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employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration decisions, we instrument for oil and gas production in workers …’ state of residence via the predicted percent of oil and gas employment in their state of birth. We find statistically …
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, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed … outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men and women both gain employment in the oil and gas industry during booms …
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on the socio-economic consequences of COVID-19 and governmental interventions, focusing on labor, health, gender …
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introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 … and above. The results point to three main conclusions. First, in addition to improvements in self-reported health, older … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …
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improvement selfreported measures of native workers’ health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report … lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human …
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, declines in health significantly affect employment. Second, the impact on hours is statistical significant but of much smaller … effective age or retirement. But do older individuals have the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? Following Cutler et al … in similar health/with equal cognitive performance. Contrary to existing papers, this one uses international, European …
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We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end … physical health and behaviors such as smoking and drinking, implying that the costs of losing self-employment are largely …-in-differences estimation. Our findings suggest that while transitioning from self-employment to salaried employment (i.e., a voluntary self-employment …
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this paper, we examine the potential effect of the rise of robotic technology on health. The results of the analysis … suggest that higher penetration of industrial robots in the local labor market is positively related to the health of the low … of low-skilled individuals reporting poor health. Further analysis suggests that reallocation of tasks and reduction in …
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several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …
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This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...
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