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The Effects of Marriage on Couples’ Allocation of Time Between Market and Non-Market Hours
Lahga, AbdelRahmen El; Moreau, Nicolas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We evaluate the effects of the transition from cohabitation to marriage on household domestic and market work hours … the presence of endogenous regressors. Our results indicate that marriage increases women’s specialization in home …-based activities and that marriage decreases women’s leisure. These effects are robust across specifications. …
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Do medical doctors respond to economic incentives?
Andreassen, Leif; Di Tomasso, Maria Laura; Strøm, Steinar - 2012 - Published Nov 29, 2012 01:06 PM
A longitudinal analysis of married physicians labor supply is carried out on Norwegian data from 1997 to 1999. The model utilized for estimation implies that physicians can choose among 10 different job packages which are a combination of part time/full time, hospital/primary care,...
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The influence of retiree health benefits on retirement patterns
Marton, James; Woodbury, Stephen A. - 2010
We estimate the effect of employer offers of retiree health benefits (RHBs) on the timing of retirement using a sample of Health and Retirement Study (HRS) men observed over a period of up to 12 years. We hypothesize that the effect of RHBs differs for workers of different ages - a hypothesis we...
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Employer-provided health insurance and labor supply of married women
Cebi, Merve; Wang, Chunbei - In: Eastern economic journal 39 (2013) 4, pp. 493-510
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Unemployment, labour force composition and sickness absence. A panel data study
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2002
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting...
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Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2002
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276030
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Unemployment, labour force composition and sickness absence. A panel data study
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2002
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800314
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Unemployment, Labour Force Composition and Sickness Absence: A Panel Data Study
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566679
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Unemployment, labour force composition and sickness absence : a panel data study
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2002
Sickness absence tends to be negatively correlated with unemployment. This may suggest disciplining effects of unemployment but may also reflect changes in the composition of the labour force. A panel of Norwegian register data for the years 1990-1995 is used to analyse sickness absences lasting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410697
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Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China
Chen, Xi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Blood collection following nonstandard operations largely increases the risks of infectious diseases through cross-contamination. Commercial plasma donation and the resulting HIV/AIDS and hepatitis C epidemics in central China in the 1990s killed more than one million people. Many blood banks...
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