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While the health risks associated with smoking are well known, the impact on income distributions is not. This paper extends the literature by examining the distributional effects of a behavioral choice, in this case smoking, on net marginal Social Security tax rates (NMSSTR). The results show...
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In this paper we explore a serious eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN), which afflicts a surprising number of girls in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data set on adolescent females evaluated regarding their...
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Using longitudinal data that tracks bulimic behavior among young girls (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study), we examine (1) whether bulimic behavior is onsistent with addiction criteria as stated in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders DSM-IV...
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In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...
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Recent research claims that the major part of the observed reduction in suicide rates during the 1990's can be … reinvestigate the issue. After controlling for other covariates, observed as well as unobserved, that might affect the suicide rate …, we find, overall, no statistically significant effects from antidepressants on the suicide rate; when we do get …
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associated with it In particular we distinguish between employment hours and effort per worker and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …
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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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productivity of laggard firms, employment, and intensity of skilled workers. Our findings indicate that African firms are improving …
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people working in various creative occupations-is estimated to contribute nearly 8% of the country's employment, much higher …
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of the program, on take-up of WeGebAU and other training,and on subsequent employment. The bRochure more than doubles …
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