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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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The (Un)Importance of Inheritance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Landaud, Fanny; … - 2022

inequality. This paper uses administrative data for the population of Norway to examine the share of the Total Inflows (defined …

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

Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 1998

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden : eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Wagner, Gert G.; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … time. In Germany, we observe a remarkable decrease in the share of workers who work paid overtime and a significant …

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The institutional context of an "empirical law": the wage curve under different regimes of collective bargaining

Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2009

-scale linked employer-employee data set for western Germany, this paper provides a first test of the relevance of different …

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Wage cyclicality under different regimes of industrial relations

Gartner, Hermann; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

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

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