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Eichhorst, Werner - 2011

The European Employment Strategy has set the goal of raising the retirement age of workers in the EU through a strategy of "active ageing". Yet despite some progress over the last decade, empirical data show persistent diversity across EU member states. Institutional arrangements of social and...

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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...

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Welfare and employment : a European dilemma?

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); … - 2008

The majority of the Member States of the European Union have undertaken remarkably comprehensive welfare and labor market reforms in the years since the 1990s. Many of these reforms, however, have not followed the conventional retrenchment and deregulation recipes, but rather took a liking to...

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Estimating the effects of milk inspections on infant and child mortality, 1880-1910

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; McKelligott, … - 2021

In the mid-19th century, the urban milk supply in the United States was regularly skimmed or diluted with water …, reducing its nutritional value. At the urging of public health experts, cities across the country hired milk inspectors, who … were tasked with collecting and analyzing milk samples with the goal of preventing adulteration and skimming. Using city …

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Safeguarding consumers through minimum quality standards : milk inspections and urban mortality, 1880-1910

Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; McKelligott, … - 2022

milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes …, caramel, and salt were added. To protect consumers, milk inspectors were tasked with enforcing a well-defined MQS. Using city …-level data for the period 1880-1910, we find that milk inspections reduced mortality from waterborne and foodborne diseases by 8 …

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Season of birth and marital outcomes

Oreffice, Sonia - 2014

This study analyzes the marriage-market aspects of season of birth in the United States, estimating whether and how marital status is related to quarter of birth by gender and race, also incorporating cohabitation as a separate relationship status. For couples, additional analysis considers who...

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Household migration decisions as survival strategy : the case of Burkina Faso

Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2005

The paper examines the motivations behind the important migration from Burkina Faso to Côte d'Ivoire, the economic pole in the West African Economic and Monetary Union. The paper uses a detailed household survey dataset on migration, natural resource management, risk management and solidarity...

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Mexican immigrants, the labor market and the current population survey : seasonality effects, framing effects, and sensitivity of results

Lozano, Fernando (contributor); Sorensen, Todd (contributor) - 2008

In this paper we compare estimates of immigrants' labor supply assimilation profiles using the Current Population Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORGs). We use a measure that is seemingly consistent across both surveys:...

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The demand for season of birth

Clarke, Damian; Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2016

We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also analyze stated preferences for season of birth using our own Amazon Mechanical Turk survey. The prevalence of quarters 2 and 3 is...

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Seasonal credit constraints and agricultural labor supply : evidence from Zambia

Fink, Guenther; Jack, B. Kelsey; Masiye, Felix - 2014

Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries. While most farmers primarily work on their own fields, off-farm labor is common among small-scale farmers. A growing literature suggests that off-farm labor is not the result of...

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