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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 - CESifo - 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 …
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Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantaged Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Ripani, Laura; Taboada, Bibiana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
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Struggling to Understand the Stock Market
Hall, Robert E. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 1-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005241427
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Birth Cohort and the Black-White Achievement Gap: The Roles of Access and Health Soon After Birth
Chay, Kenneth; Guryan, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
One literature documents a significant, black-white gap in average test scores, while another finds a substantial narrowing of the gap during the 1980's, and stagnation in convergence after. We use two data sources -- the Long Term Trends NAEP and AFQT scores for the universe of applicants to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980322
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A HUMAN CAPITAL METHODOLOGY FOR ESTIMATING THE LIFELONG PERSONAL COSTS OF YOUNG WOMEN LEAVING THE SEX TRADE
DeRiviere, Linda - In: Feminist Economics 12 (2006) 3, pp. 367-402
This article combines case study interviews with the tools of economic cost-benefit analysis to estimate the lifelong effects for individuals in Manitoba, Canada, who began engaging in prostitution as youths. The empirical findings reveal that sex workers retain only a small portion of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005484826
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WP 64 - Struggling for a proper job: recent immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan - Amsterdams Instituut voor ArbeidsStudies (AIAS), … - 2008
This article concerns the employment performance of recent immigrants in the Netherlands. The analysis shows different … the labour market follows a smooth pattern, while non-Western immigrants have relatively low employment and relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283430
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Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?
Neumark, David; Rothstein, Donna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822045
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands: Catching Up and the Irrelevance of Education
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822850
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Language Usage, Participation, Employment and Earnings: Evidence for Foreigners in West Germany with Multiple Sources of Selection
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
employment probability and affects occupational choice. When selection into economic sector and occupation is regarded, we do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098179
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Determinants of Immigrants’ Early Labor Market Integration
Svantesson, Elisabeth - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2006
This study investigates conditions favouring early labor marketintegration for immigrants in Sweden. The study is based on a survey among immigrants just two and a half years after they received a permanent residence permit. Factors such as work experience; Swedish spouse and the local labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190527