This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard rate models using registry data on all persons who arrived in each of the years 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002. The results show that the number of years taken to get...

When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this practice using data from one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that it is widely used to request both genders and is especially prevalent in jobs with low skill...

Der demographische Wandel konfrontiert Händler mit der enormen Herausforderung, sich den Bedürfnissen von Konsumenten im fortgeschrittenen Alter anzupassen. Trotz der offensichtlichen Notwendigkeit, die reife Kundengruppe erfolgreich zu bedienen, gelingt es bislang kaum einem Händler....

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...

Individual health is not only determined by genetic factors, but also by negative or positive events during the life course. For example, children exposed to natural disasters or violent conflicts are more likely to have poor health as adults. Positiveexternal factors, such as nutritional...

We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level "interim" job affect the likelihood that experienced college- educated females applying for an administrative support job receive a callback from a potential employer. First, the results show no...

How sociocultural contexts shape individual functioning is of prime interest for psychological inquiry. Secular increases favoring later-born cohorts in fluid intelligence measures are widely documented for young adults. In the current study, we quantified such trends in old age using data from...

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts...

Spätestens mit der Euro-Staatsschuldenkrise ab 2010 ist das Renteneintrittsalter zum europäischen Thema geworden. Mindestens implizit vorausgesetzt wird dabei, dass vor allem die südlichen EU-Länder aufgrund der Krise auch in diesem Politikfeld unter Handlungsdruck stehen. Von deutscher...

About 20% of German workers retire on disability pensions. Disability pensions provide fairly generous benefits for those who are not already age-eligible for an old-age pension and who are deemed unable to work for health reasons. In this paper, we use two sets of individual survey data to...

Spätestens mit der Euro-Staatsschuldenkrise ab 2010 ist das Renteneintrittsalter zum europäischen Thema geworden. Mindestens implizit vorausgesetzt wird dabei, dass vor allem die südlichen EU-Länder aufgrund der Krise auch in diesem Politikfeld unter Handlungsdruck stehen. Von deutscher...