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Employment trajectories among individuals with opioid use disorder: Can evidence-based treatment improve outcomes?
Burke, Mary A.; Sullivan, Riley; Carman, Katherine Grace; … - 2022
payroll employment records, this paper produces new stylized facts concerning the association between opioid use disorder (OUD …) and employment and inquires as to whether treatment with FDA-approved medications might boost the job-finding rates of OUD …, that their employment tends to be more intermittent, and that they face increased job-separation risk following their …
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On the distribution of college dropouts: Household wealth and uninsurable idiosyncratic risk
Ozdagli, Ali K.; Trachter, Nicholas - 2011
This paper presents a dynamic model of the decision to pursue a college education in which students face uncertainty about their future income stream after graduation due to unobserved heterogeneity in their innate scholastic ability. After students matriculate and start taking exams, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286318
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Intangible Assets and Intellectual Capital as Key Factors of Romania's Convergence
Suciu, Marta Cristina - 2009
The main aim of the chapter is to provide the readers with a synthesis of the new international framework of debate dedicated to the topics of intangible assets and intellectual capital. Considering the topics of the whole book, this chapter is focussed on the role played by intangible assets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527405
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Migration and human capital in an endogenous fertility model
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008
How do high and low skilled migration affect fertility and human capital in migrants' origin countries? This question is analyzed within an overlapping generations model where parents choose the number of high and low skilled children they would like to have. Individuals migrate with a certain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272578
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Brain drain and factor complementarity
Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2006
In this paper we develop a neoclassical growth model that aggregates different types of labor skills from strict complementarity to perfect substitution. After having derived general balanced growth conditions and developed explicit growth paths for capital and aggregate labor force, the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272597
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Brain drain, remittances, and fertility
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008
This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they want to raise and decide upon how many children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272622
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A model of wage and employment effects of service offshoring
Tobal, Martín - 2015
, it is shown that service offshoring yields wage and employment effects in the long run. These effects switch from … service offshoring on wages and employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445064
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Imputación de ingresos laborales: Una aplicación con encuestas de empleo en México
Rodríguez-Oreggia, Eduardo; López Videla, Bruno - 2014
The aim of this paper is to make imputations of earnings to observations with missing earnings in the Encuesta Nacional de Ocupaciones y Empleo (ENOE). We present imputations by two methods and also a correction of estimations by reweighting observations with reported earnings. Then, we analyze...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445086
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Within-school spillover effects of foreclosures and student mobility on student academic performance
Bradbury, Katharine; Burke, Mary A.; Triest, Robert K. - 2014
Aside from effects on nearby property values, research is sparse on how foreclosures may generate negative externalities. Employing a unique dataset that matches individual student records from Boston Public Schools - including test scores, demographics, home address moves, and school changes -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460692
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Using unexpected recalls to examine the long-term earnings effects of job displacement
Kodrzycki, Yolanda K. - 2007
This paper examines the long-term earnings consequences of permanent layoffs initiated during the early 1990s, using a sample of Massachusetts workers who enrolled in Job Training Partnership Act Title III programs, and who remained strongly attached to the state's labor force. The comparison...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280872