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Abstract We examine theoretically and empirically how wage subsidies and minimum wages interact regarding to employment opportunities, and how these interactive effects vary across different groups of workers. Assuming a neoclassical labor market and heterogeneous work, subsidized low-skilled...
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Abstract This case study demonstrates the far-reaching impact on product quality when private firms were legally recognized and allowed to operate with their own brand names. Previously, when the private firms were forced to affiliate themselves with a governmental organization to get around the...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to inform readers about the nature of talent development prior to post-secondary education; describe the obstacles that individuals face because of poverty, racism or geography; and recommend asset-based approaches that can enable more individuals to be...
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marriage on smoking. From analyzing the data of Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I found that unmarried individuals are more … two years. These results on the whole imply that marriage internalizes the negative externalities of smoking and thus … leads smokers to reduce smoking.  …
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smoking behavior of women. Differential increases in federal EITC benefits by family size in the mid-1990s allow for a … comparison of smoking status changes between mothers with one and more than one child. We exploit these changes in a difference … smoking was concentrated among those with some college.  …
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smoking. Our main results are that, under not implausible conditions, making cigarettes more addictive can reduce smoking and …
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Abstract Many communities and several states prohibit smoking in bars or restaurants. Using county-level data on … employment from across the US, we find that communities where smoking is banned experience reductions in bar employment compared … with counties that allow smoking. Smoking bans have a larger detrimental impact on bars in geographic areas with a high …
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Abstract This paper empirically investigates biased beliefs about the risks of smoking. First, it confirms the …
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of various personal characteristics, including obesity, smoking cessation, happiness, and loneliness. Those papers also …
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This study aimed to evaluate the quality of Internet information on smoking cessation using a cross‐sectional survey … design. The characteristics and content of 89 Web sites containing smoking cessation information were evaluated. The quality … reported types of information were the risks of smoking (65.2 per cent of sites) and nicotine replacement therapy (77.8 per …
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