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There is no place like work : evidence on health and labor market behavior from changing weather conditions
Chadi, Adrian - 2017 - This version: August 29, 2017
prior to the date of a survey interview. Weather conditions are capable of affecting peoples' health. While bad weather …-specifics in the health impairments due to bad weather, the increase in working hours is driven by women. …Ill-health is commonly believed to be detrimental for labor market outcomes. Yet, causal evidence mostly comes from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717841
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Bouncing back from health shocks : locus of control, labor supply, and mortality
Schurer, Stefanie - 2014
psychological buffer against health shocks in adulthood. To identify behavioural differences in labour supply, I focus on a selected … group of full-time employed men of working age and similar health. Men with negative control beliefs, relative to men with … positive beliefs, are 230-290% more likely to work part-time or drop out of the labour market after a health shock. In old age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358772
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Gathering support for green tax reform : evidence from German household surveys
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be feasible to gain popular support for green tax reform. To investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from...
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Maternal employment and childhood overweight in Germany
Meyer, Sophie-Charlotte - 2015
A widespread finding among studies from the US and the UK is that maternal employment is correlated with an increased risk of child overweight, even in a causal manner, whereas studies from European countries obtain less conclusive results. As evidence for Germany is still scarce, the purpose of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335006
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Unfair wage perceptions and sleep : evidence from German survey data
Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
affect workers' sleep and, consequently, their health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334499
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Unfair wage perceptions and sleep : evidence from German survey data
Pfeifer, Christian - 2015
affect workers' sleep and, consequently, their health. …
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Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior
Bauer, Thomas K.; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - 2006
This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in the number of cigarettes daily smoked that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271814
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Gender differences in smoking behavior
Bauer, Thomas K.; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - 2006
This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in the number of cigarettes daily smoked that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271874
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Validating structural labor supply models : conference paper
Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013 - Work in progress, This version: February 27, 2013
Although discrete hours choice models have become the workhorse in labor supply analyses. Yet, they are often criticized for being a black box due to their numerous underlying modeling assumptions, with respect to, e.g., the functional form, unobserved error components or several exogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340999
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Reservation wages, offered wages, and unemployment duration : new empirical evidence
Christensen, Björn - 2002
This paper studies the reservation wages of unemployed persons and the wages offered them in Germany from 1987 to 1998, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation wages, offered wages decline considerably with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474648