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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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We study the relationship between early life health and adult earnings using a unique dataset that covers almost the entire population of Swedish males born between 1950 and 1970. The health information is obtained from medical examinations during the mandatory military enlistment tests at age...
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On normal days, the temperature decreases with altitude, allowing air pollutants to rise and disperse. During inversion episodes, a warmer air layer at higher altitude traps pollutants close to the ground. We show how readily available NASA satellite data on vertical temperature profiles can be...
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indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …: those suffering from mental health forms of disability fare particularly badly. Wage decompositions suggest the ‘penalty …’ for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …
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outcomes such as medical care costs, educational attainment, employment, wages, and crime. It also reviews the research on …
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In an aging society, determining which factors contribute to the employment of older individuals is increasingly … important. We examine the impact of medical innovations on the employment of middle-aged women focusing on the specific case of … in HRT use. Our results indicate substantial benefits of HRT use to the short-term employment of middle-aged women. …
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two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances … whether migrants face a wage penalty as a result of adopting this job search method. We find evidence of positive selection … impact of network use on wages. Using job contacts brings open access to urban employment, but at the cost of markedly lower …
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We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals’ wage formation in France. Our …
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-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after …
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