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This paper studies the consequences of the buildup of a new economic sector—the Norwegian petroleum industry—on investment in human capital. We assess both short-term and long-term effects for a broad set of educational margins, by comparing individuals in regions exposed to the new sector...
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While most working people are in employment, there is little realisation that this relationship is inefficient and …
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that China can learn from Russia that it has a substantial potential for increasing employment among healthy people under …
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Facing unprecedented uncertainty and drastic trade-offs between public health and other forms of human well-being, policy makers during the Covid-19 pandemic have sought the guidance of epidemiologists and economists. Unfortunately, while both groups of scientists use many of the same basic...
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Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner … couples during the recession, both men and women substantially increased their job search activity following a partner's job … search during recession did not appear to translate into more success in finding work for either men or women. Among dual …
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Immigrants have figured prominently in U.S. economic growth for decades, but the recent recession hit them hard …. Immigrants' labor market outcomes began deteriorating even before the recession was officially underway, largely as a result of … the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor …
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and find that worse employment conditions were the driving force. The lower opportunity costs of schooling because of the … pandemic recession encouraged more young people to complete high school. The pandemic created extensive problems in education …
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Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner … couples during the recession, both men and women substantially increased their job search activity following a partner's job … search during recession did not appear to translate into more success in finding work for either men or women. Among dual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720078
Immigrants have figured prominently in U.S. economic growth for decades, but the recent recession hit them hard …. Immigrants’ labor market outcomes began deteriorating even before the recession was officially underway, largely as a result of … the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765238
A rich economic literature has examined the human capital impacts of disease-eliminating health interventions, such as the rollout of new vaccines. This literature is based on reduced-form approaches which exploit proxies for disease burden, such as mortality, instead of actual infection counts,...
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