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overcrowding. We provide evidence that Scottish workers generally spent their rent reduction entirely on food, rather than saving. …
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industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality …
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This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Swedensince 1990 - a period characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income Survey. The elderly werenot isolated as pensions were cut,...
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overcrowding. We provide evidence that Scottish workers generally spent their rent reduction entirely on food, rather than saving. …
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industries high rent and overcrowding are more prevalent. Within cities, but not between cities, variations in infant mortality …
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As Switzerland experiences a severe shortage of nurses, this paper investigates the impact of students' ex ante wage … results confirm that subjective wage expectation data are useful in modeling individual choice. …
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regression analysis are that workers, who perceive their own wage as unfair, sleep significantly less during the workweek (1.2 to … hour). The size of the hourly wage is however not significantly correlated with any of the sleep outcomes and the household … and income effects. The overall results suggest that unfair wage perceptions, which are related to stress, negatively …
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present paper takes a look at wage differences between natives and migrants who are equally educated. This reduces potential … skills biases in our analysis. We apply a Mincer equation in estimating the wage differences between natives and migrants. In … integration in the long-term (second-generation with non-OECD background) are not sufficient to overcome wage differences in the …
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whether migrants face a wage penalty as a result of adopting this job search method. We find evidence of positive selection …
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We structurally estimate a novel job search model with endogenous job search effort, job quality dispersion, and effort monitoring, taking into account that monitoring effects may be mitigated by on-the-job search and search channel substitution. The data are from a randomized experiment...
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