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Determinants of Labor Force Participation of Older Married Men in Taiwan
Chiu, Chuang-yi; Chen, Jennjou - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 4, pp. 3088-3101
As the proportion of older population increases in Taiwan, issues related to older individuals' labor market behavior attract public attention. During 1988 to 2008, labor force participation rate of older married men declined about 10 percentage points. This paper tries to identify the...
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An exploratory analysis of the relationship between social interactions, income and health in Italy
Fiorillo, Damiano; Sabatini, Fabio - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 2, pp. 1336-1352
This paper carries out an exploratory investigation into the effect of various types of social interaction on health in … that the frequency of meetings with friends is significantly and positively associated with self-perceived health. The … and weakly negative predictor of good health. Other relevant explanatory variables are education and work status. …
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Can an ethnic group climb up from the bottom of the ladder?
Epstein, Gil S.; Siniver, Erez - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2414-2441
Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder....
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Identifying the Causal Effect of Marriage on Women's Labor Force Participation in the Presence of Chinese Superstition
Zhang, Junchao; Zhang, Shiying - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 986-997
Marital status could be potentially correlated with women's labor force participation through unobservable factors. Using micro-data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper exploits exogenous variations in marriage caused by the Chinese Zodiac to estimate the causal effect of marital...
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The role of family in suicide rate in Italy
Detotto, Claudio; Sterzi, Valerio - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 2, pp. 1509-1519
-economic factors in Italy. The role of family, alcohol consumption, social conformism and population density are the main factors in …
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Duration of Sick Leave, Income and Health Insurance: Evidence from French French linked employer-employee data
Ali, Ben Halima Mohamed; Camille, Regaert - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 46-55
This article analyses the relationship between the duration of sick leave, income and health insurance. The analysis is …. Estimation results show that current wage has a negative effect on the duration of sick leave. Moreover, the different Health …
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Health Econometric:Uncovering the Anthropometric Behavior on Women's Labor Market
Lopez-Pablos, Rodrigo A. - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2007) 10, pp. 0-0
Exploring current literature that assess relations between cognitive ability and height, obesity, and its productivity-employability effect on women's labor market we appraised the Argentine case to find these social-physical relations which involve anthropometric and traditional economic...
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Health Econometric:Uncovering the Anthropometric Behavior on Women's Labor Market
Lopez-Pablos, Rodrigo A. - In: Economics Bulletin 28 (2007) 10, pp. 0-0
Exploring current literature that assess relations between cognitive ability and height, obesity, and its productivity-employability effect on women's labor market we appraised the Argentine case to find these social-physical relations which involve anthropometric and traditional economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556177
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A note on the decomposition technique of economic indices
Mori, Kota; Chen, Joe; Choi, Yun Jeong; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2710-2715
This note introduces a generalized version of multi-component decomposition method, which disintegrates a growth rate of an index into the roles of individual components. The method can be applied to two classes of indices: the additive-product form and the product-additive form. The application...
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Labour and leisure costs of informal caregivers
Marcén, Miriam - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 449-455
In this work, we study whether labour and leisure costs reported by informal caregivers must be analysed separately, using two comparable Spanish samples, for the years 1994 and 2004. We do this since informal care introduces an additional time constraint on the individual, which complicates the...
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