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life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational … supposed. Major findings: An initial rise in life satisfaction can improve income and health, but not job autonomy. However …
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the role of childbearing history in later life health … better self-rated health in Western German mothers and fathers aged 50+, but its relationship with Eastern German women …'s physical health and survival is negative. Early motherhood is paralleled by poorer physical health in West Germany, whereas …
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This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three …. Secondly, we are able to follow the effect of pollution exposure on a child's health during the first three years of life … significantly negative impact for some pollutants on infant health during early childhood. In comparison to outdoor pollution …
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This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …
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child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different …-cognitive skills. We analyze data from economic experiments with preschoolers and their mothers to investigate whether child health can … willingness to compete with others. Our findings suggest that health problems arenegatively related to children's willingness to …
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future net-income risks. The uncertainty measure takes into account the interdependency of labour market status and health …
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The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important … question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between actual and desired work hours on self-perceived health outcomes in …-hour mismatches (i.e., differences between actual and desired hours) have negative effects on workers´ health. In particular, we show …
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Nur wenige Studien geben Aufschluss über den Gesundheitszustand der in Deutschland lebenden Migrantenbevölkerung und beschränken sich meist auf rein medizinische Kriterien. Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht auf Grundlage von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) den Gesundheitszustand...
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Nur wenige Studien geben Aufschluss über den Gesundheitszustand der in Deutschland lebenden Migrantenbevölkerung und beschränken sich meist auf rein medizinische Kriterien. Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht auf Grundlage von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) den Gesundheitszustand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128959
This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...
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