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The impact of compulsory education on employment and earnings in a transition economy

Liwiński, Jacek - 2018

primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …

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Jobs cronyism in public-sector firms

Martins, Pedro S. - 2020

Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. In this paper, we regress monthly hires across all firms in Portugal with some degree of public ownership on the country's 1980-2018 political cycle. We...

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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt : evidence from quantile regression on panel data

Tansel, Aysıt; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel … - 2018 - This version: October 15, 2018

-groups according to age and education. The public sector wage penalty for males has decreased recently over time and is larger for the …

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The returns to education and the wage effect from overeducation in Trinidad and Tobago : a pseudo-panel approach

Doon, Roshnie; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024

a high employee turnover rate. While the literature on returns to education and overeducation is extensive in developed … education and the overeducation of public sector workers in Trinidad and Tobago. By using the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS … education in Trinidad and Tobago are 19.2% highlighting the downward bias from the OLS estimate of 11.5%. The average returns of …

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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings : a cross-country study

Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. In this study, the proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI since there is a strong relationship between cognitive ability...

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Unemployment and subjective well-being

Suppa, Nicolai - 2021

This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....

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The mental health effects of retirement

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2019

We study the retirement effects on mental health using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design based on the eligibility age to the state pension in the Netherlands. We find that the mental effects are heterogeneous by gender and marital status. Retirement of partnered men positively affects...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...

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The effect of self-employment on health : instrumental variables analysis of longitudinal social security data

Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2018

The growth of novel flexible work formats raises a number of questions about their effects upon health and the potential public policy implications. However, answering these questions is hampered by data and identification constraints. This is the first paper that draws on comprehensive...

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Self-employment can be good for your health

Nikolova, Milena - 2018

Drawing upon theoretical insights from the Job Demand-Control model, which links occupational characteristics to health, this paper provides the first causal evidence of the physical and mental health consequences of self-employment. Specifically, I utilize German longitudinal data for the...

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