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How kinship and marriage customs influence nutritional outcomes among males and females
Elmira, Elza S.; Chichaibelu, Bezawit Beyene; Qaim, Matin - 2024
Malnutrition in its various forms is a serious problem in many countries, contributing to human suffering, large healthcare costs, and hampered economic and human development. While various policies to reduce malnutrition exist, such policies typically fail to consider cultural factors. Here, we...
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US Male Obesity from 1800-2000 : A Long Term Perspective
Carson, Scott Alan - 2021
and white male obesity rates varied between 1800 and 2000. The proportion of individuals who were obese rather than … overweight is responsible much of the increase in obesity. Because of their physical activity and close proximity to nutritious … active white-collar and skilled workers have become more obese. Northeastern obesity rates are lower than from elsewhere …
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Exploring Gender Specific Wage Differentials Between Obese and Non-Obese Adults : Evidence from the NLSY
Daouli, Joan - 2010
indices and synthetic mobility measures for moving in-and-out of the obese group. The results clearly show that obesity is a …
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Uncovering the roots of obesity-based wage discrimination: the role of job characteristics
Dolado, Juan J.; Guerra, Airam - 2021
97) for the US, we test whether residual wage gaps (once observed differences in productivity related to obesity are …
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The Economics of Language : An Introduction and Overview
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2021
This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (2014) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator....
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-24
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67(4):1166-1202, 2014) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity...
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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background
Drydakis, Nick - 2017
Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731892
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Intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria with a focus on migration and gender
Reiter, Daniel; Palz, Mario Thomas; Kreimer, Margareta - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-20
In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2011 dataset (EU-SILC 2011). Starting point of the investigation is a two-step estimation procedure, where we detect a significant...
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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background
Drydakis, Nick - 2017
Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119310