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scenario experiment involving recruiters to empirically investigate 15 potential stigma related to older age drawn from a … systematic review of the literature. We found that older age particularly signals to recruiters that the applicant has lower … technological skill, flexibility, and trainability levels. Together, these perceptions explain about 41% of the effect of age on the …
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Kassenboehmer and DeNew (2012) claim that there is no well-being age U-shape effect for Germany, when controlling for …-estimate with a longer run of years and restrict the age of respondents to those under seventy and find the well-being age U …
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within age, gender, and occupation groups. There are notable differences across age groups, however. The effect of the fall … in ICT prices on working from home increases with age. A rationale for such a result is that the preference for working … from home increases with age. …
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Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We …
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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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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...
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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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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over ….g. region of birth, immigrant generation, age at arrival in the host country, tenure). …
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substitution is low, then GDP, productivity and wage growth may however still slow down, because the economy will then fail to …, productivity, and GDP. …
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High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities because workers may experience difficulties concentrating or have to reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of professional tennis players in outdoor singles matches in...
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