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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
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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Ageing and skills : a review and analysis of skill gain and skill loss over the lifespan and over time
Desjardins, Richard; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2012
; Skills ; Education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533340
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Bevölkerung und Wachstum : die Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland als Herausforderung für Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik
Kleinhenz, Gerhard - 2004
Die Entwicklung der Bevölkerung geriet in Deutschland infolge der gegenwärtigen Finanzkrise der öffentlichen Haushalte und der Systeme sozialer Sicherung in den Focus des öffentlichen Interesses. Die in den meisten hochentwickelten Ländern sich abzeichnende Alterung und Schrumpfung der...
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
also crucial. All these changes lead to a major rethinking of education and skill training throughout a person’s life. This … from these studies particularly in labor economics can shed light on new directions for lifelong education policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152551
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Long-run consequences of natural disasters: Evidence from Tangshan
Xu, Guo - 2011
education levels today, particularly among the female. Despite lower education, there is no evidence for adverse labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305644
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A Theory of Socioeconomic Disparities in Health over the Life Cycle
Galama, Titus J.; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325639
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty
Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - 2008
once. We find that the workfare reform did not only increase earnings and education as well as lower welfare caseloads and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968303
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Genetic Fortune: Winning or Losing Education, Income, and Health
Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Burik, Casper A.P.; Karlsson Linnér, … - 2020
-economic status and better health, partly via intervenable environmental pathways such as education. The positive returns to schooling … education, income, and health are partly due the outcomes of a genetic lottery. However, the consequences of different genetic … endowments are malleable, for example via policies that target education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012427153
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Human Capital Formation: The Importance of Endogenous Longevity
Galama, Titus; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022
We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...
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Disparities in socio-economic status and BMI in the UK are partly due to genetic and environmental luck
Burik, Casper A.P.; Kweon, Hyeokmoon; Koellinger, Philipp D. - 2021
socioeconomic status. Here, we estimate a lower bound for the relevance of these two lotteries for differences in education, income … inequalities in education, wages and BMI in the UK are due to inequalities in opportunity that arise from the outcomes of the …
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