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American older adults in the time of COVID-19 : vulnerability types, aging attitudes, and emotional responses
Fu, Mingqi; Guo, Jing; Chen, Xi; Han, Boxun; Ahmed, Farooq - 2022
With 1582 respondents from the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), this study investigates the heterogeneity in older adults' vulnerability and examines the relationship between vulnerability types, aging attitudes and emotional responses. International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule...
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Has intergenerational progress stalled? : income growth over five generations of Americans
Corinth, Kevin; Larrimore, Jeff - 2024
Economic Supplement. At age 36-40, Millennials had a real median household income that was 18 percent higher than that of the … progress for Generation X and Millennials is due to their stalled growth in work hours - holding work hours constant, they … Millennials under age 30 has remained robust as well, although their income growth largely results from higher reliance on their …
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Long run effects of youth training programs : experimental evidence from Argentina
Alzúa, María Laura; Cruces, Guillermo; López, Carolina - 2016
We study the effect of a job training program for low income youth in Cordoba, Argentina. The program included life-skills and vocational training, as well as internships with private sector employers. Participants were allocated by means of a public lottery. We rely on administrative data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453985
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Young adults living with their parents and the influence of peers
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Kaya, Ezgi - 2016
This paper studies the impact of peer behavior on living arrangements of young adults in the U.S. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) we analyze the influence of high school friends on the nest-leaving decision of young adults. We achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517589
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The political scar of epidemics
Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Eichengreen, Barry; Saka, Orkun - 2020
What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. We find similar negative effects on confidence in public...
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A firm of one's own : experimental evidence on credit constraints and occupational choice
Brudevold-Newman, Andrew; Honorati, Maddalena; Jakiela, … - 2017
We conducted a randomized evaluation of two labor market interventions targeted to young women aged 18 to 19 in three of Nairobi's poorest neighborhoods. One treatment offered participants a bundled intervention designed to simultaneously relieve credit and human capital constraints; a second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613418
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Youth enfranchisement, political responsiveness and education expenditure : evidence from the U.S.
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Lancia, Francesco - 2017
This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in different states in different years. Employing a difference-in-differences regression design, we...
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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U" profile?
Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
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Does the growth process discriminate against older workers?
Langot, François (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job destruction framework à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1998). We show that, under the assumption of...
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Union membership and age : the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test
Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
In this note we cast some doubt on the claim put forward by David Blanchflower (2007) that the probability of being unionized follows an inverted U-shaped pattern in age with a maximum in the mid- to late 40s. By using a special test for an inverted U-shaped pattern that has not been applied to...
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