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5804 Petter Lundborg
Anton Nilsson
Dan-Olof Rooth
Early Life Health and Adult Earnings: Evidence from a Large Sample of Siblings and Twins
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 ...
(published as 'Adolescent health and adult labor market outcomes' in: Journal of Health Economics, 2014, 37, 25-40)
I1, J24, J31
5803 Petter Lundborg
Anton Nilsson
Dan-Olof Rooth
Does Early Life Health Predict Schooling Within Twin Pairs?
A large number of studies in labor economics estimate the returns to schooling using data on monozygotic twins, under the assumption that educational attainment is random within twin pairs. This ...
(published as 'The health-schooling relationship: evidence from Swedish twins' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29, 1191-1215)
I1, I2
5802 Alexander K. Koch
Julia Nafziger
Goals and Psychological Accounting
We model how people formulate and evaluate goals to overcome self-control problems. People often attempt to regulate their behavior by evaluating goal-related outcomes separately (in narrow ...
(revised version published as 'Goals and Bracketing under Mental Accounting' in: Journal of Economic Theory, 2016, 162, 305–351.)
A12, C70, D81, D91
5800 Michael C. Burda
Jennifer Hunt
What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession?
Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part ...
(published in: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2011, Spring 2011, 273 - 319)
E24, E32, J6
5799 Richard A. Easterlin
Laura Angelescu McVey
Maggie Switek
Onnicha Sawangfa
Jacqueline Smith Zweig
The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited
The striking thing about the happiness-income paradox is that over the long-term – usually a period of 10 y or more – happiness does not increase as a country's income rises. Heretofore the evidence ...
(published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010, 107 (52), 22463-22468)
I31, O10, O5, D60
5798 Erkki Koskela
Jan König
The Role of Profit Sharing in Dual Labour Markets with Flexible Outsourcing
We combine profit sharing for high-skilled workers and outsourcing of low-skilled tasks in partly imperfect dual domestic labour markets, when the wage rate for low-skilled worker is set by a labor ...
(published in: Labour, 2013, 27 (4), 351-370)
J31, J33, J51
5797 Alexandru Minea
Christophe Rault
External Monetary Shocks and Monetary Integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian Currency Board
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if the adoption of the CB monetary system, which involves the cost of loosing ...
(published in: Economic Modelling, 2011, 28 (5), 2271-2281)
E42, E52
5796 Marika Karanassou
Hector Sala
Inequality and Employment Sensitivities to the Falling Labour Share
This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over ...
(published in: Economic and Social Review, 2012, 43 (3), 343-376)
D30, E25, E24
5795 Marco Caliendo
Wang-Sheng Lee
Fat Chance! Obesity and the Transition from Unemployment to Employment
This paper focuses on estimating the magnitude of any potential weight discrimination by examining whether obese job applicants in Germany get treated or behave differently from non-obese applicants. ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2013, 11 (2), 121-133)
I10, I12, J23, J70
5794 Ben Kriechel
Gerard A. Pfann
Workforce Reorganization and the Worker
In this paper we study the joint decision process of changing the structure of jobs and laying off individual workers in a firm that downsizes its workforce. A hierarchical decision model is proposed ...
(published in: Applied Economics, 2013, 45 (13), 1719-1729)
J63, J65, L23, L60, L93, M51
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