing Heart? The Effect of Job Displacement on Health

Black, Sandra E. - 2013

significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health using …

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Does Grief Transfer Across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Black, Sandra E. - 2014

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in-utero child, we know little about the effects of psychological stresses. One clear form of stress to the mother comes from the death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of...

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Under Pressure? The Effect of Peers on Outcomes of Young Adults

Black, Sandra E. - 2010

separately identifying the role of peers. This paper uses data on the population of Norway and idiosyncratic variation in cohort …

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Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2021

More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...

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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals

Goerke, Laszlo - 2010

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …

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Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence : Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

Goerke, Laszlo - 2012

In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that …

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Social custom, free-riders, and trade union membership in Germany and Great Britain

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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Wage Cyclicality Under Different Regimes of Industrial Relations

Gartner, Hermann - 2010

Germany, we find that works councils affect wage growth only in combination with collective bargaining. Wage adjustments to …

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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously : The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009

Hirsch, Boris - 2011

results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany …

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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Fackler, Daniel - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

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