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Suicidal Behavior and the Labor Market Productivity of Young Adults
Tekin, Erdal; Markowitz, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761885
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Tekin, Erdal; Greve, Jane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095510
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The training and job decisions of nurses: the first year of a longitudinal study investigating nurse recruitment and retention. CHERE Working Paper 2012/02
Kenny, Patricia; Doiron, Denise; Hall, Jane; Street, … - Centre for Health Economics Research & Evaluation … - 2012
Understanding the employment choices and preferences of new entrants to the nursing profession is an important element … such as age, family structure, education and health in nurses? employment choices. In addition to studying actual choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678184
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2005
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432540
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Individual Risk Attitudes: New Evidence from a Large, Representative, Experimentally-Validated Survey
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David; Sunde, Uwe; … - The Field Experiments Website - 2005
This paper presents new evidence on the distribution of risk attitudes in the population, using a novel set of survey questions and a representative sample of roughly 22,000 individuals living in Germany. Using a question that asks about willingness to take risks in general, on an 11-point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432546
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Labor Market Effects of Intrauterine Exposure to Nutritional Deficiency: Evidence from Administrative Data on Muslim Immigrants in Denmark
Tekin, Erdal; Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise; Greve, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096578
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The Effects of Childhood ADHD on Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Fletcher, Jason - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
longitudinal national sample, including sibling pairs, to show important labor market outcome consequences of ADHD. The employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011105938
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Understanding Heterogeneity in the Effects of Birth Weight on Adult Cognition and Wages
Cook, C. Justin; Fletcher, Jason M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
A large economics literature has shown long term impacts of birth weight on adult outcomes, including IQ and earnings that are often robust to sibling or twin fixed effects. We examine potential mechanisms underlying these effects by incorporating findings from the genetics and neuroscience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011159895
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Late-life work and well-being
Graham, Carol - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) November, pp. 1-10
Flexible work time and retirement options are a potential solution for the challenges of unemployment, aging populations, and unsustainable pensions systems around the world. Voluntary part-time workers in Europe and the US are happier, experience less stress and anger, and are more satisfied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083208
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Childhood Health and Sibling Outcomes: The Shared Burden and Benefit of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
Parman, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
There is a growing body of evidence showing that negative childhood health shocks have long term consequences in terms of health, human capital formation and labor market outcomes. However, by altering the relative prices of child quality across siblings, these health shocks can also affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821839