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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895090
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Minimum wage channels of adjustment
Hirsch, Barry T.; Kaufman, Bruce E.; Zelenska, Tetyana - 2011
The economic impact of the 2007-2009 increases in the federal minimum wage (MW) is analyzed using a sample of quick-service restaurants in Georgia and Alabama. Store-level biweekly payroll records for individual employees are used, allowing us to precisely measure the MW compliance cost for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521219
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Financial stress, family conflict, and youths’ successful transition to adult roles
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ribar, David C. - 2009
We analyze the effect of mothers' and youths' reports of family financial stress and conflict on youths' transitions … associated with youth making later transitions. Overall, financial stress and conflict have independent effects on youths …' transitions and youths' perspectives have different consequences to those of their mothers. -- Youths ; financial stress ; family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925516
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Family stress and the intergenerational correlation in self-control
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tayeb, Haniene - 2024
stress related to: i) parenting responsibilities; ii) parents' relationship quality; iii) household finances; and iv) poor … particularly sensitive to growing up in a stressful environment, opening the door for family stress to shape the intergenerational …
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How unilateral divorce affects children
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio (contributor);  … - 2008
Using U.S. Census data for the years 1960-1980, we study the impact of unilateral divorce on outcomes of children (age 6-15) and their mothers. We find that the reform increased mothers' divorce, decreased family income and increased the fraction of mothers below the poverty line. For children,...
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Growing up in a recession : beliefs and the macroeconomy
Giuliano, Paola; Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
Do generations growing up during recessions have different socio-economic beliefs than generations growing up in good times? We study the relationship between recessions and beliefs by matching macroeconomic shocks during early adulthood with self-reported answers from the General Social Survey....
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Sorting in the labor market : do gregarious workers flock to interactive jobs?
Krueger, Alan B. (contributor); Schkade, David (contributor) - 2007
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences for those attributes. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France on whether workers who are...
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Toward the integration of personality theory and decision theory in the explanation of economic and health behavior
Rustichini, Aldo; DeYoung, Colin G.; Anderson, Jon; … - 2012
Trait-based personality psychology and economics have taken different approaches to understanding individual differences, with the former emphasizing variables derived from the factor analysis of trait assessments, and the latter emphasizing variables derived from formal decision theory. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570095
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The effects of personality traits on adult labor market outcomes : evidence from siblings
Fletcher, Jason - 2012
While large literatures have shown that cognitive ability and schooling increases employment and wages, an emerging literature examines the importance of so-called "non-cognitive skills" in producing labor market outcomes. However, this smaller literature has not typically used causal methods in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533374
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The college type : personality and educational inequality
Lundberg, Shelly - 2013
I examine the effects of cognitive ability and personality traits on college graduation in a recent cohort of young Americans, and how the returns to these traits vary by family background, and find very substantial differences across family background groups in the personality traits that...
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