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Gender norms and income misreporting within households
Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...
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The role of friends in the opioid epidemic
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; … - 2024
The role of friends in the US opioid epidemic is examined. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add Health), adults aged 25-34 and their high school best friends are focused on. An instrumental variable technique is employed to estimate peer effects in opioid...
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Monetary policy transmission to Russia & Eastern Europe
Stann, Carsten M.; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2019
spillover effects in Russia and Eastern Europe. The hypothesis is tested using OLS estimations of event-based regressions on … monetary policy event dummies and seven financial variables in eleven East European countries including Russia. Overall, the … Europe and Russia. Notably, bilateral integration with the eurozone is a key determinant of the strength of spillovers, with …
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Job destruction, job creation and unemployment in transition countries : what can we learn?
Faggio, Giulia (contributor) - 2007
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Labour reallocation during transition : the case of Poland
Bell, Una Louise - 2001
This paper analyses the reallocation of labour during the transition period, which is argued not only to ease the transition from a planned to market orientated economy, but also to be fundamental to the successful integration of Poland into the European Union. Labour force survey data is used...
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On the identification of relative wage rigidity dynamics : a proposal for a methodology on cross-section data and empirical evidence for Poland in transition
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2000
We present a new and simple empirical methodology to identify relative wage rigidity dynamics. The methodology is applied to data from the Polish Labour Force Survey for the period 1994 to 1998. We estimate ceteris paribus changes in relative wage and unemployment differentials for various...
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Intergenerational poverty dynamics in Poland : family background and children's educational attainment during transition
Beblo, Miriam - 2002
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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health : evidence from administrative data
Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021
This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on...
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Dismissal protection and long-term sickness absence : first evidence from Germany
Gürtzgen, Nicole; Hiesinger, Karolin - 2020
This paper analyses the causal effects of weaker dismissal protection on the incidence of long-term sickness ( six weeks). We exploit a German policy change, which shifted the threshold exempting small establishments from dismissal protection from five to ten workers. Using administrative data,...
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Consumption and nutrition: age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989 - 1992
Miquel, Ruth - 2000
This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the relation between nutrient intake and age for Czechoslovak individuals, as a function of characteristics of both the individual and the household she lives in, on the basis of household purchases. Results show no significant difference between...
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