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Parental response to early human capital shocks: Evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a negative human …
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Parental response to early human capital shocks: Evidence from the Chernobyl accident
Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2014
we interpret the prenatal exposure of the Austrian 1986 cohort to radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368259
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The Electoral Consequences of Nuclear Fallout: Evidence from Chernobyl
Mehic, Adrian - 2020
What are the political effects of a nuclear accident? Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, environmentalist parties … were elected to parliaments in several nations. This paper uses Chernobyl as a natural experiment creating variation in … the anti-nuclear Green Party, which was elected to parliament in 1988. After adjusting for pre-Chernobyl views on nuclear …
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The Effect of a Sibling's Gender on Earnings, Education and Family Formation
Peter, Noemi; Lundborg, Petter; Mikkelsen, Sara; … - 2018
We examine how the gender of a sibling affects earnings, education and family formation. Identification is complicated by parental preferences: if parents prefer certain sex compositions over others, children's gender affects not only the outcomes of other children but also the existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208803
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Tastes for discrimination monopsonistic in labour markets
Fanfani, Bernardo - 2020
This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms' pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the...
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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth: The case of Italian collective bargaining
Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021
This paper studies firms' adjustment behavior to the growth in labor costs induced by Italian collective bargaining institutions. Our research design compares several firms' outcomes across collective agreements within the same sector and geographic location, exploiting discontinuities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609098
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Volume of trade and dynamic network formation in two-sided economies
Pongou, Roland; Serrano, Roberto - 2013
We study the long-run stability of trade networks in a two-sided economy of agents labelled men and women. Each agent desires relationships with the other type, but having multiple partners is costly. This cost-benefit trade-off results in each agent having a single-peaked utility over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420264
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Income inequality and crime: The case of Sweden
Nilsson, Anna - 2004
The degree of income inequality in Sweden has varied substantially since the 1970s. This study analyzes whether this variation has affected the crime rate using a panel of Swedish county-level data for the period 1973-2000. We consider various measures of income inequality to evaluate which part...
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Crime, unemployment and labor market programs in turbulent times
Nilsson, Anna; Agell, Jonas - 2003
We exploit the exceptional variation in municipality-level unemployment and spending on labor market programs in Sweden during the 1990s to identify the impact of unemployment and programs on crime. We identify a statistically significant effect of unemployment on the incidence of overall crime,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321067
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Unemployment duration and heterogenous search behavior among Swedish disabled workers
Melkersson, Maria - 1999
Return to employment, after a period of unemployment, is analyzed for a large sample of Swedish occupationally disabled workers. A piece-wise constant model is used, extended to allow for Gamma heterogeneity. Three competing exits from unemployment are accounted for; regular employment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321101