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International Comparisons of Work Disability

Banks, James; Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; van … - 2004

Self-reported work disability is analyzed in the US, the UK and the Netherlands. Different wordings of the questions lead to different work disability rates. But even if identical questions are asked, cross-country differences remain substantial. Respondent evaluations of work limitations of...

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Health and Wealth of Elderly Couples : Causality Tests Using Dynamic Panel Data Models

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; van Soest, Arthur - 2004

A positive relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and health, the so-called "health-wealth gradient", is … repeatedly found in most industrialized countries with similar levels of health care technology and economic welfare. This study … analyzes causality from health to wealth (health causation) and from wealth to health (wealth or social causation) for elderly …

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Healthy Living in Hard Times

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2003

Using microdata for adults from the 1987-2000 years of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, I show that smoking and height-adjusted weight decline during temporary economic downturns while leisure-time physical activity rises. The drop in tobacco use occurs disproportionately among...

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The Changing Nature of Employment-Related Sexual Harassment: Evidence from the U.S. Federal Government (1978-1994)

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2002

This paper examines the changing nature of views towards and reports of sexual harassment using unique data drawn from the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board (USMSPB) of the U.S. Federal Government over the period from 1978-1994. Our results indicate that while federal government employees...

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Reconsidering Union Wage Effects: Surveying New Evidence on an Old Topic

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

I examine evidence on private sector union wage gaps in the U.S. The consensus opinion among labor economists of an average union premium of roughly 15 percent is called into question. Two forms of measurement error create a downward bias in standard wage gap estimates. Match bias results from...

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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? : Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States

Cortes, Kalena E. - 2004

This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...

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Match Bias in Wage Gap Estimates Due to Earnings Imputation

Hirsch, Barry T.; Schumacher, Edward J. - 2003

About 30% of workers in the CPS have earnings imputed. Wage gap estimates are biased toward zero when the attribute being studied (e.g., union status) is not a criterion used to match donors to nonrespondents. An expression for ?match bias? is derived in which attenuation equals the sum of match...

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Guns, drugs and juvenile crime : evidence from a panel of siblings and twins

Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2003

Using a nationally-representative panel data set of U.S. high school students (AddHealth data) that contains a relatively large sample of siblings and twins, the paper investigates the impacts of gun availability at home and individual drug use on robbery, burglary, theft and damaging property...

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A Collective Retirement Model : Identification and Estimation in the Presence of Externalities

Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2004

first five waves of the Health and Retirement Study. We also provide model simulations for two widely discussed reform …

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Sources of Euro Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations: What Is Behind the Euro Weakness in 1999-2000?

Gottschalk, Jan; Döpke, Jörg; Kamps, Christophe - 2001

This paper analyzes the factors underlying the weakness of the euro. For this purpose, the framework advocated by Clarida and Gali (1994) is used. Within this model, three structural shocks drive the dynamics of the endogenous variables: aggregate supply shocks, aggregate spending shocks, and...

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