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From Angela's Ashes to the Celtic Tiger : Early Life Conditions and Adult Health in Ireland
Delaney, Liam - 2009
We use data from the Irish census and exploit regional and temporal variation in infant mortality rates over the 20th century to examine effects of early life conditions on later life health. Our main identification is public health interventions which eliminated the Irish urban infant mortality...
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Exporting Poor Health : The Irish in England
Delaney, Liam - 2011
Ireland, a reversal of the commonly observed healthy migrant effect. Recent birth-cohorts living in England and born in … Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish health penalty arises principally for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122117
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Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement
Elsner, Benjamin - 2012
from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK and Ireland, I demonstrate that emigration had a significant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099727
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Does Retirement Affect Voluntary Work Provision? Evidence from England, Ireland and the U.S
Eibich, Peter - 2020
voluntary work provision in three English-speaking countries - England, Ireland and the U.S. We draw on data from the ELSA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836562
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries : How Large is it for Men?
O'Dorchai, Sile - 2007
penalty for male workers in six European countries (i.e., Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and the UK). Findings show … 28 percent in Denmark and Italy, to 67 percent in the UK and to 149 percent in Ireland. Human capital differences explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777513
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Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay : New Evidence from the UK and Ireland
Bargain, Olivier - 2018
the introduction of minimum wages in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Using survey data for the two countries, we develop a … gender gap at low wages is observed after the introduction of the minimum wage in Ireland while there is hardly any change in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919507
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
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Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland
Barrett, Alan - 2011
Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129905
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment. We relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131926
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The Effects of Childhood Health on Adult Health and SES in China
Smith, James P. - 2010
In this paper, we model the consequences of childhood health on adult health and socio-economic status outcomes in China using a new sample of middle aged and older Chinese respondents. Modeled after the American Health and Retirement Survey (HRS), the CHARLS Pilot survey respondents are...
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