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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013
We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010127786
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The biocultural origins of human capital formation
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2014
This research explores the biocultural origins of human capital formation. It presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity and thus predisposition towards investment in child quality was conducive for long-run reproductive success within the human species. Using an extensive genealogical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403448
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Cross sections are history
Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013
Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730828
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510508
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Human capital risk, contract enforcement, and the macroeconomy
Krebs, Tom; Kuhn, Moritz; Wright, Mark L. J. - 2015
due to the limited pledgeability of human capital. We show analytically that, consistent with the life insurance data, in … account for the life-cycle variation of life-insurance holdings, financial wealth, earnings, and consumption inequality … insurance. …
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The firing cost implications of alternative severance pay designs
Parsons, Donald O. - 2010
) severance insurance plans or (ii) severance savings plans is important; savings plans have no "firing cost" effects on employer … layoff decisions. The firing cost implications of insurance plan are sensitive to the types of job separations that qualify a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003968599
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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411192
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The wife's protector : a quantitative theory linking contraceptive technology with the decline in marriage
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2019
the 20th century. Some economic history is also presented. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012136953
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Was the first public health campaign successful? : the tuberculosis movement and its effect on mortality
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Olivares, … - 2017
The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to eradicating a specific disease, it was spearheaded by voluntary associations and supported by the sale of Christmas seals. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the...
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