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Families in macroeconomics
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision-making in families) is...
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The effects of lifetime work experience on incidence and severity of elderly poverty in Korea
Chae, Seyoung; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
This study investigates the characteristics that contribute to elderly poverty, mainly focusing on individuals' lifetime work experience. It adopts the heterogeneous relative poverty line which differs by gender, province of residence and over time. It calculates the work experience and obtains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709639
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Immigration, growth and unemployment : panel VAR evidence from OECD countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2012
impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …
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A family affair : job loss and the mental health of spouses and adolescents
Bubonya, Melisa; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Wooden, Mark - 2014
This study examines the impact of involuntary job loss on the mental health of family members. Estimates from fixed-effects panel data models, using panel data for Australia, provide little evidence of any negative spillover effect on the mental health of husbands as a result of their wives' job...
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Immigration, unemployment and growth in the host country : bootstrap panel Granger causality analysis on OECD countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2011
This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host …-2005 for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while in any country …, immigration does not cause unemployment. We also find that, in France, Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom, growth positively …
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The effect of job loss on health : evidence from biomarkers
Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Crimmins, Eileen M.; Hurd, Michael D. - 2014
The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this paper, we estimate the effect of job loss on objective measures of physiological dysregulation using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures...
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Tattoos, life style and the labor market
Dillingh, Rik; Kooreman, Peter; Potters, Jan - 2016
Placing a tattoo is a choice with potentially significant and long-lasting social and economic consequences. In this study we look at the factors determining the decision to place a tattoo and combine this with several outcomes, such as income and employment status, living together with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450387
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Employment, wages, and alcohol consumption in Russia : evidence from panel data
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The results from the models that do not control for...
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Inequalities in job loss and income loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 crisis
Contreras-Gonzalez, Ivette; Oseni, Gbemisola; Palacios … - 2022
This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on families' time use with their children in urban areas in Italy. Courses aimed at raising parental awareness of the importance of educational activities were offered in four cities (Naples, Reggio Emilia, Teramo and Palermo) within the...
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The short-term effect of the COVID-19 crisis on employment probabilities of labour-market entrants in the Netherlands
Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; Weel, Bas ter - 2022
This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was unexpectedly hit by the COVID-19 crisis about six months after...
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