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Workplace, Human Capital and Ethnic Determinants of Sickness Absence in Sweden, 1993-2001
Bengtsson, Tommy; Scott, Kirk - 2021
This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324997
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Long-term consequences of workplace bullying on sickness absence
Mundbjerg Eriksen, Tine Louise; Hogh, Annie; Hansen, … - 2016
Bullying in workplaces is a problem thought to harm individual productivity. This paper investigates whether being exposed to bullying in the workplace increases long-term sickness absence. We analyze employees from a selection of workplaces from The Bullying Cohort Study conducted in Denmark in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518039
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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001
Bengtsson, Tommy; Scott, Kirk - 2008
This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268531
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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683321
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Long-Term Consequences of Workplace Bullying on Sickness Absence
Eriksen, Tine Louise - 2016
Bullying in workplaces is a problem thought to harm individual productivity. This paper investigates whether being exposed to bullying in the workplace increases long-term sickness absence. We analyze employees from a selection of workplaces from The Bullying Cohort Study conducted in Denmark in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985662
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Employment of people with a history of sickness absence
Johansson, Gun; Pozo, Cecilia Orellana; Möller, Jette; … - 2018
This register-based follow-up study focuses on the association between workplace characteristics and recruitment of people with a history of sickness absence. The aim was to study whether recruitment differs with regard to workplace sector, number of employees, gender composition, educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925839
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Does it matter where you came from? : ancestry composition and economic performance of US counties, 1850 - 2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528617
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Houseworth, Christina A.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001498
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149386
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The value of language skills : a common language facilitates communication and economic efficiency, but linguistic diversity has economic and cultural value too
Grenier, Gilles - 2015
In today's globalized world, people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages …. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but … even non-migrants must often learn other languages if their work involves communicating with foreigners. Economic studies …
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