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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 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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Economics has been shown to be a relatively high earning college major, but geographic differences in earnings have been largely overlooked. This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine geographic differences in both absolute earnings and relative earnings for economic majors. We...
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is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas …
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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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Using the 3-year sample of the American Community Survey (ACS) for 2009 to 2011, we compute public school teacher salaries for comparison across U.S. states. Teacher salaries are adjusted for state differences in teacher characteristics, cost of living, household amenity attractiveness and...
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-STEM fields on the wages of other workers in the same metropolitan area. I find that both types of college graduates create …
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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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