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Concerns about loneliness and social isolation are growing more than ever. With the COVID-19 pandemic entering its second year, there are fears that the toll on loneliness could have consequences long after the virus recedes. This study offers a comparative overview of the incidence and...
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This paper identifies individual and regional risk factors for hospitalizations caused by heat within the German population over 65 years of age. Using administrative insurance claims data and a machine-learning-based regression model, we causally estimate heterogeneous heat effects and explore...
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destination language skills are highly rewarded by wage returns and higher employment probabilities and act as the medium of …
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returns to education. As in western economies, computers are adopted most heavily by young, educated, English-speaking workers …, we find much larger returns to individuals from computer adoption than have been found in established market economies …. The large returns are explainable by the high cost of adoption and the scarcity of computer skills. As of 2000, only 14 …
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occupational segregation. Using micro-data from the Greek Labour Force Survey (LFS), the returns to academic disciplines are …, Humanities) are also those with the lowest wage returns. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions subsequently imply that gender differences …
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Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings …
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occupational segregation. Using micro-data from the Greek Labour Force Survey (LFS), the returns to academic disciplines are …, Humanities) are also those with the lowest wage returns. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions subsequently imply that gender differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550005
returns to education. As in western economies, computers are adopted most heavily by young, educated, English-speaking workers …, we find much larger returns to individuals from computer adoption than have been found in established market economies …. The large returns are explainable by the high cost of adoption and the scarcity of computer skills. As of 2000, only 14 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566404
destination language skills are highly rewarded by wage returns and higher employment probabilities and act as the medium of …
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This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to … evidence against Sharpe-Lintner CAPM is found mainly during the recent financial crisis. Furthermore, a strong negative … correlation is found between a twelve-month moving average p-values of the test and the returns of long/short equity strategies …
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