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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008
This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...
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Item non-response and imputation of annual labor income in panel surveys from a cross-national perspective
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2007
Using data on annual individual labor income from three representative panel datasets (German SOEP, British BHPS, Australian HILDA) we investigate a) the selectivity of item non-response (INR) and b) the impact of imputation as a prominent post-survey means to cope with this type of measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324270
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What mean impacts miss: distributional effects of welfare reform experiments
Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary W. - 2005
Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of about 1940 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261859
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A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration
Euwals, Rob; Roodenburg, Hans - 2003
In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...
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Work-Related Training and Wages : An Empirical Analysis for Male Workers in Switzerland
Gerfin, Michael - 2004
on wages which can be seen as a lower bound for the effects on productivity. Based on panel data from the Swiss Labour … together, there are significant effects of work-related training on wages of roughly 2% for each training event. There is some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261839
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To Teach or Not to Teach? : Panel Data Evidence on the Quitting Decision
Price, Stephen Wheatley; Shields, Michael A.; Frijters, Paul - 2004
The question we address in this paper is which factors influence the quitting decision of public sector teachers in England and Wales, using a nationally representative panel data set over 1997-2003. We document the outcomes of former teachers, fit single and competingrisks duration models and...
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Unions, Work-Related Training, and Wages: Evidence for British Men
Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003
coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …
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On the Wage Growth of Immigrants: Israel, 1990-2000
Weiss, Yoram; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003
following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, accumulated experience in Israel and economy-wide rise in wages account for 3.4, 1.1, 1.5 and 1.4 percent each. In the long run …, the average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that …
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