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Does trade with low-wage countries steal American jobs and, hence, rob American workers of higher wages and a higher …
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From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...
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that for all country groups, the mediating role of wages in the health-employment nexus is relatively small while the …This paper adds to the empirical literature on health as an important determinant of employment at older ages by … exploring the role in the health-employment nexus of the wage rates of 50 to 64-year-old workers. To do so, we use individual …
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employment consisting of homemaker duties, unpaid work, forced labour, wages labour, informal sector, schooling, leisure and … (differing household situations and health as well as labour market connections (sexual division of labour and exploitation, etc …
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This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Yoth to examine the effect of smoking on wages and … employment. The panel nature and household structure of these data enable us to implement methods to account for differences in … observed and unobserved individual characteristics that may be correlated with both smoking and wages. …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had very different impacts on the employment and family work conditions of men and women …
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A time series analysis was performed on medical scheme statistics with the aim of determining current and future demographic and economic trends. This would enable one to reach a better perspective on the current and future financial dilemma presently experienced by medical schemes. Data for the...
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This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …
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This paper deals with the phenomenon of risk-selection and its appearance in the german compulsory health insurance …
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