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Medical marijuana laws, traffic fatalities, and alcohol consumption
Anderson, D. Mark; Rees, Daniel I. - 2011
To date, 16 states have passed medical marijuana laws, yet very little is known about their effects. Using state-level data, we examine the relationship between medical marijuana laws and a variety of outcomes. Legalization of medical marijuana is associated with increased use of marijuana among...
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The impact of unions on nonunion wage setting: Threats and bargaining
Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin; Snoddy, Iain G. - 2022
In this paper we provide new estimates of the impact of unions on nonunion wage setting. We allow the presence of unions to affect nonunion wages both through the typically discussed channel of nonunion firms emulating union wages in order to fend off the threat of unionisation and through a...
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Employment, Wages, and Alcohol Consumption in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data
Tekin, Erdal - 2002
This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both cross sectional and fixed-effects models are estimated utilizing data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. The results from the models that do not control for...
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Heterogeneity in the Intergenerational Transmission of Alcohol Consumption – A Quantile Regression Approach
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Tauchmann, Harald - 2010
Das vorliegende Papier betrachtet den Zusammenhang des Trinkverhaltens von Eltern und dem späteren Alkoholkonsum ihrer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269991
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Alcohol consumption and sickness absence: Evidence from panel data
Johansson, Edvard; Böckerman, Petri; Uutela, Antti - 2007
Objective : This paper examines the relationship between alcohol consumption and sickness absence. Methods : We use regional panel data from Finland over the period 1993-2005. The data on individuals’ health that we are using originates from Health Behaviour and Health among the Finnish...
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The effect of job stress on smoking and alcohol consumption
Azagba, Sunday; Sharaf, Mesbah F. - In: Health Economics Review 1 (2011) 15, pp. 1-14
This paper examines the effect of job stress on two key health risk-behaviors: smoking and alcohol consumption, using data from the Canadian National Population Health Survey. Findings in the extant literature are inconclusive and are mainly based on standard models which can model differential...
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Mit den Menschen für die Menschen planen: Praktikentheorien, Planungskoalitionen und die Treffpunkte der Drogen- und Alkoholabhängigen in Kiel-Gaaden
Kraehnke, Lars - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 79 (2021) 3, pp. 243-256
This paper shows how publicly accessible places like the gathering places of street drinkers and drug addicted are …
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Adolescent drug use and the deterrent effect of school-imposed penalties
Waddell, Glen R. - 2010
Simple OLS estimates of the effect of school-imposed penalties for drug use on a student's consumption of marijuana are … marijuana use to sanctions and thereby demonstrate the efficacy of school-imposed penalties as a deterrent to adolescent drug … use. This is the first evidence of such efficacy and, given what is known about the consequences of drug use, suggests …
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Tax Evasion in a Unionised Economy
Goerke, Laszlo - 2001
In a unionised labour market, a substitution of a payroll for an income tax will not alter employment if tax obligations are fulfilled. However, if workers or firms can evade taxes this irrelevance result might no longer apply. This will especially be the case if the fine for tax evasion depends...
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Risk aversion and trade union membership
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2008
In an open-shop model of trade union membership with heterogeneity in risk attitudes, a worker's relative risk aversion can affect the decision to join a trade union. Furthermore, a shift in risk attitudes can alter collective bargaining outcomes. Using German panel data (GSOEP) and three novel...
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