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Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter A. - 2000

This paper describes a search model with a continuum of worker and job types, free entry and transferable utility. We apply a second-order Taylor expansion to characterize the equilibrium, derive the cost of search and show that it is decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This cost...

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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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The Wear and Tear on Health: What is the Role of Occupation?

Ravesteijn, Bastian; van Kippersluis, Hans; van … - 2013

While it seems evident that occupations affect health, effect estimates are scarce. We use a job characteristics matrix in order to characterize occupations by their physical and psychosocial burden in German panel data spanning 26 years. Employing a dynamic model to control for factors that...

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A step in a new direction: The effect of the parent's money reform of 2007 on employment rates of mothers in Germany

Schmidt, Susanne - 2013

Increasing maternal employment rates engage policies and people for decades. It is pushed but also questioned at the same time depending on whether women are regarded in first line as mothers or workers. In Germany, the male breadwinner model is traditionally favored. The parent's money reform...

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-su - 2002

labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the … labor markets. The estimates show a statistically significant, but weak, negative connection between the concentration of … foreigners in a local labor market and the likelihood of employment among European citizens residing in that labor market. The …

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Capital and Productivity: A New View

Boskin, Michael; Lau, Lawrence - 1992

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How Changes in Labor Demand Affects Unemployed Workers

Burdett, Kenneth - 1980

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International Migration and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Analysis

Lundborg, Per - 1995

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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Sectoral and Macroeconomic Perspectives for Germany, the EU and the US

Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2014

The EU and the US have started negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership Agreement (TTIP) which could bring a considerable increase of exports and output as well as changes in the composition of output and employment. Thus export simulation studies in combination with...

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Female labor force participation and child education in India: Evidence from the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-27

mothers' labor force participation and its impact on their children's educational outcomes. Using child level panel data, we … find that a mother's participation in the labor force increases her children's time spent in school and leads to better …

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