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I won't make the same mistake again : burnout history and job preferences
Sterkens, Philippe; Baert, Stijn; Moens, Eline; Derous, Eva - 2022
The existing burnout literature has predominantly focussed on the determinants of burnout, whereas its consequences for individual careers have received little attention. In this study, we investigate whether recently burned-out individuals and persons with a very high risk of clinical burnout...
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Communication barriers and infant health : intergenerational effects of randomly allocating refugees across language regions
Auer, Daniel; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
allocated to an environment that matched their linguistic heritage are on average 72 gram heavier (or 2.2%) than those that were … allocated to an unfamiliar language environment. The differences are driven by growth rather than gestation and manifest in a 2 …
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Short-run health consequences of retirement and pension benefits : evidence from China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019
This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation of an NRPS policy expansion that began in 2009, we used a difference-in-difference approach to study the effects of the introduction of pension benefits on the health status,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161478
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When reality bites : local deaths and vaccine take-up
Giulie i, Corrado; Vlassopoulos, Michael; Zenou, Yves - 2021
In this study, we investigate whether COVID-19 deaths that occurred before vaccination rollouts impact subsequent vaccination take-up. We use data on local vaccination rates and COVID-19-related deaths from England measured at high geographic granularity. We nd that vaccination take-up as of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703251
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Labour market outcomes for cancer survivors : a review of the reviews
Sharipova, Adelina; Baert, Stijn - 2019
Objectives: To synthesise the existing reviews conducted on the labour market outcomes of cancer survivors by focusing … existing reviews on labour market outcomes for cancer survivors was performed. Bibliographic search for eligible studies … published before January 2019 involved the following three core concepts: (i) cancer survivors, (ii) work, and (iii) review. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139867
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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...
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Evaluating intergenerational persistence of economic preferences : a large scale experiment with families in Bangladesh
Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; Sutter, Matthias; Zimmermann, … - 2018
Economic preferences - like time, risk and social preferences - have been shown to be very influential for real-life outcomes, such as educational achievements, labor market outcomes, or health status. We contribute to the recent literature that has examined how and when economic preferences are...
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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?
Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018
Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
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Excluded generation : the growing challenges of labor market insertion for Egyptian youth
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline - 2017
Youth in Egypt hold rising aspirations for their adult lives, yet face an increasingly uncertain and protracted transition from school to work and thus into adulthood. This paper investigates how labor market insertion has been evolving over time in Egypt and how the nature of youth transitions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119232
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Where are migrants from? : inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China
Su, Yaqin; Tesfazion, Petros; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China come from, paying close attention to intra-provincial vs. inter-provincial migrants, and examining the differences in their personal attributes. We find that migrants who have...
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