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Firm Insurance and Sickness Absence of Employees
Westergaard-Nielsen, Niels - 2012
We investigate the effect of firms' participation in an insurance scheme on the long-term sickness absence of their employees, using administrative records. In Denmark and several other European countries, firms are obliged to cover the first two weeks of sickness. The insurance scheme is...
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Internal Migration and Life Satisfaction : Well-Being Effects of Moving as a Young Adult
Switek, Malgorzata - 2012
Migration typically leads to higher income, but its association with life satisfaction remains unclear. Is migration accompanied by an increase in life satisfaction? If it is, is the increase in income responsible or are other life domains driving the satisfaction changes? These two questions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097208
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The Religious Affiliation and Anti-Semitism of Secondary School Swedish Youths : A Statistical Analysis of Survey Data from 2003 and 2009
Bevelander, Pieter - 2013
Not only in Sweden, but also in several international studies, it has been shown that a non-negligible proportion of …: Which factors explain anti-Semitism among secondary school youths in Sweden? Is religious affiliation an important factor in … explaining anti-Semitism among Swedish youth? Has anti-Semitism among Swedish secondary school youths increased between 2003 and …
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Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown Up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn - 2020
Using large samples of persons born in 1985 we investigate the relationship between characteristics of the neighbourhood where young people lived as adolescents and the probability that they will receive social assistance when aged 19, 20, and 21, for the three Swedish metropolitan regions -...
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Young People's Attitudes Towards Muslims in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter - 2007
Since the 1950's, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776117
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Adults Behaving Badly : The Effects of Own and Peer Parents' Incarceration on Adolescent Criminal Activities
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2017
crime as well as peer effects that determine youth criminal activities. This paper ex-plores these channels by examining … reverse is true for peer paternal incarceration. These effects are strongest for youth reports of selling drugs and engaging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955018
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Ethnic Minority Youths in the Labour Markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Niknami, Susan - 2019
controlling for youth background characteristics, first- and second-generation immigrant youths have significantly higher …
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Strategic Sophistication of Adolescents : Evidence from Experimental Normal-Form Games
Czermak, Simon - 2010
We examine the strategic sophistication of adolescents, aged 10 to 17 years, in experimental normal-form games. Besides making choices, subjects have to state their first- and second-order beliefs. We find that choices are more often a best reply to beliefs if any player has a dominant strategy...
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Enrolment in Micro Life and Health Insurance : Evidences from Sri Lanka
Bendig, Mirko - 2011
Microinsurance is an emerging concept protecting households from the potentially catastrophic expenditures associated with family related shocks. Therefore, this paper presents evidence on the determinants of insurance participation using probit models on household survey data from Sri Lanka,...
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The Impact of the Macroeconomy on Health Insurance Coverage : Evidence from the Great Recession
Cawley, John - 2012
This paper investigates the impact of the macroeconomy on the health insurance coverage of Americans using panel data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for 2004-2010, a period that includes the Great Recession of 2007-09. We find that a one percentage point increase in...
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