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changes in education and health. Focus in the paper includes also the gender aspect to accommodate stronger cohort effects for … women than for men. The impact on labor force participation from individual education and from self-assessed health is …
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subjective indicators reveal differences in satisfaction with household income, health, and childcare. In contrast, job … crime levels and their own financial circumstances, whereas concerns about xenophobia and employment have diminished …, employability and health-related well-being. Our results indicate that being unemployed has a strong negative effect on life …
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labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men … wages. Moreover, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions suggest that labour force participation gaps, employment gaps and hourly wage …This study examines the long-term correlates of bullying in school with aspects of functioning in adult employment …
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and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
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Based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, the influence of the body mass index on health, earnings and satisfaction is … analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index … determined, the health estimates show nonlinear effects but the direction of action is unchanged. Effects on earnings differ …
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, we test for the effects of mandatory military service on wages; employment; marriage/partnership status; and satisfaction … with work, financial situation, health, family life, friends, and life in general. We find almost no statistically …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure …. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …
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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … that ethnic identity is strongly associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We … work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further …
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