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analyze the association between sociodemographic factors (age, gender, education, marital status, income, religion) and ….07-1.5, p<0.01), higher income (aOR=1.5, 95% CI=1.3-1.6, p<0.001) were positively associated with current drinking. Older … higher in rural areas and among low-income households. Targeted policy efforts are needed to reduce the health risk of …
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Unexpected mobility disruptions during lockdown during the first wave of COVID-19 became 'tipping points' with the potential to alter pre-pandemic routines sensitive to socialisation. This paper investigates the impact of lockdown exposure on alcohol consumption. We document two findings using...
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This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
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Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in their economic status with duration in the destination. This pattern has been found for all the immigrant receiving countries, time periods and data sets that have been...
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Military service reduces civilian labor market experience but subsidizes higher education through the GI Bill. Both of these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the effects of military service using Vietnam-era draft-lottery instruments show post-service earnings...
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A large literature has documented a significant increase in the return to college over the past 30 years. This increase is typically measured using nominal wages. I show that from 1980 to 2000, college graduates have increasingly concentrated in metropolitan areas that are characterized by a...
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internal rates of return that take into account tuition costs, income taxes and nonlinearities in the earnings …
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This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the latter group being assigned earnings of donors who share some but not all the attributes of the...
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This paper asks how income distribution affects individual well-being and tries to explore the idea that this relation … and reference income (defined as the income of one's professional peers), and hinges on the micro-econometric analysis of … United States. Whereas "jealousy" is dominant in the former, "ambition" is even stronger in the latter. -- income …
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public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income …-data and microsimulation models to illustrate the influence of market income patterns, household structures and social … protection measures on the income distribution among and between different age groups. We use information from the late 1990s to …
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