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Being Born Under Adverse Economic Conditions Leads to a Higher Cardiovascular Mortality Rate Later in Life: Evidence Based on Individuals Born at Different Stages of the Business Cycle
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762085
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Labour Productivity during the Great Depression and the Great Recession in UK Engineering and Metal Manufacture
Hart, Robert A. - 2020
This paper compares labour productivity during the Great Depression (GD) and the Great Recession (GR) in engineering, metal working and allied industries. Throughout, it distinguishes between output per worker and output per hour. From the peak-to-trough of the GD cycle, hourly labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270206
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Cyclical skill-biased technological change
Balleer, Almut; van Rens, Thijs - 2009
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276400
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Working Hard in the Wrong Place: A Mismatch-Based Explanation to the UK Productivity Puzzle
Patterson, Christina; Sahin, Aysegül; Topa, Giorgio; … - 2016
The UK experienced an unusually prolonged stagnation in labor productivity in the aftermath of the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the role of sectoral labor misallocation in accounting for this "productivity puzzle." If jobseekers disproportionately search for jobs in sectors where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451196
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Cyclical Skill-Biased Technological Change
Balleer, Almut; van Rens, Thijs - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Over the past two decades, technological progress has been biased towards making skilled labor more productive. What does skill-biased technological change imply for business cycles? To answer this question, we construct a quarterly series for the skill premium from the CPS and use it to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030900
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Workers’ Task and Employer Mobility over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Summerfield, Fraser; … - 2025
We investigate cyclical changes in workers’ task portfolios, highlighting their direction, magnitude, and distribution. Task changes are not only very common but provide information about the skills required across jobs. During recessions, a larger share of employer switches do not involve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015338959
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Disclosing the 'Big C': What Does Cancer Survivorship Signal to Employers?
Sterkens, Philippe; Sharipova, Adelina; Baert, Stijn - 2022
To study hiring discrimination against cancer survivors, we conduct a vignette experiment in which American and British …-employment due to suffering from cancer. We study the effect of cancer experiences on the recruiters' hiring decisions, as well as …. We find that employment opportunities are lower for candidates with a history of cancer, compared to candidates without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351888
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Family Affair? Long-Term Economic and Mental Effects of Spousal Cancer
Böckerman, Petri; Kortelainen, Mika; Salokangas, Henri; … - 2023
consequences of health shocks or the mechanisms behind the spillover effects. We analyse the short- and long-term effects of cancer … breadwinner type). We use full population register data on all cancer patients and their cohabiting partners in Finland over the … period 1995-2019. Our identification strategy is based on the quasi-random variation in the timing of the cancer diagnosis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296749
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Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate later in life: evidence based on individuals born at different stages of the business cycle
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - 2008
the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277321
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Economic Recession, Parental Unemployment and Adolescents' Health-Related Quality of Life and Mental Health Outcomes in Greece
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426317