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Turkish University Students’ Self-Perceptions of Aging: An Analysis Over Socio-Economic Dimensions

Yumurtaci, Aynur; Bagis, Bilal - 2019

University students represent nearly more than half of the youth population (age group of 15-24) in Turkey. Meanwhile …

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Inclusive recruitment? Hiring discrimination against older workers

Drydakis, Nick; MacDonald, Peter; Bozani, Vasiliki; … - 2017

Addressing population ageing requires a rise in the activity rates of older workers. In this study, a field experiment …

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A contribution to the theory of fertility and economic development

Gori, Luca; Sodini, Mauro - 2018

The aim of this research is to build on a theory for explaining economic development in a (neoclassical) growth model … and high development regimes. It provides alternative reasons (history driven or expectations driven) why some countries … enter development trajectories with high GDP and low fertility and others experience under-performances with low GDP and …

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The Impact of Forced Displacement on Host Communities. A Review of the Empirical Literature in Economics

Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020

The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...

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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Lockdown: First Order Effects on Gender Gaps in Employment and Domestic Time Use in India

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2020

Based on national-level panel data from Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE)’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey (CPHS) database, this paper investigates the first effects of Covid-19 induced lockdown on employment and the gendered pattern of time allocation inside the home. Examining...

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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times: Evidence from UK Prolific participants

Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020

We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health was worse than men's along the four metrics we...

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How the Earnings Growth of U.S. Immigrants Was Underestimated

Duleep, Harriet; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Mark - 2021

Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...

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Impacts of COVID-19 on the Self-employed

Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021

Population Survey. For these workers, effects were visible in March as voluntary social distancing began, largest in April as …

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Expanding the Measurement of Culture with a Sample of Two Billion Humans

Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Martín, Ignacio; … - 2022

groups, the integration of migrant populations, and the disaffection of certain population groups from the political process …

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The gasoline price and the commuting behavior: Towards sustainable modes of transport

Belloc, Ignacio; Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, … - 2022

This paper analyzes how gasoline price is related to the time workers in the US spend commuting by private vehicle, public transport, walking, or cycling. Using data from the American Time Use Survey for the years 2003-2019, and collecting data on gasoline price by state and year, we find that...

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