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I use new administrative data on mass layoffs and plant closings to study the effects of distressing economic news. Exposure to stressful events during pregnancy can impair fetal development. I find that announcement of impending job losses leads to a transient decrease in the mean birth weight...
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“Employment and sustainable development: education, training and R&D in the regulation of the labour market” Ilona … next sections focus on long trend and new forms of labour market regulation and the role successively played by Education … effective upgrading of work and skills, requiring adequate structural education, training and R&D policies. …
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relations with supervisors and satisfaction with relations with coworkers. Also the connection of gender and level of education …
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with education at secondary or tertiary level is one way to go. This paper deals with, why Eritrean women are entering into … second, there is a shortage of male breadwinners. The third, growing education levels increase their earning potential. …
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Subject: The education in mathematics, its failure and costs, and how to redesign this market. The political economy of … mathematics education. Method: We do not require statistics to show that mathematics education fails but can look at the math … reasoning, they all are hindered and obstructed. Mathematics forms a core element in education and destroys much of school life …
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The paper examines the effect of top income shares on the crude death and infant mortality rates. We use balanced panel … mortality rates. The most important finding is that there is no overall relationship between top income shares and mortality. If …
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work on mood indicators and mortality. For those forced into retirement (20% of the sample), work is not an alternative …
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estimation of mortality using the capital city of 22 OECD countries from the period 1990 to 2008. The empirical results provide … strong evidences that higher income and a lower unemployment rate could reduce mortality rates, while the increases in … precipitation and temperature variation have significantly positive impacts on the mortality rates. The effects of changing average …
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This paper disc;usses socioeconomic mortality differentials in Pakistan on the basis of data collected in 1979 from a …, land holding, tenurial status, and the mortality experience of households. The mortality data obtained from the PLM survey … are discussed briefly in the first section of the paper; Mortality differentials by characteristics of the child, mother …
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the Project "Analysis of trends and patterns of mortality in the ESCAP region". Six countries including Bangladesh, China … should be national compilations of data. This report analyses mortality trends and patterns in Pakistan and is organised in … three parts. The first part consists of country profile, levels and trends of mortality, mortality differentials and …
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