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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (on ethnicity, religion and war)

Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2008

The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire's unique culture and institutions to examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and...

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The rise and fall of the "Normalarbeitsverhältnis" in Germany

Pierenkemper, Toni - 2009

create a social insurance system, to protect working people against basic risks. Finally, workers' and entrepreneurs … anachronistic and obsolete. -- Economic history ; standard employment ; Germany …

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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger : early life conditions and adult health in Ireland

Delaney, Liam; McGovern, Mark E.; Smith, James P. - 2009

We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910207

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