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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …
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Economists increasingly accept that social norms have powerful effects on human behavior and outcomes. In recent history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender households. As women have entered the labor market in...
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structure of the labour market and the growth-employment interactions, which uncover the skills-biased labour demand path of the … trend has emerged: a rise in the share of public sector employment along with higher conditional returns to public sector …
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.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …
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.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …
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Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using … decompositions to demonstrate that (i) in all countries except Austria, the income elasticity of health is positive and increases …
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The positive cross-country correlation between health and economic growth is well-established, but the underlying … causality between health and economic growth is empirically challenging. Second, the relation between health and economic growth … changes over the process of economic development. Third, different dimensions of health (mortality vs. morbidity, children …
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This chapter examines the relationship between health and economic growth. Across countries, income per capita is … highly correlated with health, as measured by life expectancy or a number of other indicators. Within countries, there is … also a correlation between people’s health and income. Finally, over time, the historical evolution of cross-country health …
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This study estimates the impact of health capital on economic growth in 10 Balkan countries over the 2000-2019 period … results revealed that economic growth responds to short-term and long-term health capital changes. Estimation results indicate … a positive relationship between health capital and the economic growth of Balkan countries. According to the results …
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addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China's Great Famine on adult health and labor market … adult health, educational attainment and labor supply. The results show that exposure to famine had significant adverse … effects on adult health and work capacity. The magnitude of the effect is negatively correlated with age at the onset of the …
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