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While several types of mental illness, including substance abuse disorders, have been linked with poor labor market outcomes, no current research has been able to examine the effects of childhood ADHD. As ADHD has become one of the most prevalent childhood mental conditions, it is useful to...
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common and consequential health issues for children and adolescents. We examine the effects of unemployment rates and housing …
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We explore the impact on depressive symptoms of deviation in actual labor force behavior at age 62 from earlier expectations. Our sample of 4,241 observations is drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). We examine workers who were less than 62 years of age at the 1992 HRS baseline, and...
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in 2010 that is not matched by declines in happiness measures (positive affect). The fear of unemployment obtained from …
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This paper combines data on GDP, unemployment, and Google's COVID-19 Community Mobility Reports with data on deaths …
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This paper studies the role of unemployment in sterling's interwar experience. According to most narrative accounts …, the proximate cause of the 1931 sterling crisis was a high and rising unemployment rate that placed pressure on British … currency crises, highlights the conflict between the objective of low unemployment and defense of the currency and show that it …
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explaining the persistent high unemployment that prevailed in interwar Britain. It develops a new measure of sectoral shifts that … aggregate unemployment during the interwar period, even after controlling for a variety of shocks to aggregate demand, and for … roughly one-half of the variation in unemployment, suggesting an important role for sectoral shifts …
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results are contrasted with those from a comparable sample from the US from 1977-1988. 1) Fear of unemployment substantially … upwards than downwards.3) The unemployment elasticity of pay averages -0.1 in the UK and apparently zero in the US.4) Wages …
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spells of unemployment in the late 1970s, with then an increased importance of disability spells from the mid-1980s onwards …
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a link between stock volatility and real economic activity, such as unemployment rates, it can be misleading …
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