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No country for fat men? : obesity, earnings, skills, and health among 450,000 Swedish men
Lundborg, Petter; Nystedt, Paul; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2010
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in...
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No Country for Fat Men? Obesity, Earnings, Skills, and Health Among 450,000 Swedish Men
Lundborg, Petter - 2010
The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147541
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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
experienced had they never migrated by using the wage structure of stayers. We find evidence that the selection patterns in …
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Higher wages or lower expectations? : adjustments of German firms in the hiring process
Brenzel, Hanna; Müller, Anne - 2015
Labour shortages are a field of research that has been investigated quite thoroughly. The reactions of firms facing problems during the hiring process are, however, largely neglected in empirical literature. Our research will fill this empirical gap and shed light on the question of whether...
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Educational Imbalance By Region in Colombia : Competing for Salaries or Jobs?
Castillo, Maribel - 2007
This article deals with the phenomena of over-education, understood as being an excessive imbalance between the educational level reached by an individual and that demanded by the job which such individual may be performing; this is due to limited job demand for qualified people in Colombia....
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Returns to routine job tasks in the German labour market : an instrumental variables approach
Mihaylov, Emil - 2021 - Revision November 2021
-routine occupations where routine tasks are found to carry a substantial wage penalty. In order to account for the endogeneity of routine … uncorrelated with the error term in the wage equation, conditional on a detailed set of individual, job, firm, industry and …
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Inelastic Nature of Labour Market Needs a Progressive Wage Structure to Equilibrate Skills and Salary Compensation
Ng, Wenfa - 2021
Due to various externalities, a labour market never operates in perfect competition mode. One such externality is the inelasticity in wages introduced due to personal fulfilment and satisfaction that led to personal job preference. This meant that salary is not the sole determinant of one’s...
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Restrictive Immigration Policy in Germany : Pains and Gains Foregone?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Geis, Wido; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2021
Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and … unemployment which we model in a price-wage-setting framework. Simulating a counterfactual scenario without restrictions for … migration from new EU members countries, we find moderate negative wage effects, combined with increased unemployment for some …
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Decent work and the quality of work and employment
Green, Francis - 2021
This review examines the concept of the quality of work and employment (QWE), including both 'Decent Work' and the narrower concept of 'job quality'. The key axiom is that 'quality' relates to the extent and manner in which working conditions meet people's needs from work. The review emphasises...
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Do internships pay off? : the effects of student internships on earnings
Margaryan, Shushanik; Saniter, Nils Peter; Schumann, Mathias - 2019
This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience in firms on earnings later in life. We use mandatory firm internships at German universities as an instrument for doing a firm internship while attending university. Employing longitudinal data from graduate surveys, we find...
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