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The Scots May Be Brave But They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
Bell, David N.F; Blanchflower, David G. - 2021
worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often … suicide than those in other parts of Great Britain. This result is particularly driven by outcomes in Strathclyde and is …
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The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - In: Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of … 54 (2007) 2, pp. 166-194
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The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy
Bell, David N. F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003266283
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The Scots May Be Brave But They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
Bell, David N.F; Blanchflower, David G. - 2021
worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often … suicide than those in other parts of Great Britain. This result is particularly driven by outcomes in Strathclyde and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219200
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The Scots may be Brave but They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy
Bell, David - 2006
worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often … suicide than those in other parts of Great Britain. This result is particularly driven by outcomes in Strathclyde and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466760
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The Scots may be brave but they are neither healthy nor happy
Bell, David N.F.; Blanchflower, David G. - 2005
worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …On almost all measures of physical health, Scots fare worse than residents of any other region of the UK and often … suicide than those in other parts of Great Britain. This result is particularly driven by outcomes in Strathclyde and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272699
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The wage curve : an entry written for the new palgrave, 2nd edition
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2006
This paper summarizes evidence for the existence of a wage curve a downward-sloping relationship between the level of pay and the local unemployment rate in modern micro data. At the time of writing, the curve has been found in 40 nations. Its elasticity is approximately -0.1. -- wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003391949
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Does Rosie like riveting? : male and female occupational choices
Lordan, Grace; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2016
Occupational segregation and pay gaps by gender remain large while many of the constraints traditionally believed to be responsible for these gaps have weakened over time. Here, we explore the possibility that women and men have different tastes for the content of the work they do. We run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521152
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Human capital spill-overs within the workplace
Battu, Harminder; Belfield, Clive R.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2001
An individual's human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level controls. In this paper, we use a unique matched worker-workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405545
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Perceived income, promotion and incentive effects
Epstein, Gil S.; Ward-Warmedinger, Melanie - 2002
This paper examines the disincentive effects of perceived underpayment on individuals' exerted effort and promotion. To this end we develop a theoretical framework and obtain empirical evidence by analysing British academia data. We find that, tenured academics will tend to invest less effort in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406619