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Labor and Financial Market Interactions: The Case of Labor Income Risk and Car Insurance in the UK 1969-95
Koeniger, Winfried - 2001
Microeconomic theory predicts that under certain regularity conditions higher idiosyncratic risk increases the propensity to insure against independent marketable risks. We apply these predictions to the specific case of labor income risk and car insurance using data from the UK. The main...
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A suggested method for the measurement of world leading research: (illustrated with data on economics)
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
Countries often spend billions on university research. There is growing interest in how to assess whether that money is well spent. Is there an objective way to assess the quality of a nation's world-leading science? I attempt to suggest a method, and illustrate it with modern data on economics....
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
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The impact of union dissolution on moving distances and destinations in the UK
Feijten, Peteke; van Ham, Maarten - 2011
The number of people who have ever experienced a divorce, or a split up of a non-marital union, is rising every year. It is well known that union dissolution has a disruptive effect on the housing careers of those involved, often leading to downward moves on the housing ladder. Much less is...
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Work hours constraints and health
Bell, David; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...
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Is graduate under-employment persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom
Mosca, Irene; Wright, Robert E. - 2011
This paper examines the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. For the cohort of individuals who graduated in 2002/3, micro-data collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency, are used to calculate the rates of non-graduate job employment 6 months and 42...
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A guide and advice for economists on the US junior academic job market (2011-2012 edition)
Cawley, John - 2011
This guide, updated for the 2011-12 job market season, describes the U. S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and …
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Economic history or history of economics? A review essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit: The story of economic genius
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places …. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too - with more than enough warts and …'s remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might …
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How well are women represented at the AEA meeting? A study of the 1985 - 2010 programs
Cunningham, Rosemary; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012
The proportion female in the economics profession in the U.S. has been low historically compared with other disciplines. Although the percentage of Ph.D. degrees awarded to women and the representation of women on faculties have increased over time, economics still lags many other fields....
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Where do new Ph.D. economists go? Evidence from recent initial job placements
Chen, Jihui; Liu, Qihong; Billger, Sherrilyn M. - 2012
We use data from the 2007-2008 Ph.D. economist job market to investigate initial job placement in terms of job location, job type, and job rank. Our results suggest gender differences in all three dimensions of job placement. Relative to their male counterparts, female candidates are less (more)...
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