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's cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, and health. Our results show that greater parental education increases children …'s cognitive and non-cognitive skills, as well as their health. These results suggest that the effect of parents' education on … children's education may work partly through the positive effect that parental education has on children's skills and health …
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …
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We identify the ages that constitute critical periods in children's development towards their adult health status. For …. Long-run health is proxied by adult height. The relation between siblings' ages at migration and their heights after age 18 …
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This paper shows that health is an important determinant of labor market vulnerability during large economic crises …. Using data on adults during Sweden's unexpected economic crisis in the early 1990s, we show that early and later life health … are important determinants of job loss after the crisis, but not before. Adults who were born with worse health (proxied …
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We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … and physical health, and that these effects can be explained by workers fearing for their own jobs. We also show that … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects …
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incentives, e.g., social security wealth or health status, the steepness of the wage profile will have different incentives for …
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wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment … find re-employment, our results show that offshorability (but not automation) affects future job duration and wages … the routine content in tasks as well as the probability of off-shoring negatively affects the re-employment possibilities …
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run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …
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Ethnic minorities have lower wages compared to the ethnic majority in most EU-countries. However, to what extent these …
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