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as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and selff-employment, as well as reservation … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …
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as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and self-employment, as well as reservation … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958955
respects in order to raise the economy’s capacity to generate employment. The present tax and transfer system still implies … Public Employment Service should continue. On the labour demand side, there remains scope to raise the efficiency of Germany …'s employment protection system. Also, provisions should be made to allow for a higher degree of wage flexibility across …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and …. Evidence also indicates that a stricter regulation of regular contracts increases the immigrant-native earnings gap and …
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employment by 3.99 percentage points, whereas imports increased manufacturing employment by 2.33 percentage points. We find no … effects of trade integration with China on the employment margin. We complement our findings with results on regional wage … employed and have more (less) stable employment outcomes, defined as working in the same firm or industry. These effects of …
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This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job … obese/overweight and healthy weight individuals. Unlike other observational studies which are generally based on obese and … training programs, we find some indications that they experienced worse (or at best similar) employment outcomes than healthy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309512
This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job … obese/overweight and healthy weight individuals. Unlike other observational studies which are generally based on obese and … training programs, we find some indications that they experienced worse (or at best similar) employment outcomes than healthy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316001
The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "Alcohol–income puzzle." Using individual-based microdata from the SOEP for 2006, we...
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models; these models suggest that weight may lower labor earnings for U.S. women. However, our IV results yield no evidence … of a causal impact of weight on earnings for women in Germany or for men in either country. -- Obesity ; Weight ; labor …This paper investigates and compares the relationship between obesity and earnings in the U.S. and Germany. Using data …
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The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the alcohol-income puzzle. Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218922