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Self-employment and Health: Barriers or Benefits?

Rietveld, Cornelius A.; van Kippersluis, Hans; Thurik, … - 2013

The self-employed are often reported to be healthier than wage workers; however, the cause of this health difference is largely unknown. The longitudinal nature of the US Health and Retirement Study allows us to gauge the plausibility of two competing explanations for this difference: a...

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Absence from work of the self-employed: A comparison with paid employees

Lechmann, Daniel S.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013

Utilising a large representative data set for Germany, this study contrasts absenteeism of self-employed individuals and paid employees. We find that absence from work is clearly less prevalent among the self-employed than among paid employees. Only to a small extent, this difference can be...

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Endogeneity in the relation between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction

Hajek, André - 2013

This publication concentrates on the complex interplay between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction. Main areas of life are quantified in a multidimensional approach of poverty and wealth: Individual income, current health, occupational autonomy or employment status and also the mentioned life...

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Health Care Expenditures and Longevity: Is there a Eubie Blake Effect?

Breyer, Friedrich; Lorenz, Normann; Niebel, Thomas - 2012

mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. As a consequence, rising longevity - through … falling mortality rates - may even reduce HCE. However, a weakness of previous empirical studies is that they use cross … dynamic panel data models, we find that age, mortality rate and five-year survival rates have a positive impact on per …

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The Distance between Perception and Reality in the Social Domains of Life

Lora, Eduardo - 2013

The distance between perception and reality with respect to the social domains of life is often striking. Using survey data collected on Latin American countries, this paper provides an overview of the main empirical findings on the gaps between perception and reality in four social...

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Absence from Work of the Self-Employed: A Comparison with Paid Employees

Lechmann, Daniel S. J.; Schnabel, Claus - 2013

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Throwing Foreign Aid at HIV/AIDS in Developing Countries: Missing the Target?

Nunnenkamp, Peter; Öhler, Hannes - 2010

We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...

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Mapa dos homicídios ocultos no Brasil

Cerqueira, Daniel - 2013

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Mortes violentas não esclarecidas e impunidade no Rio de Janeiro

Cerqueira, Daniel - 2012

According to official data from the Mortality Information System (SIM) of the Ministry of Health, the number of deaths …

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The Economics of Crime: Investigating the Drugs-Crime Channel - Empirical Evidence from Panel Data of the German States

Entorf, Horst; Winker, Peter - 2001

The rising trends both in drug addiction and crime rates are of major public concern in Germany. Surprisingly, the economic theory of crime seems to ignore the drugs-crime nexus, whereas the criminological literature considers illicit drug use a main reason of criminal activities. This paper...

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