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This article comprehensively examines the impact of recent smoking control policies in Japan, increases in cigarette taxes and the enforcement of the Health Promotion Law, on individual smoking choice by using multi-year and nationwide individual survey data to overcome the analytical problems...
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This paper examines the consequences of using self-reported measures of BMI when estimating the effect of BMI on income for women using both Irish and US data. We find that self-reported BMI is subject to substantial measurement error and that this error deviates from classical measurement...
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employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were … increase in real hourly wages in the post-law period in four of the five sectors examined. Our results also suggest that whilst … intensive margin in certain sectors. We also find that in three of the five sectors, increases in real hourly wages were …
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affects earnings and educational success. But, most strikingly, it affects employment and physical health. In advanced …
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(markets, natural resources, competitiveness), host country policies (macro policies, private sector, trade and industry, FDI … studies have shown that the relationship "FDI-Wages" is significant and the two variables have one on one influence. More … precisely, the low wages have the role to attract FDI and the high volume of FDI generates the increase of the wages on the …
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employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline …
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Germany’s labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. Important factors for this development include the strong economic position due to recent labor market reforms, the crisis affecting mainly export-oriented companies, the extension of short-time work, time buffers due to...
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This study compared 10 economic, demographic, and job factors between happier and less happy OECD countries based upon scores of subjective well-being (SWB), a concept commonly meaning happiness or life satisfaction. In 2009, the scores of residents in the happier OE CD countries were...
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In Germany, the number of women in relationships who are in gainful employment is on the rise. According to recent … for this development is the increasing shift of women out of unemployment and into part-time and marginal employment …, particularly in western Germany. In eastern Germany, where female employment and working hours have long been higher than in the …
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Spain and Ireland might seem at first to feature very different labour markets, which go from very tight to very flexible labour conditions. Our analysis, however, goes beyond this simplistic argument and brings to light some important similarities. For this purpose, we estimate a dynamic...
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