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The Effect of Weight on Labor Market Outcomes : An Application of Genetic Instrumental Variables
Bockerman, Petri - 2016
The increase in the prevalence of obesity worldwide has led to great interest in the economic consequences of obesity, but valid and powerful instruments for obesity, which are needed to estimate its causal effects, are rare. This paper contributes to the literature by using a novel instrument:...
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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment : New Insights on the Nordic Experience
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - 2021
fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. This role has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission … single-equation unemployment rate models. Here we advocate a different approach. We directly estimate the effects of capital … stock in the labour market by applying the chain reaction theory of unemployment, and we find that capital stock is a major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316800
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Long-Term Effects of Famine on Life Expectancy : A Re-Analysis of the Great Finnish Famine of 1866-1868
Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele - 2011
group. Cohorts born in Finland during the Great Finnish Famine are highly heterogeneous in their distribution of deaths …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129087
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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas - 2011
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129912
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Aging and Productivity : Evidence from Piece Rates
Pekkarinen, Tuomas - 2012
We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data contain the population of Finnish blue collar workers in 61 different industries during 1990-2002. A unique feature of the data is that we can observe the exact hours worked on piece...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099111
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The Effect of Job Displacement on Couples' Fertility Decisions
Huttunen, Kristiina - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of job displacement on fertility using Finnish Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) matched to birth records. We distinguish between male and female job losses. We focus on couples where one spouse has lost his/her job due to a plant closure or mass layoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103495
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Outsourcing, Occupational Restructuring, and Employee Well-Being : Is There a Silver Lining?
Bockerman, Petri - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between outsourcing and various aspects of employee well-being by devoting special attention to the role of occupational restructuring as a conveying mechanism. Using linked employer-employee data, we find that offshoring involves job destruction, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081811
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How Fast Do Wages Adjust to Human-Capital Productivity? Dynamic Panel-Data Evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland
Andini, Corrado - 2009
assumption is rejected by the ECHP data for Belgium, Denmark and Finland. The empirical evidence supports a dynamic approach to … dynamic panel-data wage equation and provide measures of the speed of adjustment in Belgium, Denmark and Finland. Further, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153500
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Pay for Politicians and Candidate Selection : An Empirical Analysis
Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2009
In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on who wants to be a politician. We take advantage of a considerable 35 percent salary increase of Finnish MPs in the year 2000, intended to make the pay for parliamentarians more competitive. A difference-indifferences analysis, using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158664
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Immigration History, Entry Jobs, and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Ansala, Laura - 2020
enter the labor market. We focus on two countries—Finland and Sweden—that have similar formal institutions but starkly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838461