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Does obesity hurt your wages more in Dublin than in Madrid? : Evidence from ECHP
D'Hombres, Beatrice (contributor);  … - 2005
We use data from the European Community Household Panel to investigate the impact of obesity on wages in 9 European … countries, ranging from Ireland to Spain. We find that the common impact of obesity on wages is negative and statistically … wages in the countries of the European "olive belt" and a positive relationship in the countries of the "beer belt". We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003039649
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The effects of vocational education on adult skills, employment and wages : what can we learn from PIAAC?
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 8 (2017) 4, pp. 315-343
the probability of being currently employed as well as in the time spent in paid employment, although the differences we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011863178
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Costs and benefits of financial regulation : an empirical assessment for insurance companies
Eling, Martin; Pankoke, David Antonius - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 41 (2016) 4, pp. 529-554
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659286
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The determinants of microinsurance demand
Eling, Martin; Pradhan, Shailee; Schmit, Joan Therese - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 39 (2014) 2, pp. 224-263
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The determinants of microinsurance demand
Eling, Martin; Pradhan, Shailee; Schmit, Joan Therese - 2013
influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410033
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Globalisation : blessing or curse? : evidence from the insurance industry
Biener, Christian; Eling, Martin; Jia, Ruo - In: European journal of international management : EJIM 15 (2021) 2/3, pp. 457-483
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504450
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The causal effect of education on health: what is the role of health behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - In: Health economics 25 (2016) 3, pp. 314-336
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Costs and Benefits of Financial Regulation – An Empirical Assessment for Insurance Companies
Eling, Martin; Pankoke, David - School of Finance, Universität St. Gallen - 2014
We empirically analyze the costs and benefits of financial regulation based on a survey of 76 insurers from Austria, Germany and Switzerland. Our analysis includes both established and new empirical measures for regulatory costs and benefits. This is the first paper that tries to take costs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011154573
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Systemic Risk in the Insurance Sector: Review and Directions for Future Research
Eling, Martin; Pankoke, David - School of Finance, Universität St. Gallen - 2014
This paper reviews the extant research on systemic risk in the insurance sector and outlines new areas of research in … organizations. The survey reveals that traditional insurance activity in the life, non-life, and reinsurance sectors neither …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011154582
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The Determinants of Microinsurance Demand
Eling, Martin; Pradhan, Shailee; Schmit, Joan T. - School of Finance, Universität St. Gallen - 2013
influences demand, both within the microinsurance and the traditional insurance markets. A comparison with traditional markets … effects on the decision to buy microinsurance. The influence of trust on insurance take-up and the unanticipated results for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686711