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The public economic burden of shifting trends in population health remains uncertain. Sustained increases in obesity, diabetes, and other diseases could reduce life expectancy − with a concomitant decrease in the public-sector's annuity burden − but these savings may be offset by worsening...
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This paper analyzes how changes in school expenditures affect dropout rates and standardized test scores based on data from 465 school districts in New York during the 2003/04 to the 2008/09 school years. Past traditional regression approaches show inconsistent results of school expenditures...
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the employment patterns of ethnic minority and native women in the Netherlands. In particular, we analyze to what extent …
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). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany … language proficiency. Third, for the Netherlands we find a positive relation between naturalisation and labour market position … Netherlands, and this may lead to a stronger incentive to naturalise for workers with a temporary contract …
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Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … employment and tenured job rate remains large for the Netherlands, while the standardized gap in the job prestige score remains … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …
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-day workers. Similar growth occurred in the Netherlands, Germany, and South Korea. The rise was not due to changes in demographics …
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Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was …
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, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, and South Korea …
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Using Dutch time-diary data from 1975-2005 covering over 10,000 respondents for 7 consecutive days each, we show that individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity: The absolute values of deviations from...
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the Western Netherlands (November 1944 - May 1945), pushing the previously and subsequently well-nourished Dutch …
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