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Mental Health and Labour Market Participation : Evidence from IV Panel Data Models
Frijters, Paul - 2010
A large body of empirical research links mental health and labour market outcomes; however, there are few studies that effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics that might jointly determine health and labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144397
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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119012
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Employment Adjustment and Part-Time Jobs : The U.S. and the U.K. In the Great Recession
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel - 2016
We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially … margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of part-time employment is predominantly explained by cyclical changes … in transitions between full-time and part-time employment, which occur overwhelmingly at the same employer and entail …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995588