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Significant labour market mismatches and insufficient mobility penalise employment and productivity. Mismatches have above all a skills dimension, with an excess of low-skilled workers and a possible lack of skilled workers in certain domains. Reducing the high tax wedge on low salaries and...
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This paper analyses the dramatic spread of education and healthcare in Asia and also the large variations in that … and private spending have generated a pattern of nested disparities in the access to education and healthcare between rich …. However, as the better-off regions, areas, and households approach the upper limits of achievable education and health …
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Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...
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education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …
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. This paper tests whether health disparities across education are to some extent due to differences in reporting error … across education. We test this hypothesis using data from the pooled National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES … stigmatized ones like smoking and obesity. Differential reporting error across education leads to underestimates of the true …
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