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suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the hourly wage rate and the probability that a young adult individual works … effects of suicide thoughts and suicide attempts on the work and schooling activities of young adults as well as on their … hourly wage rates. The richness of the data set allows us to implement several strategies to control for unobserved …
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males, including employment status, annual salary, hourly wage rate, and hours of work. Our findings indicate that potential … lower likelihood of employment, a lower salary, and reduced labor supply, but not necessarily a lower wage rate. We also …
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compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …
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Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this … question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test … pardons to measure changes in the inmates' expectations about the length of their sentences, and find that suicide rates tend …
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Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this … question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test … to measure changes in the inmates' expectations about the length of their sentences, and find that suicide rates tend to …
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throughout the wage distribution. For the different demographic groups analyzed, the statistically significant estimated average … impacts in the lower part of their wage distribution, while Whites likely experience larger impacts in the upper part of their …
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High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E … aggregate trends, employment in initially middle-skill-intensive labor markets hollowed-out between 1980 and 2005. Employment … employment growth in lower-tail occupations. For college workers, employment losses at the middle were offset in roughly equal …
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encompass between-job wage movements linked to promotions or demotions while job spells don't. Using a 1% sample of the British … any positive effects of job-specific human capital on wage growth within jobs are outweighed by the effects of job changes … within firms. -- job spells ; employer spells ; wage-tenure profiles …
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wage growth. This paper analyzes the sources of the changing shape of the lower-tail of the U.S. wage and employment …After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings …
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region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …
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