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This study investigates how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected teachers' job-specific stresses and their enthusiasm for the teaching occupation. We use unique data from China that cover the periods before and after the start of the pandemic and apply difference-in-differences type methods. We...
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persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …
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increase in work experience (tenure). The analysis stresses the importance of on-the-job learning and contextual workplace …
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different types of sports participation to initial access to employment and then higher income opportunities with ageing …Based on a unique composite dataset measuring heterogeneous sports participation, labour market outcomes and local … facilities provision, this paper examines for the first time the association between different types of sports participation on …
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Based on the Canadian National Population Health Survey we estimate the effects of individual sports and exercise on …-run income effects. However, an activity level above the current recommendation of the WHO for minimum physical activity is …
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' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared … to doing sports, particularly so for girls and children from more highly educated families, doing sports improves …
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We estimate a flexible dynamic model of education choices and early career employment outcomes of the French population. Individuals are allowed to choose between 4 options: continue to the next grade, accept a permanent contract, accept a temporary contract, or withdraw from the labor force (a...
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-time workers report significantly less accurate than full-time workers and low-income workers report significantly less accurate … than workers with relatively higher income. Classification errors in categorical variables are found to be of about the …
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This paper explores the power of personality traits both as predictors and as causes of academic and economic success, health, and criminal activity. Measured personality is interpreted as a construct derived from an economic model of preferences, constraints, and information. Evidence is...
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Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success …
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