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The Influence of Health on Labor Productivity: An Analysis of European Conscription Data
Knapp, David - 2007
Height has been used in a growing literature as a measure of net nutrition throughout the first 20 years of life. This … adult height over aperiod of 150 years by distributing the measured adult height over the age distribution of the male … population. This calculation creates a measure of the age-distributed height of the laborforce, which then permits an analysis …
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Spatial dependence and individual-tree growth models I. Characterising spatial dependence
Fox, J. C.; Bi, H. Q.; Ades, P. K. - 2007
Spatial dependence in individual-tree diameter, and growth model residuals was characterised for an even-aged Eucalyptus pilularis (Smith) experiment in New South Wales,. Australia. The magnitude of spatial dependence changed as the dominance of competitive mechanisms and micro-site influences...
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On the Use of Subjective Well-Being Data for Environmental Valuation
Moro, Mirko; Ferreira, Susana - 2009
This paper explores the potential of using subjective well-being (SWB) data to valueenvironmental attributes. A theoretical framework compares this method, also known as the lifesatisfaction approach, with the standard hedonic pricing approach, identifying their similarities and differences. As...
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years
Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011
The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This...
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Assessing the Problem of Human Capital Mismatch in Transition Economies
Druska, Viliam; Jeong, Byeong ju; Kejak, Michal; … - 2002
training type (holding the level) and occupation. We document that in the Czech Republic and Poland the wage rate grew faster …
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Bedarbystės mažinimo galimybės darbo biržoje
Baranauskaitė, Agnė - 2011
Profesijos pasirinkimas yra viena aktualiausių problemų, nuo kurių tinkamo sprendimo priklauso žmonių asmeninės ir visuomeninės gerovės augimas. Profesijos pasirinkimo problema – tai saviraiškos ir savirealizacijos, savęs įtvirtinimo tam tikroje veikloje ir dvasinės harmonijos...
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Happiness and Monetary Factors
De, Sanjay - 2008
Previous literature studying happiness, or subjective well-being, has mainly analyzedhappiness in relation to income … find thatnon-monetary factors are very important in explaining one’s level of happiness. …
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Towards an Economics of Happiness
Norberg-Hodge, Helena; Gorelick, Steven - 2004
fundamental to human well-being, indeed to human happiness. As we shall see, globalisation has done much to fragment community and … localisation.Many people around the world have looked to the King's aspiration to foster Gross National Happiness in Bhutan for …
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Macroeconomic Determinants of the Happiness of the Poor: A Case Study of Pakistan
Shahbaz, Muhamm; Aamir, Naveed - 2008
There is not much research on welfare-economics from the perspective of human wellbeing (happiness). The main reason is … authors tried to capture it (happiness) from the opposite side of the poverty index. We employed the modified ARDL technique … for long-run friendship between the happiness of the poor and some macroeconomic influencing factors; short-run dynamic …
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