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Trading While Sleepy? Circadian Mismatch and Excess Volatility in a Global Experimental Asset Market
Dickinson, David L. - 2017
Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...
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Footsie, Yeah! Share Prices and Worker Wellbeing
Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew; Green, Colin P. - 2022
A small literature has shown that individual wellbeing varies with the price of company stock, but it is unclear whether this is due to wealth effects among those holding stock, or more general effects on sentiment, with individuals taking rising stock prices as an indicator of improvements in...
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Housing Mobility and Downsizing at Older Ages in Britain and the United States
Banks, James W. - 2010
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138268
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The Role of Worker Flows in the Dynamics and Distribution of UK Unemployment
Elsby, Michael - 2011
and flows via non-participation. Close to two-thirds of the volatility of unemployment in the UK over this period can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123583
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House Price Volatility and the Housing Ladder
Banks, James W. - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of housing price risk on housing choices over the life-cycle. Housing price risk can be substantial but, unlike other risky assets which people can avoid, the fact that most people will eventually own their home creates an insurance demand for housing assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038587
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More Education, Less Volatility? The Effect of Education on Earnings Volatility Over the Life Cycle
Delaney, Judith - 2017
little evidence about whether having more education causes employees to experience lower earnings volatility or shelters them … 1972 increase in compulsory schooling on earnings volatility over the life cycle. Our estimates suggest that men exposed to … evidence that education affects earnings volatility of older men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943711
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Earnings and Labour Market Volatility in Britain
Cappellari, Lorenzo - 2013
We provide new evidence about earnings and labour market volatility in Britain over the period 1992-2008, and for women … as well as men. (Most research about volatility refers to earnings volatility for US men.) We show that earnings … volatility declined slightly for both men and women over the period but the changes are not statistically significant. When we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078825
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Inequality During the Early Years : Child Outcomes and Readiness to Learn in Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and United States
Bradbury, Bruce - 2011
the age of about five years in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. We study a series of child … but the disparities are notably greater in the United States and the United Kingdom than in Australia, and particularly in … with SES across countries. While the smallest SES gaps are found in Australia and Canada for both types of outcome …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118038
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Apprenticeship and Youth Unemployment
Cahuc, Pierre - 2020
In France, two years after school completion and getting the same diploma, the employmentrate of apprentices is about 15 percentage points higher than that of vocational students.Despite this difference, this paper shows that there is almost no difference between theprobability of getting a...
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The Impact of One Parent Family Payment Reforms on the Labour Market Outcomes of Lone Parents
Redmond, Paul - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced from 18 years to 7 years. Lone parents who no longer qualified for the payment, based on the age...
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