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Effects of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes: A Latent Variable Approach Using Multiple clinical Indicators
Banerjee, Souvik; Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal - 2013
generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317022
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Consequences of immigrating during a recession: Evidence from the US Refugee Resettlement program
Mask, Joshua - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-31
by 1.98% and employment probability by 1.57 percentage points after 5 years. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552509
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Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment
Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2020
In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued … in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive … consider applicants with experience solely from self-employment, or applicants with a mix of experience from wage-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615437
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Cesarean Sections for High-Risk Births: Health, Fertility and Labor Market Outcomes
Mühlrad, Hanna - 2018
Despite the fact that Cesarean section (C-section) is the most commonly performed surgery in a number of industrialized countries, little is known about the long-term consequences for the mothers and children involved. In this study, I use a sample of high-risk births—namely, breech births, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208835
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The Long-Term Effects of Measles Vaccination on Earnings and Employment. A Replication Study of Atwood (American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022)
Barschkett, Mara; Huebener, Mathias; Leibing, Andreas; … - In: Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics (JCRE) 2 (2023) 2023-4, pp. 1-15
Atwood analyzes the effects of the 1963 U.S. measles vaccination on long-run labor market out-comes, using a generalized difference-in-differences approach. We reproduce the results of thispaper and perform a battery of robustness checks. Overall, we confirm that the measles vaccinationhad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450419
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Life skills, employability and training for disadvantaged youth: Evidence from a randomized evaluation design
Ibarraran, Pablo; Ripani, Laura; Taboada, Bibiana; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014), pp. 1-24
in monthly earnings among those employed. However, there are no overall impacts on employment rates. Regarding non … employability and quality of employment, the practical significance of the impacts is unclear, as there is only weak evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603702
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Life skills, employability and training for disadvantaged youth: Evidence from a randomized evaluation design
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Ripani, Laura; Taboada, Bibiana; … - 2012
monthly earnings among those employed. However, there are no overall impacts on employment rates. Regarding non-labor market … employment, the practical significance of the impacts is unclear, as there is only weak evidence that the life skills measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283991
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The relationship between race, type of work, and Covid-19 infection rates
Faberman, R. Jason; Hartley, Daniel - 2020
This paper explores the relationship between Covid-19 infection rates, race, and type of work. We focus on three U.S. cities-Chicago, New York, and Philadelphia-allowing us to exploit zip code-level variation in infection rates and testing rates over time, while controlling for a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653016
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729229
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744998