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Overindebted private households have created economic and political concern. Using measures of relative (over-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates whether severe household indebtedness is driven by...
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Overindebted private households have created economic and political concern. Using measures of relative (over-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates whether severe household indebtedness is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509377
We study the effect of education on health (hospital stays, number of diagnosed conditions, self-rated poor health, and … suggest a positive correlation of health and education which increases over the life-cycle. We do not, however, find any … positive local average treatment effects of an additional year of schooling on health or health care utilization for …
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Using multiple waves of Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) linked with the Longitudinal … health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical … health challenges that continue post-migration. Better understanding these challenges will help health policy makers and …
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, health satisfaction. It is hypothesised that the influence of this heterogeneity varies over levels of health and increases … over the life-cycle. These hypotheses are tested with data on health satisfaction from 22 waves of the German Socioeconomic … fixed effects logit, that allows for individual-specific reporting bias, heterogeneity in health endowments, and …
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development for the health of the workforce are not yet established. Using a unique individual-level data set for 27 European … countries, this paper evaluates whether temporary employment is interrelated with self-assessed health. We find pronounced … differences in self-assessed health by employment status across European countries. Furthermore, in the EU full-time permanent …
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The current study examines the way people deal with financial decisions. The purpose of this study is to explore the role of financial consulting in the decision making process and the complex decision dynamics in the run up to a decision. Data for this study were collected through a series of...
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Policy projections and recent research suggest that large numbers of irregular migrants from sub-Saharan Africa will continue to attempt to make their way to Europe over the next few decades. In response, European countries have made and continue to make significant investments in information...
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Prosocial behavior is crucial for tackling global challenges such as climate change, poverty, and conflict, yet people often prioritize personal benefits over the common good. A classic philosophical proposition is that prosocial behavior benefits from psychological wisdom - a concept...
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Using digitized texts scanned by Google and subjected to optical character recognition, I show that heteroskedasticity overtook heteroscedasticity as the preferred spelling in 2001 and has continued to dominate, except for 2005, up to 2008. The latest trends indicate that writers are moving...
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