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headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …
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The validity of family background variables instrumenting education in income regressions has been much criticized. In this paper, we use data of the 2004 German Socio-Economic Panel and Bayesian analysis in order to analyze to what degree violations of the strong validity assumption affect the...
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at 16 years of experience when their wages are 52% (24%) greater than those whose parents both have only 5 (10) years of …
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We replicate Shaw (1996) who found that individual wage growth is higher for individuals with greater preference for risk taking. Expanding her dataset with more American observations and data for Germany, Spain and Italy, we find mixed support for the earlier results. We present and estimate a...
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In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) Index for industry concentration. This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …
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impacts on outcomes, specifically wages and remitting behavior. These outcomes are of particular interest given the extent of ….g. wages). We propose a new re-parametrisation of the control function, which is linear in case of a normal error structure …, and test linearity. Using Mexican Migration project data, we find considerable and robust illegality effects on wages, the …
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economies. Previous studies using industry aggregate data have found that industry wages are significantly more responsive than … Survey data for 1976 through 1998, we document that the main mechanism for exchange rate effects on wages occurs through job … turnover and the strong consequences this has for the wages of workers undergoing such job transitions. By contrast, workers …
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paradata. Fraction answered captures a third of the effect of cognitive ability on wages and education. We provide a simple …
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-ability students select into higher education. Additional tests show that the results are unlikely to be driven by sample selection …
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