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Since the early seventies, hundreds of authors have calculated gender wage differentials between women and men of equal productivity. This meta-study provides a quantitative review of this vast amount of empirical literature on gender wage discrimination as it concerns differences in...
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We study the relationship between job quality and retirement using panel data for European countries (SHARE). While previous studies looked at the impact of bad working conditions on retirement intentions, we can use the panel dimension to study actual retirement as well as other pathways out of...
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In this article, we address the long-run associations between childhood shocks and health in late adulthood. Applying a …, dispossession, or hunger and health outcomes after 50 years of age. Having lived in a children’s home, in a foster family, or having … correlations between shocks and later health into a priori unknown groups, we show that some adverse shocks show opposite relations …
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We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … physical health, and that these effects can be explained by workers fearing for their own jobs. We also show that health …
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We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … and physical health, and that these effects can be explained by workers fearing for their own jobs. We also show that … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects. …
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We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … physical health, and that these effects can be explained by workers fearing for their own jobs. We also show that health …
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